A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
Philip Mantle, the former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association, reveals in a new interview his skepticism about the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident, thought-about to be Britain’s Roswell, basing his conclusion on the truth that Jim Penniston, the US airman who claimed to have seen and touched the craft, altered his testimony over time; Mantle helps theories just like the one which army witnesses might have hallucinated because of plasma emitting electromagnetic vitality or lights; he additionally believes the tales have modified because of “a factor referred to as confabulation, the place typically you’ll soak up data from an exterior supply however over time come to consider it really occurred to you”; lastly, he says “I can affirm that the occasions in Rendlesham Forest 40 years in the past stay unexplained”. One factor we are able to clarify is that Rendlesham locals don’t wish to lose all of their UFO tourism enterprise.
It’s clear that Siberia, Tibet and elements of Asia had been as soon as residence to Denisovans and Neanderthals residing along with people, however College of Hawaii at Manoa anthropologist Christopher Bae and Chinese language Academy of Sciences paleontologist Xiujie Wu suggest in a brand new paper revealed within the journal Nature Communications that another group of humans called the Juluren, which means “large head people”, lived in Jap Asia and northern China between 200,000 and 160,000 years in the past; they base this idea on bone fragments discovered on the Xujiayao web site which point out the Juluren possessed skulls considerably bigger than different early human species and trendy people; additionally they possessed a mixture of options of Neanderthals, Denisovans, early people and trendy people, which the examine suggests will change the way in which we have a look at evolution. It doesn’t change the truth that all of those early species appeared to have loads of sexual relations between them and dimension was necessary in heads too.
Oxford College biology professor Tim Coulson predicts {that a} World Battle III with world nuclear conflicts would create a post-apocalyptic world the place assuming we survive, people will bear a pure choice course of to outlive that may change us “past recognition”, evolving us into “superhumans” with advanced toughness and fitness, “hyper intelligence” for growing new survival expertise and new science, and presumably a smaller physique dimension with protecting pores and skin and wings to “fly like a bat” and keep away from predators; sadly, he says that with out this battle and its evolutionary restart, “Civilization could choose for higher stupidity and sloth”. We might have a brand new model of Edwin Starr’s basic “War” with the lyrics: “Battle, what’s it good for? Completely nothing however evolution”.
Some of the well-known “Is it or isn’t it?” UFO pictures first appeared in 1990 when Patrick Marechal claimed to have captured the picture of a triangular UFO with three pink lights in Petit-Rechain close to Liège, Belgium, utilizing a Kodak Ektachrome digicam; the photograph was examined by UFO researchers and army consultants who supported its authenticity however others believed it to be a secret army aircraft; In 2011, Marechal admitted the photograph was a hoax he created utilizing a Styrofoam mannequin and flashlights; nevertheless, in 2024, he rescinded that testimony in an interview with MUFON and claimed he was paid to lie about it in 2011 as a result of it was featured in UFO researcher Leslie Kean’s e-book, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Authorities Officers Go on the File”; now, MUFON’s Roger Stankovic, who interviewed Marechal, has posted on social media that the {photograph} was actual and Marechal was paid to lie about it. This concludes one other episode of everybody’s favourite paranormal cleaning soap opera, “Because the UFO Turns”.
From the “That is the sort of invention we want extra of” file comes information that the software program firm Atlassian has developed the “Earworm Eraser” – a 40-second audio monitor designed to take away these annoying songs that worm their means into your mind so that you just hear them (and nothing however them) on an limitless annoying loop; the “Earworm Eraser”, developed by Kelly Jakubowski, an affiliate professor of music psychology at Durham College within the UK, is pseudo-music that switches from quick to gradual tempos, modifications time signatures and flips musical kinds from electronica to classical to others each few seconds; most individuals who listened to it mentioned it labored, though a number of claimed it was ineffective. Barney, the Muppets and different youngsters’s music makers are certainly not blissful about this.
In a brand new interview, filmmaker Randall Nickerson, who produced “The Ariel Phenomenon” a few mass UFO and alien sighting by African schoolchildren in 1994 and was the topic of Dr. John Mack’s e-book “Abductions”, mentioned being kidnapped many occasions, typically by the identical crew of 4 aliens, remarking that “There’s one thing particular about 4. All the time 4”; his analysis into different abductions revealed a typical trait amongst abductees: “A few of these abductees are off the chart geniuses. They’ve photographic reminiscences. I believe it is a mixture of vary, and I believe there’s a number of causes. However I positively seen the mind half, as a result of I’ve met so many loopy clever individuals. Females and males, after which there’s one other component that perhaps they picked, I do not know, for genetic causes”. Possibly they journey in fours to allow them to play doubles pickleball to move the time.
Alan McKenna, founding father of Loch Ness Exploration, an unbiased voluntary analysis group with a mission to protect Loch Ness, its pure setting, its ecology, and its legendary monster, thinks many of the sightings of Nessie can be written off as “standing waves” which happen when “two boat wakes of the very same frequency and amplitude are shifting in reverse instructions on the loch floor. When the 2 boat wakes lastly meet and intervene with each other the outcomes have the potential to create a standing wave”; these two waves rising above the in any other case calm waters of the loch can seem like two humps, in accordance with McKenna, and idiot even the perfect watchers; he hopes to show this idea utilizing two boats and recording the phenomena however admits that getting the proper dimension boats touring on the proper speeds in reverse instructions and shut sufficient to create standing waves can be a problem; even when he does, McKenna admits that “Fact be instructed, none of us have the proper reply and that’s what retains this thriller going”, That plus all these tourism {dollars}.
Sgt. Jeremiah Holmes of the Wheeler County Sheriff’s Workplace in Oregon has investigated 5 mysterious cattle mutilation instances in six years and mentioned in a current interview that “there’s extra questions on this factor than there are solutions” as a result of he’s by no means had any substantive leads and by no means discover tracks or blood; his expertise residing within the space helps him rule out animal predators, saying he’s seen what bears and cougars can do to cattle and this isn’t it; he doesn’t perceive why people would mutilate animals like this for a ritual or analysis however has turn into open to the potential for aliens or different “unidentified creatures, even on this earth, which might be doing this that we have not recognized but”; Colby Marshall, a former ranch supervisor, agrees, saying that whereas he doesn’t consider aliens would use their subtle expertise simply to kill and mutilate bulls, he thinks “if they’re coming throughout the galaxy to return and get beef in jap Oregon, which means we have got fairly darn good beef and perhaps the perfect within the galaxy”. If that’s the explanation, why aren’t they abducting steakhouse cooks?
Except you want to elevate a household of werewolves, the European Medicines Company has issued a warning to folks to cease placing Minoxidil on the heads of their infants to stimulate hair progress as a result of infants in Spain are reportedly developing hypertrichosis or ‘werewolf syndrome’ and inflicting uncontrollable hair progress throughout their our bodies, particularly on their legs and backs; officers on the Pharmacovigilance Heart of Navarre traced the ‘werewolf syndrome’ to 11 youngsters whose dad and mom rubbed them with Minoxidil and the infants presumably unintentionally ingested the drug from their dad and mom’ arms or their very own; the surplus hair stopped rising and fell out when the dad and mom stopped rubbing on Minoxidil. This could have made for some fairly unusual pictures with Santa.
We’re nearing the tip of 2024 so the psychic predictions for 2025 are pouring in, together with some depressing forecasts from blind Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga, like her prognostication that World Battle III can be began by the autumn of Syria, an occasion many say is already underway with insurgents occupying most of Aleppo, the nation’s largest metropolis, together with the airport; Baba mentioned, Syria will fall on the ft of the winner, however the winner is not going to be the one” and “As quickly as Syria falls, count on a terrific battle between the West and the East. Within the spring, a battle within the East will start, and there can be a Third World Battle. A battle within the East that may destroy the West”; many individuals consider Baba Vanga predicted 9/11, the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II and Brexit, so this forecast is worrisome. If Baba Vanga is a blind psychic, does that make her a non-seer?
In the meantime, TV psychic and former Actual Housewives of Cheshire star Deborah Davies has a extra constructive outlook for 2025, at the very least in relation to shut encounters – she forecasts that aliens no longer fear humans so they will pay us a visit in 2025 and can try and cease us from destroying the planet by way of local weather change; Davies notes we shouldn’t be shocked the extraterrestrials are so pleasant and useful as a result of a few years in the past “they helped us construct civilization”; in 2025, there can be a rise in UFO sightings and “then in the direction of the tip of 2025 we are going to see a giant improve in bodily contact from them, regardless of efforts from individuals in energy attempting to maintain it quiet”. If they need cooperation, perhaps they need to announce their arrival on a present referred to as “Actual Housewives of Outer Area”.
A well-liked relationship e-book within the Seventies was titled ‘Males Are From Mars, Girls Are From Venus’ nevertheless it ought to have been positioned within the fiction part in accordance with Ivan Rudoy, a senior lecturer on the Moscow Aviation Institute, who says Venus is uninhabitable by humans even in essentially the most subtle spacesuits as a result of its temperature exceeds 400 levels Celsius (725 F), the environment is principally carbon dioxide and the planet is roofed with a thick layer of sulfuric acid clouds, the atmospheric strain is 90 occasions that of Earth, and Venus has no electromagnetic discipline to dam cosmic radiation; Rudoy says no people can survive on Venus so “From a scientific viewpoint, it’s far more logical to ship robots geared up with essentially the most trendy units to Venus fairly than people”. If you happen to ask a feminine house scientist who learn the e-book, she’d in all probability counsel sending males anyway.
Archeologists digging in Roman-era burial websites in trendy Scandinavia, Germany and Poland have been discovering tiny (1.6 to 2.8 inches in size) spoons connected to the belts of males however had no concept what they is likely to be for till just lately when biologists Anna Jarosz-Wilkołazka and Anna Rysiak, and archaeologist Andrzej Jan Kokowski of Maria Curie-Skłodowska College in Poland decided they had been ancient ‘coke spoons’ utilized by Roman period Germanic warriors to take stimulants earlier than going into battle; the researchers defined of their examine that the stimulants used included these extracted from funguses, opium poppy, hops, hemp, henbane, and nightshades reminiscent of belladonna and datura. You knew you had been in hassle if the troopers on the opposite aspect had been utilizing tablespoons.
The Seek for Extraterrestrial Intelligence relies upon closely on radio telescopes listening for alerts that might be indicators of alien communications and Penn State College astronomer Nick Tusay has developed a new technique that can identify signals being sent between exoplanets – his system includes awaiting exoplanets passing in entrance of different exoplanets however not blocking them fully; Tusay speculates that messages despatched by aliens on the hidden planet to these on the blocking planet might bounce off the blocker into house the place our radio telescopes might ultimately obtain them; Tulsay thinks these might be “the sort of alerts we emit on a regular basis, from an alien civilization going about their enterprise, doing their job, with no intention of signaling anybody”. How disappointing will probably be if the primary alerts we obtain from aliens translate to: “I’m simply sitting right here doing nothing. What are you doing?”
Marco McDewey has looking cameras arrange within the woods close to his residence in Newport, Washington, and considered one of them just lately recorded the picture of what he believes to be a ghost wolf operating previous deer who discover one thing however don’t flee themselves; he describes it as “a wolf spirit guarding my property” and presumably the deer too as their eyes seem to comply with the blurring white specter till it disappears; whereas some commenters agree with McDewey, it may be a digicam malfunction or a double picture. We noticed Ghost Wolves open for Steppenwolf.
Dr. Sreedhara Somanath, chairman of the Indian Area Analysis Group, was requested in a podcast if Earth had been visited by extraterrestrials and he replied, “Absolutely, no doubt about it” however he warned that they is likely to be from a civilization 10,000 years or extra forward of us so we’d not even have the ability to see them; he additionally expressed concern about assembly any aliens as a result of whereas “We (people) are developed out of a typical biology on Earth, there isn’t any nature that may be a protein that’s completely different in nature on Earth – we’re all linked in some method”, the guests is likely to be “one thing developed on one other planet that may have been synthesized in a completely completely different method. It could not have an analogous genome construction or protein construction, and it’s totally harmful for 2 overseas lifeforms to return into contact with each other”; the tip end result can be that the assembly “will trigger both destruction to them or to us”. As soon as once more, many episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone’ can be confirmed right.
A UFO on the bottom ought to correctly be referred to as an Unidentified Parked Object (UPO) however an individual utilizing the identify @CaptainBiggalow referred to as the orb he allegedly photographed on the runway of Manchester Airport is asking the small, spherical, “car-sized” object a UFO; in accordance with the social media submit, Air Visitors Management (ATC) was notified, and an operations automobile was dispatched to analyze however the spherical object abruptly took off vertically when approached; whereas many thought it was a wayward and partially deflated balloon, @CaptainBiggalow mentioned the thing was not regular and he ought to know as a result of “I’ve been an airline pilot for a UK operator for a number of many years, and we all know what’s regular and what isn’t”; after the report, the account of @CaptainBiggalow was mysteriously shut down, inflicting a flurry of conspiracy theories; UFO researcher Mark Christopher Lee disagreed, saying “This blue orb sighting jogs my memory of UK researcher Timothy Good who wrote in regards to the Australian authorities capturing an alien sphere in 1957 – it was product of an unknown substance and had no seen technique of levitation. It was captured on the Nuclear take a look at facility in Woomera, Australia and ultimately was transported to Wright Patterson Airforce Base in the USA”. Balloons have turn into the Twenty first-century model of the “swamp gasoline” of the twentieth century.
Earlier than a sure house firm billionaire sends 1,000,000 individuals there, he would possibly wish to learn a new study by Andrea Butturini and a crew of scientists on the College of Barcelona which reveals {that a} prime spot for on the lookout for life on Mars could also be on the traditional plain often called Acidalia Planitia – properly, not ON it however UNDER it; Butturini says the subsurface zone between 4.3 and eight.8 km (2.67 to five.5 miles) beneath the plain is sheltered from harsh floor situations and has sufficient residual geothermal warmth and traces of water that it might be teaming with microbial life proper now, simply ready to be found (disturbed? destroyed?) by a lander or rover able to drilling that deep and retrieving samples; the examine suggests they might be “cold-adapted Methanosarcinaceae-like and/or Methanomicrobiaceae-like methanogens”. In the event that they reside on methane, they might not be blissful to see electrical automobiles on Mars.
