A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
It has been 4 years since Jack Stuef found the treasure chest containing an estimated $1.3 million in gold and jewels hidden “in the mountains somewhere north of Santa Fe” by millionaire Forrest Fenn 10 years earlier than and main to an enormous and sometimes lethal treasure hunt; now, bitcoin billionaire Jon Collins-Black has hidden five chests of valuables throughout the USA and revealed a ebook of clues to assist hunters discover all or elements of the $2 million treasures; Collins-Black assures treasure seekers that “You don’t must be a genius to unravel the clues. There’s no grand cypher. In case you have curiosity, creativeness, and the willingness to strive one thing new, yow will discover the treasures that I’ve hidden”; the bounty features a diamond and sapphire brooch owned by Jacqueline Onassis, a fourth-century BCE gold Greek laurel, a coin designed and minted by Pablo Picasso, a uncommon specimen of lunar rock and a single Bitcoin presently price almost $100,000. 5 individuals died searching for Fenn’s treasure, so the percentages are higher in case you money in your retirement funds and purchase lottery tickets.
We sadly report the passing of UFO researcher/author/musician/film producer Christopher O’Brien, who died in a automobile accident whereas driving to the hospital with a medical emergency. Chris was well-known and revered as a radical researcher of many UFO instances in addition to over 1,000 cattle mutilation reviews, which made him a preferred author and TV and podcast visitor on these topics. Chris was revered for his scientific strategy to analysis and his ten years of investigations of cattle mutilation instances led to a few books: ‘The Mysterious Valley’, ‘Enter the Valley’, and ‘Secrets and techniques of the Mysterious Valley’. His analysis into shapeshifters, skinwalkers and comparable anomalies resulted within the ebook, ‘Stalking the Tricksters’. Our condolences to the O’Brien household. Chris will probably be missed.
As soon as once more David Bowie is confirmed to be proper as NASA reviews that the Mars Curiosity rover has found mysterious ‘spiderwebs’ on the foothills of Mount Sharp (Aeolis Mons) close to the equator of Mars and stretching for 12 miles throughout the desert; geologists consider the spiderwebs are shaped from a kind of crystalized minerals referred to as a ‘boxwork’ which have been discovered on Earth however nowhere close to the scale of these on Mars; Kirsten Siebach, a Curiosity scientist at Rice College in Houston, says “These ridges will embrace minerals that crystallized underground, the place it will have been hotter, with salty liquid water flowing by. Early Earth microbes may have survived in the same atmosphere” which makes this a fantastic place to search for indicators of Martian life. We’re ready for images from Curiosity of a Martian with screwed up eyes, screwed down hairdo, well-hung and snow-white tan.
A brand new growth on Earth which will assist the seek for extraterrestrial life on different planets is the reconstruction of the genome of the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), an organism that lived about 4.2 billion years in the past, which reveals that the LUCA was unexpectedly complicated for a life kind which appeared only a few hundred million years after the formation of the Earth, displaying that life on Earth occurred rapidly and developed into complicated kinds quickly; this discovery redefines Earth’s evolutionary historical past and signifies that life may kind on this method on different planets and evolve rapidly into clever beings. If life on Earth began out complicated, how did it devolve into the simplistic kind we’ve change into?
The seek for life on different planets and area rocks isn’t straightforward, as scientists who despatched a probe to the asteroid Ryugu can attest – the capsule of dust that was returned to Earth by the Hayabusa 2 mission was despatched to Matthew Genge at Imperial Faculty London after early exams indicated there could also be a presence of micro organism or different microbial life; a brand new examine co-authored by Genge within the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science revealed that additional evaluation exhibits the microbes and natural chemical compounds that appeared to return from Ryugu virtually definitely were the result of Earth contamination and the authors concluded that “The presence of terrestrial microorganism inside a pattern of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world’s best colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls. The presence of microorganisms inside space-returned samples, even these topic to stringent contamination controls is, due to this fact, not essentially proof of an extraterrestrial origin”. This implies Ryugu might be contaminated too – aliens who see a human spaceship heading their means can be clever to fill up available cleanser.
Simply days after one other U.S. Congressional listening to on UAPs which detailed findings of ‘Immaculate Constellation’, an Unacknowledged Particular Entry Program (USAP) established to ‘detect’ and ‘quarantine’ the navy’s greatest UFO imagery, movies, eyewitness testimonies and digital sensor proof, the Unusual Mysteries YouTube channel posted two videos which describe receiving an nameless electronic mail with partially-redacted images it claimed have been infrared photographs from ‘Immaculate Constellation’ that the sender, who claimed to have a part of secret applications for learning UAPs, claimed the photographs have been of “orbs” and “motherships” flying over nuclear bases and different strategic navy amenities; the photographs lacked particulars and context however the nameless sender claimed these personal images have been half of a bigger assortment. As soon as we lastly have full disclosure, let’s hope all of this secrecy doesn’t appear foolish and pointless.
Based on a current two-part article published in Cowboy State Daily, D.B. Cooper researcher Dan Gryder revealed that he obtained a parachute belonging to Richard McCoy II, a person Gryder believes was the true 1971 skyjacker D.B. Cooper, and that he and McCoy’s son met with the FBI and ultimately led the FBI to the placement within the McCoy barn the place the parachute was present in a crate; DNA samples have been taken from the youthful McCoy and the FBI indicated it might come again to exhume the physique of Richard McCoy II; Gryder believes that alterations made to the parachute are just like these mentioned to have been made to D.B> Cooper’s parachutes by the person w; McCoy was caught however later escaped and was killed in a shootout, so he by no means admitted being Cooper; whereas Gryder thinks it will show McCoy was Cooper, there are skeptics who level to the truth that battle attendants on the Cooper aircraft checked out images of each and mentioned they have been completely different males. Would we all know extra if D.B. Cooper had hijacked a UFO?
Residents of Painswick, popularly referred to as ‘The Queen of the Cotswolds’, are trying nervous lately after a roe deer was discovered useless with wounds looking sinisterly like those made by a large cat killing its subsequent meal; solely the pinnacle and rear legs remained, together with pores and skin displaying clear indicators a cat had ripped by it and bit the throat, then moved all the way down to eat the entire organs to the purpose the place the ribcage was utterly empty; the carcass was discovered by a person working close to a big property, however neither he nor anybody else noticed the massive cat or has proof of its existence, apart from the useless deer. Alien massive cats depart extra proof than Bigfoot, however extra individuals consider in Sasquatch – ABCs want a greater publicist.
Former United States Military weapons controller and drone pilot Robert Salas was stationed on the Malmstrom Air Drive base in Montana in 1967 when its 10 Minutemen 1 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in underground silos immediately shut down for no motive – at the least not till an officer admitted seeing an oval-shaped UFO with orange-red lights hovering over the bottom after which making quick and seemingly inconceivable maneuvers; Salas just lately testified on the newest congressional UFO hearings that aliens are sending humans a three-word message about nukes and that message is “WTF, nuclear weapons”; he based mostly this touch upon his analysis which exhibits “that each one the main nuclear missile bases, from those operational within the 60s and the 70s, and those which are presently operational, have been visited repeatedly 12 months after 12 months in line with the sources that I’ve interviewed”. Perhaps the aliens ought to strive emojis as a substitute of textual content abbreviations.
Movie star ghost hunter Brocarde, who claims she’s married and divorced a spirit who seduced her, now says she was in mattress after a day of filming within the haunted Bagdale Corridor lodge in Whitby, North Yorkshire, when a severed head with ‘bulbous eyes’ tried to get beneath the sheets together with her; she claimed “The ghost’s head had bulbous eyes, which have been bloodshot and virtually coming out of their sockets. It appeared barely purple and was simply hovering with out a physique connected to it. It was swaying for some time, virtually dancing, earlier than it darted towards the bedsheets, lifting them up and disappearing”; Brocarde claims she jumped away from bed, though she says she was “pretty calm”, and discovered the pinnacle belonged to Browne Bushell, a former proprietor of the lodge who was executed with an axe in 1651 after being discovered responsible of treason and piracy. Marrying the pinnacle of a ghost is likely to be higher – at the least she gained’t be saved up at evening by the sound of footsteps.
Clement Vidal, a thinker on the Vrije College Brussels, claims in a new paper that the majority stars belong to binary techniques and an clever civilization dwelling on a planet orbiting certainly one of them may flip the pair into “hypervelocity” stars and use them to journey their galaxy; Vidal modeled a binary system consisting of a neutron star with a low-mass star tightly orbiting it and speculated how an alien civilization may manipulate magnetic fields to trigger one star to eject extra materials in a single path than one other, which might create thrust and push the binary system in the other way; they might then set up equipment on or close to the neutron star and use gravity to energy steering the binary system; Vidal says “hypervelocity” stars just like the “black widow” pulsar PSR J0610-2100 and the “redback” pulsar PSR J2043+1711 needs to be studied to see if they’re being manipulated by aliens for journey functions. A very good signal can be if extra of those stars are transferring round throughout alien vacation seasons.
The Aztec death whistles are skull-shaped clay whistles whose sound is eerily like a horrible human scream whereas the cranium is assumed to symbolize Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec Lord of the Underworld; now, a brand new examine by the College of Zurich exhibits how researchers performed each originals and reproductions for 70 volunteers hooked as much as mind displays; when listening to the whistles, the volunteers confirmed exercise within the mind areas related to emotional responses and with figuring out symbolic that means, main the researchers to take a position that the whistles have been used to scare individuals about to be killed in sacrificial rituals as a way to put together them for coming into the underworld. The Aztecs have been by no means identified for his or her musical talents.
The Honey Island Swamp Monster is a legendary Louisiana cryptid mentioned to be a descendent of chimpanzees that escaped from a circus prepare wreck within the early twentieth century; additionally referred to as the Cajun Sasquatch and La Bête Noire in Cajun French. It has been reportedly seen by air visitors controllers, wildlife photographers, Honey Island swamp tour guides in St. Tammany Parish and personal residents; a video of the Honey Island Swamp Monster has now resurfaced by way of the Historical past Channel’s “The Proof Is Out There” collection – narrated by the granddaughter of Harlan Ford, one of many air visitors controllers, the 8mm movie is grainy sufficient to defy identification as the true Cajun Sasquatch or a hoaxer in an ape swimsuit. Too unhealthy the photographer didn’t play some Zydeco music and see if the creature danced.
A Bigfoot video shot in Georgia doesn’t want a lot evaluation because it exhibits a Sasquatch explaining to a woman in Whitfield County about the new local recycling program by Dalton-Whitfield Strong Waste Authority referred to as “Recycling You Can Imagine In” which hand-sorts trash and recycles it into paper, glass, cardboard bins and aluminum cans, opposite to rumors that each one Whitfield recycling results in the trash landfills anyway or is distributed abroad the place it results in trash there too; the Bigfoot simply needs his woods clear of trash and that’s a priority extra actual than the costumed cryptid. Occasions have modified – subsequent, we’ll be seeing the Loch Ness monster pitching new water therapy facilities.
You already know you’ve got too many local legendary monsters when individuals can’t resolve which one is killing their chickens and that’s the case within the Tai village of Pak Chong after farmers discovered chickens useless from puncture wounds and drained of all their blood; different international locations may blame these killings on the Chupacabra however Pak Chong residents can’t resolve between the Krasue, the floating head of a younger girl whose her inner organs are nonetheless connected and hanging from her neck, or the Phi Pob (also called Phi Pop or Phii Pob), which is a shapeshifting evil spirit that takes management of individuals and makes them do horrible issues like killing chickens earlier than Phi Bob eats the particular person’s entrails; the native police assume the perpetrator is a mongoose, however aren’t having a lot luck convincing the farmers. The chickens aren’t satisfied both.
A lesser-known trait of a well known biblical king is the alleged demon-slaying capacity of King Solomon, the son of the giant-slaying David and higher identified for being clever and wealthy; a 1600-year-old bronze amulet, found just lately by archeologists within the historic metropolis of Adrianopolis, Turkey, that’s greater than 1,600 years outdated depicts Solomon defeating the devil together with the traditional Greek clarification, “The Lord defeated the satan”; the amulet exhibits Solomon’s significance in three main religions as he’s acknowledged as a pacesetter in Judaism and Christianity and a prophet in Islam; the flip aspect of the amulet has the names of 4 angels (Azrael, Gabriel, Michael and Israfil) and Azrael is the angel of dying in Islam. Select the appropriate demon and everybody immediately forgets their variations and joins forces to battle it.
If you’re so fed up together with your metropolis/state/nation and don’t see one other one appropriate to maneuver to, you could wish to take into account transferring to a different universe as a result of a brand new examine, led by Durham College astrophysicist Daniele Sorini, took the Drake equation, which is used to estimate the variety of lively alien civilizations in our galaxy, and utilized it to different universes – they found that some universes can have a larger density of dark energy than ours, making them higher at producing stars and significantly extra suited to forming clever life kinds; this makes them a greater place for us to reside and will clarify why we haven’t discovered clever life in our personal universe. Good luck discovering a transferring firm that travels to parallel universes.
Psychic and self-proclaimed ‘Residing Nostradamus’ Athos Salomé has been crossing the road from future predictions to present-day conspiracy theories with statements concerning the newest Pentagon report on 757 UFO sightings the All-Area Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO) investigated figuring out virtually all of them as misidentified balloons, birds and satellites, just a few as being unable to be recognized, however non indicating any extraterrestrial origin – Salomé says the report raises “more questions than answers” and suspects, with out proof that the AARO will not be specializing in seen and invisible “cryptoterrestrials” dwelling round us “utilizing applied sciences past our comprehension to stay hidden”; Salomé believes “There’s a coordinated effort to divert public consideration from the potential for hidden applied sciences, whether or not of terrestrial or interdimensional origin. The advance of drones and unconventional satellites could also be getting used as a entrance to cowl up interplay with underground or interdimensional civilizations”. In different phrases, we’ve met the enemy and it’s us overlaying up the true enemy which can also be us.
