RE: The Mysterious Hum

Mr. Xoom posted a few weeks back about a Wisconsin couple that’s been plagued by a mysterious low-pitched humming s

ound.

I recently stumbled upon other reported cases of this phenomenon, providing proof that this Wisconsin couple isn’t crazy.

Citizens in Britain and portions of the Southwestern U.S. have been complaining about a maddening hum that just won't go away. And researchers have been unable to pinpoint its source. Not everyone can hear the low-pitched hum, and those who do say that it seems artificial in nature - and is driving them crazy. In 1977, a British newspaper received nearly 800 letters from people complaining of loss of sleep, irritability, deteriorating health, inability to read or study because of the incessant hum.

Most famous in the U.S. is the Taos Hum. There the annoyance was so acute for the "hearers" in Taos, New Mexico that they banded together in 1993 and petitioned Congress to investigate and help them find the source of the noise. No conclusive causes were discovered. One prevailing theory holds that the hum is created by a military communications system used to contact submarines.

After looking into the possibility of low frequency military communications systems (ELF), I found a few interesting reports that would suggest this is the cause of the maddening hum.

The following summaries were taken from the Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific & Technical Information website.

Publication Date: 1980 Jan 01

Description/Abstract:

The U.S. Navy has proposed a submarine communications system that operates at extremely low frequencies (ELF), using a land-based transmitting antenna. Research evaluating the environmental impact of this system has been reviewed by two committees: an Ad Hoc Committee formed by the Navy in 1973 to study research from 1968-73; and a committee formed in 1976 by NAS to review all existing data.

The results of these committee reviews are summarized, with emphasis on the work of the NAS committee. Research with primates to determine the effects of chronic ELF radiation exposure is reviewed. NAS recognized the possibility of a physiological perturbation but could find no experimental or theoretical basis to assume that exposure to a magnetic field of 0.02 mT and an electrical field of 0.07 v/m would be potentially hazardous.

I love the last sentence - "NAS recognized the possibility of a physiological perturbation" 

Basically the government agencies said they recognize the possibility of the ELF radiation causing disruption and annoyance to living things and the way they function. This report can be viewed here.

I know that's no smoking gun, but does lend evidence to the theory. 

Let's Go To Oak Island! (part 1)

I heard about this a few years ago. As far as I know, it's true. Mr. Xoom and the others will certainly cane or umbrella me if it isn't, but I think it's a great story.

In the summer of 1793, a teenager named Daniel McGinnis, was taking a stroll on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. He stumbled upon a circular depression in the ground below an oak tree. The branches of the tree looked as if they been cut in order to use a pulley. Local pirate tales ran rampart, so Daniel returned later with some friends. Over the next several days, the boys would begin to unearth one of the most intriguing mysteries in history.

Two feet below the surface the boys uncovered a layer of flagstones. At ten feet down, they ran into a layer of oak logs and again at twenty and thirty feet. At this point they knew they couldn't go any further alone. They departed but agreed to return.

It took eight years, but the explorers finally returned, this time with the help of the Onslow Company, formed exclusively for the expedition. They resumed where they had left off and continued to ninety feet, finding a layer of logs at every ten foot interval. Besides the logs, at forty feet a layer of charcoal was uncovered, at fifty feet a layer of putty, and at sixty, a layer of coconut fiber.

At ninety feet a mysterious stone with some kind of strange glyphs was hauled up. No one has ever actually deciphered it. After a layer of logs was removed at ninety feet, water began to fill the pit. Pumping didn't help, so another pit was dug parallel to the original. At ninety feet, it too filled with water. The search was abandoned and the pit didn't get another visitor for forty five years.

In 1849, the Truro Company was formed to continue the search. It was discovered that the first crew had activated an ingenious booby trap. A tunnel dug from nearby Smith's Cove, would fill the pit with water just as fast as it could be pumped out. The Truro company decided to drill core samples to determine what was down there.

At 98 feet the drill went through a spruce platform. Then it encountered 4 inches of oak and then 22 inches of what was characterized as "metal in pieces""; Next 8 inches of oak, another 22 inches of metal, 4 inches of oak and another layer of spruce. The conclusion was that they had drilled through 2 casks or chests filled will coins. Upon pulling out the drill they found splinters of oak and strands of what looked like coconut husk.

The Truro Company returned in 1850 with plans to dig another parallel hole and then tunnel over to the Money Pit. Just like before, as they tunneled over, water began to rush in. They brought in pumps to try to get rid of the water but it was impossible to keep the water out. During the pumping someone noticed that at Smith's Cove during low tide there was water coming OUT of the beach.

It turns out that the pit designers had created a drain system, spread over a 145 foot length of beach, which resembled the fingers of a hand. Each finger was a channel dug into the clay under the beach and lined by rocks. The channels were then filled with beach rocks, covered with several inches of eel grass, and then covered by several more inches of coconut fiber. The effect of this filtering system was that the channels remained clear of silt and sand while water was still allowed to flow along them. The fingers met at a point inland where they fed sea water into a sloping channel which eventually joined the Money Pit some 500 feet away. Later investigations showed this underground channel to have been 4 feet wide, 2 1/2 feet high, lined with stone, and meeting the Money Pit between the depths of 95 to 110 feet.

To the Truro Company, the answer was now simple - just block off the water flow from the beach and dig out the treasure. Their first attempt was to build a dam just off the beach at Smith's Cove, drain the water, and then dismantle the drain channels. Unfortunately a storm blew up and destroyed the dam before they could finish.

An interesting note: the remains of an older dam were found when building the new one.

The next plan was to dig a pit 100 feet or so inland in the hopes of meeting with the water channel underground at which point they could plug the channel. This scheme too failed. And this was the last attempt by the Truro company to uncover the secrets of Oak Island.

To Be Continued...

Indonesian Woman Grows Wires from her Stomach

You heard right. This is the newest news out of Indonesia. NOORSYAIDAH. A 40 years old kindergarten teacher from Sangatta, East Kutai (I can't even find this place on the map) has developed a slight problem over the years – She grows wire from her stomach. The first symptoms started in 1991 and have since continued. The wires vary in size from 10 to 20 cm long.

One of her sisters said that she tried to help by trimming the wires. Alas, whenever she trimmed the wires, the wire retreated as if it were hiding and then popped up in another part of Noorsyaidah’s body.

I truly don’t know what to make of this, and neither do experts.

There have been 4 Medical Specialists taking this matter seriously and have treated her in several ways. And as the result, doctors can’t figure out what exactly is happening to her. The doctors have taken an X-Ray image from her stomach and found that there are more than 40 metal wires inside her and some of them are bursting out of her skin.

Imagine the hell she must go through at airports.

Currently, the Ministry of Health (who knows which one) is investigated this matter.

Should I or shouldn't I

I just need to know if anyone out there has seen Lost Boys: The Tribe. I'm really dragging my feet. I know I need to see it just because it's a sequel to one of the best vampire pop culture fests ever! How does it measure up? How could it measure up?

Damn, The Lost Boys. "How do you like your maggots Michael?" What a rockin' line! Wait, speaking of rocking let's hear it for the saxophone wielding, super muscle bound, dog chain wearing "Still Believing" Tim Cappello! He was singing like he meant it. There's also that moment when Corey Haim puts the stuffed aardvark or whatever in the closet and we see a poster of a half naked Rob Lowe hanging on the door. What the hell? Great stuff. I love this movie and can't bear the thought of it being spoiled by a little bastard lamefest.

Does The Tribe have any merit?

Biscardi's Site Confirms Georgia Bigfoot a Hoax

What do you know? Confirmation that the Georgia Bigfoot body in the freezer was just a rubber costume frozen under the ice. Biscardi's site is claiming they didn't know about this until after the Friday press conference, but I'm not sure that fits with the things he was saying in interviews on Fox News and elsewhere. At the very least, it would be massively unprofessional for Biscardi to have taken the word of these guys and called the press conference without confirming or taking a look at the "body" himself first.

Now Biscardi is saying that HE was a victim in this affair, claiming the two Georgians took an advance from him, which Internet rumors put at $50,000, and then took off when the hoax was revealed. Others aren't buying Biscardi's babe in the woods routine. And to top it all off, one of the hoaxers, police officer Matthew Whitton, is being fired for his role in the hoax. Not too big of a deal, I guess, as Clayton County, GA Chief of Police Jeffrey Turner says he hasn't heard from Whitton since this hoax stuff hit.

This whole thing was a disgrace from the get go. I'm just surprised so many people fell for something at the beginning which was always obviously a hoax.

A Mix of Chinese Folklore with a Hint of Madness

Forget the Olympics, I'm going here. Built in Singapore in 1937 by brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, the Haw Par Villa features a mix of Chinese Folklore, Legends, and History.

It reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”

I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things. Won't be long now before they tear us to shreds.

Cleveland – Do you or your “special lady friend” know anything about this place? It sounds like it has some cool attractions.

The Ten Courts of Hell

What’s not to like about this place right?

The Strange Phenomenon of Stone Encased Animals

Now we’ve covered a variety of stories here at Xoom, some strange, some inspirational, and some - just simply hilarious. This little piece of phenomenon pie falls under a different category, the category of… What the Hell? 

In 1821, Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine carried an unusual item about a stone mason named David Virtue who made an astonishing discovery while working on a large chunk of rock that had come from about 22 feet below the surface. Upon breaking it open "he found a lizard embedded in the stone. It was coiled up in a round cavity of its own form, being an exact impression of the animal. It was about an inch and a quarter long, of a brownish yellow color, and had a round head, with bright sparkling projecting eyes. It was apparently dead, but after being about five minutes exposed to the air it showed signs of life. It soon ran about with much celerity."

After closer examination, there apparently have been several reports of this occurring over the years. How could something like this be?

Frogs can hibernate for extended periods of time by forming cocoons at the bottom of water holes or deep in the mud. They do this by breathing through their skin. But how could this explain the weird cases of frogs encased in stone.

Rock can take millions of years to form. Are we to believe that these animals have been encased for millions of years, only to frolic away happily after being released?

Strange.

I'd be more inclined to believe this if more evidence was presented to back it up. 

The Amazing Cyril Takayama...

Another trick from Cyril to start your day...

This trick is a pretty simple effect for Cyril, but he shows that even something that seems comparatively basic can startle and amaze. Stick around for the grand finale and just look at the awe on those ladies' faces... It must be very cool to be able to walk into any old place and just brighten people's day the way Cyril does with his magic.


Cyril Magic - The best video clips are here

RE: African Woman Gives Birth to... Cups?

I feel sorry for the poor bastard who makes the unfortunate mistake of drinking from one of these cups.

Ass Bag Justice

In.

Okay MacCready, good call about "Dick." He wants to post videos about me "whining" and look at him. But, ass bag? Are you serious? And you need convincing that the "Tank Man" is the most creepy post on the blog?

We're always looking into stories about alien abduction, right? Well, the "Tank Man" was abducted and vanished--VANISHED--right here on Earth. Just for stating his beliefs. That's creepy to me because it could happen to any of us at any time. Imagine how creepy his family thought it was. Just like the disappearance of the people on the Mary Celeste, this man will not be found. Like Hoffa. Like "Dick" after watching porn. Gone.

And it's recent.

So, my point is made. Your post is obscure. You just got slapped by an ass bag.



But again, good job on calling Cutman out. He needs a little humiliation. Me, I'm fearless. Once you're caught in a Chinese jacket with a glass of cheap wine and your stuff tick-tocking, there's no place lower to go. And don't worry, yours is coming.

Out.

African Woman Gives Birth to... Cups?

All I can really say about this is that, apparently, the rest of the world is much more interesting than the United States:

A Mozambican woman recently gave birth to three cups in the southern province of Gaza, independent television channel Stv reported on Thursday, showing images of the crockery.

The channel said the 18-year-old woman who lives in Xai Xai, gave birth to the cups on her way to hospital after she had complained of labour pains.

Images of the three cups were shown on the television station and the woman said she was three months pregnant at the time of the "birth".

The Mozambican association of traditional healers (Ametramo) told the station that there was nothing strange about the story.

Ametramo president Aulerio Demoraz said similar cases had occurred in other parts of the world "due to witchcraft".

He said the woman needed to be treated with traditional medicines in order to exorcise the "evil spirits" which made her give birth to the cups.

Those rascally evil spirits... making women give birth to crockery! Oh, the humanity.


(And yes, I'd feel like a big ass if this story were actually true, so in the spirit of hedging my bets, I hope this woman and her family are doing okay.)

Mary Celeste - I Blame the Booze

The Mary Celeste was a 103-foot (31 m), 282-ton brigantine built in 1861, but with an expiration date of December 4, 1872.

It was on this date of 1872 when the Mary Celeste was spotted drifting at sea with no signs of distress.

Upon arrival, crewmembers of the Dei Graita were astonished to find the Mary Celeste in good condition, however, there was a catch. The entire crew of the Mary Celeste was missing.

Oliver Deveau, the chief mate of the Dei Gratia, led a party in a small boat to board the Mary Celeste. He found the ship in generally good condition, though he reported that "the whole ship was a thoroughly wet mess". There was only one operational pump, with a lot of water between decks and three and a half feet (1.1 m) of water in the hold. The forehatch and the lazarette were both open, the clock was not functioning and the compass was destroyed. The sextant and marine chronometer were missing, and the only lifeboat appeared to have been intentionally launched rather than torn away, suggesting the ship had been deliberately abandoned.

So what happened?

Over the years, many theories have been suggested, as well as the elaborate exaggerations of the story.

According to an original 1873 news article from the Boston Post, pirates seized the Mary Celeste. Although a reasonable explanation, the pirate theory has been contested. Many theories suggest there may have been a more sinister cause to this ghost ship tale…. Booze.

Yep, you heard right. The entire crew of the Mary Celeste may have fell victim to the majestic powers of alcohol…. But not in the way you’re thinking.

Of the theories consistent with the account given by the crew of the Dei Gratia, the most plausible are based on the barrels of alcohol. Briggs had never hauled such a dangerous cargo before and did not trust it. Nine leaking barrels would have caused a buildup of vapor in the hold. Historian Conrad Byers believed that Captain Briggs ordered the hold to be opened, resulting in a violent rush of fumes and then steam. Believing the ship was about to explode, Briggs ordered everyone into the lifeboat, failing, in his haste, to properly secure it to the ship with a strong towline. The wind picked up and blew the ship away from them. The occupants of the lifeboat either drowned or drifted out to sea to die of hunger, thirst and exposure.

I couldn’t imagine the desperate feeling those crew members felt while watching their ship drift away, never to be seen again.

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

I was having trouble sleeping the other night. I tried everything that usually works, but just couldn't doze off. I ended up poking around on the internet and stumbled upon something that I find truly unexplainable.

Meet Thai Ngoc, also known as Hai Ngoc, a sixty four year old Vietnamese pig farmer. Nothing really special about him, aside from the fact that he hasn't slept at all in thirty five years!

Apparently this guy got sick in 1973 and hasn't been able to sleep since. I know that I can be a real prick if I don't get at least 6 hours of sleep, but I can't imagine how I'd behave after almost 12,000 consecutive nights without rest. It doesn't seem to bother Thai Ngoc. He regularly carries two 50 kg bags of grain over 3 miles to his home. Doctors in Da Nang were totally baffled, but still had to give Thai a clean bill of health. He only thing he suffers from is a slight decline in liver function. In 2006 he stated that he was starting to feel like a plant without water.

When he's not pig farming Hai Ngoc likes to stay up all night guarding his farm. He also functions as a human alarm clock for neighbors. He says he doesn't mind since he's up anyway. He dug two fish ponds in three months, while the rest of the world slumbered.

To sum up, let me put this into perspective. The last time this guy slept, Richard Nixon was president, the World Trade Center had just opened and none of the people posting on this blog had been born yet!

Whoa!

RE: To the Dick - Formally Known As Richard Cutman

Dick, the way you've been crying lately, I'm fulling expecting to sign on one day only to see that you've posted a Chris Crocker type web blog addressing all your problems... much like Cleveland "No Pants" Williams did.

LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!

Come on guys.

Oh yeah Cleveland... You'll have to do a little more convincing if you expect anyone to believe that your "Tank Man" is creepier than anything posted yet. Ass Bag.

The Away Team's Lineup

A forensic artist named Bill MacDonald, has sifted though hundreds of eyewitness alien reports and compiled a list of the seven basic alien species wandering planet earth.

The first category are the Roswell aliens. These are small and fairly humanoid with reptilian skin. They have very human like eyes with some "Asian" characteristics.

Next are the Greys. Those classic large headed critters, whose black eyes take up the majority of their face. They are the worker class beings. They do most of the dirty work like abducting and probing.

In 3rd place we have the Ancients. These tall creatures have an almost, Praying Mantis, appearance.

The Nordics follow up with their Fabio look alikes. These beings resemble humans in every way, except that they are perfect. The men look fit and athletic and the women have great jugs.

The Hybrids, from what I understand resemble children with very fine hair.

The sixth race of alien is the Reptilian. These tend to be humanoid in proportion, but have huge eyes and even bigger mouths. They have three toes and probably a freaky forked snake tongue.

The final classification is the Neonate. These small, fetus like creatures seem to be the most intelligent and resemble the small creatures on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.



There are many other videos and classification systems out there, but at least this one corresponds with the ones I've seen.

Where's The "Tank Man?"--Looking Back While Looking At

In. In. In.

Maybe. Maybe not.

We'll see.

With the Olympics in Beijing and me talking to Varian, I want to know (and the world should know)--what happened to the "Tank Man," the guy who faced down tanks, then disappeared from existence after Tiananmen Square?

Check this:



"The man stood alone in the middle of the road as the tanks approached. He held two bags, one in each hand. As the tanks came to a stop, he appeared to be trying to wave them away. In response, the front tank attempted to drive around the man, but the man repeatedly stepped into the path of the tank in a show of nonviolent action. After blocking the tanks, the man climbed up onto the top of the lead tank and had a conversation with the driver. He is believed to have said "Get out of my city, you are not wanted here."

Obviously, this rashed a few sacks, because nobody knows anything about anything when it comes to the legendary "Tank Man." Footage of whom Time Magazine dubbed the "Unknown Rebel" was smuggled out of China and he...well, who knows? Here's what the Chinese Government had to say:

The last official statement from the PRC government about the "Tank Man" came from Jiang Zemin in a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters. When asked about the whereabouts of the "Tank Man", Jiang responded that the young man was "I think never killed."

Creepier than anything posted yet. What happened to the "Tank Man?"

I want to know.

Out.

An Appropriate and Measured Response

F**k you guys!

I tried to be mature, but I guess I missed the freakin' memo about making Cutman look like an ass in EVERY DAMN POST!!!

I can take a joke just as well as anyone, I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to "dish it out" so of course every now and again I'll have to "take it". No big deal. No sweat off my sack.

Maybe I should start ending all of my posts with stuff like, "Cleveland's a jack off that likes to sit around, fagging off with a glass of wine and talking to himself." Perhaps, "MacReady has a vagina" is the appropriate way to wrap up a successful posting.

I just keep trying to do my job, and I don't like being kicked in the mini-Cutmans. I suppose this will be met with more animosity, but so be it. The gloves are off now fellas, go f**k yourselves!

UFOs in Ancient Art

I remember a time years ago when UFO videos were rarely discussed and usually dismissed as hoaxes or explained away as camera anomalies. But occasionally, stories or footage would surface that was truly unexplainable.

Nowadays, any yahoo with a camera, an Internet connection, and the desire to be a part of the buzz has the ability to showcase their newest bullshit UFO footage along with their even wackier ideas, somehow to convince us that Bill Nye is actually one of “Them”.

The “UFO Market” has been flooded with wannabe “Agents” trying to sell their newest piss-poor footage or story. This has led to the questioning of Ufology and it’s legitimacy.

So today, I’ve deciding not to post the newest UFO video, or the newest Alien Theory – I’ve decided to post a few pieces of artwork that represent UFOs and Aliens long before cameras and the Internet came along.

Now I know I just said “pieces of artwork that represent UFOs and Aliens”, so let me rephrase that. I’ve decided to post a few pieces of artwork that feature certain elements that could be depicting UFOs or Aliens.

Many of these pieces of artwork can be easily explained as nothing more than a star, or a comet, where some of the art really raise questions as to what the artist was really attempting to depict.

Pop culture has truly influenced our vision of what a UFO or Alien is supposed to look like, but these paintings may be giving us a look at what the untarnished minds of the past were truly seeing. An artist puts deep thought and reason into what he or she will create, whereas a camera is limited to the standard point and shoot.

So what do you think? Are these paintings accurate representations of what Alien Visitors look like, or are they nothing more than simple paintings with simple explanations? Have we taken our pre-conceived ideas of what UFOs and Aliens look like and applied it to nothing more than misunderstood objects within the paintings of yesterday?

As a researcher of the unexplained, part of me wants the UFO debate to end with an alien craft landing on the White House Garden with a big sign that says, “We’re Here”. The other part of me gets great thrill from the unknown and wants the riddle to stay wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Somewhere there’s a key to the mystery, just maybe in our lifetime we’ll use it to unlock the enigma and finally solve the age-old question – Are we alone?

For more UFOs in Ancient Art, check out this site. It has a large number of paintings as well as information on the art, artists, years, and theories.

I'd like to give a shout out to my boy Winston Churchill for providing me with the enigma quote. I'd also like to thanks Mr. Xoom for clarifying to Dick Cutman that this quote was made famous by Winston Church hill, not Joe Pesci in JFK.

Imagine that? Tom Biscardi and Georgia Bigfoot Guys Release Almost Nothing at Press Conference

Hoax Hoax Hoax. Hoaxie Hoax Hoax a-hoax.

They released almost nothing. Said the body is at an undisclosed location awaiting an autopsy. Released two more blurry photos(why blurry - isn't this 2008?) of the body and a supposed bigfoot in the woods.

Don't even feel like wasting anymore energy writing anything about it - which is why we've generally avoided the story here at Xoom, and have been skeptical of it from the very beginning. It never passed the smell test on any level, even from the start.

Basically, these guys are a bunch of douchebags trying to get rich by drumming up publicity for a "documentary" they are going to make about the "bigfoot autopsy". Don't put any money in these guys' pockets when that comes out. It's not like they are providing real entertainment here, like a fictional movie or something that's good on its own terms. The entire entertainment value of their project relies on the lie that they've captured a bigfoot body, nothing more.

Read the story about the press conference here, if you'd like.

Amazing Bowler with No Arms and One Leg

I find this quite amazing. Wow.



I in no way want to take anything away from the stories Cutman posted about the blind painter and the blind kid with clicking sonar powers, but I just can’t get over this.

Here’s another video of the same guy, hitting another strike.



I don’t go bowling very often, but I know my own game well enough that I can honestly say this guy would whoop my ass and send me on my way.

Take a Boat Ride With the Incredible Cyril Takayama

More in our series of clips from the incredible Cyril Takayama.

Taking some cameras out on an ocean-bound sightseeing ship, Cyril goes down to the glass view ports and stuns some lucky sightseers.

RE: MacCready Taps into his Psychic Abilities

Cleveland in.

MacCready, I don't know what you're on, but Double Decker Tacos ain't it. I see visions like that all the time. No big deal. One day I saw two male dogs getting it on and right after, Cutman called.






It happens. Stop blogging about your wet dreams of Sawyer (couldn't you at least dream about Sun?) and put something interesting up.






















It's just coincidence.

So go ahead Cutman, get on the plane.

Trust me.

Out.

Bigfoot-Hoaxing Ass Clowns

You've heard about the two guys in Georgia who claim to have found a Bigfoot corpse in the woods and now have it locked away in a freezer right?

If not, you aren't missing anything... don't waste any of your time giving these guys a single shed of belief towards their ridiculous claim.

Mr. Xoom expressed skepticism towards these clowns in a previous post, so instead of redirecting you to these fraud's website, giving them more hits, take the time to visit this link to see how all this madness began and why these guys are a shame to the Bigfoot tracking community.

Tisk Tisk.

Ernest Borgnine's Open Mic Captures His Shocking Longevity Secret

Open mics are wonderful things. May celebrities keep forgetting that any open mic should be considered a live mic, and you can't "whisper" around one, either.

Good news, Cutman - apparently you are going to live forever!

Link: sevenload.com

Hat Tip: Hot Air.

MacReady Taps into his Psychic Abilities

MacReady here.

I’ve never been short on weird dreams. I’ve always had extremely vivid dreams – Some weird, others not. For me, it seems that late night Taco Bell is some sort of a screwed up mind elixir to the dream world.

Although I didn’t eat Taco Bell last night, I had no problem tapping into my out of control sub-conscious mind.

My dream last night had very many strange elements to it, but here’s the two important parts you need to know.

• Some sort of mistake had occurred and the world was thrust into WWIII

• Sawyer from the “Lost Series” Shot a bird in a tree. The bullet went through the bird into the tree, cracking the tree, causing Crude Oil to spill from its trunk.
  

Okay, yes I know… that’s really stupid right? Well this morning, I was doing my same routine, checking Fark.com for world news. Here are two of the first articles I saw – Right next to each other.

Japanese local government mistakenly broadcasts alert warning of imminent missile attack to 20 government buildings. "New pants required" alert was broadcast shortly after.

Congressman claims that trees contain 40% crude oil. Wants to start cutting down national forests to solve the oil crisis. Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?

I’m in no way claiming to be the next Nostradamus, but it was very strange to see these two news articles – Next to each other.

Let it be said also that there’s no way I could have seen these articles previous to last nights dream, I was gone all night and went straight to bed when I got home.

I guess it’s all one big quinky-dink, but you never know…

There was one more element to my dream last night that I really shouldn’t speak of, but I should at least warn him…

Cutman, whatever you do…don’t get on the plane.

Is the USS Salem Haunted?

Word is that the Cold War era vessel USS Salem is haunted. Strange noises are heard echoing through the cavernous metal halls. Deck hatches bang open and shut. But the clincher, apparently, has been the multiple sightings of a ghost-like figure working away at the machinery on the ship's bow.

Mass Paranormal of Quincy is on the case:

Armed with infrared cameras and parabolic microphones, Mass Paranormal scoured the decks of the 718-foot vessel in July. The Salem never fired its guns in combat but was a symbol of America's power in the 1950s.

"The first 30 seconds on the recorder we heard a woman telling us to 'get out' three times," said Tom Ventosi, co-founder and vice president of the Quincy paranormal group. There were additional "appearances," but the team doesn't want to ruin the surprise.

I was initially quite intrigued by this story. Then I saw this part of the whole deal:

The team is planning an all-night investigation aboard the ship on Aug. 23, and it is inviting others to experience the spooky happenings with their own eyes and ears.

Mass Paranormal and the Salem are charging $85 per person for the experience, which will feature an appearance by Shannon Sylvia from the Sci-Fi Channel show "Ghost Hunters International."

Sigh. Charging admission and getting TV exposure (before you prove anything) are not hallmarks of a serious investigative effort. I mean come on, guys. I'm not saying that making a little dough and getting some publicity automatically equals a con, but it's just the kind of Barnum and Bailey hucksterism that gives ghost hunting a bad name - continuing to make it harder for those of us who endeavor to approach the field as actual science gain credibility.

Way to go.

TAPS Ghost Hunters Episode--The Crescent Hotel

In.

Guys, the TAPS Ghost Hunters show on the Sci Fi Channel did an episode on the Crescent Hotel a while back. AND, they captured what might be one of the best apparition images I've ever seen. Down in the basement (and I was here and will post my personal photos) they caught this:


Creepy, huh? I told you this hotel was the real deal. From what I'm told, this lit up the TAPS message boards like Cutman's eyes watching scat porn.










This image was captured in front of this locker:


















Also, the table below is the last existing operating table from Dr. Norman Baker's cancer experiments (a captured image from the show):


I have personal photos I will post of this as well. Real world horror + camera captured apparitions=Cleveland found it!

Arkansas is one messed, up creepy place. And here is the cool thing, during Halloween, you can actually spend the night down there! Maybe something to consider?


Anyway, more to come.

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Meet Cyril Takayama

He may not be paranormal, but Cyril Takayama is definitely one of the coolest magicians in the world, routinely blowing away audiences in person and on television with his innovative up-close effects. Cyril does magic in full view of shocked spectators that often surround him from all angles in seemingly impromptu situations.

Here's one such performance:

Psychiatrist's Paranormal "Eye-Beam" to Be Tested by Noted Debunker James Randi

For some time now, the James Randi Educational Foundation has had a standing challenge: show them, under testable and provable conditions, evidence of any supernatural, paranormal, or occult power or event and they will shell out a $1 million prize as a reward.

This challenge was created as a debunking tool for the unexplained. All kinds of people claim they can do supernatural or paranormal things, or that they can show you evidence of things unexplainable by science. If that's so, says Randi, prove it and get the $1 million prize. Over the years, several people have stepped forward to try and win this challenge, but none thus far have been able to pass the test of proof under Randi's scientific method and observation. The supernatural, according to Randi, remains completely unproven.

Enter Dallas psychiatrist Colin A. Ross, M.D.

Dr. Ross claims he can "make a tone sound out of a speaker using nothing but an energy beam he sends out through his eyes."

For more than 300 years, Western science has stated that no energy of any kind is emitted from the eyes. When you feel someone staring at you, Western science dismisses this as coincidence or some other form of misunderstanding.

Dr. Ross, founder of the Colin A. Ross Institute, is the author of over 135 scientific papers and 18 books, many of them dealing with psychological trauma and multiple personality disorder. He has spoken to mental health professionals throughout North America, as well as in Europe, China, Australia and New Zealand, including several conference presentations on energy fields. In a forthcoming book entitled Human Energy Fields, Dr. Ross explains a new science and medicine of human energy fields in detail.

"Once this energy is identified and captured, as I have done, then it can be studied and used for many applications in medicine and other fields," said Dr. Ross.

Dr. Ross plans to get tested by Randi and his team soon. Do you think Randi's finally gonna have to shell out that $1 million? Stay tuned and we'll keep you updated on any new developments in this case.

Colonel Robert Willingham Talks About Mexico UFO Crash In His Own Words

Just an update to the story I did yesterday on the retired Air Force Colonel and Fighter Pilot who says he witnessed a UFO crash in Mexico in 1955. He also says he was present for at least part of the aftermath on the ground.

Here he is now, telling his story in his own words:

Are You a Combination of Two People, Wrapped Up Into One?

Imagine this. You’re a mother of three grown children and in desperate need of a kidney transplant. All three children are tested as potential donors, only the test results come back with something completely unexpected – Two of the children are genetically not yours.

You may be thinking, perhaps there was a mix up at the hospital… Twice?

Not at all – This is actually a real world case of medical rarity. Although the mother had conceived all three children, test results showed she was genetically not the mother of two of the children. So what gives?

In 2003, Dr Margot Kruskall of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that the mother in question was a Chimera, a physical mix of fraternal twin sisters.

So why did test results reveal two of the three children not hers? - Because genetically, they were her twin sister’s.

Because she was born a physical mix of fraternal twins, her ovaries somehow produced eggs belonging to both herself and her twin sister, who in reality, didn’t even exist. This resulted in one son sharing DNA with the mother, and two sons sharing DNA with their non-existing Aunt.

That’s pretty far out.

Imagine the overwhelming feeling one individual would have discovering they were actually a genetic combination of two people, with two distinct sets of DNA. I can just imagine some big fat-cat defense lawyer using this…

“Clearly, the DNA evidence proves my client’s innocence – The guilty culprit is the evil twin.”

RE: Cleveland's Mistake/Crescent F**n Hotel!

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Cleveland here. Just having a glass of wine.

Thank you Mr. Xoom for pointing out that slight (Cutman penis size) mistake. Yes, it was MacCready's post, but I don't care if it was Queen Lizzy's post, it sucked. One video? BOOORRRINNNGG!! And what's with the real-time postings? No sex lives to spend some time on? Or the man-to-hand relationships take up mere seconds, then BLAM! Kleenex and right back to updates? Jesus guys, breathe a little.

That said, yes, I was second with the post. No, I did not plagiarize it, mine was better.

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The Crescent Hotel...



Guys, this thing's the real deal. It's not far from Monte Ne and ,yes, there are the same old same old cheesy ghost stories: man dies during construction, man haunts room 218. What separates this from your every day haunted hotel is the REAL story behind the stories. It all starts with a man named Norman Baker. It appears Dr. Baker turned the hotel into a cancer clinic from 1937-1940. And let's just say, helping cancer victims was the last thing on his mind. He wanted to find a cure through experimentation, death be damned. As a topper, he then exploited family members of the patients for money---pretending they were alive long after they were dead.

He was busted by the police for mail fraud. He died years later of....cancer!

I will posting a lot more on this, as well as including personal pictures tomorrow.

Wait til you see the last surviving morgue table in the basement!

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