tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18040815555808863402024-03-13T21:07:36.873-05:00Phantom UniversePhantom Universe is a Site dedicated to All Things Paranormal- Aliens, UFOs, Ghosts, Cryptids, Monsters, Psychic Abilities and Other Dimensions, Time/Space.Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-731813810377364912012-06-24T15:00:00.000-05:002012-06-24T15:00:44.298-05:00Dog Saves Newborn BabyFrom <a href="http://www.cafemom.com/articles/home_garden/138778/dog_rescues_newborn_baby_after?utm_medium=sem2&utm_campaign=prism&utm_source=outbrain&utm_content=0" target="_blank">cafemom.com</a>:<br />
<h1>Dog Rescues Newborn Baby After He Was Left in the Woods to Die </h1><div class="articleDetails post clearfix"> <div> <address><br />
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Owners of a <strong>farm dog</strong> in Ghana feared that their beloved pet had gotten lost or injured when he didn't return home at the end of the day, so they organized a search party to look for him. They wound up looking for the pooch for a better part of the night -- and got the shock of their lives when they finally located him, because he wasn't alone. Lying next to him was an<strong> abandoned newborn baby </strong>who'd been "disposed of" sometime shortly after his birth. (How could any parent do such a thing?)<br />
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The poor infant still had his <strong>umbilical cord</strong> attached, which had gotten infected while he was left in the woods to die. And he very likely would've had a tragic ending to his story if this amazing dog hadn't cuddled up next to him all night to keep him warm.<br />
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And it turns out the newborn is the whole reason the dog didn't come home in the first place -- because he was found with the baby under a bridge very close to his house. He wasn't lost at all. He could've easily left the baby and gone home, but he must've somehow instinctively known that he couldn't leave the little guy outside all night alone, so he chose to remain with him until help arrived.<br />
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Police are investigating why the baby was abandoned, but suspect that he was born to <strong>teenage parents</strong> who couldn't care for him. (Doesn't that break your heart?)<br />
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This story is amazing no matter how you look at it, but the fact that the dog is a male makes it even more astonishing. Usually females are the ones with the maternal instincts, but this heroic pooch definitely makes us wonder if all dogs have an innate sense of when a little one needs to be cared for.<br />
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Hopefully the owners of the dog fed him some extra scraps from the table and gave him a few well deserved belly rubs when he finally got home. And wouldn't it be something if whoever winds up adopting the baby comes back to introduce him to the dog who saved his life someday?<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.cafemom.com/articles/home_garden/138778/dog_rescues_newborn_baby_after?utm_medium=sem2&utm_campaign=prism&utm_source=outbrain&utm_content=0" target="_blank">cafemom.com</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Note:</span> Dogs have a protective instinct but you must consider this: dogs are also a lot smarter than humans give them credit for. -SW</b><br />
<span style="color: red;"> ___________________________________________</span><br style="color: red;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-81937842121712002682012-03-29T14:08:00.000-05:002012-03-29T14:08:20.526-05:00Angels Among Us<span style="color: #444444;">*</span><br />
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<b style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Angel <span style="font-size: x-small;">(noun)</span>:</b><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><i style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Possibly derived from the Greek word "Angelos", or "messenger".</i><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">Some of the definitions are as follows:</span><br style="color: #ea9999;" /><b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1. A spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God, usually depicted as a winged human form in a long robe.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="color: #ea9999;" /><span style="color: #ea9999;"> 2. An attendant spirit, especially a benevolent one.</span><br style="color: #ea9999;" /><span style="color: #ea9999;"> 3. A kind, compassionate and brave individual.</span></span></b><br />
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Do you believe in angels? Not angels with wings and a halo but real angels sent by a higher power, supernatural beings who help humans, sometimes saving them from disaster, while other times just offering comfort, or even testing us? Well, I do and I have a real life story to tell.<br />
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It was 1960, in the North Texas town of Wichita Falls and I was 8 years old. Though my parents took me everywhere with them, this one night was special, so they hired a baby sitter.<br />
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I don't recall much about the baby sitter, as she didn't speak much but when she did, she referred to me as "Miss". I do remember that she was a nice lady of African heritage, who lived clear across town, on the "East Side". In those days we still lived in a segregated world.<br />
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I don't know for sure how my parents met this lady but my mother did volunteer work, at the St. Vincent de Paul Store, near downtown Wichita Falls, where most of the regular customers were black and very poor. I recall later as a teenager, that I would go after school to the store, every Tuesday that my mother worked. I would help her sort donations, hang clothes on hangars, price them, help 'customers' and even run the ancient cash register and adding machine.<br />
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Another thing that stands out in my memory, is how everyone, from the elderly down to most small children, were very polite, though suspicious of us 'white folk'. I suppose the 'sitter' was a customer that agreed to stay with me, while my folks went out and had a good time.<br />
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We ourselves were not rich, by any means. My dad was a machinist and my mother stayed home, all accept her volunteer work once a week, or to go to meetings for the Federated Missionary's Society (which later my mother was president of the chapter). Despite modest earning on Dad's part, I am sure he paid the sitter well.<br />
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After my folks got home that evening, we all got into the car and drove across town to take the sitter home. I was sitting in the back with the lady, who didn't speak the whole time. Well, except when we got stuck on the railroad tracks.<br />
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It was the wee hours of the morning, not a soul in sight. Everything was pitch black, except the street lights behind us, as we crossed the railroad tracks on 7th Street. The engine died on the old Oldsmobile, right at the top of the tracks. My dad got out and raised the hood but could see nothing in the dark, so he fumbled around, checking wires as best he could. He got back inside and tried to start the car again, to no avail. <br />
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It was at this point, that we all realized the peril we were in. To our right (South), there was the distinct high pitched "woo woo" of a train whistle and I could just make out the distant headlight, getting bigger and brighter. The train was coming and it wasn't stopping! Dad yelled for us to get out of the car and though we all tried, the doors would not open!<br />
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As the train's headlight was now shining right upon us, we were trying like mad, to get out and I heard my baby sitter say, "Oh, Lord Jesus! Save us!"<br />
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As the train whistle screamed and the headlight blinded us from the right, there was suddenly a calm, then a brilliant light from behind the car, as the whole rear end of the 4500 pound automobile was lifted up into the air and the vehicle moved forward and off the tracks, just as the train passed behind us, right where we had been stuck.<br />
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Still visibly shaken, my dad jumped from the driver's seat and approached the three huge black men, who seemed to come out of thin air, picked the rear end of the car up and saving us all. Being the honest and generous man that my dad was, he insisted on paying our rescuers but they politely refused. <br />
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Dad turned to tell my mother that they would not accept any reward and before he could turn back to our angels of mercy, they were gone, vanishing as quickly as they came. <br />
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Both my dad and mother looked everywhere for our rescuers but even in the huge open area of the street and railroad tracks, they were no where to be seen.<br />
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The only thing else that I recall of that night, is that the woman who sat with me in the back seat, was gone. I don't recall taking her home but I do recall my mother telling my dad, "those were angels".<br />
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To this day, I know that we were saved by angels but that wasn't the first time my mother had dealings with such beings.<br />
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My mother has been gone a long time now, she herself a guardian from Heaven. She watches over my children and grandchild, this I know. But it was my mother's encounter just after the 'great depression', that stands out for me.<br />
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So many people had been hard hit by the depression and hunger was rampant and jobs were scarce. However, my dad did have a job. He was the best machinist in all of North Central Texas and Southern Oklahoma, or so the later write-up in the 'Times and Record News' said.<br />
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Before I was born, my mother took care of my dad's mother; doing the cooking, cleaning and general care of home and Grandma. At the time, my mother was in her early 30s, had been valedictorian of her graduating class and in later years I grew to realize, that she was one of the most intelligent and resourceful people I have ever known. She was not prone to "flights of fancy." <br />
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My mother had just made a big pot of beans and cornbread. That was a meal that would last for most of the week. And this is the story my mother related to me, which I will relate to you, just as she told it to me.<br />
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"<i style="color: #ffd966;">I had just finished up in the kitchen, when I heard a knock on the front door. The screen door was closed and an elderly gentleman was standing on the porch. <br />
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I walked to the door, said hello and asked what he wanted. He asked me if I had any knives or scissors he could sharpen.<br />
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I didn't have any money to pay him and I told him so but he just smiled and kept standing there. The old man had clean but old and worn clothes on. What stood out most, were his features. He had white hair, a long white beard and the most kind and gentle face that I had ever seen. To my eyes, he was 'beautiful'.<br />
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I told him no, that I was sorry I could not pay him in money but I had just made a pot of beans...<br />
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I was about to close the door when he said that beans would be just fine! He asked me to bring him all my knives and scissors, that he would eat when he was done.<br />
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The man sat on the edge of the porch and sharpened all the knives I brought him. When he was finished, I took the knives inside, then handed him a large bowl of beans and a slice of cornbread, which he devoured with vigor. He wiped the bowl clean, stood up and as he handed me the now empty bowl, he said with a sweet smile, "God bless you."<br />
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I said, "God bless you too." then turned to sit the bowl on the small table just inside the door. When I turned back, he was gone! I stepped out and walked to the end of the porch and looked but he was no where in sight. I walked out into the yard and looked up and down the street, still I did not see him anywhere. <br />
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It was at that moment I realized the old man was really an angel.</i>"<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">[<b>Note:</b> I still have one of my mother's kitchen knives and it is still as sharp today, as it was the day the angel sharpened it.]</span><br />
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My mother often wondered if she had been tested that day, by an angel sent by God. Then years later, we were all saved by beings with enormous size, strength and gentleness. <br />
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There have been many accounts of angelic-like beings, who suddenly appear, do what needs to be done, then slip away, or vanish. I think this is a distinct possibility, just as there are living, breathing 'angels' among us, as in ordinary people doing extraordinary things, during trying times. <br />
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Whatever, or whoever these angels are, their deeds of love, kindness and compassion affect us all, in a positive light and teach us that we too, can be 'angels of mercy'. -<b><i>Sunny Williams</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;">__________________________________________________</span><br style="color: red;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-5257413870758670222012-01-31T13:17:00.000-06:002012-01-31T13:17:05.376-06:00In a Dream, a Spirit's Life After Death<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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January 31, 2012<br />
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I had a spirit come to me in a dream last night. I don't know for sure if she wanted my help but she definitely wanted to tell her story.<br />
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She died young, just barely into adulthood. She was in an auto accident and didn't survive like she thought she had.<br />
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This is where it gets really interesting. For a long time she didn't know she was dead. The reason is that there are more people than we know of, live human beings that can see spirits and many of them can interact with spirits. <br />
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Some people don't actually see dead people but sense they are there, or hear a whispering voice; Some people see apparitions; only veiled wisps, or transparent forms with vague features. Then there are those that see them as if they are alive, a complete body, face and voice. These live people can see and speak to the deceased person like they would anyone else, interacting with the spirits, as if they were still alive. <br />
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In fact, there are a few live people who can't quite discern the difference, so they treat the spirit as if they are alive. And that is confusing. Thus, a spirit came to me and told me her story in first person, literally. For a brief while in my dream, I became her.<br />
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It started out, I was in bed. I was attempting to clear my mind and sleep when I heard my dog growl ever so softly. He does that when certain spirits are around, or if he hears a strange noise that bothers him.<br />
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Right then I knew a spirit had entered my home but I was tired and had few other concerns at the moment. Sleep was more important than greeting a ghost at the door.<br />
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I never caught this spirits name but as her story unfolded in my mind, I became her, seeing through her eyes, her mind. For now, I will call her Annie.<br />
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Annie was a lovely young lady, attending college and enjoying her young adulthood. She vaguely recalled an accident but thought she was OK. For some time it never dawned on her that some people who she knew in school and home, totally ignored her while others spoke with her, smiled and then moved on. <br />
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It didn't dawn on her that the party dress she liked in a store window just seemed to appear on her body, or that her attire changed at just a thought. She was confused but accepted it as normal and continued trying to live a life she no longer had.<br />
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Then in one moment, it all changed and the horror (to her) of what she is, became clear. There were denials and she begged those around here not to tell her the truth but too late. It was her own mother that told her how she died in a car accident and that it was her mother's love that kept her in limbo, in the living world. <br />
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In Annie's state of denial, she approached every person she saw and begged of them, "You see me, don't you? I'm real, I'm real!" <br />
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Most people ignored her, for they couldn't see or hear her but there were some who could and they made things worse. They could see her but were afraid, or couldn't tell her what she needed to know.<br />
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And so, Annie came to me in a dream. She "relived" her sad story in my mind and before I could tell her that indeed, she is dead, Annie faded away and left me with the memories of a sad and broken spirit.<br />
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Annie, if you are reading this, it's OK. You are OK. Love, peace and happiness await you in the light.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">[Note:</span> I really did experience this. I would be interested to know if anyone else has had an experience like this and if so, would you be willing to share your story? -SW<span style="color: red;">]</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> _______________________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-63764843789530609162012-01-02T16:25:00.000-06:002012-01-02T16:25:41.904-06:00Why we will still be here in 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNTinqzzcmQ/TwIs9GIryOI/AAAAAAAAAbU/eWjmYcBM94M/s1600/2012-disaster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="335" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MNTinqzzcmQ/TwIs9GIryOI/AAAAAAAAAbU/eWjmYcBM94M/s400/2012-disaster.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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OK, so there seems to be more major storms, even earthquakes in Oklahoma and Ohio, Tsunamis and just about any kind of disaster you can think of. So does this mean the end of the world is nigh? Uh, no.<br />
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The Earth is a living planet and by that very definition, we are here and we survive and thrive. Storms will come and go, tides will rise and fall, meteors will whiz by and some smack down, Momma Earth will belch and far... You get the picture.<br />
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Does anyone remember Y2K? You know, the New Millennium, January 1, 2000? Weren't we all supposed to be destroyed then, or at least all the computers in the world crashing at once? Give me a break...<br />
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People like a good scare and some people are just big worry warts. Just think of all the money that's been made off of "End of the World" movies, not to mention all the underground bunkers, missile silos turned condo and MREs (meals ready to eat). Hey, the end of the world is big business and people will pay out the "ends" to insure their survival, while the rest of us get Kentucky fried.<br />
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So just what is in store for our world in 2012? Well, the Earth is still going to turn and wobble on it's way around the sun; the moon will be an inch or so further away from our planet; disaster will still strike (as usual and in some form, fashion and place), people will whine and bemoan the end is coming; hoarders will go broke from buying all those MREs and underground bunkers; there'll be several Arks for sale; people will still be reporting UFO sightings; and I will still have to pay my taxes.<br />
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So there are my predictions, worth about what, 2 cents? You can use the PayPal button to help me out... I need to stock up on ammo.<br />
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Happy 2012!<br />
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-SW<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/12/recent-leaked-bigfoot-dna-information.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Recent 'Leaked' Bigfoot DNA Information </span></a></span><br />
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(<a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/12/recent-leaked-bigfoot-dna-information.html">Phantoms & Monsters</a>) <b>The following information was posted at <a href="http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/bigfoot-news-december-7-2011/">Bigfoot News - December 7, 2011</a> in reference to results of the nuclear <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">DNA testing</span> for the 'Bigfoot Steak':</b><br />
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The steak was sent out to ~8 different labs to be tested on a blind basis. Nuclear DNA testing was part of the process. The labs were not told what they were getting and they had no idea what they were testing. Two of the labs were said to have “figured out what it was,” whatever that means, and honestly it doesn’t make sense in the context. The cost was $~11,000 per result, so ~$90,000 was spent on <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">DNA sequencing</span> of the steak. This cost was apparently footed by Wally Hersom.<br />
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From all eight labs, the results came back:<br />
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1. Not human.<br />
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2. Not any known <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">animal</span>.<br />
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3. “Unknown primate.”<br />
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A lot of the labs made <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">communications</span> to Ketchum along the lines of “What in the Hell is this we are testing anyway?” “WFT?” “WTH?” “Huh?” The labs were essentially dumbfounded and befuddled by the specimen, but they reported the results in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">official</span> reports as they were paid to do.<br />
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#3. is important, because although the DNA matched no known living <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">creature</span>, it is primate DNA. I would go further and suggest that it is hominid DNA.<br />
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#1 is extremely important and cannot be emphasized enough. This is because the skeptic <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">blogs</span> keep repeating over and over that Ketchum’s results are “human DNA.” I can emphatically confirm that the results for at least the Bigfoot steak from the Sierra Kills were definitely “100% non human.”<br />
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<b style="color: red;">There's more!</b> <a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/12/recent-leaked-bigfoot-dna-information.html">Read the rest of the story.</a><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Note: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I am not going to comment on this, other than to say that if true, this is awesome news!</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> ________________________________________</span><br style="color: red;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-66900791085757197392011-12-08T12:23:00.000-06:002011-12-08T12:23:26.193-06:00"Witch's Cottage" Found In UK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1kJFYKfgR3Xty6.itARbfg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/251/2011/12/08/UKNews0812201100534810-1_132654.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1kJFYKfgR3Xty6.itARbfg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/251/2011/12/08/UKNews0812201100534810-1_132654.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/workmen-bewitching-discovery-005222837.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Workmen make 'bewitching' discovery</span></b></span></a><br />
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(<a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/workmen-bewitching-discovery-005222837.html">UK News-Yahoo</a>) Water engineers have unearthed what could prove to be one of the most infamous sites in England's history of witches and warlocks.<br />
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United Utilities' workers were "stunned" to discover a 17th century witch's-style cottage, with a mummified cat sealed into the walls, during a routine construction project in Pendle, Lancashire.<br />
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The "spellbinding" find occurred near Lower Black Moss reservoir in the village of Barley, which nestles in the shadow of Pendle Hill - the UK's premier witching hotspot.<br />
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Speculation is already rife among local historians that the building could be the lost Malkin Tower - the site of a notorious meeting of the Pendle witches on Good Friday, 1612.<br />
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Archaeologists brought in by the North West water firm to survey the area found a remarkably well-preserved building from the 1600s, hidden beneath a grass mound.<br />
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The building contained a sealed room, with a mummified cat bricked into the wall. It is believed the cat was buried alive to protect the cottage's inhabitants from evil spirits.<br />
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Carl Sanders, United Utilities' project manager, said: "It's not often you come across a fairytale cottage complete with witch's cat. The building is in remarkable condition. You can walk through it and get a real sense that you're peering into the past."<br />
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Simon Entwistle, an expert on the Pendle witches, said: "In terms of significance, it's like discovering Tutankhamun's tomb. We are just a few months away from the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witch trials, and here we have an incredibly rare find, right in the heart of witching country."<br />
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Frank Giecco, from NP Archaeology, led the team who unearthed the Pendle building.<br />
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He said: "It's like discovering your own little Pompeii. We rarely get the opportunity to work with something so well preserved. As soon as we started digging, we found the tops of doors, and knew we were onto something special."<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/17th-Century-Witchs-Cottage-Unearthed-in-Britain-135243743.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">17th Century "Witch's Cottage" Unearthed in Britain</span></b></a></span><br />
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(<a href="http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/17th-Century-Witchs-Cottage-Unearthed-in-Britain-135243743.html"><b>NBC Miami</b></a>) A 400-year-old "witch's cottage" complete with a mummified cat was unearthed by British engineers excavating a grass-covered mound.<br />
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Archaeologists were called to the construction project in Lancashire after the cottage was discovered, according to the BBC. Experts believe the the well-preserved cottage may have belonged to one of the Pendle witches.<br />
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The mummified cat was found embedded in a brick wall, where it may have been buried alive to ward off evil spirits.<br />
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Carl Sanders, United Utilities' project manager, said: "It's not often you come across a fairytale cottage complete with witch's cat.<br />
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"The building is in remarkable condition," Carl Sanders, manager of the utilities project that necessitated the digging, told the BBC. "You can walk through it and get a real sense that you're peering into the past."<br />
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The area around the cottage, Pendle Hill, is known as witch country for a spate of witch trials that took place during the 17th century.<br />
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Simon Entwistle, an expert on the Pendle witches compared the discovery to finding the tomb of King Tut.<br />
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"We are just a few months away from the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witch trials, and here we have an incredibly rare find, right in the heart of witching country," he said. "This could well be the famous Malkin Tower - which has been a source of speculation and rumor for centuries."<br />
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The building also contains a 19th Century kitchen range, Victorian crockery, a tin bath and a bedstead from its later years.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16066680">See video and more</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;">________________________________________</span><br style="color: red;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-83730519610690349472011-12-05T10:59:00.000-06:002011-12-05T10:59:07.260-06:00T'is the Season!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas UFO</td></tr>
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Last year I decorated the front of the house with lights and created what looked like (at night), a landed flying saucer with multicolored <i>chase lights</i> around it. <br />
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In the evenings after dark, I noticed quite a few people stopping out on the road and then speeding off. I guess they thought it was a real UFO. hehe<br />
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As I was looking through last years photos, I came across one of the house that has an anomaly. Can you see it? <br />
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Look close, just to the left of the doorway. A Christmas spirit, perhaps?<br />
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If you have had ghostly encounters at Christmas time, I'd love to read your story and possibly post it here. If you have photos, that would be even better.<br />
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<a href="mailto:sunny.will@att,net">Send your stories and photos to me</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"> _______________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-24765903308956891692011-11-10T15:37:00.000-06:002011-11-10T15:37:40.322-06:00"Spirited" Good Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvMAObDajYhbJTxqAQ1BXi10GuOuGRV5AKkGt9wh6mhAZW6OntnAhLJqD_ZasnPQZJEs8tTedphv14jD07c7sbtNNuWwMv2wuMSGEDs8jRdGUxyy_a_dHwMvm5p0TBSDB3WlGK9Q1TZbo/s1600/Devilish_Johnny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
</a></div> <i style="color: red;">Click on any photo for a larger view.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Am I scary?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zombie Joe and Max from 'Planet of the Apes".</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somebody put water in this bottle!<br />
Ken as Dracula, Max the ape.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The toad potion is just right.<br />
Karen the witch</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Off with their heads!<br />
Donna, the head hunter.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't cross me. When is break time?<br />
Devilish Johnny</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The veterans support organization that I belong to [<b>Texas Veterans Association, Chapter 3</b>], held a haunted house. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had a fantastic time scaring the "visitors" and for the second year straight, the proceeds (for charity) exceeded our expectations.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks to all, for a </span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">howling</i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> good time!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have tape, will travel.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You just might run into... me!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="color: orange;">Happy Halloween!</b></span></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f1c232;">From the cast and crew at Phantom U.</b><br />
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<span style="color: red;">________________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-91385274563954506252011-10-31T16:16:00.000-05:002011-10-31T16:16:20.830-05:00El Muerto - A Texas Ghost Story<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here's a <i>headless horseman</i> tale, from a true life Texas legend.</span><br />
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El Muerto</span></b><br />
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<b>A Texas Ghost Story</b><br />
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<i>retold by S.E. Schlosser</i><br />
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After getting the lay of the land, so to speak, frontier man Bigfoot Wallace moved from Austin to San Antonio, which was considered the extreme edge of the frontier, to sign up as a Texas Ranger under Jack Hayes. In them days, Texas was as wild as the west could get. There was danger from the south from the Mexicans, danger to the wet and north from the wild frontier filled with Indians and desperados, and to the east the settlements still had problems with the Cherokee Nation. General Sam Houston himself had appointed young Captain Hays, a hero from the battle of Plum Creek, to raise a company of Rangers to defend San Antonio. Hayes had high standards for his men. They were the best fighters in the west, and they had to be, considerin’ the fact that they were often outnumbered fifty to one. A man had to have courage, good character, good riding and shooting skills and a horse worth a hundred dollars to be considered for the job. Captain Hayes knew all about Bigfoot Wallace and signed him on the spot.<br />
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So armed with Colt pistol and a Bowie knife, Texas Ranger Bigfoot Wallace once more took on the Wild West, and quickly made his mark on Texas folklore. In them days, the Rangers tended to handle stock theft at the end of the rope, so to speak, stringing up the bandits, forcing a confession out of them, and then leaving the bodies swaying in the wind to deter other outlaws. Only it didn’t work, and the bandits kept right on stealing, sometimes passing right under the bodies of their fellow outlaws to do it.<br />
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Now Bigfoot’s fellow Ranger, Creed Taylor, had a big spread lay west of San Antonio, in the cedar hills clear on the edge of Comanche territory, and he was constantly losing stock to bandits and Indian raids. The last straw came for Taylor the day famous Mexican raider and cattle thief Vidal and his gang rounded up a bunch of horses from his ranch and took them south toward Mexico. Most of the Rangers were heading north to pursue some Comanche’s out on a raid, but Taylor and a friend went immediately in pursuit of the thief, and when they bumped into Wallace just below Uvalde, he joined them.<br />
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Bigfoot was always ready to hunt horse thieves and desperados, especially those of Mexican descent, never forgetting what happened to his brother at Goliad. Bigfoot decided it was time to put an end to Vidal’s gang once and for all. He would track the wiry Mexican bandit to earth. The three men located the camp where the horse thief and his gang lay sleeping, and snuck in from downwind, so as not to alert the horses. Vidal was wanted dead or alive, so all the thieves were shot and killed in the gunfight that followed.<br />
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That was when Wallace got an idea. Obviously, hanging horse thieves hadn’t gotten the message across to the outlaws raiding the ranches of the good folk of Texas. Perhaps a more drastic example of frontier justice would do the trick. Severing Vidal’s head from his body, Bigfoot and his fellow Ranger tied the body to the saddle of the wildest mustang in the stolen herd and secured the severed head to the saddle horn so that it would bounce and flop around with every step taken by the mustang. Then Wallace gave a shout and sent the horse running away with its headless, dead rider, hoping the gruesome sight would deter future cattle thieves.<br />
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What he managed to do was frighten everyone in South Texas. Folks would be peacefully walking down the road of an evening when a terrible headless rider would gallop pass on a midnight black stallion with serape blowing in the wind and severed head bounding on the saddle horn beneath its sombrero. Nothing could deter the terrible specter – not bullets, not arrows, not spears. It was years before a posse of cowboys finally grew brave enough to bushwhack the horse and release the withered corpse from its back. <br />
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But on moonless nights, the ghost of El Muerto continues to ride across South Texas to this day with his long black serape blowing in the wind and his severed head bumping on the saddle beside him. <br />
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You can read more Texas folklore and ghost stories in <a href="http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/spooky_texas.html"><b>Spooky Texas</b></a> by S.E. Schlosser. <br />
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</div>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-30531681996162327452010-09-06T14:43:00.000-05:002010-09-06T14:43:22.982-05:00Dallas Couple's Nanny Cam Captures Ghostly Lights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://image.cbslocal.com/24/2010/09/03/320x240/ghostlights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://image.cbslocal.com/24/2010/09/03/320x240/ghostlights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Using a night vision 'nanny cam', David Devine of Dallas, Texas keeps an eye on his 2 year old son asleep in his crib. David's camera has picked up something else that seems to be keeping a watchful eye on the toddler, as well.<br />
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Lights flash and drift across the child's room, suggesting that someone, or <i>something</i>, has an interest in the boy.<br />
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Sometimes the two-year old appears to see something. When David sits in the rocking chair, reading a book to his son, the toddler will point at things around the room but no one knows what the child is pointing at. Is the child seeing spirits?<br />
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Read story and see video on <a href="http://cbs11tv.com/watercooler/ghosts.ghost.paranormal.2.1895944.html">CBS11TV</a>, then decide for yourself.<br />
<span style="color: red;">________________________________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-72758774759987367782010-08-23T15:46:00.000-05:002010-08-23T15:46:28.450-05:0033 Chilean Miners Await Rescue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfc-21VQwsxuEApsZ0RtNslr2E8MMers7UT2xJncdB-PdpZ-lV0JJ8OcIXUdquYuIUowAoF3MgNypjBTOs4jU6muWq5bPbLWfLZ4BwNVAw13I-pQspMKde-tObHUQxjdD75W59H1EfBok/s1600/Chilean_miner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfc-21VQwsxuEApsZ0RtNslr2E8MMers7UT2xJncdB-PdpZ-lV0JJ8OcIXUdquYuIUowAoF3MgNypjBTOs4jU6muWq5bPbLWfLZ4BwNVAw13I-pQspMKde-tObHUQxjdD75W59H1EfBok/s400/Chilean_miner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>One of the 33 trapped miners awaiting rescue, which could take up to 4 months</i></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>.</i></span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/23/chile-trapped-miners-rescue">Guardian.co.uk</a>-The 33 miners trapped deep underground in a mine in Chile will need to spend the next four months participating in their own rescue before being pulled out by rope, it emerged today.<br />
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Rescue workers were tonight set to begin lowering capsules of glucose, hydration gels, liquid nutrients, communication equipment and medicine down a 2,257ft bore hole to the bottom of the San José mine, where the men have been trapped inside a mine shaft for the last 18 days. The rescue work continued as questions began to emerge about the safety record of the mine, with relatives asking why it was allowed to operate.<br />
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The men's miraculous tale of survival was communicated to the world yesterday when they attached a note to a probe sent into the shaft. It read: "All 33 of us are well inside the shelter."<br />
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The news, confirmed by the Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, prompted celebrations across the country and jubilant scenes on the surface of the mine, where the men's relatives had established a week-long vigil as they awaited signs of life.<br />
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Officials have described the bore hole – which is just 8cm wide – as an "umbilical cord" for the miners. It will attempt to keep them healthy while officials begin drilling a far bigger hole as an escape route for the men, who are trapped in a shelter around 52 sq metres – the size of a small apartment. Rescuers also plan another shaft to ensure ventilation for the miners, who are thought to be enduring temperatures as high as 32C.<br />
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Widening the existing hole is also an option, although officials said excavating the rescue tunnel – which will be around 65cm wide – would take between three and four months.<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/23/chile-trapped-miners-rescue">Read more and watch the video.</a><br />
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<b>Note: I decided to post this, as it is an example of the human strength of will. They have already survived many days and those miners must survive for the next few months of rescue efforts. Oxygen, food and water aren't all that is necessary to do so. One must remember that these men are entombed, deep underground. It will take courage, faith and a tremendous <i>will to live</i>, to survive their long ordeal. </b><br />
<b>Our prayers are with them...</b><br />
<span style="color: red;">_____________________________________________________</span><br style="color: red;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-5458076007719324132010-08-22T15:25:00.000-05:002010-08-22T15:25:14.373-05:00Spirit Orb in Breckenridge farm photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9F3faqUQXiZLd0mpQIVWRI0m6eMR3V1a-0SQZuHxcGGdPYXC_0gEvfmH7kX2FMcTckXQfbZccYDkrgyRqTM0yCiZdmwTnDWFDZSsCQYL5WCoAn7RMd2QZVRDl28-Bc97gUTOnjGAzd4/s1600/7-18-10_SW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9F3faqUQXiZLd0mpQIVWRI0m6eMR3V1a-0SQZuHxcGGdPYXC_0gEvfmH7kX2FMcTckXQfbZccYDkrgyRqTM0yCiZdmwTnDWFDZSsCQYL5WCoAn7RMd2QZVRDl28-Bc97gUTOnjGAzd4/s400/7-18-10_SW.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44iev9lXoA6cswFIyzgXW0iQhU2udtSDxKWyw_Mh3FBDEoeYGQOpS2mxihiE5I1ccMIIH-R-p4Cg2J0p9Vecgb9wtBFyu1EBnEPhUDugahyphenhyphenqFGvcPLkr0sKMwjIRCA283IOYF1R1CQiM/s1600/7-18-10-crpd_SW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg44iev9lXoA6cswFIyzgXW0iQhU2udtSDxKWyw_Mh3FBDEoeYGQOpS2mxihiE5I1ccMIIH-R-p4Cg2J0p9Vecgb9wtBFyu1EBnEPhUDugahyphenhyphenqFGvcPLkr0sKMwjIRCA283IOYF1R1CQiM/s640/7-18-10-crpd_SW.jpg" width="507" /></a></div><br />
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On July 18, 2010, I took some flash photos near our home on our farm outside of Breckenridge, Texas. Something quite odd turned up in the very first photo I took.<br />
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It appears that there is some sort of fog, or ectoplasm surrounding me (the camera attempted to focus on it), and in the background an orb appeared. <br />
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When examining the orb, I find that it is emitting it's own light, a light that I did not see with my eyes at the time the photo was taken. The colors purple and gold stand out from the bright white light.<br />
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I have often taken photos on our farm at night. The camera has picked up images of some strange lights and other objects unseen to the naked eye. I seem to attract these 'spirits' and though I cannot see them, I can sense their presence.<br />
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I might also add that we have a pet cemetery on our property and many times I sense one or more of our beloved, yet deceased pets...Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-62430094020747913352010-08-22T14:25:00.000-05:002010-08-22T14:25:06.569-05:00Another Lake Monster?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zqz9WoVSMh4pLsPXi3LKo2XiATopLCL9B4QuILK_7N0u3_AYqam8dEIWlC1oDmZD3TxyZY_o2ZNGDYqSplT2W-ifl_bFE6iPxR_vvNWSr_IcWZpUvGdTlRjtpR4i6ioWlCXteilrr9I/s1600/ootsa_lake_bc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zqz9WoVSMh4pLsPXi3LKo2XiATopLCL9B4QuILK_7N0u3_AYqam8dEIWlC1oDmZD3TxyZY_o2ZNGDYqSplT2W-ifl_bFE6iPxR_vvNWSr_IcWZpUvGdTlRjtpR4i6ioWlCXteilrr9I/s400/ootsa_lake_bc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Last week, Darlene Thompkins and her daughter were wading in the waters near the Ootsa Lake spillway, when she saw a large creature in the water.<br />
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"It looked like a huge snake head ... and it was a dark grey colour," she said.<br />
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Read <a href="http://cryptozoo-oscity.blogspot.com/2010/08/unknown-creature-in-ootsa-lake-bc.html">the complete story</a>.<br />
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<i>Photo Courtesy <a href="http://www.canadafishingonline.net/">canadafishingonline.net</a></i>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-32995522102327525042010-06-29T18:21:00.000-05:002010-06-29T18:21:50.341-05:00Weird News & Scientific Wonders From Around The World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgzNlRr5X9SYWCojghn2aI6psxOFdvHsq2Dh7JM2we0m4-I4nDhlgaRzPMo9ImjjvQP3FHV2HhBh7uM78FUeJKri09TcC89eYQoTTAmU5oTGHI_G2ysxaznA1anvSDHR9-6c_ZGqiiR0I/s1600/rare_white_elephant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br />
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A rare "white elephant", a traditional symbol of good fortune and power in south-east Asia, has been captured in Burma, state media reports.<br />
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Reports say the 2m (6.5ft) female elephant was tracked down in Maungdaw in the west of the country.<br />
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White elephants are only nominally white - they often look reddish-brown in the sun, and light pink when wet.<br />
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Analysts say the animal is likely to be brought to the capital, Naypyidaw, for the military ruler, General Than Shwe. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8767763.stm">Goce satellite views Earth's gravity in high definition </a><br />
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It is one of the most exquisite views we have ever had of the Earth.<br />
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This colourful new map traces the subtle but all pervasive influence the pull of gravity has across the globe.<br />
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Known as a geoid, it essentially defines where the level surface is on our planet; it tells us which way is "up" and which way is "down".<br />
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It is drawn from delicate measurements made by Europe's Goce satellite, which flies so low it comes perilously close to falling out of the sky.<br />
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Scientists say the data gathered by the spacecraft will have numerous applications.<br />
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One key beneficiary will be climate studies because the geoid can help researchers understand better how the great mass of ocean water is moving heat around the world.<br />
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The new map was presented here in Norway's second city at a special Earth observation (EO) symposium dedicated to the data being acquired by Goce and other European Space Agency (Esa) missions.<br />
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Europe is currently in the midst of a huge programme of EO development which will see it launch some 20 missions worth nearly eight billion euros before the decade's end.<br />
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The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (Goce) is at the front of this armada of scientific and environmental monitoring spacecraft.<br />
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Imaginary ball<br />
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Launched in 2009, the sleek satellite flies pole to pole at an altitude of just 254.9km - the lowest orbit of any research satellite in operation today.<br />
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The spacecraft carries three pairs of precision-built platinum blocks inside its gradiometer instrument that sense accelerations which are as small as 1 part in 10,000,000,000,000 of the gravity experienced on Earth.<br />
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GRAVITY - A MOVING TARGET<br />
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The 'standard' acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface is 9.8m per second squared<br />
In reality the figure varies from 9.78 (minimum) at the equator to 9.83 (maximum) at the poles<br />
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This has allowed it to map the almost imperceptible differences in the pull exerted by the mass of the planet from one place to the next - from the great mountain ranges to the deepest ocean trenches. <br />
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10448414.stm"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">'Sex' drove fossil animal traits</span></span></a><br />
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Several prehistoric creatures developed elaborate body traits in order to attract members of the opposite sex, according to new research.<br />
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The purpose of the exaggerated crests and sails found in many fossil animals has long been controversial.<br />
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Some scientists said sails helped to regulate body temperature and that head crests helped flying reptiles steer during flight.<br />
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Now a study say these traits became so big because of sexual competition.<br />
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The findings, by an international team of researchers, is published in the journal American Naturalist.<br />
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One of the prehistoric animals looked at by the researchers were pterosaurs - flying reptiles which became extinct at the time of the dinosaurs.<br />
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The study suggests the relative size of the head crest compared to the body of the pterosaur was too large for it to have been dedicated to controlling the animal's body temperature or its flight.<br />
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They also looked at mammal-like creatures called Eupelycosaurs, which lived before the time of the dinosaurs.<br />
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This group, which included the animals Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus, carried large elaborate "sails" along their backs.<br />
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By using known relationships between body size and metabolic activity - the process behind heat generation - in living organisms, the scientists concluded that the features were "too exaggerated" to have played a role in the control of body temperature.<br />
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Co-author Dr Stuart Humphries, from the University of Hull said: "One of the few things that haven't changed over the last 300 million years are the laws of physics.<br />
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"So it has been good to use those laws to understand what might really be driving the evolution of these big crests and sails."<br />
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His colleague, Dr Joseph Tompkins, from the University of Western Australia, commented: "The sails of the Eupelycosaurs are among the earliest known examples of exaggerated secondary sexual traits in the history of vertebrate evolution.<br />
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"Indeed, the sail of Dimetrodon is one of the largest secondary sexual traits of any animal."<br />
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Co-author Dr Dave Martill from the University of Portsmouth said: "Pterosaurs put even more effort into attracting a mate than peacocks whose large feathers are considered the most elaborate development of sexual selection in the modern day.<br />
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"Peacocks shed their fantastic plumage each year, so it's only a burden some of the time, but pterosaurs had to carry their crest around all the time."<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">_______________________________________________________________</span><br style="color: #990000;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-78287361887352946122010-06-15T13:46:00.000-05:002010-06-15T13:46:35.570-05:00A seeing-eye dog for a blind dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WHbFkQh3ovR8vuwI0SCw93skr2AkQ9DR4OoiLUy-3IlKNQS1jrUfiNpTh5FRcuE4_MzVSGcVvYfOCVd7y_ry2miR98xJaHRI-572D-gHbQ5HTZ7UXPruqkZQ3rFg8olBlKYDmKOe-Nk/s1600/dog-guide-dog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5WHbFkQh3ovR8vuwI0SCw93skr2AkQ9DR4OoiLUy-3IlKNQS1jrUfiNpTh5FRcuE4_MzVSGcVvYfOCVd7y_ry2miR98xJaHRI-572D-gHbQ5HTZ7UXPruqkZQ3rFg8olBlKYDmKOe-Nk/s400/dog-guide-dog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://www.pawnation.com/2010/06/11/blind-dog-has-her-own-seeing-eye-dog/"><br />
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These two dogs are more than just best friends, they share a rare bond.<br />
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Ellie, a young cavalier King Charles spaniel in England, is almost completely blind. While her owner and a local animal organization are working to raise money for a vision-restoring operation, a German shepherd named Leo has taken matters into his own paws, and is protecting and guiding her.<br />
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"Ellie has cataracts on both eyes and is only aware of shadows," explains Jean Spencer, manager of Rochdale's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in an interview with the <a href="http://menmedia.co.uk/news/s/1240774_they_call_it_puppy_love">Manchester Evening News</a>. "But Leo, who's an absolutely massive dog, has become her eyes. It's touching to watch them together. She follows him around and snuggles up to him."<br />
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Ellie was part of a litter of five puppies rescued from harsh conditions by the RSPCA, says Julie Lander, an RSPCA volunteer and Leo and Ellie's owner. "As well as having cataracts, Ellie's eye muscles haven't developed as they should have as she'd been kept in the dark. The puppies had no light or heating. I felt so sorry for her when she arrived, and knew she'd need a special home. But I also knew she would be all right with Leo, as he just loves little dogs and they took to one another straight away," Lander tells the Manchester Evening News.<br />
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Lander goes on to explain how Leo's almost 90 pounds of bulk helps keep his new charge safe. "I take them for walks in the park and Leo guides Ellie around. He is so protective and herds the more boisterous dogs away from her," Julie says.<br />
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No one has commented on whether Leo can actually tell that Ellie is disabled or if he is caring for her based solely on her size. If Ellie's problem is ever fixed, it will be interesting to see whether she will continue to share the same bond with Leo.<br />
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Although they already have had at least one fundraiser, the RSPCA does not yet have enough money to pay for Ellie's operation. If you would like to donate, go to <a href="http://www.rspca-rochdale.org.uk./">www.rspca-rochdale.org.uk.</a><br />
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Object isn't what it seems. Read story at<br />
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Photo of object.<br />
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<b style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Original Post:</b><br />
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<b>Three ghost hunters were conducting an investigation at a cemetery in Richland, Missouri, when they captured something quite unique and 'ghostly', though not the <i>Bob Marley</i> type.<br />
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It's also rare that ghost hunters report to the Mutual UFO Network (<a href="http://www.mufon.com/">MUFON</a>), though it has happened before.<br />
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Here is that report (as is), in it's entirety. To see the original report and photos, click on the links provided.</b><br />
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MUFON <a href="http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/manage_sighting_reports.pl?mode=view_long_desc&id=23649&rnd=791971275950525">case 23649</a><br />
06-05-2010 at 22:39<br />
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On the evening of Saturday June 5th our paranormal group decided to do a investigation in a cemetery near Richland Missouri in Pulaski County. It was just the group leader, his wife, and myself that night. We were having the usual investigation and were at first glance getting a lot of orbs, with a couple of really cool face pictures. While at the cemetery I saw a shooting star shoot straight down. The night was clear with some clouds in the distance producing heat lightning. My friend was using a camera that had an infra red attachment. He has a better camera then I do that is 10megapixel. We spent about 45 minutes at this place then moved on to the next cemtery down a series of dirt roads. While there all three of us noticed a constant humming noise at this cemetery. It was not the interstate as when you live by a road there are occasional breaks in the noise. We finished up the investigation at the second investigation and headed back to the group leader's house. We uploaded our pictures to our respective computers and procedded to go through the evidence right then and there. About approximately ten minutes into the review of evidence. I hear "What the hell is that?!?" coming from the group leader. I got up and, his wife got up from the computer desk and headed over to his desk and looked at an unusual object hanging in the sky among the trees. This was unlike anything I had ever seen before. We realized that this photo was taken in the first cemetery. The picture that was taken in the same spot and in the general same direction before had no such object in it. It was invisible to us. While we were in that spot we had to be no more then 25 feet from the object and the group leader speculates that the object was hovering about in the tree tops. Observing us. Also noticed in other photographs are humanoid looking faces with two black stripes painted upon their cheeks. It is also worth noting that the group leader and his wife did a previsit to the graveyard about two weeks ago. When we arrived he commented that their looked to be several dirt patches that were not there previously. Were the aliens investigating us investigating the cemetary? Did they follow us to the other cemetary and was that the contant humming we heard? We may never know the true answer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mufoncms.com/files/23649_submitter_file1__pictureofareabeforeufoappeared.JPG">Original Photo 1</a><br />
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<b><i>Note: I have cropped the original photo and enhanced the object. <br />
If you look closely, it appears to be behind some trees in the foreground, yet partially "in" the background trees.<br />
The object also appears to be semi-transparent. Perhaps a double exposure, or stranger still, something trans-dimensional?<br />
It looks vaguely like a "cement bucket" but I'd appreciate feedback on this. Please <a href="mailto:sunny.will@att.net">email me</a> if you have any idea as to what this object could be.</i></b><br />
<span style="color: red;">____________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-89275642092365402972010-06-06T11:23:00.000-05:002010-06-06T11:23:10.922-05:00Virginia Man Seeks Sasquatch<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/06/04/true_believer_on_trail_of_sasquatch_in_va_claims_14_sightings/?page=1"><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
True believer on trail of Sasquatch in Va., claims 14 sightings</b></a><br />
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<i>Billy Willard holding a plaster cast that he made of a suspicious footprint. (Bill O’Leary/Washington Post)</i><br />
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Boston.com</a> - THORNBURG, Va. — Billy Willard says he’s on the verge of a major discovery that could change the way humans think about the natural world, not to mention their need for a creature-proof home security system.<br />
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Here in Spotsylvania County, in the forests around Lake Anna, Willard contends there have been 14 sightings in the past decade of that most fabled of cryptozoic beasts: Bigfoot.<br />
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Or Sasquatch, as the elusive, apelike brute is referred to in other circles — and on the side of Willard’s blue pickup. The decal on the truck reads “Sasquatch Watch of Virginia,’’ of which Willard is chief pooh-bah (when he’s not earning a living installing and removing underground home oil tanks).<br />
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Go ahead, call him a loon, a flake, a huckster. He’s heard it all. But Willard knows what he knows, which is that three people from this area — a woman, her husband, and their granddaughter — told him they saw a shaggy, super-sized figure on two legs gallivanting across their wooded property.<br />
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Last month, Willard led a weeklong expedition to the site, where he installed five motion-sensor cameras that will snap photos if and when the big galoot wanders by again.<br />
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Willard, 41, says he’d like to lead a tour of the property and introduce the witnesses, really he would. But the woman who says she saw what she believes could have been Bigfoot fears an avalanche of ridicule, which is why Willard is left to deliver his version of what happened a few miles away, in the parking lot of a Dairy Queen.<br />
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“We believe we may be close to some kind of major discovery,’’ he said. “All the things they would need are here, fresh water, shelter in the woods. The high concentration of sightings tells me they’re here.’’<br />
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He interrupts his monologue to answer his cellphone, the ringtone to which is the country tune “People Are Crazy.’’<br />
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Ever since humans began telling stories, they have spun yarns involving life forms that tower above mere mortals, whether it’s the giant of “Jack and the Beanstalk’’ fame, or Goliath, or Frankenstein.<br />
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Bigfoot has been a perennial for generations, with hundreds of purported sightings (many of them of supposed footprints), most prevalent in the Pacific Northwest but also popping up in states as disparate as Rhode Island, Illinois, and Alabama.<br />
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The myth grew in popularity in 1967, when two men in California filmed what appeared to be a huge and hairy biped walking into the woods, at one point turning its head to glance dramatically at the camera.<br />
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In Bigfoot circles, the footage is referred to as the “Patterson-Gimlin film,’’ named for its makers.<br />
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In less admiring circles, the short, fuzzy clip is cited as nothing short of poppycock.<br />
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Willard knows about the film, and most everything else Bigfoot-related, all of which he’s happy to share at any time, sometimes to the annoyance of his wife, Jeanean, who is prone to blurt out, “Okay, the conversation will have to change.’’<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">___________________________________</span><br style="color: #cc0000;" />Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-29240635342728349622010-06-05T09:57:00.006-05:002010-06-05T10:17:50.751-05:00Large bat-like creature sighting in CaliforniaNormally, only UFO and extraterrestrial sightings are reported to MUFON but this one was. It is a report of a bat-like creature, purported to have been seen near Lodi, California and it is interesting.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ar4Qvh2gDDz20ZqV08NQokeS5z9rK8HeeSZKC5gDp4HT5L_0j3xuqOtvn1hH0UZxPuHze8Gp-Svu5w16vPkmcLqAbcODuWHa_N0zUQV1AevQcK_RNdixPxkHXyHjTuIoJeRG14THz0M/s1600/BatCreature1-SW.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ar4Qvh2gDDz20ZqV08NQokeS5z9rK8HeeSZKC5gDp4HT5L_0j3xuqOtvn1hH0UZxPuHze8Gp-Svu5w16vPkmcLqAbcODuWHa_N0zUQV1AevQcK_RNdixPxkHXyHjTuIoJeRG14THz0M/s400/BatCreature1-SW.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479307882634372866" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> "Bat Creature" by SW</span></span><br /><br />MUFON Case <a href="http://mufoncms.com/cgi-bin/manage_sighting_reports.pl?mode=view_long_desc&id=23617&rnd=997911275710883">23617</a><br />2010-05-14 at 02:45<br />Lodi, California<br /><br />I had taken my dogs for a run early in the morning - about 2:30 on May 14th 2010. I was southeast of Lodi on Live Oak Road where the road to the winery intersects. There are outside lights and I saw something crouched in the road which I thought at first was a coyote eating something. Then it stood up and was about 4 1/2 feet tall so I knew it wasn't a coyote. It stooped back down and appeared to gather up whatever it had been eating; gave a little hop and soared away over the grapevines in an up down, up down motion. The wings sort of glistened in the light and did not seem to have feathers. I thought it looked like a gigantic bat, but have never heard of a bat that big. The dogs seemed to be frightened and jumped into the car. I was so amazed at what I saw.<br /><br /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">______________</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Related article:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZF83QM_q33pvTdZkLa67XWkLURt3o4rqCqIqfv-q_tBRMfIAJGh7KenUZuMZHYCltH09G1hHEUhk9v0c85P-TAFr_aCgEx9r6VfRRYCN5oPh1nijiYUw3q_x9ZcPde_dM_Do3Ha8W8bM/s1600/cave-demon.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZF83QM_q33pvTdZkLa67XWkLURt3o4rqCqIqfv-q_tBRMfIAJGh7KenUZuMZHYCltH09G1hHEUhk9v0c85P-TAFr_aCgEx9r6VfRRYCN5oPh1nijiYUw3q_x9ZcPde_dM_Do3Ha8W8bM/s400/cave-demon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479307185302671026" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CAVE DEMON</span><br />(Bat People; Night Flyers)<br /><br />GIANT BAT PEOPLE: Sightings of mysterious human-sized bats have been reported in all corners of the world. They are described as having black or gray fur, a monkey-like face, clawed feet and a 10-15 foot wingspan. In Brazil they are called "bat people." In Mexico, an ancient Mayan cult worshiped the "death bat." The rainforests of Java echo the cries of a bat creature called the "Athol" because of its distinct "a-hool" vocalization. In Vietnam they are known as "night flyers." These winged humanoids are generally 5 feet tall with eerie feminine features. They are known to swoop down on their victims and attack several times.<br /><br />AFRICAN CAVE DEMONS: The continent of Africa has reported many sightings of bat-like beasts. In Cameroon, it is called the "Olitiau," an immense bat creature that was seen by famed naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson in 1932 while on expedition. In Senegal, the creature is called "Guiafairo." In Ghana, the bat-like creature is called "Sasabonsam." A similar creature exists in Madagascar and is called the "Fangalabolo," and in Indonesia, tales of the "Organ-Bati" abound where the creature is said to roost in an extinct volcano and snatch children.<br /><br /><a href="http://animal.discovery.com/tv/lost-tapes/cave-demon/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Source</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">____________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-90916783926301201202010-06-04T12:49:00.005-05:002010-06-04T13:00:42.048-05:00New Hampshire College Class Seeks Ghosts<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpp1ALaSf_hKiD8s2HyERpLYqvvKg-0i05kkQcyjJLE-64-fSMFWQWixJrk9BsIV-_pz24eD-hk4n9zr9YwpWU52yLkew5eFQBjajQRTqiSjQlzQN5OEjYhN5CBZ8aiRMJ67OPJKxEbCc/s1600/NewHampshireUniversity.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpp1ALaSf_hKiD8s2HyERpLYqvvKg-0i05kkQcyjJLE-64-fSMFWQWixJrk9BsIV-_pz24eD-hk4n9zr9YwpWU52yLkew5eFQBjajQRTqiSjQlzQN5OEjYhN5CBZ8aiRMJ67OPJKxEbCc/s200/NewHampshireUniversity.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478979719068128242" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/class-investigates-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Class Investigates Things That Go Bump in the Night</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/class-investigates-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night">Newswise</a> - When Mark Henn was in high school, he and one of his pals decided that a particularly foggy patch of swamp land on a particularly curvy road near a particularly creepy cemetery was the perfect place to invent a ghost. On one particularly dark night later, the story of the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve was born.<br /><br />As Henn, who teaches psychology at the University of New Hampshire, and his friend recounted their frightening tale to classmates, an interesting thing happened. Although there had never been reports of ghost sightings there before, some of their friends started reporting that they, too, had seen the ghost of Dead Man’s Curve. And then more classmates experienced sightings. By the time Henn’s younger brother graduated from high school a few years later, spending the night at the cemetery to record sightings of the ghost had become a rite of passage.</p><p>What Henn experienced as a teenager demonstrates how people can come to believe something that does not exist. This summer, UNH students will study this psychological event in Henn’s class, “Scientific Perspectives on Belief in the Paranormal Phenomena.”</p><p>“Inventing a ghost is one thing. Having others see it is another thing. In this class, we will look at how to approach belief in something, especially when we want to believe it. In these instances, the easiest person to fool is yourself,” Henn says.</p><p>“I chose paranormal belief for the subject of this class because it is, on its face, so unbelievable and yet upwards of 80 percent of people in the United States do believe in some version of the paranormal. If we can see why we would believe in something like that, it’s a lot easier for us to understand why we believe in other things,” he says.</p><p>Henn’s course will examine open-mindedness and skepticism, with the benefit of the psychological perspective and the use of the scientific method. In the class, students will learn about the long history of the interaction between psychology and the supernatural, definitions of science and commonalities among sciences, methodology and experimental controls, and how to have an open mind and be skeptical. </p><p>Students will look at various toolkits used for critical examination, such as Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit. Using these toolkits and a deeper understanding of why people hold on to extraordinary beliefs, students will evaluate various conspiracy theories and the belief in the paranormal. </p><p>Finally, students will learn how the field of psychology has contributed to the study of belief by investigating reconstructive and recovered memories, sensation and perception, physiological psychology, social cognition, and the contributions of personality, developmental psychology, and behaviorism.</p><p>“We are designed psychologically to see patterns to help us live and survive. Sometimes we see patterns where there aren’t any, and that’s what gets us in trouble,” Henn says. </p><p>“There are people who have irrational beliefs that are not backed up by evidence. We have parents who are not vaccinating their children based on an irrational belief and as a result, they are putting their children’s health at risk,” he says.</p><p>The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling more than 12,200 undergraduate and 2,200 graduate students.</p><p>VIDEO<br />Prof. Mark Henn discusses why he chose paranormal belief as the subject of his class.<br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/11742204">http://vimeo.com/11742204</a></p>Prof. Mark Henn discusses why we sometimes see patterns in life.<br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/11742363">http://vimeo.com/11742363</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">__________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-75387705667217686652010-06-04T12:37:00.003-05:002010-06-04T12:43:39.590-05:00Gaga for Ghosts!<a href="http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-ghostbuster-13256.html"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" ><br /></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoyyFB_zJqwMB8pb39HOha_N6tbKzy_v1FR3eA_0Jj7Z9-eAeF0zLWbkLXG8nxQ40jCM37DaLVXtLdSOG2VZ3yfdj_Ff1y0i6d3aehA2FDBihexquTlZiMrjyBqQ2MGCYkcyvdjhfDzC0/s1600/gaga-ghostbuster.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoyyFB_zJqwMB8pb39HOha_N6tbKzy_v1FR3eA_0Jj7Z9-eAeF0zLWbkLXG8nxQ40jCM37DaLVXtLdSOG2VZ3yfdj_Ff1y0i6d3aehA2FDBihexquTlZiMrjyBqQ2MGCYkcyvdjhfDzC0/s200/gaga-ghostbuster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478975192481223778" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-ghostbuster-13256.html"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >Haunted Lady Gaga Ghostbuster</span></a><br /><p><a href="http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/lady-gaga-ghostbuster-13256.html">newsoxy</a>-Lady Gaga admits that she bought a Ghostbuster kit. Gaga uses the Ghostbuster device for regular sweeps to fend off evil spirits that are haunting her. Gaga admits that the problem started a few weeks ago and is convinced that she needs the Ghostbuster kit to fight against negative forces.</p><p>"When I took the order for the kit I had no idea who it was for. But then I checked the listings and saw who was playing the O2. Her aide said the gear had to be robust as they were taking it on the road. So they must be doing this everywhere [...] Gaga is performing," Ghostbuster firm owner Dan Webb said in a statement. The kit she bought includes electro-magnetic field readers.</p><p>Gaga, 24, is terrified of "bad energy" and hired Dan Webb's firm to do a complete cleansing behind the stage at London's O2 Arena. Gaga originally thought she was experiencing a mental breakdown, or hallucinations, that usually come with skitzophrenia. However, she is still convinced that unseen forces are haunting her.</p><p>If the reports are true, Gaga wouldn't be the first celebrity to admit ghost sightings. Several Hollywood legends have their own story to tell after experiencing similar paranormal activity. While the subject is always up for debate, the activity is still unexplained and why it happens in the first place.</p>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-62365289674962899032010-06-04T12:25:00.004-05:002010-06-04T12:33:33.036-05:00Making the big "C" a thing of the past<a href="http://topnews.co.uk/25804-spot-cancer-prior-its-development-help-new-blood-test"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" >New blood test to spot cancer before it's development</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Lqn3PaJ_ZQuo8yqNAR7zWnh3NUQza8i_BRkX749lbZUUJeOjwbjH51qwYU-ijtSK1qVs5db7Y3B95LuGbzlVF8CuO_4nKM3IhMdnlj5qS-Zqr5R1IhKyTwuRsEKjKIibk4-elhfxHiA/s1600/Spot-Cancer.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Lqn3PaJ_ZQuo8yqNAR7zWnh3NUQza8i_BRkX749lbZUUJeOjwbjH51qwYU-ijtSK1qVs5db7Y3B95LuGbzlVF8CuO_4nKM3IhMdnlj5qS-Zqr5R1IhKyTwuRsEKjKIibk4-elhfxHiA/s200/Spot-Cancer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478971965915147234" border="0" /></a><a href="http://topnews.co.uk/25804-spot-cancer-prior-its-development-help-new-blood-test">Topnews-UK</a>: A new testing method can be used to detect accurately the indications sent out by an individual's immune system to be something as cancerous.<br /><br />Early research is of the suggestion that the indications can be detected up to five years prior to a tumor is spotted, offering doctors and patients a fundamental headstart in treating the sickness.<br /><br />The test, which has been developed by clinicians in Nottingham and Kansas over a period of 15 years, is to be introduced in America in the later part of this month.<br /><br />It initially had been devised, in order to detect lung cancer and is put in usage alongside conventional screening.<br /><br />The technology had been developed by scientists at the University of Nottingham and Oncimmune, a medical research corporation.<br /><br />The test works by recognising how the immune system reacts to the first molecular signs of cancer development.<br /><br />Cancerous cells generate little amounts of protein material named as antigens, which prompts the immune system to generate great amounts of auto-antibodies.<br /><br />Professor John Robertson, a Breast Cancer Specialist who led the research, said that the earliest cancer that has been seen by him and his team has been detected and yet biologically, that proved to be quite late in the road of cancer development.<br /><br />Photo<br />Spot-Cancer.jpg<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">_________</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/25495/Researchers-develop-nanorobots-to-detect-and-kill-cancer-cells.aspx"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Researchers develop nanorobots to detect and kill cancer cells</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/25495/Researchers-develop-nanorobots-to-detect-and-kill-cancer-cells.aspx">Eureka-UK</a>: Researchers are developing a molecular sized 'DNA robot' to detect disease markers on a cell, diagnose it and deliver a 'cargo of cancer killing drugs'.<br /><br />Prof Milan Stojanovic at Columbia University, New York, developed the molecular sized robot to resemble a spider, with the ability to use its 'tentacles' for self propulsion. During its early development, it was capable of 'walking' though a field of DNA molecule, cutting and bonding with them to propel itself. By programming the environment with 'breadcrumbs', the robot was able to follow an established trail.<br /><br />At such tiny scales, proteins like the DNA itself remained the best bet for creating such a trail. The team found the material it needed in the work of CalTech Prof Paul Rothemund, who had invented what he named DNA origami. Using 'sequence-recognition in base pairs', DNA origami are 'folded' from a long single strand of DNA, with several shorter helper strands that 'staple' the long strand into the desired shape.<br /><br />Stojanovic's team made its own DNA origami bread crumbs, each measuring 2nm thick and 100nm long, programmed with a specific instruction to any walker that happens by. Together, the DNA origami bread crumbs were formed into a path that allowed Stojanovic's team to lead their DNA robots to a goal.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/article/25495/Researchers-develop-nanorobots-to-detect-and-kill-cancer-cells.aspx"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Continue reading</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">________</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.oudaily.com/news/2010/jun/03/ouhsc-scientists-seek-vaccine-may-prevent-hiv-canc/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">OUHSC scientists seek vaccine that may prevent HIV, cancer</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.oudaily.com/news/2010/jun/03/ouhsc-scientists-seek-vaccine-may-prevent-hiv-canc/">Oklahoma Daily</a>: Examining different parts of the immune system, OU Health Sciences Center and Washington University in St. Louis researchers are creating a new vaccine using a protein instead of creating antibodies.<br /><br />Using T-cells in the immune system, the T-cell vaccine can potentially treat and prevent applications for cancer, tuberculosis, HIV and several other viral diseases, according to a press release from OUHSC.<br /><br />“No one has ever done this with a T-cell vaccine, so we’re learning; but now we are starting to get some traction. We are finding that a T-cell vaccine can work,” said William Hildebrand, the lead researcher on the project and microbiology and immunology professor.<br /><br />Until now, vaccines have focused on generating antibodies in the immune system to prevent illness. Over time, the dependence on antibodies has prompted some viruses to evolve past the antibody immunity, lessening the effective of the vaccine to some viruses, according to the press release.<br /><br />To develop the vaccine, Hildebrand and his team began by determining how the immune system distinguishes between a virus-infected or cancerous cell and a healthy cell.<br /><br />“What are T-cells using to discriminate the healthy cell from a diseased cell? That is what we want to know in my lab,” he said.<br /><br />Unlike antibody vaccines, a T-cell vaccine would be able to activate another arm of the immune system to target a specific virus in the body and kill it, as they are responsible with killing virus-infected cells in the body and can kill cells that become cancerous.<br /><br />The goal is to create viable targets for vaccines that activate T-cells in the immune system, said Hildebrand.<br /><br />“In the past, vaccine development hasn’t been extremely systematic or well-defined,” he said. “Vaccines have worked to raise protective T-cells but we don’t know how.”<br /><br />Researchers started working with West Nile virus affect on the immune system since it doesn’t change like the flu or develop resistance like cancer or HIV. After developing the target, researchers at the HSC worked with colleagues at Washington University to create a vaccine, the release stated.<br /><br />“We found a target, we put it into a vaccine and we got protection,” Hildebrand said. “Is it going to save everybody from West Nile Virus? No, but it saves maybe half the people.”<br /><br />The process is now being repeated in other areas, such as cancer, where activating T-cells can be difficult.<br /><br />“Now that we have demonstrated the feasibility of developing a T-cell-specific vaccine, we intend to use the same process to discover other reliable targets, validate them and develop additional vaccines,” Hildebrand said.<br /><br />Hildebrand said there is still a lot of room to grow in this research area.<br /><br />“I think it’s still version 1.0,” he said. “The final version will be version five or six.”<br /><br />The research appears in the latest issue of The Journal of Immunology and is funded by grants and contracts totaling $15 million from the National Institutes of Health, according to the release.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">____________________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-3966130741130053602010-05-20T09:40:00.003-05:002010-05-20T09:55:23.242-05:00True Ghost Story from ScotlandI received this email from a lady in Scotland, with an intriguing story of an apparition, that she and her mother saw, while driving on a snowy December night. <span style="font-style: italic;">Name withheld for privacy</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOjWDk-mwZpzy1VCyBzGHVn2D8-QyeEGy2M_G6iGk-k_fdZ9NdPIo2nXicOtB_KsCmwhMxx1Qi743zsGGasemIGCxnBvPZUhl56bCN9cSgw-X3IhyphenhyphenAUa7az2qSbvIdCjlf-_XUU9oW-M/s1600/dancingapparition.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOjWDk-mwZpzy1VCyBzGHVn2D8-QyeEGy2M_G6iGk-k_fdZ9NdPIo2nXicOtB_KsCmwhMxx1Qi743zsGGasemIGCxnBvPZUhl56bCN9cSgw-X3IhyphenhyphenAUa7az2qSbvIdCjlf-_XUU9oW-M/s400/dancingapparition.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473362811244423938" border="0" /></a><br /><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> <div><br />Hi. I live in central Scotland UK and would like to share this story which happened to myself and my mother about 10 or so years ago whilst driving in Scotland. It was the creepiest thing that has ever happened to me and my mother is a complete skeptic and even she had to admit that this was something really odd!</div> <div>It was only about 7/7.30pm one really cold December wintery night, it had been snowing heavily and, although my parents had lived in that area for many years, she got lost and we were going down all these little winding roads and just basically going round in circles! We got to this little road and there was a huge pile of snow and the tyres of the car were just skidding and we felt as though we were stuck and there was not one single vehicle or house nearby!</div> <div>Anyway, as my mother kept trying to forward and reverse the car (it was so bad outside that we didn't want to get out the car to push it etc.), we both glanced to the left, a large field with a few trees and nothing much else. We both kind of gasped as we saw this 'thing' floating about and at first I thought it was a large while plastic bag, however, it had thin legs and arms and a definite body and face! It looked like a young girl, very fragile and she was actually dancing about in that field, in and out of the trees, we were both literally staring for about 10 minutes or so at this amazing sight which I think we both knew was not 'human'. It must have been about 20ft away and it was almost luminous in the almost dark field, we were mesmerized. However we started to panic and my mother was really worried we were going to be stuck (no mobile phone back then, no AA membership etc.) and no-one about except for this weird apparition.</div> <div>Anyway, after about 20 minutes (it seemed much longer) we were moving backwards and getting out of the snow pile but still watching this 'girl-thing' prancing about - it was fascinating yet extremely creepy as I swear she looked straight at us in the car a couple of times and was coming closer and closer. </div> <div>At that point, we got moving, turned the car around and 'got out of there as fast as possible'!! We were both cold, shaken and quite frankly really petrified. </div> <div>When we got to my parents' house and told my dad, he just dismissed it as our imagination etc. but we both knew what we saw and it was NOT imagination, the only explanation we have is that we saw some kind of entity, not from this world, why it was there and for what purpose I couldn't tell you but I have never forgotten it and probably never will!!</div> <div>I have experienced other strange phenomena throughout my lifetime and been told many things about strange goings-on but I felt I had to share this story as it was really strange and real!!</div> <div>Regards.<br /></div></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">___________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-65282297347145333852010-05-02T21:29:00.002-05:002010-05-02T21:35:23.495-05:00UFO Hunter Tells of Ghost Encounter<span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">MUFON State Director reports strange encounter at his home</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d26-MUFON-state-director-relays-home-encounter-with-multiple-entities?cid=exrss-UFO-Examiner">Examiner.com</a>- According to a statement made on April 25, Pennsylvania Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) State Director John Ventre reported that his daughter had a strange encounter with possibly multiple entities, at his Greensburg home on April 24, 2010.<br /><br />In his statement, Ventre said that his daughter was visiting his home, as were his son and his son's girlfriend.<br /><br />His daughter woke him up at 4 a.m. to explain to him that she could not sleep earlier in the evening and had paced around the home, feeling as though a presence was watching her, following her.<br /><br />At 2:00 a.m., she retieived a water bottle from a basement refrigerator, the whole time feeling as though something was following her arounf the home.<br /><br />She finally turned off her bedroom light at 3:00 a.m., then laid down in an attempt to sleep.<br /><br />"Lying as stiff as a board under the covers, with her eyes pinned open gazing at the ceiling, she felt an extremely intense pressure in her body," Ventre stated. "It felt as though someone had lain on top of her and absorbed into her body."<br /><br />During the next hour, the daughter recounts how possibly two entities entered her body. She also visually saw a figure in the room.<br /><br />"My daughter further explained that she could see a dark shadow circling above her like a whirlpool. When she looked to her dresser mirror, the shape of a male figure was in the left corner. For one whole minute, she watched the shadow carelessly moving, trying to figure out how she could escape from the room."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner%7Ey2010m4d26-MUFON-state-director-relays-home-encounter-with-multiple-entities?cid=exrss-UFO-Examiner">Read the unedited statement that Ventre provided.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">_______________</span><br /><br />Note: Ventre's home is located near a cemetery, so it sounds a lot like a haunting with attempted "possession".<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">_________________________________________<br /><br /></span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804081555580886340.post-47302210909904907582010-04-22T18:38:00.008-05:002010-04-22T18:58:08.688-05:00Strange places in the U.S., Part I<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The mysterious hand-print of the Carbon County Jail</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjpLk72XcJEp9ykajGNdkdTxskJXFABiStm2Zg8aCKJlYurJtX4PyAU87BWOTt8KsANg51VUYmBxqzF1Zsft5fK9ZEzJnvMrAmR2tBnxB4KKVFqX9w4J9DoNIUEnMpSc5kj0R37RwOZE/s1600/handprint.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfjpLk72XcJEp9ykajGNdkdTxskJXFABiStm2Zg8aCKJlYurJtX4PyAU87BWOTt8KsANg51VUYmBxqzF1Zsft5fK9ZEzJnvMrAmR2tBnxB4KKVFqX9w4J9DoNIUEnMpSc5kj0R37RwOZE/s320/handprint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463111740245037170" border="0" /></a><br />There is a permanent marker on the wall of cell 17, of the Carbon County Jail, in the town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Each day, a hanged man proclaims his innocence, by the imprint of his hand. The permanent marker on the cell wall has resisted all efforts to clean, repaint, and even re-plastering. Not long after each attempt to cover it up, the hand-print becomes visible again.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnFlAGH3ClqJhQ_u4s5NgXnkAgzyr3cQg7cWh4ZTKVnJiBtpycwDaN0dbPOUym3fuOiL8cuvgzr8RhInYIc-poPk03aubVdp-9RDKp8_zuWKKcQbirl-Yx5TQhhgfCfjaOQN3Qw6D0s4/s1600/alexandercampbell.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnFlAGH3ClqJhQ_u4s5NgXnkAgzyr3cQg7cWh4ZTKVnJiBtpycwDaN0dbPOUym3fuOiL8cuvgzr8RhInYIc-poPk03aubVdp-9RDKp8_zuWKKcQbirl-Yx5TQhhgfCfjaOQN3Qw6D0s4/s200/alexandercampbell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463111983269422658" border="0" /></a>Alexander Campbell, a recruiter for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires">Molly Maguires</a>, said, "I am innocent, I was nowhere near the scene of the crime." Then he slapped his hand against the wall of his cell, and continued, "There is proof of my words. That mark of mine will never be wiped out. It will remain forever to shame the county for hanging an innocent man."<br /><br />And indeed, that mark remains.<br /><br />Read more <a href="http://www.weirdus.com/states/pennsylvania/unexplained_phenomena/carbon_county_jail_handprint/index.php">here</a> and <a href="http://mysterious-places.suite101.com/article.cfm/handprint_on_jail_cell_17_wall">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The Ghosts of Robbers Cave</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHFa7GVFxID6LgUJHpvTsFSYnzqeBXqKuf87TngpufY1mA2tICBodqupXGE_xipFvrssRpC02WRwH_-_YUyu33GzXox5dC8LOte35zeezqEAEuaoNZ-kk4zg5q6fyE1zlW_o58laQy9g/s1600/Robbers_Cave.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYHFa7GVFxID6LgUJHpvTsFSYnzqeBXqKuf87TngpufY1mA2tICBodqupXGE_xipFvrssRpC02WRwH_-_YUyu33GzXox5dC8LOte35zeezqEAEuaoNZ-kk4zg5q6fyE1zlW_o58laQy9g/s320/Robbers_Cave.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463112207880739042" border="0" /></a>Unexplained voices, cries, screams, and unintelligible laughing and talking can be heard in "Robber's Cave". Below the summit of Pahuk Bluff, near Lincoln, Nebraska, this network of caves is said to be haunted by the spirits of Pawnee tribes-people, runaway slaves and escaped prisoners, all long dead.<br /><br />The cave passages are said to have connected the local penitentiary and the State Hospital for the Insane. One story claims that this tunnel was used as an escape route for prisoners, until it was finally sealed off.<br /><br />The cave is no longer in existence, as the site was filled in and a business constructed on top of what was once the cave entrance. If you can find the location, you might still hear the sounds of the past.<br /><br />Read more <a href="http://www.prairieghosts.com/robber.html">here</a>.<br /><br />More <a href="http://www.karensgen.com/buch/nebraska/robberscavepostcards.php">Photos</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">The Devil's Tramping Ground</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfQG6hyc6RBwAufzdkVquO_RTYjul5GN9XT6yEILIrK_PWlDOIYE8pFta1nj4lbAxc4u3iDL8Sb1NGpcQhyphenhyphendsdDwZMsXSBuSRvvfbcJqI8mYvzxT1lgyOLzrZaK4LOigl980b6ECSRl4/s1600/Devils-trampground.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfQG6hyc6RBwAufzdkVquO_RTYjul5GN9XT6yEILIrK_PWlDOIYE8pFta1nj4lbAxc4u3iDL8Sb1NGpcQhyphenhyphendsdDwZMsXSBuSRvvfbcJqI8mYvzxT1lgyOLzrZaK4LOigl980b6ECSRl4/s320/Devils-trampground.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463113360583454834" border="0" /></a><br />According to those that seem to know, no one has ever been able to spend the night in the circle, tramped out by the Devil himself, as he eternal paces, pondering new evils for mankind.<br /><br />Known as the Devi's Tramping Ground, the 40 foot x 40 foot barren circle in the midst of the forest near Siler, North Carolina lies cold and infertile, yet beckons the fool-hearty soul to camp in it's dark center.<br /><br />Compass readings change in and out of the circle, showing there is some type of disturbance in and around the Devi's Tramping Ground, causing even the birds and bugs to be silent. Soil testing gives no particular reason as to it's apparent 'dead state'. <br /><br />Animals refuse to tread across it, birds won't land on it's ashen surface. What is it, what created it so long ago? Settlers of the 1700s knew of it and the local Native Americans claim it is a sacred place.<br /><br />Is it a landing spot for UFOs, or a vortex, a paranormal doorway to alternate realities? Objects placed in the circle will be moved or gone by morning and no one will spend the entire night in the circle. Would you?<br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2199648319026667366&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />Read more <a href="http://www.prairieghosts.com/devgrd.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.welcometonc.com/detail/250.cfm">here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Click on any image for larger view.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">_______________________________________</span>Phantom Universehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14976852815931142616noreply@blogger.com0