World Of The Strange Newsletter -March 2004
World Of The Strange Newsletter
Edition: March 2004
Editor: TJ Elias
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In this issue...
#1. Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
(By Alex Kirby)
#2. Deridder Roadkill: A genuine cryptid?
(By Matt Posner)
#3. Web Poll - What do you think UFOs are?
#4. Was JFK Killed Because Of Roswell?
(by Doug Yurchey)
#5. My Prediction For Current Mars Probes
(By C. A. Honey)
#6. Website Of The Month "The Shadowlands"
(By: Louise A. Lowry (WOTS Staff))
#7. Isaac Asimov's Super Quiz
((c) 2004 Ken Fisher)
#8. Who wants to be a healer?
#9. Nazi Moon Bases (Archive newsletter article))
#10. Show Me Heaven- Near Death Experiences
(By Amanda Hancox)
#11. Cops say 'oink' to green-clad terror
#12. Notable Febuary Close Encounters in History
(Compiled by: TJ Elias)
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#1. Parrot's oratory stuns scientists
(By Alex Kirby)
Feathered prodigy: N'kisi leads the field
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to
communicate with people has brought scientists up short.
The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of
950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel
ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope - just as a
human child would do.
N'kisi's remarkable abilities, which are said to include telepathy,
feature in the latest BBC Wildlife Magazine.
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#2. Deridder Roadkill: A genuine cryptid?
(By Matt Posner)
Welcome to another article about cryptid photos. Last time I looked
at four photos that had been posted on the internet as images of
chupacabras, and concluded that none of them depicted a cryptid, or
scientifically unproven species. (see:<a
href="http://www.worldofthestrange.com/nlv1565.html">Do They Suck?
</a>) This time around I will look at only two pictures: one of
them another sometime chupacabras candidate called the Deridder
Roadkill, and the other one a picture of a sometime lake monster
called Chan.
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#3. Web Poll - What do you think UFOs are?
What do you think UFOs are?
Alien Spaceships
Travelers From Other Dimensions (Always On Earth)
Secret Government Programs
Normal Events That People Misinterpret
Time Travelers
I Don't Know
No Answer
Other
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#4. Was JFK Killed Because Of Roswell?
(by Doug Yurchey)
'Who killed President Kennedy?' is the ultimate of all
conspiracies. Why was the young, American leader gunned down in
November of 1963? The Roswell Incident has been around longer than
the Kennedy mystery, but it is this question of who murdered Jack
that is imbedded in the conscious mind of every baby-boomer. Those
who remember the 50s know where they were when they heard that
President Kennedy got shot. (I was let out of junior high school
like the rest of America's kids).
Were there multiple shooters or a lone gunman? Do we believe the
party-line of a lone gunman or QUESTION what the government tells
you? Who were the guilty parties in this assassination? JFK
was 'killed' and 'murdered.' He was not assassinated by some 3-
named, crazy lunatic. There was indeed a conspiracy which stretched
to the highest realms of power and politics.
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#5. My Prediction For Current Mars Probes
(By C. A. Honey)
This will be a special publication in that it contains a prediction
of things to come in regard to our proposed and current exploration
of the planet Mars. I usually do not make any predictions but this
time I will and then list the things that will prove or disprove my
predictions.
This will give me an easy out if the predictions do not come to pass
but will be explained ahead of time so those engineers at JPL or at
NASA will know how to avoid certain failure if they follow my
guidelines on how to proceed. Anyone tracking my history over the
last 50 years will know how I derive my information on subjects such
as this. I don't claim to have a 100% fulfillment of my previous
predictions; as such predictions have been very rare over the past
50 years. They will also know that my accuracy ratio is very
high. "Nuff" said.
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#6. Website Of The Month "The Shadowlands"
(By: Louise A. Lowry (WOTS Staff))
March's Website Of Excellence Award Presented To "The Shadowlands"
http://theshadowlands.net
Dave Juliano, the founder has much to be happy about with his
website, they have just celebrated their tenth year of being online
and entertaining us with all the ghostly/ haunting stories.
Shadowland provides general information on some subjects and a bit
more in depth info on others as his time and experiences allow. If
you read any of these pages with an open mind you should come away
with a better understanding of these mysteries.
While all of these subjects are laughed at or frowned upon by many,
Shadowland challenges you to at least take the time to decide for
yourself. This website includes text files, video, sounds, pictures,
eye witness accounts and more on the pages that follow. They are
always adding new information and update various pages on a monthly
basis. Currently they have over 7,100 stories in their ghostly
section alone.
There is also information on a 101 class that you can arrange to
join by contacting Dave at
djuliano@theshadowlands.net to see what
dates are open for their Ghost Hunting 101 classes.
There is also free monthly updates on their newsletter..
KUDOS to a great website that has been online for so many years.
Founder Dave Juliano
djuliano@theshadowlands.net
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#7. Isaac Asimov's Super Quiz
((c) 2004 Ken Fisher)
Take this Isaac Asimov's Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for
each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate
Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.
Subject: CREATURES
(e.g., Mythical creature that guarded the golden apples. Answer:
Dragon).
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. These creatures rob graves and feed on corpses.
2. A corpse brought back to life by voodoo magic.
3. This ghost or spirit is reputed to make much noise.
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. These gnomes or goblins were blamed for aircraft problems in
World War II.
5. Monster fabled to be the offspring of a lion and an eagle.
6. Jinn are spirits capable of assuming various forms. In America
they are usually called --------.
PH.D. LEVEL
7. This female spirit wails when someone is about to die.
8. These three creatures had serpents on their heads instead of
hair.
9. A fairy child that is left in the place of a stolen human baby.
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#8. Who wants to be a healer?
People's interest in parapsychology and healing has significantly
risen in the past few years.
However, science still refuses to examine the phenomenon seriously.
Perhaps the only serious scientist in the post Soviet Russia is
chair of social and practical psychology of Labour Academy and
social relations of Ukraine Elena Karagodina who still shows
tremendous interest in healers.
She graduated with a degree in psychiatry and has been studying the
healer"s phenomenon since 1995. Elena's doctorate work was
called "Socio-Cultural Analysis of Healers and Paranorms."
Commentator from "Izvenstia" Tatyana Bateneva interviews professor
Elena Karagodina.
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#9. Nazi Moon Bases (Archive newsletter article))
The Germans landed on the Moon as early as probably 1942, utilizing
their larger exoatmospheric rocket saucers of the Miethe and
Schriever type. The Miethe rocket craft was built in diameters if 15
and 50 meters, and the Schriever Walter turbine power ed craft was
designed as an interplanetary exploration vehicle. It had a diameter
of 60 meters, had 10 stories of crew compartments, and stood 45
meters high. Welcome to Alice in Saucerland.
In my extensive research of dissident American theories about the
physical conditions on the Moon I have proved beyond the shadow of a
doubt that there is atmosphere, water and vegetation on the Moon,
and that man does not need a space suit to walk on the Moon. A pair
of jeans, a pullover and sneakersare just about enough.
Everything NASA has told the world about the Mood is a lie and it
was done to keep the exclusivity of the club from joinings by the
third world countries. All these physical conditions make it a lot
easier to build a Moonbase. Ever since their first day of landing on
the Moon, the Germans started boring -and tunneling under the
surface, and by the end of the war there was a small Nazi research
base on the Moon.
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#10. Show Me Heaven- Near Death Experiences
(By Amanda Hancox)
As more and more people come forward with accounts of near-death
experiences, new research is about to examine the out of body
experience to see whether mind and body really do separate at the
point of death.
It is only 30 years ago that the term near-death experience was
coined. An American researcher, Raymond Moody, used it to describe
the reports of a large number of people who, whilst apparently dead,
had seen deceased relatives, tunnels of light, life reviews and felt
an overwhelming sense of peace, before being resuscitated.
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#11. Cops say 'oink' to green-clad terror
The Jakarta Police announced on Monday that the talk-of-the-town
kolor hijau (green underwear) creature -- believed to be a creature
that is half-man and half-pig -- does not in fact exist and is only
a rumor.
In an apparent move to curb disquiet among certain sections of the
public, the police announced a third suspect in the case -- Nurmah,
22, a housewife from Lenteng Agung, South Jakarta.
She reported to Jagakarsa Police on Sunday evening that she had been
attacked by the kolor hijau who, she claimed, ripped her T-shirt and
scratched her with his claws.
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#12. Notable Febuary Close Encounters in History
(Compiled by: TJ Elias)
1997-03-13; USA, Arizona, Phoenix
Phoenix March 1997 UFO 'Scared the Hell' Out Of Scrambled F-15 Pilot
The following text is the edited transcript of a conversation that
took place between Peter B. Davenport, Director of the National UFO
Reporting Center in Seattle, and a person who telephoned the Center
at 0320 hrs. (Pacific) on Friday morning, March 14, 1997.
The caller asserted that he had just been personal witness to an
intercept of a very large craft by two U. S. Air Force McDonnell-
Douglas F-15c fighters directly above downtown Phoenix, Arizona, at
approximately 2035 hrs. on Thursday, March 13, 1997.
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1964-03-19; Penkridge, UK
According to a U.S.Naval Officer working on a spyship, he read a
coded message that a UFO overflying Europe, for reasons unknown,
malfunctioned and plummeted to Earth. Whether by accident or design,
as the UFO descended, it broke into two parts - the chief section of
which crashed at Penkridge, Staffordshire, while "the remains"
hurtled on until they smashed into the ground somewhere in West
Germany.
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1953-03-23; USA, California, Tujunga Canyons
The Tujunga Canyon Abductions
We often think that the alien abduction phenomenon began in 1961
with the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. There's an abduction
story that predates the Hills by several years in the happening, if
not in the telling. It began on March 22, 1953 in the Tujunga
Canyons area, a rather isolated wilderness area north of Los Angeles.
In 1975, two women given the pseudonyms of Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley
went to the NICAP UFO investigation organization, where they told a
story of twenty-three years of UFO and alien abduction experiences.
They had finally decided to tell their story because abductions
and "missing time" experiences had begun to appear in the media.
The experiences began for the two on that night in 1953 when the
two, who lived together in an isolated cabin in the Tujunga area,
were awakened by a bright light outside their cabin. A "missing
time" loss of two hours also occurred, and the two young women were
frightened enough to flee their cabin.
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1945-03-00; USA, Maine, Belfast
In March 1945 near Belfast, Maine a man out hunting observed an
elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It
crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. The enormous craft
seemed undamaged as it rested briefly on the ground, then lifted
again with a humming sound, started to spin, released a shower of
fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, disappearing in seconds.
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1941-03-00; USA, Missouri, Cape Girardeau
A Virginia man is investigating the possibility that a UFO crashed
near Cape Girardeau in 1941. "That would be six years before
Roswell," said James Westwood of Centreville, Va., referring to the
1947 incident in which the government allegedly recovered and then
covered up a UFO crash in New Mexico. "That would put Cape Girardeau
County on the UFO map." he said.
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1909-03-23; UK, England, Peterborough
In the early months of 1909 an aerial horror began to haunt the
imaginations of the British people. The first sighting of a phantom
airship to have a major impact on the public consciousness was made
by a Cambridgeshire policeman, PC Kettle. He was patrolling Cromwell
Road in Peterborough on the morning of March 23 when he heard the
sound of a distant motor car. As he continued to hear the steady
buzz of a high power engine, he suddenly realized that the noise was
coming from above. On looking up he saw a bright light attached to a
long oblong body outlined against the stars. This strange aerial
object crossed the sky at a high speed, and was soon lost from sight.
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1880-03-26; USA, New Mexico, Lamy
Mar. 26, 1880 Lamy (New Mexico). Four men walking near Galis-
evening teo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from
a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish
and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight
to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object
flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east.
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1676-00-00; UNKNOWN (Halley)
1676 Edmond Hally, the astronomer who discovered Haley's comet,
could recall two accounts involving unidentified crafts. His first
experience was in March of, when he saw a, as he said, "Vast body
apparently bigger than the moon." He estimated it at 40 mi. above
him. He also stated that it made a noise, "Like the rattling of a
great cart over stones." After estimating the distance it traveled
in a matter of minutes, he came to the conclusion that it moved at a
speed greater than 9,600 m.p.h.
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