Paranormal Researcher David Bennett felt the urge to take some shots of the gazebo on the grounds of the Weems-Botts Museum. He took three photos in succession from the same spot, zooming in on the gazebo and later noticing this same figure in all three photos.
David and his companions are certain that there was no one physically present in the gazebo when the photos were taken. The Weems-Botts Museum in Dumfries, VA, continues to be a paranormal hot spot. Investigators have recorded hundreds of EVPs (spirit voices) from this location, including Colonial era residents, Civil War soldiers, and members of the Merchant family, who actually lived in the house from 1869 to 1968. Many paranormal investigators believe some members of the Merchant family may still be present in the house to this day. Now, independent paranormal researcher David Bennett reports that he has captured a photo of one of the Weems-Botts ghosts in the gazebo located on the grounds. The figure appears to be a woman in period clothing, perhaps with a long skirt and a light colored shawl draped over her shoulders.
The island of Yonaguni (near Okinawa, Japan) has long been a favorite diving spot for swimmers try to get a glance of the numerous hammerhead sharks that swim there.
In 1995 underwater explorer Kihachirou Aratake found a very large, strange structure under the water. Lying about 60 feet deep, the structure appeared to be man-made. Large steps could be seen, blocks of rock cut at right angles and smoothed. Could this be the lost city of Mu or Atlantis? The discovery would send shock waves through the archaeological world.
Clapham Wood Mystery is represented by a large collection of strange occurrences which take place in the Clapham Wood, West Sussex, England.
It is said that people have encountered numerous strange apparitions in the woods; that they disappeared in there; that many of their pets went missing there, and so on. Since the 1960s the area has experienced a rash of UFO sighting, reports of people, experiencing nausea or the sensation of being pushed by unseen forces, or of witnessing patches of strange grey mist developing suddenly on pathways through the woods. Some people have also reported a strong sense of being followed. Studies with a gieger counter have revealed slightly elevated levels of background radiation in the area, which is surprising since the area is situated on chalk which is normally low in radiation. Early photographs of the wood appear to show a large crater or depression somewhere in the wood, though now the area is highly wooded and difficult to search.
Clapham Wood, unfortunately, is directly linked to four human deaths:
In June 1972 police officer Peter Goldsmith vanished and his body was discovered 6 months later.
In August 1975 Leon Foster’s body was discovered after a three weeks search.
Clapham vicar Reverend Harry Neil Snelling vanished in 1978. Three years later his body was found in the wood.
Finally, in September 1981 the homeless schizophrenic Jillian Matthews vanished and her body was found 6 weeks later in Clapham Wood.
A 15 inch long human finger has been found in Egypt and pictures of it are being released for the very first time. BILD.de broke this story, and it is spreading like fire all over the Internet.
According to BILD.de, the pictures of this finger were taken by a researcher named Gregor Spörri in Egypt in 1988. The mummified finger would be considered to be human except for the fact that it is way, way too large to have come from a human hand. As mentioned earlier, the giant finger is 15 inches long. It is projected that the person that this finger came from would have been more than 16 feet tall! You can see more pictures of this amazing find on BILD.de. As you can tell from the picture above, the fingernail is clearly visible. This truly is a remarkable specimen. So is this really a finger of a giant that once lived in Egypt?
Cornstalk (1720 - November 10, 1777) was a prominent leader
of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolution. His name,
Hokoleskwa, translates loosely into "stalk of corn" in English, and
is spelled Colesqua in some accounts. He was also known as Keigh-tugh-qua and
Wynepuechsika.
In the early 1770s, Chief Cornstalk became the leader of a
confederacy of Indian tribes living in Ohio. On Oct. 10, 1774, he led a large
war against troops from Virginia. The battle took place at Point Pleasant in
West Virginia. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and Chief Cornstalk later
signed a peace treaty.During the American Revolution the British tried to build
a coalition of Indians to fight against the colonists. Chief Cornstalk alone
refused to join, although many members of his tribe opposed him. Chief
Cornstalk had come to believe that his people's survival depended on their
friendly relations with the Virginians. In the spring of 1777, he visited the
garrison at Point Pleasant with a small contingent of Indians, and he informed
the colonials of the coalition that was forming. While the Virginians waited
for reinforcements, the Indians were held as hostages. Following the killing of
a white man outside the fort by other Indians, Chief Cornstalk and his men were
murdered by the soldiers.
The stories say that he looked upon his
assassins and spoke to them: “I was the border man’s friend. Many times I have
saved him and his people from harm. I never warred with you, but only to
protect our wigwams and lands. I refused to join your paleface enemies with the
red coats. I came to the fort as your friend and you murdered me. You have
murdered by my side, my young son.... For this, may the curse of the Great
Spirit rest upon this land. May it be blighted by nature. May it even be
blighted in its hopes. May the strength of its peoples be paralyzed by the
stain of our blood.”
Many tragedies and disasters were blamed on the curse:
1907:The worst coal
mine disaster in American history took place in Monongah, West Virginia on December 6, when 310 miners were killed.
1944:In June of this
year, 150 people were killed when a tornado ripped through the tri-statetriangular area.
1967:The devastating
Silver Bridge disaster (detailed in our section about the Mothman) sent 46people hurtling to their death in the Ohio
River on December 15. Many have also connected thistragedy to the eerie sightings of the
Mothman, strange lights in the sky and odd paranormalhappenings.
1968:A Piedmont
Airlines plane crashed in August near the Kanawha Airport, killing 35 people
onboard.
1970:On November 14,
a Southern Airways DC-10 crashed into a mountain near Huntington, WestVirginia, killing 75 people on board.
1976:In March of
that year, the town of Point Pleasant was rocked in the middle of the night be
anexplosion at the Mason County Jail.
Housed in the jail was a woman named Harriet Sisk, who hadbeen arrested for the murder of her infant
daughter. On March 2, her husband came to the jail with asuitcase full of explosives to kill himself
and his wife and to destroy the building. Both of the Sisk’swere killed, along with three law enforcement
officers.
Nikolaus Storzenbecher or more commonly known as Klaus Störtebeker, was the leader of a group of privateers known as The Victual Brothers. He was born in Wismar around 1360. The name “Störtebeker” is only a nickname, meaning “Down The Hatch” in Old German, and refers to Stortebeker’s supposed ability to empty a four-liter mug of beer in one gulp. Like most of the pirates of his day, Stortebeker used to hide on Helgoland, an island North of Germany. Helgoland pirates captured merchant vessels for their livelihood, and caused great damage to Hamburg’s commerce. The damage done by the pirates soon was so great, that 1395 Margarete from Denmark and the German Hanse decided to make peace and take appropriate measures against the pirates.
During those actions against piracy a momentous accident happened in 1396: The fleets of Denmark and the German Hanse took each other for the wanted pirates and decided to shoot first and then scrutinize the identity of the enemy. The great battle was won clearly by the German Hanse. The astonishment was great as they figured out the real identity of the foe. The shocked fleet captains retreated silently with their ships and what was left of them to their home ports.
1401 Klaus Störtebeker and 71 of his companions were caught near HelgolandIsland by a treacherous trick: A fisherman, whom Störtebeker warranted protection and allowed him to sail beneath his high stern, turned out to be the enemy in disguise. The supposed fisherman pretended to cook a meal in the lee, but he melted lead instead. He then poured the liquid lead into the rudder eyelet and thus rendered the ship disabled.
In October 1401, as Klaus Störtebeker was kneeling in front of the executioner on the Grasbrook , he was trying to buy freedom for himself and his men by offering a golden chain that should reach all around Hamburg. But the executioner showed no mercy.
When the feared pirate Klaus Stortebeker faced his executioners, he struck a strange last minute deal: If, after his beheading, his headless body could walk, however many of his 70 captive men he made it past would be freed. It was agreed, and then he was executed.
Then, according to legend, his corpse got up and walked past eleven of his men, before the executioner tripped him. Deal or no deal, all of the pirates were murdered that day, their skulls impaled and displayed as a waring to others.
His skull was discovered in Hamburg, in 1878, at a time when the city was rapidly expanding and many large warehouses were being built for the shipping industry. The skull had been on display in the museum since 1922.
Anneliese Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was born
in the town of Klingenberg in Germany. When she was 17, she started suffering
from convulsions and epileptic seizures. The exact diagnosis made at the time
(1969) was Grand Mal epilepsy.
Her and
her family were fervent Catholics and it
was not uncommon for Anneliese to perform penance for the sins of others. When
Annelise started to claim that she was hearing demonic voices and seeing
devilish faces during the day, many people worried that she may be possessed.
She was unofficially diagnosed during a pilgrimage where she was said to emit a
hellish smell, and was observed avoiding images of Jesus as well as holy water.
Between 1973 and 1975 she was committed to a psychiatric
hospital where drugs did nothing to help her condition. Finally, her parents
gave up on hospital care, seeking only the help of Catholic exorcists Father Arnold
Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt.
Over a 10 month period, Annelise had gone through 67
exorcisms, as the exorcists tried to cast out the demons possessed her. When
asked, Annelise claimed that she was possessed by Hitler, Nero, Cain, Judas
Iscariot, and even Lucifer.
Anneliese at this time was refusing medical care, refusing
to eat, and talking about her death being a form of atonement for other
people’s sins.
On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy
report stated her cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a
year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed
30.91 kilograms.
Angel hair or siliceous cotton is a substance said to be dispersed from UFOs as they fly overhead. It is made up of silicon threads that rain down on to the earth, but reach out to touch it and it will almost unusually vanish before your eyes.
It is a world wide phenomenon with the most regular occurrences from North America, New Zealand, Australia, and western Europe. There is no known proof for what causes this substance, or even what it is made up of. Because of its sensitive nature, it has been difficult to collect, and to analyse as it is subject to contamination from car exhaust fumes, and even human contact, which could skew the chemical results. The most reported incidence occurred in Oloron, France in 1952. On October 27, 1954, Gennaro Lucetti and Pietro Lastrucci stood on the balcony of a hotel in St. Mark's Square in Venice and saw two shining spindles flying across the sky leaving a trail of angel hair. In the Portuguese city of Evora on November 2, 1959, angel hair was collected and analyzed at the microscope by local school director and later by armed forces technicians and scientists of the University of Lisbon. Conclusions were not possible although it was formed, apparently, by a small organism featuring 10 arms stretching from a central core. It was advanced that it could be a single-celled organism of some kind. This event followed the sighting, by the population of the city, of several ufos. Angel hair was also spotted in the same day, at the Air Force Base of Sintra, several kilometers to the north.
Explanations related to UFO include:
Ionized air may be sleeting off the electromagnetic field that surrounds a UFO.
Excess energy converted into matter.
The usage by UFOs of a G-field would cause heavy atoms in ordinary air to react among themselves and produce a kind of precipitate that falls to the ground and disappears as the ionization decreases.
