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.
