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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Paranormal News for November 19, 2011

Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

HUMAN MYSTERIES:

Mystery of giant-headed mummy found in Peru
A mummified elongated skull found in Peru could finally prove the existence of aliens. The strangely shaped head - almost as big as its 50cm (20in) body - has baffled anthropologists. It was one of two sets of remains found in the city of Andahuaylillas in the southern province of Quispicanchi...
(Also read: Weird Skeletons in Mankind's Closet)

Out-of-body experience: What happens when you leave your body?
An out-of-body experience (OBE) is a deeply personal experience that can have profound effects. With the ability to change one's outlook, deepen spirituality, and provide access to answers to life's deepest questions, OBEs are a popular way to achieve enlightenment. There are several types of OBE and many ways in which to experience one. Depending on your goals and your willingness to practice, you can experience a variety of OBEs. Astral projection is one of the many types of OBE and is the one you are most likely to seek out on your own...
(Also read: Astral Projection: Doorway to a New Dimension)

GHOSTS, HAUNTED PLACES AND POLTERGEISTS:

Pete Doherty reckons he's being haunted by the ghost of Amy Winehouse
According to friends The Libertines and Babyshambles singer believes that he's being haunted by the late singer. "He is utterly convinced that he has seen her ghost," a mate told The Sun. "A lot of people will think his visions are probably drug-induced by he claims he is clean." Apparently Pete Doherty is so disturbed by the apparition that he's fled to France and won't return, fearing that Amy's spirit is residing at his London home...

Paula Abdul has haunted house
Paula Abdul has reportedly hired a witch doctor to cleanse her home of spirits. The American star is known for her belief in ghosts and other-worldly beings. She is said to be convinced her Los Angeles home is inhabited by a ghoul of some kind so has gone to great lengths to flush it out...

Strange happenings haunt homeowner
Lynn Lofiego: I wonder. Maybe my house is haunted! I'm not just referring to the strange sounds a house makes - the creaks and squeaks and moans and groans. My house is old. So am I. The walls within the house, like the bones within my body, could simply be voicing the stress and strains of aging. I, too, creak and squeak and moan and groan at times. But also, every now and again, when I've been completely alone in my house, I've felt a soft touch on my arm or shoulder or even what felt like a pat on the back from an invisible source...
(Also read: 16 Signs That Your House is Haunted)

Ghosthunters claim entity haunts Fort
Paranormal investigators are convinced of a residual haunting at Duncannon Fort following their investigation into paranormal activity at the historical landmark on Saturday night. Echo Ghosthunters, a West Cork-based group, travelled to Duncannon Fort on Saturday night with their team of paranormal investigators, where they were guided around the fort by former member of staff, Michael Howlin...

"Unexplained ghost footage" captured at haunted pub
A soldier, a former landlady and a woman and her two children are some of the ghosts said to be haunting a Comet country village pub. And the spooky spirits have been causing such a stir, that it's attracted the attention of a TV crew who have been filming there this week. Alexis Corrigan, landlady of The Fox Pub in Pirton, believes that the building is haunted...

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Paranormal News for November 19, 2011

Up-to-the-minute reports of paranormal activity and news from around the world

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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Ancient Secrets of Levitation

Did ancient civilizations possess knowledge that has since been lost to science? Were amazing technologies available to the ancient Egyptians that enabled them to construct the pyramids - technologies that have somehow been forgotten?

The ruins of several ancient civilizations - from Stonehenge to the pyramids - show that they used massive stones to construct their monuments. A basic question is why? Why use stone pieces of such enormous size and weight when the same structures could have been constructed with more easily managed smaller blocks - much like we use bricks and cinderblocks today?

Could part of the answer be that these ancients had a method of lifting and moving these massive stones - some weighing several tons - that made the task as easy and manageable as lifting a two-pound brick? The ancients, some researchers suggest, may have mastered the art of levitation, through sonics or some other obscure method, that allowed them to defy gravity and manipulate massive objects with ease.

THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS

How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has been the subject of debate for millennia. The fact is, no one really knows for certain exactly how they were constructed. The current estimates of mainstream science contends that it took a workforce of 4,000 to 5,000 men 20 years to build the Great Pyramid using ropes, pulleys, ramps, ingenuity and brute force.

And that very well may have been the case. But there is an intriguing passage in a history text by the 10th century Arab historian, Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masudi, known as the Herodotus of the Arabs. Al-Masudi had traveled much of the known world in his day before settling in Egypt, and he had written a 30-volume history of the world. He too was struck by the magnificence of the Egyptian pyramids and wrote about how their great stone blocks were transported. First, he said, a "magic papyrus" (paper) was placed under the stone to be moved. Then the stone was struck with a metal rod that caused the stone to levitate and move along a path paved with stones and fenced on either side by metal poles. The stone would travel along the path, wrote Al-Masudi, for a distance of about 50 meters and then settle to the ground. The process would then be repeated until the builders had the stone where they wanted it.

Considering that the pyramids were already thousands of years old when Al-Masudi wrote this explanation, we have to wonder where he got his information. Was it part of an oral history that was passed down from generation to generation in Egypt? The unusual details of the story raise that possibility. Or was this just a fanciful story concocted by a talented writer who - like many who marvel at the pyramids today - concluded that there must have been some extraordinary magical forces employed to build such a magnificent structure?

If we take the story at face value, what kind of levitation forces were involved? Did the striking of the rock create vibrations that resulted in sonic levitation? Or did the layout of stones and rods create a magnetic levitation? If so, the science accounting for either scenario is unknown to us today.

OTHER ASTONISHING MEGALITHS

The Egyptian pyramids are not the only ancient structures constructed of huge blocks of stone. Far from it. Great temples and monuments around the world contain stone components of incredible size, yet little is known about their means of construction.

The Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon has a foundation that contains the three largest stone blocks ever used in a man-made structure. Each block is estimated to weigh as much as 1,000 tons! No super crane in existence today could lift one, yet they are positioned together with such precision that not even a needle could fit between them. Nearby is an even bigger stone. Known as Hajar el Hibla - the Stone of the Pregnant Woman - it lies abandoned in its quarry, never used. But the giant rectangular block is the largest piece of stone ever cut by humans, weighing an incredible 1,200 tons. It is estimated that it would require the strength of 16,000 men to even budge it, and represents a formidable challenge to 20th century machines and technology.
On an isolated plateau at Tiahuanaco Bolivia, 13,000 feet above sea level, stands an impressive monument called Puerta del Sol, or Sun Gate. The elaborately carved gate weighs an estimated 10 tons, and how it arrived at its present location is a mystery.
Nan Madol, sometimes called "the Machu Pichu of the Pacific," is a great ruins on the island of Pohnpei, capitol of the Federated States of Micronesia. This lost city, constructed around 200 B.C., is made up of hundreds of stacked stone logs, each about 18-feet-long and several feet in diameter. The logs, stacked like cordwood, constitute walls that are 40 feet high and 18 feet thick. Each stone log is estimated to weigh about 2.5 tons. How they were moved and lifted into position is unknown.

What was the secret these diverse and ancient cultures possessed to manipulate these great stone blocks? A massive supply of slave labor straining human muscle and ingenuity to their limits? Or was there another more mysterious way? It's remarkable that these cultures leave no record of how these structures were constructed. However, "in almost every culture where megaliths exist," according to 432:Cosmic Key, "a legend also exists that the huge stones were moved by acoustic means - either by the chanted spells of magicians, by song, by striking with a magic wand or rod (to produce acoustic resonance), or by trumpets, gongs, lyres, cymbals or whistles."

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Phone Call from a Dry Future? - Your True Tales - January 2007 - Page 12

Your True Tales
January 2007 - Page 12

Phone Call from a Dry Future?
by D. F. Alves

I spent the first two decades of my life in a quiet New England town. At the far end of the town green, partially surrounded by a thick hedge, is a small bronze plaque marking the location of a time capsule buried in 1953 on the bicentennial of the town's founding. The capsule is still there, but my story concerns a two-week period when it was located in the trunk of my Cutlass Supreme.

On Thanksgiving night in the year I graduated college, a friend and I decided that when the town aldermen dedicated to capsule to "posterity," they meant us. While the satiated town drifted off to sleep, we unearthed the three-foot square riveted steel box and loaded it into my car. The capsule proved to be a tough nut to crack. We tried every tool in my father's garage before we resigned ourselves to the fact that only a blowtorch could reveal the contents of the capsule. Young as we were and unused to defeat, we fell to bickering and mutual recriminations. In the end I was stuck with the white elephant, and for lack of a better place, I decided to keep in the trunk of my car.

The next day the strange phone calls began. Oddly enough, they always came when I was alone in the house. When I picked up the receiver, a tinny, androgynous voice on the other end of the line would repeat: "Put the capsule back" or "It is very important that you put the capsule back" until I hung up. The voice talked straight through any questions I put to it, almost as though the speaker couldn't hear me.

My first thought was that the calls came from my co-conspirator, something that he steadfastly denied. Now I knew better than to take him for his word, but other circumstances made me think he was telling the truth. The phone calls were preceded by small but noticeable electrical anomalies in the house (i.e. flickering lights, poor TV and radio reception, the smell of ozone). Also - and this is difficult to put into words - the calls left me with blurry vision, muffled hearing, and a profound fatigue.

The last call, the one that drove me to leave the capsule on the steps of town hall, came on a Sunday morning when my parents were away at church. For several minutes prior to the first ring, I noticed that the house seemed to become charged with electricity. My every motion seemed to yield shocks that increased in severity. When the phone rang, the TV screen flickered and dissolved into the staticky pattern that people usually call "snow." The voice was louder than usual. The whole house was humming, as if the speaker were expending massive amounts of energy to contact me. The instant before I hung up, the TV screen was beginning to resolve into a silhouette of a face.

The calls stopped abruptly after I returned the capsule. I can only imagine that someone in the future had a very important reason for wanting the capsule to remain buried. The contents, which I researched at the local library, were unremarkable enough: a Leica camera, a baseball glove, a pewter mug with an engraved image of the high school mascot, a bottle of bourbon, a laminated copy of the town charter, an assortment of vacuum-sealed seeds from the local vegetable farm, etc. Is it possible that the caller was living in a time when the earth could no longer be cultivated, when humans had forgotten how to distill alcohol?

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READER REPORT: Something tapped on my foot

"It was 1988. I was about eight years old and living in Las Vegas, Nevada," reports Aaron. "My family didn't make much money so I had to sleep in the same bed as my father until we moved from this place that I'm telling you about. I had my foot off the bed, which I haven't done to this day. I felt a tapping on my left foot and immediately froze. I remember thinking it's gotta be my brother. This went on for about a solid 30 seconds or so. I was scared to death. I quick moved to see if anything was there... and there wasn't. I've never heard of anyone with a tapping experience like this."

Aaron, I have received many other reports from people who have experienced tapping by unseen hands. Here are some of them:

I don't necessarily think what you experienced was a ghost. It could have been an involuntary muscle movement that could have felt like tapping. That is only a possibility and is not meant to negate your experience, which would have to be considered with any other paranormal experiences in your home at the time.

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Thank you!

On this day of thanksgiving, I am truly thankful for the opportunity to bring you this paranormal website every day. And I am thankful to all of you who read, comment and contribute, making this site the great success that it is.

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!

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The Poltergeist Effect: Key to All Paranormal?

Poltergeist activity is some of the most astonishing and best-documented of all paranormal phenomena because there are physical effects on objects and people. Yet most researchers think that these phenomena are caused not by ghosts, but by the subconscious minds of highly stressed individuals.

So, if this kind of physical activity can be created by consciousness, what else might consciousness be capable of? Could it not be responsible for the manifestation of ghosts, UFOs, creatures like Bigfoot, religious apparitions and more?

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