Interesting slide presentation showing a dark figure in a bed and breakfast at Gettysburg, PA. I wish the actual location was mentioned. These dark forms are seen quite frequently in many locations throughout the Gettysburg area.
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'Among the Spirits'
Medium, remote viewer and friend Irene Block - Spirit Rescue International - finished writing her autobiography 'Among the Spirits' recently. My wife Vanessa and I have been reading through it this weekend....honestly, it's brilliant! Vanessa describes it as "an intimate chronicle of Irene's connection with earthbound spirits who need help and understanding as well as how those spirits have affected her personal life." Hopefully, her story will be available for all to read in the near future...Lon
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The Mysteries, Monsters and Ghosts of Australia
hearaldsun - Matthew Jones was totally unprepared for what he saw as he stood in his garage in suburban Canberra in October last year.
Packing boxes for a house move, he was confronted by a stocky, hairy monster standing in the corner of the garage staring at him.
The creature, according to James, was a juvenile covered in hair, with long arms that almost touched the ground.
"It was inquisitive about what I was doing," he said. "It was definitely trying to communicate with me."
At the time, James had no idea what the creature could be. A friend later told him it could be a yowie - the creature described in the newly-published Something Is Out There as "the big daddy of all Australian mystery monsters".
It is, according to the book about the paranormal, the Aussie cousin of North America's Bigfoot, the Himalayan Yeti and the Abominable Snowman.
The Aussie monster is as elusive as he is controversial, often seen but never photographed, according to the book's authors Julie Miller and Grant Osborn. They claim the yowie is an important part of folklore, making numerous appearances in the Dreamtime legends.
The yowie is most often described as a solitary, nocturnal creature with a frightful growl.
If you are chased, the best thing to do is jump into a waterhole, because they cannot wet their feet.
The book claims that there have been almost 10,000 reported yowie sightings during the past 200 years.
Something Is Out There also lists other Aussie monsters, including a mega shark, giant lizards, panthers on the prowl and phantom kangaroos.
The authors have divided their book into three parts: UFOlogy, cryptozoology (the search for bizarre creatures) and the general supernatural.
As they admit, the paranormal is "generally viewed through the prism of pseudoscience". It lurks in the murky corners on the borderline of accepted knowledge.
"Whereas established science, rigid and rigorous by definition, might bow to accept a new discovery only when laden with suitable proof, pseudoscience is more than happy to plough straight ahead and make spectacular flights of logic from conjecture to hypothesis to theory on the wings of nothing but sheer imagination alone".
Nevertheless, these sceptical souls admit that they have seen things during the writing of the book that they cannot explain.
They have been chased down a dark highway by strange lights, watched doors in supposedly haunted houses open of their own accord and felt "the physical presence of invisible forces".
The authors travelled to the sites of infamous ghost sightings, houses, towns and prisons, including the Old Melbourne Jail.
From 1842 until its closure in 1924, 136 people were executed at the jail in Russell St, some of whom, according to legend, still haunt the site.
The ghost of Ned Kelly, the most famous victim, is noticeably absent from the prison's corridors.
The authors also visited the Princess Theatre, where the ghost of actor Frederick Baker is said by some to still roam.
Baker - known as Federici - died during a performance and may still be performing, even outside the theatre.
The book reveals that in 1972, during filming of a documentary on Federici at his gravesite in Melbourne Cemetery, photographs showed a man dressed in stage costume lingering beside the camera crew. The book also investigates the many local sightings of UFOs. One in three Australians believe in UFOs. In the Northern territory the figure soars to 60 per cent and 16 per cent of Territorians claim to have seen a UFO.
The authors' chase for UFOs led them from the suburbs of Melbourne to the Blue Mountains outside Sydney and to a small spot in the Red Centre known as the UFO capital of Australia.
But the most amazing possibility of UFO action occurred not far outside Melbourne.
At 6.19pm on October 21, 1978, Frederick Valentich, a 20-year-old pilot, took off from Moorabbin Airport aboard a Cessna aircraft. His destination was King Island, in the middle of Bass Strait.
The conditions were fine - light winds with good visibility.
But about 45 minutes into what should have been an 80-minute flight, Valentich reported seeing a big unidentified craft passing above him at high speed.
The pilot had told an air traffic controller that the unidentified craft had been "playing some sort of game". He said the aircraft was "sort of metallic like" and "shiny on the outside" with a green light. Then he reported that the aircraft had just vanished and then reappeared.
Valentich's last words were these: "That strange aircraft is hovering over the top of me again...it is hovering...and it's not an aircraft."
Five minutes after he reported the strange craft, radio transmissions from Valentich stopped.
Sea and air searched found no trace of the pilot or his plane. Valentich seemingly disappeared into thin air.
What happened to Valentich and his Cessna?
The authors of Something Is Out There suggest a close call with an alien vessel may have caused Valentich's plane to stall. No debris was found, perhaps suggesting Valentich and his plane were abducted.
The book's authors said the number of UFO reports from across the southern coast of Victoria on the night of Valentich's disappearance is "astounding" - with some sources claiming up to 50.
More than a dozen reports referred to "an erratically moving green light in the sky".
Amateur photographer Roy Manifold was taking sunset photos at Cape Otway about 20 minutes before Valentich first reported the UFO.
Manifold's prints revealed a mystery aerial object. The RAAF said one photo showed the object photographed by Manifold was simply a dissipating cloud.
So what happened to Frederick Valentich? No one really knows.
Coincidentally, a memorial erected in 1998 by the Valentich family at Cape Otway, overlooking the strait where he vanished, has also disappeared.
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Psychics to Investigate Unsolved Murder Case in Laguna, CA
egcitizenFour years have passed since 15-year-old Robert Maisonet died after being assaulted by three people in broad daylight in Laguna. Authorities are still trying to identify suspects in the cold case, and a local paranormal investigator believes he has a solution.
Paul Dale Roberts plans to bring a group of people who claim to be psychics to Maisonet’s murder scene where they will try to use their skills to identify the killers and their getaway vehicle’s license plate number.
Roberts said that he is amazed that witnesses did not help Maisonet during the assault or record the killers’ license plate.
“It always stayed in my mind how nobody got any information and now this is just a cold case,” he said, while standing at the murder site. “You could say it haunted me.”
The investigation will commence on Oct. 9 at the sidewalk spot where the Franklin High School student died when he was beaten into unconsciousness near the corner of Laguna and Franklin boulevards.
Elk Grove police spokesperson Christopher Trim said that his agency will not participate in the event and will only regard the psychics’ findings as a tip – just like any tip that citizens give to detectives.
Roberts said that psychic investigators have aided the FBI and the CIA, and mentioned that he witnessed cases where psychics discovered secrets.
He said that he took psychics along in his searches for ghosts and said they found accurate information in those cases.
“If they could actually identify the (Maisonet) assailants that would be of so much help for his grieving family for some closure, and that would help the police department,” Roberts said.
He noted an incident where he saw a psychic look at a person and then inform her that her brother’s name is Steve who died of a drug overdose, and he wants his sister to visit a doctor.
Roberts later heard from the person that she was later diagnosed with emphysema.
“If I have a psychic who knows all this information, I would like to see what they can accomplish,” he said.
Roberts is the general manager of H.P.I. International, which specializes in investigating paranormal activities.
He said that he has been involved in more than 300 paranormal investigations and he regularly writes about his visits to supposedly haunted places, including the now-closed Elk Grove Brewery in Old Town.
The search for the killers
Very little is known about Maisonet’s killers.
On Jan. 7, 2006, a group of four people, possibly juveniles, drove up in a dark-colored SUV to Maisonet while he was walking home from school where he served detention around 2 p.m.
The passengers left the vehicle and attacked Maisonet a few yards from the vacant lot next to the Peace Presbyterian Church.
Maisonet reportedly died from blunt force trauma after the killers left him unconscious and fled in their SUV on northbound Franklin Boulevard.
For the Oct. 9 psychic investigation, Roberts explained that he will have psychics take turns walking across the murder scene and attempt to “pick up” any psychic readings.
He said that some members of the group are clairvoyant, while others can visualize images of past events and even detect the feelings of those involved in such incidents.
If a psychic is unable to find information or if their findings are outrageous, Roberts will dismiss that investigator and move on to the next psychic to take a reading.
“I’m not going to waste people’s time if they come up with crazy stuff,” he said.
If the team finds significant information, Roberts said they will pass it on to the Elk Grove police.
“I want to try this as an experiment,” he said. “If it works, that would be great – we’ll continue on. If it doesn’t work, then I’ll just nix it.”
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Hi...I'd like your input on the following. Along with my daily Fortean / Oddball News, I am contemplating a regular weekly Paranormal / Spiritual News that I would post on the weekend. I'd like to include information and updates on cases, evidence, books, presentations, etc. I will also include paranormal announcements offered by the readers. Please offer your suggestions on this and other posts you'd like to see at Phantoms and Monsters...Lon
Paranormal / Spiritual News: 'Among the Spirits', Gettysburg Entity and Mysterious Australia
