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Fresh tests on Shroud of Turin

March 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm · Filed under Ancient Mysteries, Artifact, Science

The Oxford laboratory that origininally announced that the Shroud of Turin was a fake some 20 years ago is now re-investigating its claims that its original test results were botched. The head of the world-renowned lab is remains skeptical that an error would have cause the results to deviate more than a thousand years, but he says that he wants to keep an open mind. The original carbon dating was carried out on a sample by researchers working separately in laboratories in Zurich and Arizona as well as Oxford. Christians were dissapointed, to say the least, when the carbon dating tests conducted on the four meter linnen cloth dated it to the medieval era, but these recent turn of events are sure to re-ignight speculations about the shroud. The results will form a segments of a documentary on the Turin Shroud that is scheduled to broadcast on BBC 2 on Easter Saturday.

Read ‘Fresh tests on Shroud of Turin‘. Originally Posted by Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Paranormal News for January 8, 2008

January 7, 2008 at 8:24 am · Filed under Alt News, Ancient Mysteries, Ancient Tech, Artifact, Conspiracy, Cryptozoology, EVP, Ghosts, Government, Mysterious, OBE/Dreams, Science, UFOs, Video ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Consider what happens, mentally, when you buy a new car. You pick out this unique model with brilliant colors and feel there is something really special about it. In fact, you picked it out precisely because it was special. After signing some contract for payment, you leave the dealership and are driving down the highway, a flurry of other cars whip by you, but the ones that you notice are now the exact car and model that you just bought!

Is it possible that a Bigfoot or related hominoid was found many years ago and remains hidden away from the public? Cryptomundo.com reported that near the end of the overnight appearance of Jeff Meldrum’s and John Bindernagel’s discussion of Bigfoot on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, September 21-22, 2006, an American, who claimed to be living in the Ukraine, telephoned into the talk-radio program. The credible-sounding individual had an intriguing account…

Which is more likely, traversing the vast stellar distances between stars hoping for a ‘hit” or, navigating the ocean floor? The classic alleged phantasm or sentient humanoid irritatingly nicknamed The Grey, has always been an object of speculation in terms of sensate anatomy inasmuch as hearing or receiving sound in an atmosphere would require some sort of ear.

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Yet, they are absent, or are they?…
Mystery astronaut carving in ancient temples in Salamanca, SpainRelax: no one is reading your mind
At first, scientists from Harvard, a college in Massachusetts, were trying to randomize a medical study so God wouldn’t know. Now a group of venerable academic psychologists under Dr. Stephen Kosslyn from the same institution reports developing a methodology to study extrasensory perception (ESP), and obtaining the “strongest evidence” yet against the existence of ESP…

Insect attack may have finished off dinosaurs
Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force – biting, disease-carrying insects…

Mind trip: A complex in Tidewater Virginia is the hub of psychic exploration
Driving north from the tourist beaches on U.S. 60, the streetscape turns suburban. Houses keep the ocean out of view. On the higher ground to the left, you come to a starkly modern building that could pass for a university research library. It’s all the world headquarters and offshoots of Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, and whether you spend a few minutes or days here hinges on your view of Cayce…
Kucinich’s UFO sighting: What he really saw
Dennis Kucinich has taken a lot of flak for saying that he once saw an unidentified flying object near Shirley MacLaine’s house back in 1982. The Wall Street Journal just did a front-page story on it, adding to the Kucinich-as-silly-person storyline. But what if he really did see something—just not an alien spaceship?..
David Kingston: I have been researching the Crop Circle phenomena since I saw my first one in 1976. I had been on a “night watch” for UFO’s on Clay Hill in Warminster. Three separate orbs of approximately six feet in diameter of coloured light had been weaving around and above us for some three hours on the top of Clay Hill, merging at times into a single globe and then separating again above us, suddenly one of the orbs descended to some thirty feet above us and then flew down into a field at the base of Clay Hill…
A picture taken by a 12-year-old Kirkland girl during the holiday week in December surprised her family by capturing a mysterious object…
The Center for Bigfoot Studies, like the creature itself, is not easy to find. It hides amid the forest of homes on a quiet Riverside street. No signs or monster-size tracks point the way, but those in the know can pin it down to an upper floor of one unassuming house. There, jammed inside a few small rooms, is one of the nation’s largest repositories of Bigfoot lore…
The conversation recorded in the YouTube video referenced in the story below is in a Brazilian Portuguese dialect, probably from the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. The taping is being done by an adult. The children shout about a UFO, and then there is a question about whether or not the object is a hot air balloon…
Year of the Yeti begins now!
This Friday will be the official launch of the new publication of the reasonably-priced hardback edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, from Cosimo Classics. This new printing contains a new preface I’ve written, and I will have a few copies, hot off the press, literally, for sale at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City…
(Get the book: Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life)The best damned data of 2007
Happy New Year one and all and while our thoughts turn to the potential the next year will have (those of us not lying on the couch feeling sorry for themselves after over indulging last night, best not to mention piercing headaches!!) but to round things off nicely we’ll look back on the stories we blogged up last year, which, we hope, have gone some way to reflecting the interesting stories of the year, as well as our own peculiar obsessions…
Bigfoot, you’re invited to breakfast
A few years before the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, I worked on a timber-cruising crew near that mountain. We stayed in a barn-like lodge and ate at a nearby diner. During breakfast one morning, Harry R. Truman, who owned Harmony Falls Lodge on Spirit Lake, came in. He was wearing an ancient raincoat and the same wrinkled cap he wore years later when he told a cameraman, a helicopter pilot and the world that he’d never leave his mountain. Days later, it blew…Mystery space machines – part 3Truth is stranger than science fiction
A brief historical overview concerning the significance of flying saucers, Planet X, and little green men from Mars in American pop culture. Most notably, comic books…

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Easter Island stone heads are ‘dying’

December 11, 2007 at 8:41 pm · Filed under Ancient Mysteries ·Tagged , , ,

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Sloping slightly sideways on the grassy hills beneath the Ranu Raraku volcano, a giant stone head known as a moai shows the wear and tear of time on this triangular 64-square-mile island. On the right side of the oblong rectangular face with male features, the rock is lighter in color and its long, carefully sculpted ear and nostril are clearly visible. But on the statue’s left side, the sun and wind have eroded the nose, lip and ear. “The moai are dying by natural causes,” said archaeologist Sergio Rapu, a lifelong researcher of this isolated South Pacific island of hills and extinct volcanoes also known as Rapa Nui. “The prehistoric Rapa Nui people noted it would take 300 to 400 years for the statues to become completely eroded.” Such predictions loom bleak for the island’s nearly 1,000 signature moai statues, as the constant battering of erosion and rain is slowly eating away at the island’s porous volcanic stone. Easter Island is among the world’s most isolated inhabited islands with about 4,000 inhabitants. It lies 2,237 miles west of Chile, which annexed the island in 1888. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Rapu said erosion can be stopped by using chemical resins that seal the stone, as well as stabilizing the ahu, or altar platforms that support some of the moai, many of which are slowly falling into the ocean. But that would be costly, he said. Archaeologists had hoped this summer’s New Seven Wonders of the World contest – organized by Swiss film producer and philanthropist Bernard Weber – would spark the release of funds to restore the moai. The statues were carved between 1200 and 1550 to honor the gods.

After placing in the top 10 favorite sites during preliminary results, the island failed to make the final seven, chosen by 100 million people in a popular vote by Internet, phone and mail. When the moais finished eighth, Weber sent Chile a letter saying the statues were “morally” one of the New Seven Wonders, according to the local press. In the meantime, Jose Antonio Viera, minister of the presidency, said it is urgent for the Chilean government and the international community to come to the rescue.

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EERIE Radio Interviews Dr. Greg Little

December 3, 2007 at 8:58 pm · Filed under Ancient Mysteries, Ancient Tech, Mysterious ·Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Check out this and other interviews at the EERIE Radio Website.

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In 1968, a discovery was made on the floor of the Atlantic near the Bahamas, of a a 1900-foot long J-shaped formation of stone. Dubbed the “Bimimi Road”, it’s discovery intensified debate on whether or not the lost ruins of Atlantis has been found. However, a team of geologists downplayed the discovery, reporting that the Bimini Road was simply a series of natural underwater formations. This week’s guest, Dr. Greg Little, disagrees, having researched and studied these formations first hand. Was Bimini truly an ancient harbor of Atlantis? Listen to our interview with Dr. Little for some fascinating insight into what lies in the shallow waters in the Bahamas.

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Long-lost cave of Rome’s founders discovered

November 22, 2007 at 10:20 am · Filed under Ancient Mysteries ·Tagged , , , , , ,

 

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November 21, 2007 – 6:40AM
Italian archaeologists believe they have found the cave where, according to legend, a wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome.

An underground cavity decorated with seashells, mosaics and pumice stones was discovered near the ruins of the palace of Emperor Augustus on the Palatine hill.

Experts say they are “reasonably certain” it is the long-lost place of worship sacred to ancient Romans and known as Lupercale, from the Latin word for wolf.

“This could reasonably be the place bearing witness to the myth of Rome, one of the most well-known in the world, the legendary cave where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, saving them from death,” said Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli, presenting the discovery.

The cave was found several metres underground in a previously unexplored area during restoration work on the palace of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

Archaeologists investigating Renaissance descriptions of the sanctuary used a camera probe and the images suggest the vault, which has a white eagle at the centre, is well-preserved.

“You can imagine our amazement, we almost screamed,” said Professor Giorgio Croci, the head of the archaeological team working on the restoration of the Palatine hill overlooking the Roman forum, told a news conference.

According to the myth, Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the god Mars, were abandoned by the banks of the river Tiber where a wolf found them and fed them with her milk.

The brothers are said to have founded Rome at the site on April 21, 753 BC and ended up fighting over who should be in charge. Romulus killed Remus and became the first king of Rome.

Archaeologists said the location of the cave reinforced their belief that it was the Lupercale.

“It is clear that Augustus… wanted his residence to be built in a place which was sacred for the city of Rome,” said Croci. The emperor had restored the sanctuary and probably connected it to his own palace.

Finding out more about the cave without damaging it or the foundations of the surrounding ruins will not be easy.

More than two-thirds of the cavity, which is some 8 metres (26 feet) high, is filled with debris and earth after part of it collapsed, and it is not clear where the entrance is.

“We have to investigate with extreme caution… This is a precious thing which is certainly more than 2,000 years old,” said Croci.

Andrea Carandini, an archaeologist specialising in ancient Rome, said he was stunned by the find and called it “one of the most significant discoveries ever made”.

Long accused of neglecting its ancient treasures, the Italian government is spending 12 million euros ($A19.9 million) to restore the Palatine ruins.

After being closed for decades, due to the risk of collapse, Augustus’s palace will reopen to the public in February 2008.

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The 10 Most Intriguing Mysteries of Lost Civilizations

November 15, 2007 at 4:14 pm · Filed under Ancient Mysteries ·Tagged , , , , , ,

Of all the paranormal topics out there, ancient mysteries has to be my favorite– science can attempt to write off almost all of the other fields, be they spiritual experiences, UFO’s, or Bigfoot as hoaxes, saying that “there was a sudden plume of swamp gas in the footage” or “the witness was intoxicated”, but they cannot deny what is, sometimes literally, set in stone.

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HOW CAN WE know who we are if we don’t know where we come from? It is clear from many fragments of evidence, traditions and lore that we have an incomplete picture of the earliest days of human civilization. It’s possible that whole civilizations, some with advanced technology, have come and gone. At the very least, human culture reaches much further back in time than conventional history admits. There are many mysteries in our ancient past, but there may be clues to that past around the world in the form of sunken cities, ancient structures, cryptic hieroglyphics, artwork and more.

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Mystery of Tutankhamun’s death solved?

October 25, 2007 at 5:31 am · Filed under Ancient Mysteries, Science ·Tagged , , , ,

The mystery behind the sudden death of Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, may have been finally solved by scientists who believe that he fell from a fast-moving chariot while out hunting in the desert. Speculation surrounding Tutankhamun’s death has been rife since his tomb was broken into in 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter. X-rays of the mummy taken in 1968 indicated a swelling at the base of the skull, suggesting “King Tut” was killed by a blow to the head. More recent studies using a CT medical scanner, however, revealed he suffered a badly broken leg, just above his knee just before he died. That in turn probably led to lethalKing Tut blood poisoning. Now further evidence has come to light suggesting that he suffered the fracture while hunting game from a chariot. The new findings are still circumstantial but one of Egypt’s leading experts on Tutankhamun will say in a television documentary to be screened this week that he believes the case is now solved on how the boy king met his sudden and unexpected end. “He was not murdered as many people thought. He had an accident when he was hunting in the desert. Falling from a chariot made this fracture in his left leg and this really is in my opinion how he died,” said Zahi Hawass, general secretary of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. Until now, many historians had assumed that he was treated as a rather fragile child who was cosseted and protected from physical danger. However, Nadia Lokma of the Cairo Museum said that a recent analysis of the chariots found in the tombs of the pharaohs indicated that they were not merely ceremonial but show signs of wear and tear.

Hundreds of arrows recovered from the tomb also show evidence of having been fired and recovered. “These chariots are hunting chariots, not war chariots. You can see from the wear on them that they were actually used in life,” Dr Lokma said. A cache of clothing found in Tutankhamun’s tomb, which was stored in the vaults of the Cairo Museum, suggest that he was accustomed to riding these chariots himself.

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