Cullan Hudson's Blog, page 18
October 29, 2013
Overholser Mansion 2013
During the recent evening holiday tours of the Overholser Mansion (Oklahoma City) featuring sessions with local author and story artist, Marilyn A. Hudson, the mansion welcomed visitors in its unique way.
Numerous dead batteries, footsteps, the scent of roses, and several strange photographic anomalies were reported. One individual caught a strong bar like light in the hallway. Shown here is photo of the area where a camera could not focus and could be heard as it tried to focus ...yet images from other parts of the room had no difficulty focusing and were very clear. It was a location where a presence has been noted before.
One of the pleasant and unique aspects of this 1903 mansion is the nature of its otherworldly occupants. No horror filled mansion ala "Rose Red" here! The lingering presence of several occupants is not at all frightening...the place was too well loved and the people there just too happy to leave. No dark presences or foreboding feelings have been reported. They are however, apparently not above playing the fun prank on occasion.
Take the tour of the 1903 mansion, enjoy the slice of life as it was when OKC was young, and support the preservation of this valuable historic site. It does not take long to fall in love with this spirited house.
Numerous dead batteries, footsteps, the scent of roses, and several strange photographic anomalies were reported. One individual caught a strong bar like light in the hallway. Shown here is photo of the area where a camera could not focus and could be heard as it tried to focus ...yet images from other parts of the room had no difficulty focusing and were very clear. It was a location where a presence has been noted before.One of the pleasant and unique aspects of this 1903 mansion is the nature of its otherworldly occupants. No horror filled mansion ala "Rose Red" here! The lingering presence of several occupants is not at all frightening...the place was too well loved and the people there just too happy to leave. No dark presences or foreboding feelings have been reported. They are however, apparently not above playing the fun prank on occasion.
Take the tour of the 1903 mansion, enjoy the slice of life as it was when OKC was young, and support the preservation of this valuable historic site. It does not take long to fall in love with this spirited house.
Moore Library Hosts UFO Paranormal Team
"The truth is out there, and investigators from the OK UFO Paranormal team are seeking to find it." So proclaimed the advertising from the public library of Moore, Oklahoma as they hosted the team in a program on Oct. 29. Members of Oklahoma UFO Paranormal presenting for the evening included Roger Peacock, focusing on the investigation and evidence of UFOs; Marilyn Carlson, focusing on paranormal experience, Bigfoot and more ; Ken Storch, looking at extraterrestrials and UFO investigations. The program covered paranormal investigations in Sperry (OK), Tulsa Garden Center (OK), White House (Tulsa), and the Crescent Hotel (ARK). Then the program shifted to UFO's with many visual samples, videos and clips of known and unknown objects. Rounding out the evening was Ken Stroud discussing the Bigfoot encounter in "Incident at Narrows Creek" in DuBois, Pa in 2012. Some of their photographic evidence was intriguing - be it the ghost of the mad doctor at the Crescent or strange anomalous lights in a night sky- and indicates a solid approach that attempts to balance many things as evidence is evaluated. The public library is to be saluted in providing programs that address the interests of such a wide variety of community members. The seats were almost all taken for this event and the audience deeply interested in the array of information, visuals and anecdotes provided. On of the refreshing features of this particular group is the quality of the people involved. They include paleontologists, psychologists, sound/electronics experts, ex-law enforcement, a past state leader of MUFON and many other specialized fields. The group specialized in research and investigations into a wide range of topics from UFO's to Bigfoot and Ghosts. Each member has creditable experience and professional training to add a expertise not always seen in just groups. Contact them mail@ufoparanormalteam.com or ufoparnormalteam.com.
October 17, 2013
Slips In Time: Real, Imagined, or Otherwise.
"In 1935, while still a Wing Commander, Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard was sent to inspect a disused airfield near Edinburgh at a place called Drem. He found it in a very dilapidated state with cattle grazing on grass that had forced through cracks in the tarmac.
Later that day, he ran into trouble while flying his biplane in heavy rain and decided to fly back to Drem to get his bearings.
As he approached the airfield the torrential rain abruptly changed to bright sunlight. When he looked down he saw the airfield had been completely renovated and was now in use. There were mechanics in blue overalls walking around and four yellow planes parked on the runway. One of these was a model which, for all his aviation experience, he completely failed to recognize." [Time Travel: A New Perspective by J. H. Brennan]
What makes this strange incident even more uncanny is that four years later, the Royal Air Force began painting their planes yellow and the uniforms worn by mechanics had changed to blue.
It is difficult to say whether the pilot's encounter actually occurred as described--or, indeed, if the entire story wasn't made up. This is often the case with such outlandish accounts of the seemingly impossible. Often times, as with Machen's Bowmen, The Angels of Mons, the temporal misadventures of several British navy cadets or the famous encounter at Versailles, the truth isn't stranger than fiction--it IS fiction. Tales so compelling, so verisimilar that they creep into the public consciousness as truth. Someone reads it, forgets he has read it, and then relates it to a friend as 'something he heard' (perhaps from a buddy in the war) and relates it as having actually happened. This new listener then takes up the narrative and off it spreads like wildfire.
Another example of this is the urban legend of a young man named Rudolph Fentz who was struck and killed in Times Square in June of 1950. Just another accident in a busy intersection? Maybe not: Fentz was dressed in garments from the late 1800s; had a receipt for the care of a horse and the washing of a carriage; a letter dated 1876; and 70 dollars in anachronistic US currency. None of these show any indication of being around 75 years old. They all looked new.
As the tale resolves, we come to find out that Rudolph Fentz was a man who disappeared in 1876.
Is it to be believed? No. The story is by Jack Finney, a science fiction writer [the Body Snatchers], but it gets passed around from time to time as something that actually happened.
With this and other similar accounts in mind, what are we to make of all these tales of overlapping time? Is it all hooey or do people sometimes slip through the veil that separates us from our past or our future?
Later that day, he ran into trouble while flying his biplane in heavy rain and decided to fly back to Drem to get his bearings.
As he approached the airfield the torrential rain abruptly changed to bright sunlight. When he looked down he saw the airfield had been completely renovated and was now in use. There were mechanics in blue overalls walking around and four yellow planes parked on the runway. One of these was a model which, for all his aviation experience, he completely failed to recognize." [Time Travel: A New Perspective by J. H. Brennan]
What makes this strange incident even more uncanny is that four years later, the Royal Air Force began painting their planes yellow and the uniforms worn by mechanics had changed to blue.
It is difficult to say whether the pilot's encounter actually occurred as described--or, indeed, if the entire story wasn't made up. This is often the case with such outlandish accounts of the seemingly impossible. Often times, as with Machen's Bowmen, The Angels of Mons, the temporal misadventures of several British navy cadets or the famous encounter at Versailles, the truth isn't stranger than fiction--it IS fiction. Tales so compelling, so verisimilar that they creep into the public consciousness as truth. Someone reads it, forgets he has read it, and then relates it to a friend as 'something he heard' (perhaps from a buddy in the war) and relates it as having actually happened. This new listener then takes up the narrative and off it spreads like wildfire.
Another example of this is the urban legend of a young man named Rudolph Fentz who was struck and killed in Times Square in June of 1950. Just another accident in a busy intersection? Maybe not: Fentz was dressed in garments from the late 1800s; had a receipt for the care of a horse and the washing of a carriage; a letter dated 1876; and 70 dollars in anachronistic US currency. None of these show any indication of being around 75 years old. They all looked new.
As the tale resolves, we come to find out that Rudolph Fentz was a man who disappeared in 1876.
Is it to be believed? No. The story is by Jack Finney, a science fiction writer [the Body Snatchers], but it gets passed around from time to time as something that actually happened.
With this and other similar accounts in mind, what are we to make of all these tales of overlapping time? Is it all hooey or do people sometimes slip through the veil that separates us from our past or our future?
October 16, 2013
Halloween Project
Carved (and painted) my first-ever foam pumpkin. It was surprisingly easy to cut without all that mess that comes from a real pumpkin. While I'm a purist, I must confess the medium has its appeal.
October 10, 2013
And Justice For All (Even Little Green Men)
This month 40 years ago, the AP ran a report (following a rash of UFO sightings) that centered on some of the earliest (and possibly first) laws enacted regarding these phenomena.Palacios, TX mayor Bill Jackson announced the first ever "Fly-In" for UFOs at his city's local airport. A Fly-In is a social gathering for pilots and this invitation extended as far as outer space.
Ocean Springs, MS rejected an ordinance that would have governed the operation of UFOs within the city limits. The details of this proposed ordinance included a speed limit on UFOs (under twice the speed of sound).
The ordinance was penned by City Attorney Oscar Jordan who also proposed to make extraterrestrials subject to local law. In part this law would have stated: "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to discriminate against such alien beings as may be transported in UFOs because of their race, creed or color, or their national origin, or international origin, or universal origin, or any other origin." Seems like he could have simply said "regardless or origin."
Such 'profiling' may have taken place earlier that month in Falkville, AL when officer Jeff Greenshaw responded to a call about a spaceship with blinking lights.
Greenshaw found no craft when he arrived on scene but did encounter a metallic being of some sort in the middle of the road. What little movements it made were very robotic, Grreenshaw recalled. And no noises or sounds emanated from its featureless face. The officer also recalled that its head culminated in a point. Could the officer have been describing a helmet instead of a head?
Regardless of what he thought he was seeing, Greenshaw got out of his patrol car and said almost comically, "Howdy, stranger". However, the being made no sound and continued to stand there in the road.
Greenshaw took his camera out of the car and began to take photographs of the entity. Still, it made no sound and it didn't move; but when the officer switched on blue strobes atop his vehicle, the creature fled.
Greenshaw leaped into his car and sped after it. Even in a vehicle, the patrol man was unable to catch up to the strange sprinter.
Next door, in Gulfport, MS, a cab driver reported his encounter with an alien being that stopped his vehicle. However, the driver later recanted his tale.
October 9, 2013
Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film Survives Another "Debunking"
A logical debunking of a debunking, as Brian Brown at the Bigfoot Show points out: if this guy hoaxed the original, then why does he need 21st Century tech to pull off something that's obviously way cheaper looking than P/G? For my money, that crappy bit of film still holds up after all this time. If it is a hoax, it is a damn good one. Because every time they trot out one of these look-how-easy-it-is, they just make it glaringly obvious that it ain't.
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London Home's Long, Dramatic History of Haunting
Once a stately manor in the Greenwich borough of London, Charlton House was completed in 1612 for Adam Newton, a royal tutor. In 1680, ownership of the grand home went to Sir William Langhorne, governor of Madras. Langhorne lived at the home until 1715 when he passed away at age 85. However, according to many, his ghost still wanders the old pile, turning doorknobs of all things.
However, Langhorne isn't the only ghost in residence at Charlton House. An unnamed servant girl in Jacobean dress has been spotted on occasion carrying a dead baby in her arms.
During World War I, the home was used as a hospital. However, the staff refrained from using the most haunted room in the house until it became absolutely necessary.
During WWII, the house was damaged by bombs. During reconstruction, workers found the mummified remains of a small child walled up in one of the home's many chimneys.
These days, the manor is a municipal building for the Greenwich Borough Council and houses the local library.
Visitors and employees alike have continued to confirm the home's haunted reputation. The third floor is a particular hotspot, especially in those areas known as The Grand Salon and the Long Gallery; the latter has been the locus for sightings of phantom rabbits, as the gallery once housed a hutch of these creatures.
Added to the list of storied specters is that of an Indian man thought to have been a civil servant who has a fondness for pinching women on the rear.
The Society for Psychical Research (SPR), The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), and The Ghost Club have all witnessed strange, unexplained phenomena at Charlton House. However, the most intriguing events likely transpired during an investigation in late 1995.
BBC assistant producer Amir Jamal was taping a paranormal program with ASSAP's Les Herbert and Maurice Grosse of the SPR. The men were keeping vigil in the Long Gallery when shortly after 11 pm Grosse heard a police siren suddenly erupt from outside. Immediately following this was the sound of a loud explosion that seemed to emanate from within the gallery.
The men jumped up and turned on the lights. There, in the center of the room, was a blue and white teacup, broken into 7 pieces and laid out in a circle.
There seemed no apparent indication as to where the teacup had come from since, after being question, the staff revealed that the cups used on the premises were all plain white.
Grosse attempted to recreate the event but couldn't satisfactorily explain how a cup could have fallen from anywhere, hit the floor, and arranged its pieces in a circular fashion.
Whereas the BBC audio is reported as having picked up the sound of the explosion, it is unclear as to whether any of this was caught on video. Audio experts who analyzed the recording confirm the sound is consistent with a loud explosion and not that of a tea cup shattering.
The consensus became that, although unexplained, the event was not hoaxed.
Proponents of paranormal phenomena saw this as a clear example of an apport, or an object or being that suddenly manifests from...wherever. Apports are often associated with mediumistic talents. The antithesis of these are asports, or objects that suddenly vanish.
On July 30, 1999, the Ghost Club heard a similar explosion, which seemed to move a test object of theirs 10 feet into the air.
Famous Film Location Opens For Halloween
The historic Italianate Potter schoolhouse made famous by Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds turns 140 on Halloween. The schoolhouse, which was built in 1873, will be open to the public on October 26th from 7:30 to 11:30 for a fundraising Haunted Halloween bash.Learn More Here
H.A.L.L.O.W.E.E.N Is For....
I wanted to choose less obvious words for each of the letters. Instead of H is for Horror; W is for Witch... So much gets recycled year after year, so let's see if we can't shake things up a bit -- CH
