Cullan Hudson's Blog, page 33
June 13, 2012
Connecting Bigfoot and UFOs
These things crop up from time to time: sightings of UFOs in association with the presence of sasquatch-like creatures. Are these little more than expressions of the desire in some to connect to disparate passions? Could there be a reason a percentage of UFO sightings involve hairy hominids? A recent submission to the MUFON sightings database is yet another puzzling example of what might seem, at first glance, as silliness--but what if those little green men are Bigfoot fans too?
"I was standing next to my friend who was standing in a 10 ft clearing in woods when she was personally buzzed by this unseen object.
Then the Sat night before Easter, we decided to sit in my truck and watch at night. We 1st saw orbs in the woods and then a white light flew in and stopped at the front corner of the woods no higher than the trees and hovered there silently for over 45 mins.
The object was across the cornfield from us which is no more than a short block. The object would get brighter sometimes, it would change from a PacMan shape (or bell shape) to round, sometimes fade out to a cigarette shape and disappear and then come back on bright as ever. We forgot our binoculars but we could see that sometimes there was a red light at the bottom and sometimes the object was a white circle with a red ring around it. It made no noise whatsoever and hovered there until it traveled back over a duck pond area and then over a marsh area when we lost sight of it. Altogether we saw it that Sat for an hour probably.
The weirder thing though, is that we go back every Sat nite and between 8 & 10pm, the object shows up but it has been farther away over the duck pond and marsh areas. On these other occasions, we have seen in our binoculars that the object has red lights sometimes, sometimes it is circled in red, sometimes we see green lights, or blue lights, sometimes a 2 part object connected, one time hazy search lights or something that shines to the area below it and then in front of it and then above it. But it always hovers in an area and then moves and hovers over another area for a long time. Last night it seemed farther away and we got bored watching it for over a half hour so we thought maybe we could find it and get closer. Everytime we do that though, we either cant find it at all or like last night we lost sight of it on the winding country roads or it moved off. We watched that object last night for over 2 hours.
The reason we are contacting you is we would like someone else to take a look at this object who has knowledge of UFOs and tell us what you think and also because maybe you can give us some clues on how to track it better to get a closer look. The first time we saw it, we were too scared to even move! Now, we want to get a better look."
"I was standing next to my friend who was standing in a 10 ft clearing in woods when she was personally buzzed by this unseen object.
Then the Sat night before Easter, we decided to sit in my truck and watch at night. We 1st saw orbs in the woods and then a white light flew in and stopped at the front corner of the woods no higher than the trees and hovered there silently for over 45 mins.
The object was across the cornfield from us which is no more than a short block. The object would get brighter sometimes, it would change from a PacMan shape (or bell shape) to round, sometimes fade out to a cigarette shape and disappear and then come back on bright as ever. We forgot our binoculars but we could see that sometimes there was a red light at the bottom and sometimes the object was a white circle with a red ring around it. It made no noise whatsoever and hovered there until it traveled back over a duck pond area and then over a marsh area when we lost sight of it. Altogether we saw it that Sat for an hour probably.
The weirder thing though, is that we go back every Sat nite and between 8 & 10pm, the object shows up but it has been farther away over the duck pond and marsh areas. On these other occasions, we have seen in our binoculars that the object has red lights sometimes, sometimes it is circled in red, sometimes we see green lights, or blue lights, sometimes a 2 part object connected, one time hazy search lights or something that shines to the area below it and then in front of it and then above it. But it always hovers in an area and then moves and hovers over another area for a long time. Last night it seemed farther away and we got bored watching it for over a half hour so we thought maybe we could find it and get closer. Everytime we do that though, we either cant find it at all or like last night we lost sight of it on the winding country roads or it moved off. We watched that object last night for over 2 hours.
The reason we are contacting you is we would like someone else to take a look at this object who has knowledge of UFOs and tell us what you think and also because maybe you can give us some clues on how to track it better to get a closer look. The first time we saw it, we were too scared to even move! Now, we want to get a better look."
May 26, 2012
Summer Readin'
Checkout my Facebook page http://strangestate.blogspot.com/2010/06/lumbees-melungeons-and-mystery-of-white.html to see an update on the Mysterious Melungeons.
The heat at the heart of this socio-scientific conflict isn't nearly as oppressive as the summer temps that have already invaded much of the country. And the humidity! It's as sticky a massage session with John Travolta.
To that end, it is high time to think about those vernal literary gems with which we while away many a scorcher.
To be honest, there has been precious few items on my horizon as of late, so I have gone back through my little black book to seek out some past summer flings. Among these would be anything by the combinative genius of Preston and Child who take intelligent thrillers to new heights with the Holmesian protagonist, FBI agent A. X. L. Pendergast and his strange, Addams-esque world. My favorite on a hot, dry day when boredom settles like dust across a parched landscape would be Still Life With Crows. In this adventure, Pendergast finds himself stalking a serial killer through the parched landscape of western Kansas, against a backdrop of Indian legends and small town secrets.
I would also recommend the pair's Thunderhead, which follows Nora Kelly's journey to discover a lost Anasazi city and the fate of her father through the mysterious and vast Canyonlands of Utah. Native American witches, fascinating archaeology, and cinematic writing make this taut, intelligent thriller something of a movie for the mind. Summer reading at its best.
Caleb Carr's The Alienist is a smart thrill ride through 19th Century New York city as a unique team of detectives attempts to unravel the mind of a killer.
The heat at the heart of this socio-scientific conflict isn't nearly as oppressive as the summer temps that have already invaded much of the country. And the humidity! It's as sticky a massage session with John Travolta.
To that end, it is high time to think about those vernal literary gems with which we while away many a scorcher.
To be honest, there has been precious few items on my horizon as of late, so I have gone back through my little black book to seek out some past summer flings. Among these would be anything by the combinative genius of Preston and Child who take intelligent thrillers to new heights with the Holmesian protagonist, FBI agent A. X. L. Pendergast and his strange, Addams-esque world. My favorite on a hot, dry day when boredom settles like dust across a parched landscape would be Still Life With Crows. In this adventure, Pendergast finds himself stalking a serial killer through the parched landscape of western Kansas, against a backdrop of Indian legends and small town secrets.
I would also recommend the pair's Thunderhead, which follows Nora Kelly's journey to discover a lost Anasazi city and the fate of her father through the mysterious and vast Canyonlands of Utah. Native American witches, fascinating archaeology, and cinematic writing make this taut, intelligent thriller something of a movie for the mind. Summer reading at its best.
Caleb Carr's The Alienist is a smart thrill ride through 19th Century New York city as a unique team of detectives attempts to unravel the mind of a killer.
May 21, 2012
Visitors Still Encountering Mystery at Marland Home
The Marland Grand Home was the residence of early Oklahoman and one time Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland, tenth Governor of Oklahoma. The man had come to Ponca City to visit the nearby 101 Ranch. He remained to build a vast oil empire. He was the founder and president of Marland Oil Company, now Conoco/Phillips Inc. (Ponca City http://www.poncacity.com/marland_grand_home.htm)The 22-room mansion was built in 1916 and included architectural features of a hanging staircase, an indoor pool, and many innovations. The style of the house is part Italian, part Prairie, and part Edwardian and all impressive. At its peak as a stylish private residence it covered eight acres which included designer gardens and an 8 hole golf course.
Today, it houses a museum and space rented for special events. Recently, at one of those special events, there were clues that perhaps past residents or visitors returned to attend another day of entertainment in the old house. While attending the Northern Oklahoma Literary Arts Book Festival, two authors reported they shared similar, and unexpected, experiences. Taking photos to promote their books and the event, they discovered their digital cameras draining of power, taking extra long time to function and being non-responsive. Having fresh batteries in the equipment one author offered his camera for use and the very same thing happened: camera drained of power and became strangely unresponsive. Soon, another person, a visitor, offered to take photos and email them to the others. Smiling the authors agreed. In minutes, however, the smiles were perplexed looks as they all looked at their new cameras and phones wondering why they had all ceased to function correctly. Others attending the event also noted patches of hazy fog in the pictures and similar anomalies from previous occasion
May 11, 2012
Borley vs. Ballentin--Did These Haunted Homes Share Similar History or Did Ballechin Serve As Archetype For One Of England's Most Haunted Homes?
Ballechin HouseIn the sometimes controversial, yet unceasingly popular, case of the Borley Rectory haunting (one investigated famously by Harry Price), we can see striking parallels to an earlier haunting in Perthshire at Ballechin House in 1892.Price was certainly aware of these uncanny comparisons, but did he draw the right conclusions? Price seemed to have remarked upon them only as if they were another layer in the mystery of Borley. Did he, I wonder, consider that Ballechin was a template for reports given by witnesses such as Rectory owners, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. E. Bull and Mrs. E. Byford?
Some of the remarkable similarities are laid out as follows:
Both are large, rambling homes in remote locations built upon the remains of earlier homes, dating back hundreds of years.
Legends of suicide, murder, death, and scandal abound at each.
Both contain a "Blue Room," the focus of many reported phenomena.
Both houses were reported as inexplicably cold by visitors.
Each possessed a patina of Roman Catholicism about them, which factored greatly into reported events. For example, phantom nuns appeared at both locations.
Both houses endured poltergeist activity, nocturnal manifestations that plagued sleepers, and apparitions (a headless man named 'Old Amos' at Borley; a unnamed legless man at Ballechin).
Exorcisms performed at both.
Dogs hated these places.
Maids did, too.
Renters and tenants were known to leave quite suddenly, and in the case of a Spanish family at Ballechin, forfeit 9 months rent just to leave.
May 8, 2012
The Bridgend Suicides: Psychological Contagion or Indication of Something Sinister Afoot ?
In something as inexplicable as the Bridgend Suicides of South Wales, a rash of hangings in a small British community over the past few years, it's not hard to start looking at the supernatural for explations.
How is it that, even given the phenomenon known as 'Copycat Suicide' or the 'Werther Effect', that nearly 80 people in such a small population could kill themselves in a decidedly similar fashon--all within the last five years. At its height, the Suicides were clustered closely together and seemed to radiate outward from a single "patient zero," a high school student. When his friends and classmates began to follow suit, it was a disturbing if not wholly unexplained series of deaths. However, when Bridgenders unconnected to such teen despair--nay, any despair--began to unaccountably take their own lives in the same exact manner, locals became alarmed. Accounts attest to perfectly contented individuals, many of whom were looking forward to future plans, simply hanging themselves from trees, rafters, etc...
With explanations as occluded and insubstantial as the mists that frequently shroud this community, one can't be blamed for wondering if the Devil has come to Bridgend. Can evil manifest without cloven hooves and spread like a virus through a community like this? Is it something as simple as Copycat Suicide when individuals untroubled by emotional turmoil or psychological dysfuntion take the same route to a sudden end?
Bridgend can, according to many, be a dismal place to live. It doesn't often inspire hope in its denizens. And indications are that in the early cases (those involving high school kids) that something of a sucicide pact may have been at work. But can such a thing run amok to such disasterous proportions in a relatively small community?
How is it that, even given the phenomenon known as 'Copycat Suicide' or the 'Werther Effect', that nearly 80 people in such a small population could kill themselves in a decidedly similar fashon--all within the last five years. At its height, the Suicides were clustered closely together and seemed to radiate outward from a single "patient zero," a high school student. When his friends and classmates began to follow suit, it was a disturbing if not wholly unexplained series of deaths. However, when Bridgenders unconnected to such teen despair--nay, any despair--began to unaccountably take their own lives in the same exact manner, locals became alarmed. Accounts attest to perfectly contented individuals, many of whom were looking forward to future plans, simply hanging themselves from trees, rafters, etc...
With explanations as occluded and insubstantial as the mists that frequently shroud this community, one can't be blamed for wondering if the Devil has come to Bridgend. Can evil manifest without cloven hooves and spread like a virus through a community like this? Is it something as simple as Copycat Suicide when individuals untroubled by emotional turmoil or psychological dysfuntion take the same route to a sudden end?
Bridgend can, according to many, be a dismal place to live. It doesn't often inspire hope in its denizens. And indications are that in the early cases (those involving high school kids) that something of a sucicide pact may have been at work. But can such a thing run amok to such disasterous proportions in a relatively small community?
April 29, 2012
I recently received this from a doctor Yukon, OK:"We...
I recently received this from a doctor Yukon, OK:
"We have had reports of activity .... We had several housekeepers quit or express concern when sent over from the hospital to help clean. Our clinic is set up in pods and the ones on the opposite side of mine are the suspected ones. Our clinical supervisor even joked about the haunted side this evening. Amy one of our receptionists saw something last fall - a female figure standing near her while she was in the break room. I had a young housekeeper ask me about the clinic and haunting or ghost activity."
"We have had reports of activity .... We had several housekeepers quit or express concern when sent over from the hospital to help clean. Our clinic is set up in pods and the ones on the opposite side of mine are the suspected ones. Our clinical supervisor even joked about the haunted side this evening. Amy one of our receptionists saw something last fall - a female figure standing near her while she was in the break room. I had a young housekeeper ask me about the clinic and haunting or ghost activity."
April 10, 2012
Korean UFO Makes Global News
UFO purportedly caught by a airline passenger over a South Korean city. Is it to be believed? It looks rather computer-generated, however with all the strides nearby North Korea has made toward building ICBMs, perhaps otherworldy visitors are taking a closer look at the situation, in much the same way as many believed during the Cold War-era UFO heyday.
March 30, 2012
Haunted Fort Gaines.
A few days ago, I explored Fort Gaines, a military fortification that dates (in various iterations) to early French settlers to Mobile Bay. The current Structure was principally built in the 1850's and was invaluable during the Civil War and served the military on through the first World War. Fort Gaines is where during the Battle of Mobile Bay Admiral Farragut issued those famously paraphrased orders, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
It's also supposed to be a very haunted locations, filled with spirits from French colonial occupation, the Civil War, and thereafter. Phantoms voices, apparitions, and uneplained occurrences have all been reported by visitors.
Even though I was blessed with a quite morning with scarcely any visitors, I nonetheless came back with nothing but pictures of this interesting historic monument. I attempted to record some EVP, but without any success--mostly. I did have one recording reveal what sounds like someone with a heavy foot shuffling or stumbling nearby. The "footsteps" start out softly before growing louder and then they begin to fade again, as if the sound were coming from afar and passing near the recorder; in this case, my cell phone. But those sounds could have been an echo across the stone and brick walls. I can't be sure. I won't make much of it. There was also ferries running every few minutes and they would make a chug-chug-chug sound as they approached the docks across from the fort. It may have been this sound distorted by the recorder. I didn't hear it at the time, but then I wasn't really paying attention. I mostly followed a protocol of placing the recorder down, taking my pictures, and just talking aloud to myself about what I was seeing and asking questions of no one in particular.
March 25, 2012
The Paranormal In TV
Last week, the thrilling search for Dr. Emmet Cole came to its possession-filled conclusion on ABC's The River. I am personally looking forward to a second season soon. The show's producers were smart to utilize and HBO-style episode schedule by shooting only 10 episodes. It kept the pace taut, allowing mysteries to build and conclude without becoming unduly burdensome (do you hear me, LOST? Heroes?).
Tonight begins Long Island Medium on TLC. I don't know much about this show but I suspect it's another tired "reality" program centering around a psychic medium, her obnoxious family and friends, and their LawnG Island accents, which caters to several reality TV memes all in one show.
You won't find anything much on Syfy or the History Channel. The latter now only airs three shows: two about pawn shops and one about loggers.
It would seem that the tide is beginning to turn on paranormal reality shows. There aren't nearly as many as there were even a year ago. But we can look forward to the return of Fact or Faked on April 17th, doubtlessly retooled again. Let's hope that last season's lackluster performance will be addressed.
Tonight begins Long Island Medium on TLC. I don't know much about this show but I suspect it's another tired "reality" program centering around a psychic medium, her obnoxious family and friends, and their LawnG Island accents, which caters to several reality TV memes all in one show.
You won't find anything much on Syfy or the History Channel. The latter now only airs three shows: two about pawn shops and one about loggers.
It would seem that the tide is beginning to turn on paranormal reality shows. There aren't nearly as many as there were even a year ago. But we can look forward to the return of Fact or Faked on April 17th, doubtlessly retooled again. Let's hope that last season's lackluster performance will be addressed.
March 19, 2012
Finding Bigfoot Visits Oklahoma
Those daring hirsute hunters (or should that be hunters of the hirsute) of the Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" recently landed in Oklahoma to seek out the legendary creature. Many in the local paranormal and cryptozoological communities have questioned why the show chose the city of Yukon, only a few minutes drive from the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, rather than the southeast corner--an inarguable hot bed of sightings.
From a Channel 9 report:
YUKON, Oklahoma -
The Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot" made the trip to Yukon, Oklahoma Saturday in search of the mythological creature.Hundreds of people showed up at Saturday night's town hall style meeting to talk about their own Bigfoot experiences.Crews for the show arrived in Yukon on Friday. They will be around the area for a week. The episode featuring Oklahoma will air sometime this summer."Finding Bigfoot" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Animal Planet
From a Channel 9 report:
YUKON, Oklahoma -
The Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot" made the trip to Yukon, Oklahoma Saturday in search of the mythological creature.Hundreds of people showed up at Saturday night's town hall style meeting to talk about their own Bigfoot experiences.Crews for the show arrived in Yukon on Friday. They will be around the area for a week. The episode featuring Oklahoma will air sometime this summer."Finding Bigfoot" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Animal Planet
