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Close Encounters of the Octopus Kind

At his UFO Conjecture(s) blog, Rich Reynolds has a very interesting article on UFO incidents involving octopus-like creatures .

Cthulhu lives?

Thought-Forms and a Giant Spider

"Is it possible that the human mind has the ability to create strange forms of life that can act independently of the creator? It’s an intriguing question. For those who are unaware of the concept, it goes as follows. We all possess the powers and skills to imagine something into life. Providing we learn how to do so, of course. This gets to the heart of what are known as thought-forms .

"Imagine, for example, focusing your mind on a large, marauding werewolf with glowing red eyes.
Across days, weeks, and even months, you visualize it – in your mind – getting stronger, and more and more “real” by the day. Finally, the monster becomes so powerful that it breaks free of your mind. In a strange and still-poorly-understood fashion the chains of the mind are gone and the beast suddenly materializes in the real world. Your werewolf – admittedly, in an odd state of what passes for reality – is now on the loose, and possibly even out of your control. There are numerous such reports of people creating thought-forms and later wishing they had left matters well alone .

Here's the full article...

Time-Travel Controversies

I tackle the controversial issue of time-travel at Mysterious Universe :

"A few days ago I was interviewed on a Canadian morning radio show about my research into so-called 'cryptids.' We’re talking about the Chupacabra, lake-monsters, Mothman, and so on. During the course of the interview the host – in a very lighthearted fashion – asked me if I thought it was possible that what people are seeing might be animals extinct in our world today, but which are time-traveling back and forth from the periods when they were alive. Because that’s the kind of question daytime radio asks, right?

"I told the host I’m actually quite open to the idea that at least some of our cryptids may originate in other realms, or dimensions, of existence. Which had him momentarily stuck for words, I’m pleased to say. But, I added, that’s very different to imagining Bigfoot has a Delorean-style time-machine to traverse countless millennia. Even I have limits on what’s feasible and what isn’t. Well, most of the time I do. Okay, some of the time. So, I said it was pretty unlikely. Even though, admittedly, I have to say I have heard a few stories broadly along those lines."

Here's the link.

Men in Black: Coming In September...

Profiling the Russian Chupacabra

My new book, Chupacabra Road Trip , focuses primarily on my expeditions to seek out the legendary chupacabra across Puerto Rico, the United States, and Mexico, and from 2004 to the present day.

As I also note in the book, however, there is no shortage of reports of the Goat-Sucker from Russia – an issue that often gets eclipsed by the exploits of the far more famous Puerto Rican original.

Check it out.

The Mystery Of A Man Who Shot Himself

There's a new Mysterious Universe article from me on a certain, strange death back in the early 1970s. Here's how it starts:

"Back in June of this year I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled ' The Mystery of the Marconi Deaths .' It began as follows (QUOTE): “To many, it might sound like the ultimate plot-line of the equally ultimate conspiracy-thriller: dozens of scientists and technicians – all working on highly-classified programs, and all linked to one, particular company – dead under highly controversial and unusual circumstances.

“It’s a controversy that ran from the early 1980s to 1991 and remains unresolved to this very day. And it all revolves around the top secret work of a company called Marconi Electronic Systems, but which, today, exists as a part of BAE Systems Electronics Limited. Its work includes the development of futuristic weaponry and spy-satellite technology.” (END OF QUOTE.)

Chupacabra Road Trip

Although the official publication date of my new book, Chupacabra Road Trip , is still a couple of weeks away, copies are now surfacing...

The Liquidation of UFO Researchers

"Otto Binder – who died on October 13, 1974, at the age of sixty-three – is most remembered for his work in the field of superhero comic-books. He wrote for DC Comics’ “World’s Finest Comics” and “Mystery in Space,” Marvel Comics’ “Young Allies,” and Fawcett Comics’ “Bulletman,” amongst many others. As someone who finds superhero stuff to be utterly ridiculous, I’m pleased that Binder did more than just focus his time on spandex, cloaks, masks, and stupid “super-powers.” He was also the editor of Space World and had a deep interest in UFOs. In 1967, Binder’s book What We Really Know About Flying Saucers was published.

"All of which brings me to the crux of this article. In May 1971, Binder penned a feature for Saga magazine. Its title was “ Liquidation of the UFO Researchers .” As you might guess – and guess correctly – the article was focused upon alleged mysterious deaths within the field of Ufology. It began in eye-catching fashion..."

Here's the complete article from me, at Mysterious Universe.

Putting a Stupid Story to Rest

Anyone who says the late alien abduction researcher, John E. Mack, was murdered is an idiot. He was not. I still get messages and emails from people telling me his death was suspicious. It wasn't. It was a tragic accident. There's a new article from me on all this at Mysterious Universe . I don't expect it to sway the paranoid crowd though...

MInd-Games and UFOs

Another new one from me. This one on the manipulation of UFO researchers, and of witnesses too. It begins like this...

"February 1958 was an interesting time in Ufology. It was when a Brazilian UFO researcher, Dr. Olavo Fontes, received a very strange and ominous visit. The details were spelled out in a letter that Fontes wrote to US UFO researcher, Coral Lorenzen, on February 27. According to the man himself, he had received a visit at his place of work from two men who flashed credentials that identified them as working in an intelligence arm of the Brazilian Navy. One of the men reportedly said to Fontes: 'You know too much about things you weren’t entitled to know.' And, just for good measure, the man added: 'We don’t like that.'

"The two men then proceeded to completely contradict themselves by reeling off a bunch of presumably highly classified data on UFOs! Clearly, someone was playing mind-games with Fontes. Despite having warned Fontes about the perils of possessing secret UFO material, they then went on to tell him that at the time of the meeting, February 1958, no less than six alien spacecraft had crashed to earth. Three of them had come down in the United States, an extensively damaged one had crashed somewhere in the Sahara Desert, another one was recovered at an undisclosed location in Scandinavia, and an almost pristine flying saucer was retrieved by military personnel in the UK."