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THE CREEPY TRUE STORY OF ELISA LAM: ALIENS? GHOSTS? OR MURDERED?

In February of 2013 Elisa Lam had been missing for two weeks. She had been staying in the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Hotel guests started complaining about a foul taste in the water and low pressure. On February 19th Elisa Lam's body was found inside a covered rooftop water tank. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning. Pretty gross that the guests were drinking a decomposing body.

A couple of aspects of this story are very mysterious. Elisa was seen on security video entering an elevator. Elisa presses all of the buttons in the elevator and appears to be waiting for someone. The elevator door won't close, which usually means that something is blocking the track. Elisa steps out of the elevator and you can see her talking to someone and waving her hands strangely. At one point she seems to hide on the side of the elevator. Then she walks in and out of the elevator a couple different times before disappearing from the camera's view. The elevator door then shuts.

After watching this video from the security camera I assumed that Elisa was on drugs.
Autopsy reports however showed that no drugs were in her system.

The more you look at the Cecil Hotel the more that you see that this place could have a significant paranormal "shadow." The hotel is known to be the location of countless suicides and noted serial killers have stayed there.  Here is what Wikipedia has on that:

"The Hotel is known for several suicides and its criminal activity which includes three murders.[2] Most notably, the hotel was the reported residence for serial killers Richard Ramirez in 1985 and Jack Unterweger in 1991.[2] It is rumored to be one of the last places Elizabeth Short was seen before her murder in 1947."

So the question is if Elisa could have been tormented by spirits and driven to somehow climb into the water tank. Possibly she could even have been possessed by one of these phantoms. I have also heard the theory about alien abduction. Could Elisa have been using the elevator as some kind of portal? Perhaps she was communicating with something through the elevator buttons. Was it possible that the aliens beamed her back to the wrong spot and she ended up in the water tank?

Still another theory could be the possibility of a human tormentor. Was she speaking with someone just out of the camera's view? Could she have been fleeing a murderer and tried to hide in the water tank? Was she forced to enter the water tank? 

The most logical explanation would be a mental breakdown or some kind of psychotic episode, but that doesn't explain quite a few circumstances. To access the roof Elisa would have had to pass through a locked roof door that was secured with an alarm. The water tank that Elisa was found in wasn't easily accessible either I'd imagine that these water tanks have heavy covers that would need to be moved off. In fact after her death workers had to cut the tank open to get the body out. This was a small twenty three year old woman, was she strong enough to open the tank? What about the elevator, why did the door only close after she was gone?

So what do you thin is going on here? What do you think are the circumstances behind Elisa's death? Could it be Alien, Ghost, Crazy Killer or was she simply unstable mentally?


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WORMWOOD IS FINALLY HERE

I know it's early, but do to some confusion between me and Amazon my novel "Wormwood" has been released in both ebook and print a week early.  HERE IT IS  The story is about a small town phlebotomist named Nathan Wilder. Nate lives in a Connecticut town and suffers from panic attacks especially when he hears about some catastrophe on the news.  Well to soothe his panic he starts to build a shelter. Of course when World War III begins he has some transformations and goes into survival mode. He is infatuated with his co-worker Jeannette and he convinces her to come to the shelter with him.


The nukes hit and a month later they leave their shelter to find a devastated world. From there everything basically goes nuts, but I don't want to spoil it for you.


I wrote the novel because I wanted to read a story that goes into the start, the during and the after of the apocalypse. I also wanted to read a story that didn't have zombies, vampires or viruses.



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TRUE STORY OF THE NEW ENGLAND VAMPIRE PANIC AND MERCY BROWN

Most people know about the Salem Witch Trials which occurred in the 1690's, but did you know that nearly 150 years later in Connecticut and Rhode Island there was a rumored Vampire epidemic? In 1990 a grave was exhumed in Griswold, Connecticut the grave was protected by a heavy stone crypt in an abandoned family cemetery. Inside the crypt was a corpse except the corpse had been rearranged into a crude "Jolly Roger" formation. This is from the Smithsonian magazine: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/?c=y%3Fno-ist

"Scraping away soil with flat-edged shovels, and then brushes and bamboo picks, the archaeologist and his team worked through several feet of earth before reaching the top of the crypt. When Bellantoni lifted the first of the large, flat rocks that formed the roof, he uncovered the remains of a red-painted coffin and a pair of skeletal feet. They lay, he remembers, “in perfect anatomical position.” But when he raised the next stone, Bellantoni saw that the rest of the individual “had been com­pletely...rearranged.” The skeleton had been beheaded; skull and thighbones rested atop the ribs and vertebrae. “It looked like a skull-and-crossbones motif, a Jolly Roger. I’d never seen anything like it,” Bellantoni recalls.

Subsequent analysis showed that the beheading, along with other injuries, including rib fractures, occurred roughly five years after death. Somebody had also smashed the coffin."

After researching local folklore experts compared this incident to the story of the "Jewett City Vampires" in next door Jewitt City. The story goes that a rash of Tuberculosis spread throughout the area. Back then locals thought that Tuberculosis or Consumption was caused by a recently deceased family member coming back from the dead and sucking the life out of the living. The most famous case was of Mercy Brown in Exeter, Rhode Island. Mercy died of Tuberculosis and years after her death her body was dug up when her family started to get sick. Supposedly the corpse hadn't decayed at all and the body had "turned" in the grave.

Mercy's heart was quickly removed from her corpse and burned. The ashes from the burned heart were mixed with water and given to her sick brother to drink. This cure shockingly did not work and Mercy's brother soon succumbed to his illness. here is some information on the case from Wikipedia:


"In Exeter, Rhode Island, the family of George and Mary Brown suffered a sequence of tuberculosis infections in the final two decades of the 19th century. Tuberculosis was called "consumption" at the time and was a devastating and much-feared disease.

The mother, Mary, was the first to die of the disease, followed in 1888 by their eldest daughter, Mary Olive. Two years later, in 1890, their son Edwin also became sick.[1]

In 1891, another daughter, Mercy, contracted the disease and died in January 1892. What remained of her body was buried in the cemetery of the Baptist Church in Exeter after being desecrated.

Friends and neighbors of the family believed that one of the dead family members was a vampire (although they did not use that name) and had caused Edwin's illness. This was in accordance with threads of contemporary folklore linking multiple deaths in one family to undead activity. Consumption was a poorly understood condition at the time and the subject of much superstition.

George Brown was persuaded to give permission to exhume several bodies of his family members. Villagers, the local doctor and a newspaper reporter exhumed the bodies on March 17, 1892.[1] While the bodies of both Mary and Mary Olive had undergone significant decomposition over the years, the more recently deceased Mercy was still relatively unchanged and had blood in the heart and liver. This was taken as a sign that the young woman was undead and the agent of young Edwin's condition. Her lack of decomposition was more likely due to her body being stored in freezer-like conditions in an above-ground crypt, during the 2 months following her death.

It was thought that giving the victim of consumption ashes of the "vampire's" heart would cure them, but he died two months later.[1] As superstition dictated, Mercy's heart was removed from her body, burned, and the remnants mixed with water and given to the sick Edwin to drink."


Many bodies in the region were found to have been exhumed and either decapitated or their rib cages were broken indicating their hearts had been removed. As the local archaeologists continued to look into the exhumations locals frowned on having their cemetery's dug up in the name of science.


I thought this story would make a great horror novel and many aspects of the history remind me of Stephen King's "Jerusalem's Lot." I found however that a great deal of literature has already been based off of these stories. Here is the literature from Wikipedia: 


"The Mercy Brown incident was the inspiration for Caitlín R. Kiernan's short story, "So Runs the World Away," which makes explicit reference to the affair. It has also been suggested by scholars that Bram Stoker, the author of the novel Dracula, knew about the Mercy Brown case through newspaper articles and based the novel's character Lucy upon her.[2] It is also referred to in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House".[3] Mercy Brown's story was the inspiration for a young adult novel, "Mercy: The Last New England Vampire" by Sarah L. Thomson. Rapper B. Dolan also wrote a song from the perspective of a fictitious party involved in the case in his song "The Hunter" from his 2010 LP "Fallen House, Sunken City."


This is all pretty crazy and the fact that this all happened in relatively modern times (the late 1880's) is pretty crazy. So what do you think; were the New England Vampires real? Or were they simply based on old time superstition?


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THE TRUE STORY OF THE CONNECTICUT LEATHERMAN

My grandfather who owned a General Store used to tell a story about the Connecticut Leatherman, the story had been passed to him from his father. From what I can piece together through the stories and through online research:

 From 1856 to 1889 the Leatherman was a wandering vagabond that used to walk a loop from the Connecticut River to the Hudson River (New York) and back. This was a 365 mile journey and the Leatherman would make the trek year round. If you aren't from around the Northeast you really can't understand how amazing that is. The Winters are extremely harsh with ice, snow and sleet and the terrain is nothing to sneeze at either.

The Leatherman would take this journey sleeping in rock caves arriving in the same locations at the same time of day, at the same time of year. My grandfather would explain how people would leave food out on their back porches in anticipation of the Leatherman's arrival.  He would only speak in grunts and gestures, mixing in a few words of broken English.  Local farmer's would plant or harvest crops based on the Leatherman's presence because it was more accurate than any other indicator of timing.

The Leatherman could be identified by the stitched leather clothing that he wore. This outfit was estimated to weigh more than 60 pounds.  Rumor is that he also had a strangely disfigured face caused by jaw cancer.  Folklore differs on the exact identity of the Leatherman and his reason for the constant travel. Some people believe the Leatherman to be Jules Bourglay from Lyons, France, but many experts believe that he is someone completely different.  


The Leatherman would abruptly leave if anyone ever asked him about his origin or why he would walk the continuous loop. If you took his picture he'd never return to your stoop. This gave rise to rumors that the he may have killed his wife and her lover and needed to constantly be on the move. Others believed that he had committed a series of crimes in Europe and it was his penance to walk the loop. A French prayer book was found on his body after his death.  He also was picked up by the Connecticut Humane Society and hospitalized at a mental institution, He promptly escaped.

The creepy aspect of this story is what happened after the Leatherman's reported death. The Leatherman was buried in Sparta Cemetery in Scarborough New York. The grave needed to be moved due to its close proximity to Rte 9. When they exhumed the Leatherman's body nothing was found in the grave besides a bunch of  coffin nails.

It is said that if you go to one of the Leatherman's Caves on a winter day you can still smell the smoke from his fires and the tobacco of his pipe.  Another urban legend states that the Leatherman still walks his old route and if you leave out food for him at the right time of year it will be gone the next day.


So what do you guys think, why did the Leatherman walk this same road and sleep in caves? Why did he wear a sixty pound suit stitched from raw leather?


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COVER REVEAL AND LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT

The countdown has begun, my post-apocalyptic novel "Wormwood" will be released in print and ebook on June 5th. Contact me if you'd like a signed copy. Today I am revealing the cover. Here is the back-cover description:


"Nate has always feared the worst, but now the worst has become the reality. The Emergency Broadcast System blares its tone, he flees to his hastily prepped shelter with his infatuation Jeannette Leach. Together they grieve and find love.

They emerge a month later to a devastated world where countless lives have already been lost. The few desperate survivors huddled in Middlebrook, Connecticut, finally receive a hopeful radio transmission from the National Guard.

Heartened by the news that Maine has supplies to spare, Middlebrook selects a few of its residents to retrieve the necessary items. But the road is long and treacherous, and bicycles are their only mode of transport.

While Nate Wilder and the other cyclists attempt to make it to Maine and back before winter strikes, the Middlebrook residents are left under the tenuous leadership of ultra-religious Simon Huff.

The dangers of the road are to be expected, but when even the fragile safety of home begins to look suspect, concerned citizen Jeannette Leach strives to uncover what is driving Simon’s strange behavior. Will Nate and the others return in time to save their hometown from more insidious catastrophe?

Touching on the effects of mental illness as well as the power of friendship, Wormwood takes a real-life approach to the post-apocalyptic thriller."


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PROJECT MKULTRA: MIND CONTROL, DRUGS AND TORTURE

As you guys who have been following this blog know I like to talk about the strange, unexplained, ufo's, paranormal and subjects that may be conspiracies. Often the conspiracy is ambiguous and we are unsure whether or not there is a real cover-up or whether the whole thing is a hoax. Today I want to talk about something that our government definitely did. I first started looking into Project MKUltra after re-watching the Horror movie "Jacob's Ladder" a couple of weeks ago. 

MKUltra is the code-name for the military's experiments into mind control and the destabilization of enemy populations. They used many heinous methods and experimented on human guinea pigs. Here is what Wikipedia says about it:

"Project MKUltra — sometimes referred to as the CIA's mind control program — is the code name of a U.S. government human research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans. Organized through the Scientific Intelligence Division of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the project coordinated with the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Army's Chemical Corps.[1] The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967 and officially halted in 1973.[2] The program engaged in many illegal activities;[3][4][5] in particular it used unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects, which led to controversy regarding its legitimacy.[3](p74)[6][7][8] MKUltra used numerous methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture.[9][better source needed]

The scope of Project MKUltra was broad, with research undertaken at 80 institutions, including 44 colleges and universities, as well as hospitals, prisons and pharmaceutical companies.[10] The CIA operated through these institutions using front organizations, although sometimes top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement.[11] As the Supreme Court later noted, MKULTRA was:  concerned with "the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior." The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency."


Everything came to light in the 1970's when documents were released through the freedom of information act. The CIA admitted that they used students of American and Canadian decent. They had based the study on information gleaned from Nazi scientists after World War II. Here are some of the goals of these studies (again from wiki): 
One 1955 MKUltra document gives an indication of the size and range of the effort; this document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows:[27]

Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public. Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception. Materials which will cause the victim to age faster/slower in maturity. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc. Materials which will cause temporary/permanent brain damage and loss of memory. Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion during interrogation and so-called "brain-washing". Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use. Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of surreptitious use. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc. Substances which will produce a chemical that can cause blisters. Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under questioning. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts. Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects. A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol, etc., which will be safe to use, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc basis. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a person to perform physical activity.


Reports state that "an estimated $10 million USD (roughly $87.5 million adjusted for inflation) or more was spent" Due to public scrutiny because of the Watergate scandal most documents relating to MKUltra were destroyed.


The worst thing to me is that many of the participants were used unwittingly or against there will. There have been reports of deaths, but because most of the records were destroyed we will never know the exact number of casualties. A Bio-Chemist named Frank Olsen was given large quantities of LSD unwittingly and a week later "fell" from a thirteen story window while his CIA monitor was sleeping.


Many pharmeceutical companies were part of all of this, probably funding the drug testing including the company now known as Novartis. Theodore Kaczynski otherwise known as the Unabomber was one of the participants. Many other conspiracy theories are involved from the RFK assassination to the Jones Town camp which was rumored to be a government testing ground.


So what do you guys think about this? What more do you think happened that we never learned about?


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ALIEN ABDUCTION: THE FIRE IN THE SKY STORY

On November 5, 1975 one of the most well known and deeply investigated alleged alien abductions occurred. Travis Walton was working on a logging crew in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona the crew was behind schedule on their logging contract with the National Forestry Service and needed to work long hours. One night around 6pm while the crew was driving out of the forest they saw a silver disc hovering above the ground. Travis Walton got out of the truck and ran to check out the craft. The other crew members in the truck report that "they saw a beam of blue-green light coming from the disc and "strike" Walton." The beam lifted Walton off the ground then tossed him back to the Earth. Walton reportedly never left the light in that time and subsequently disappeared.


The distraught crew of loggers called police and repeated the story. The police went straight to the scene and found no evidence of any disturbance, but they also didn't find evidence of Walton either. The next day a massive search took place that included helicopters, men on horseback and volunteers on foot. They scoured the area, but found no trace of Travis Walton. The story became an international sensation with press, Ufologists and Tabloids converging on the small town of Snowflake, Arizona. The police thought the loggers might be hiding a horrible accident or even a homicide. However, the logging crew who reportedly witnessed the events were all given polygraphs and were determined to be telling the truth.


Five days later after numerous interviews of family members including Travis Walton's mother and brother Travis Walton returned. He reportedly had called his brother-in-law from a gas station payphone. 


Walton told the story that he had been abducted by aliens and that he woke up in front of a bright light. At first he thought he was in a regular hospital, but as his eyes focused and he became orientated to his surroundings he realized that the people around him weren't human. here is Walton's story from wikipedia: 


"As his faculties returned, Walton says he realized he was surrounded by three figures, each wearing a sort of orange jumpsuit. The figures were not human. Walton described the beings as typical of the so-called Greys which feature in some abduction accounts: "shorter than five feet, and they had bald heads, no hair. Their heads were domed, very large. They looked like fetuses [...] They had large eyes — enormous eyes — almost all brown, without much white in them. The creepiest thing about them were those eyes … they just stared through me." Their ears, noses and mouths "seemed real small, maybe just because their eyes were so huge."


Walton went on to describe how he scared the aliens away by threatening them with a glass-like rod. After the aliens left the room he walked down a corridor to a control room with a seat in the center. Next to the seat was a lever and when Walton pulled the lever a planetarium style star-map shifted on the ceiling. Soon a human walked into the room, the human was wearing a helmet, but had strange eyes. The human told Walton to follow him and they walked down a ramp into a large hangar, that had other discs. There were other humanoids too and they gave him an oxygen mask that Walton put on. Soon after he was unconscious.


That is all that Walton remembers, he stated that it only felt like a few hours, but in actuality it was five days. He was later examined by a doctor and they found a red spot in the crook of his elbow and he had lost wait.


The story has been made into a book and in 1993 the story was brought to the big screen in the form of "Fire in the Sky" starring DB. Sweeney. Walton was originally given a controversial polygraph which determined that he was being untruthful, but some experts debate the validity of the test which used methods 30 years out of date. The test was also given by a reportedly derisive interviewer who question Walton about a check fraud charge. 


Since that test Walton has passed all following polygraphs except for one on a television game show called "Moment of Truth." Although there are plenty of skeptics who point to different inconsistencies in the story many people believe that this is an actual case of alien abduction. There are a couple of things that may have influenced Walton to create an elaborate hoax. A couple of weeks before his alleged abduction NBC aired the TV movie "The UFO Incident." This was back before cable which meant that their was a pretty good chance that Walton saw the movie. While Walton was missing Walton's brother had stated that Travis Walton was very interested in UFO's.


So what do you guys think: Is this a real case of UFO abduction or an elaborate hoax staged for fame and money?


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THE DEVIL'S DEN: THE TWISTED STORY OF SERIAL KILLER HENRY LEE ALLEN

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The Devil's Den By Yawatta Hosby

Do you know much about your hometown? Let alone the surrounding cities? I'm a firm believer that the most frightening events happen in real life. Winchester, VA used to be a quiet town until September 28, 1972. A male's mutilated body was found along the highway. Throughout the 1970's, more disfigured dead bodies appeared. The poor police were never able to pinpoint any suspects. This serial killer was crafty. He never left any fingerprints or any other physical evidence.

Until...

On October 31, 1977 Henry Lee Allen turned himself in at the police station. He admitted to killing more than 17 people; he probably just finished torturing someone right before that because his clothes were covered with blood stains. No justice served though. He swallowed poison and died two hours later. 

Henry Lee Allen isolated himself in his home at the end of Jim Barnett Park. Throughout the years, he had built torture chambers and a crematory filled with human remains. To top the cake, he also collected satanic ritual artifacts. His home was filled with lamps and belts made out of human skin. 

Not only was Henry Lee Allen a serial killer. He was also a cannibal. Who knows how many victims' lives were ended by his hands? 

For 30 years his home remained untouched in the park until Devil's Den Production bought it, developing it into a very popular haunted attraction. I still shudder every time I think about my Halloween night there. It felt like bad spirits were nearby. I don't blame them. They probably want to rest in peace...I know I would.


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USERNAME 666 AND THE CREEPY MYSTERY OF NUMBER STATIONS

While looking for more unexplained and creepy Youtube videos I came across the video called Username 666. This video is really creepy, the user checks out the account name which has been suspended. He or she keeps refreshing and slowly the page comes together and it's a mixture of psychedelic horror and strange sounds. At the end the user can't get off the page.


I looked into it a bit and I found that Username 666 is an actual suspended account. I think the video is fake, but does this page actually exist buried somewhere behind the walls of YouTube?

The next subject I'd like to discuss is the topic of number's stations. Numbers station's are radio broadcasts from different places around the globe. They either broadcast numbers or coded phrases. Some people believe that they are spy channels used for transferring information between spy groups. Other people think that they are government installations used for mind control or some other devious means. Some people on the fringe believe that some numbers stations are set up to communicate to alien worlds or to communicate to other aliens tuned into the frequency here on earth.

Here is a creepy example. This is a video of a broadcast dubbed Swedish Rhapsody. It's pretty scary because it combines that twinkly ice cream truck music with a child repeating numbers.
The child is repeating numbers in German between the music. Supposedly this station can't be tracked and no one knows what it means. In my opinion this is designed to be creepy, I can't see a spy network using a child and this kind of music in their broadcast.

The last video for today is another example of a numbers station. This is probably the most well known and many people have tried to figure out what is going on here. The whole place (in Russia) and the broadcast is shrouded in Mystery. The station and the broadcast go by the name UVB-76
So here we have a Russian Voice that repeats numbers and Russian names. UVB-76 has been investigated by everyone from amateur internet sleuths to documentary film makers. Here is what Wikipedia says about the location and the message being played:

"The purpose of the station has not been confirmed by government or broadcast officials. However, the former Minister of Communications and Informatics of the Republic of Lithuania[who?] has written that the purpose of the voice messages is to confirm that operators at receiving stations are alert.[5][23][24] Other claims are[25] that the broadcast is constantly being listened to by military commissariats.

There is speculation published in the Russian Journal of Earth Sciences which describes an observatory measuring changes in the ionosphere by broadcasting a signal at 4625 kHz, the same as the Buzzer.[26]However, this would not explain the voice messages.

It is also speculated that the voice messages are some sort of Russian military communications, and that the buzzing sound is merely a "channel marker", used to keep the frequency occupied by making it unattractive for other potential users.[1] The author does not explain the continued expenditure on this public transmission for such a small trickle of usable information, particularly with the advent of cheap, reliable, secure communication via the Internet. It is worth noting that this transmission has been maintained consistently and at high power for over 30 years.

There are two other Russian stations that follow a similar format, nicknamed "The Pip" and "The Squeaky Wheel". Like the Buzzer, these stations transmit a signature sound that is repeated constantly, but is occasionally interrupted to relay coded voice messages.[1]

There is much speculation about the current transmitter site.[27] The former transmitter[28] was located near Povarovo, Russia[29] at 
What do you guys think of UserName 666 and What do you think is being broadcast by the numbers stations above?


In other news I have just released my fourth short story called "Death Walk" you may remember from the blog I talked about real life zombification.  The story is about a man who can't deal with the death of his newly wedded wife, he finds a way to bring her back, but he also finds that some things are worse than death. You can buy the story for only 99¢ simply buy clicking Here:

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Thank you so much for reading ~ Micah

UNEXPLAINED VIDEO: ALIENS, GHOSTS AND STRANGE PHENOMENA

In the past I've looked into some videos on Youtube that are mysterious or unexplained. Today I would like to do more of the same. I'd like to hear your opinion of what you think is going on in these videos.

The first one has been dubbed the NYPD Ghost car chase. A police car is in high speed pursuit of a car that starts to do all sorts of crazy things. The car seems to disappear, drive at impossibly high rates of speed and at the end strangely goes through a chain link fence without moving or changing then fence.


 I think everything here can be explained besides the fence. First the car doesn't really disappear it either goes out of view or the guy simply turns off his lights. Secondly the high rate of speed is an optical illusion, the car nearly comes to a stop and then it speeds up quickly, this makes it look like the car drives away faster than it actually is. The fence part to me is mind boggling. I thought that maybe the fence had been bent or driven over, but the shot at the end shows the fence completely intact. So what do you think... Is it a ghost car?

The second video I have is of the Fresno Nightcrawler. On first glance it appears that two long legs with no body and no head walks across the frame. 


Now like I said above at first glance it looks like a creepy alien or a dismembered body walking across the screen, but the more you look it simply seems to be someone wearing a cape or walking with a sheet over their head. Maybe it's a long trench coat. What do you guys think?

The last video is even harder for me to explain. It starts out as a bright spiral of light and slowly morphs into a black hole in the mist. At first I thought maybe it was a spotlight coming from the ground, because it looks like there is some attachment.


The more you look at this video the stranger it becomes. I thought it could be a flare or a firework and the trail of smoke leading to the light is from the fireworks exhaust. Maybe it's a rocket launch of some kind, but that's the best I can come up with. I suppose it could be explainable or maybe it's aliens. What do you guys think?


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