Hilary Porter tells of lifetime of UFO abductions

This story was published: 7 hours ago May 08, 2014 3:29PM

HILARY Porter knows most people won’t believe what she says and some will dismiss her as a nutter, even though she seems entirely normal and her many responsible jobs include work for the Ministry of Defence.

“I’m a sane, together person,” she says.

It’s only when 67-year-old Hilary talks about aliens that people start to doubt her. Specifically, when she says she has been abducted by creatures from other worlds more times than she can count.

“I have been an alien abductee all my life,” she says with a sigh as she shows me into a living room where two ornamental spaceships sit on the mantelpiece.

“I didn’t choose this life. I didn’t ask for any of this, but it has been happening for as long as I can remember.”

Hilary will be among more than 100 people at a national conference this month organised by the Anomalous Mind Management, Abductee, Contactee, Helpline Project (Ammach for short). She will share stories and compare notes with others who claim similar experiences.


The first close encounter she recalls came when she was five and playing in the long grass in a field behind her home.

She says: “Suddenly there was a reptilian alien in front of me. It had scaly skin, black holes on the nose and a little mouth.

“It wasn’t tall — maybe 5ft, but very strong. It grabbed my arms and pulled me towards a disc in a depression in the field. It dragged me underneath into a lift and the door slid closed. The next thing I knew I was in a room with consoles and coloured lights and little figures moving around.

“I was stripped and thrown on to some sort of bed. They took a really horrible, sharp instrument and they were pressing it right the way up my body while I was screaming. I can’t remember anything after that.”

She believes this was not the first time because when she was two she kept disappearing from a secure back garden and her frantic mother would find her half a mile away.

Hilary has no memory of those disappearances, but rattles off one close encounter after another from her adult life.

She is sure she was abducted while driving near Cardiff in the 1970s and again by a hexagonal spacecraft while hanging out bunting at a charity event. She tells me an alien broke into a top-secret research laboratory at a local Marconi plant while she worked there in 1974.

She remembers two orbs of light flying past her kitchen window near the M3 in Farnborough, Hants, and when she went to work next day sections of the building were cordoned off and a security guard who had witnessed something was taken away for treatment and never seen again.

Her experiences have common threads.

Afterwards she suffers migraines and feels very ill. Sometimes she wakes up with fresh scars or bruises. Or there are bloody marks or stains on her clothes or bedsheets.

“I’ve got a metal implant in my ear too,” she says. “The doctor said it was wax but I can feel it. My partner Ken has a monitor that detects bugging devices. He puts it near my ear and it goes ding-ding-ding.”

Hilary will tell the full Marconi story for the first time at the Ammach gathering.

“Of course there are sceptics, people who laugh at us, but that doesn’t bother us,” she tells me. “Just because they haven’t seen it with their own eyes doesn’t mean it isn’t true. We’ve had people from right across the spectrum tell us about their experiences, from university graduates to businessmen. They can’t all be just stupid.”

Hilary used to work as draftsman and artist for the MoD and decided to record her encounters by drawing them. One of her pictures shows her as a little girl being dragged towards the spaceship. Another sketched in 1980 shows a shadowy figure standing just outside her window.

She recalls: “I had just put my daughter Sally to bed and came downstairs. Then I spotted a huge figure by the window. I froze. After a few moments he raised his hand and I did the same.

“After that I wasn’t quite so frightened. I thought he wasn’t going to hurt me.

“Then he glided to the back of the garden. He moved so fast. Whoosh. Then he shot sideways, paused for several seconds, and was gone.”

For years she suffered alone until a “crisis abduction” in 1994 when she says she was shown flashbacks of previous encounters. Pushed to the brink, she started looking for other people with similar stories.

That’s when she met partner Ken, who runs the British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS). She met more abductees and as someone who can recall many experiences, she began counselling them.

“Finding someone else who understood me was so important,” she says. “You know you’re not off your trolley.”

So who are these aliens? Ken says: “There are greys, the ones everyone recognises, but they are just servants. The reptilians are higher beings, then there is a humanoid type. But there is something above them, cowled figures. You can’t look at them. Their eyes shine and when they look at you they blast a message into your mind.

“They tend to take females more for their eggs and genetic material for breeding purposes. We believe they are making a cross between aliens and humans.”


Hilary says her abductions have grown less frequent, but strange phenomena still plague the area around her home, which has spectacular views over the Hampshire skyline. She says she’s seen hovering triangular shapes and bright lights flying in formation which she has photographed.

She dismisses the idea that it could be military planes from Farnborough air base, insisting they look and sound different.

Hilary is now planning to work with Ammach founder Joanne Summerscales on a self-help manual for abductees.

Since founding her group in 2011 Joanne has been contacted by 1,500 people who believe they have been abducted. Several claim to have implants like Hilary.

“I keep hearing the same things time and again but these people have never met,” says Joanne. “I think there are definitely aliens on our planet.”
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/hilary-porter-tells-of-lifetime-of-ufo-abductions/story-fnixwvgh-1226910303905

Watch UFO approach International Space Station in 'monumental' development in search for proof of aliens
Jun 04, 2014 04:16
By Chris Richards


The clip shows a bizarre rotating circular object hovering in space near to the artificial satellite

This extraordinary video shows the "monumental" moment a UFO approaches the International Space Station.

The three minute, 40m second clip, uploaded to YouTube, shows a bizarre rotating circular object in close proximity to the artificial satellite.

The video, made in March 2014 and headlined Giant UFO approaches International Space Station (ISS), was uploaded by a user known as secureteam10.

To date, it has been viewed more than 533,000 times.

The blurb accompanying the clip reads: "The video was recorded directly off of the ISS Ustream video page by a regular user of the site who regularly watches the streaming live video for daily anomalies and happenings.

"This is MONUMENTAL in the search for proof of an alien presence."

More than 600 YouTube users have commented on the video.

A convinced Travis Gullickson wrote: "Amazing capture on this footage!!

"Most certainly a curious UFO coming to check out the ISS... Anybody who disagrees is foolish!!"

Another user, going by the name "Ellie Goulding," said: "Damn... yooooo... we are not alone are we?"

And Ric Downing gushed: "Very interesting footage! Thanks for the post!"

Others were more skeptical however.

Michael Baumann Jr asked: "Do people actually believe this is real? Lmao."

Gregory Dearth declared: "That's the dumbest one I have seen."

And Gregory Faust sighed: "This is definitely not anything physical.

"It's just something with the camera.

"Some people will believe anything.

"I don't even know why I subscribe to this channel."


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/watch-ufo-approach-international-space-3642846#ixzz33euAelYq
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Australia’s alien UFO hunters number 34,000 and use 85 million computer hours

Lisa Cornish
News Corp Australia Network
June 29, 2014 12:00AM



NOT even soaring electricity costs can stop Australia’s most enthusiastic alien hunters.

Almost 1.5 million people worldwide contribute to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence through SETI@Home, allowing personal computers and devices to analyse radio signals from space while they are idle.

SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, originated in the 1960s, when a group of radio astronomers began to search the skies for intelligent life outside Earth.


Australia’s Parkes radio telescope became an important part of the search in the mid 1990s and now 34,000 Aussie enthusiasts are among the most dedicated to the search. In SETI rankings, we currently sit 6th in the world — just behind Japan and ahead of the French.

Dr David Anderson, director of SETI@Home with Berkeley University, said many of their members have been involved in the project for over 10 years and are enthusiastic about the possibilities.

“Current we’re logging about 2.5 billion computer hours per year total, and about 85 million by Australian volunteers,” he said.

Aussies have dedicated 1.3 billion computer hours in the 15 years the SETI project has been running and one of those dedicated locals is Simon Wong from Sydney, Australia’s leading individual contributor.

Ranked 11th in individual standings, Mr Wong is contributing an estimated 1.4 million computational hours a year.

“I do have multiple systems involved, including desktops, laptops, plus systems I’ve put together for my brother who’s happy to contribute to SETI@Home under my name,” Mr Wong said.

“I don’t mind that I seem to be getting higher in the contribution rankings.”

Mr Wong believes in the possibility of life outside Earth, but his interest lies more in the science behind the SETI@Home project.

“I’m primarily interested in helping this Berkeley-driven project from a software engineering or scientific point of view,” he said. “How can we best process this mass of radio signal data efficiently and cost-effectively?”


Australian universities and even the Australian Skeptics contribute to the search, which Dr Anderson says is driven by the desire to support scientific goals and discover life outside earth.

But internationally, competition can be a driving force.

“The competitiveness is much more prevalent overseas, especially in the US, where computer hardware is cheaper and electricity rates are low,” Mr Wong said.

“There are people who build computers specifically for maximise their processing potential for SETI@Home.”

Giles Averay-Jones, also known as Dingo, is the founder of Australia’s leading contributing team BOINC@Australia. As the Australian branch of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, his team contributes an estimated 12.4 million computational hours to SETI annually. But rising electricity costs are starting to make it difficult.

“As a team we are at a disadvantage when it comes to electricity charges,” Mr Averay-Jones said.

“The cost is impacting a lot of the team and is a regular topic.”



Mr Averay-Jones estimates he has personally spent tens of thousands of dollars since 1999, double what he could be expected to pay internationally.

But that still won’t stop the Aussie search with locals preferring to cut back rather than quit completely.

“It would certainly be an interesting time if strong evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence was discovered through the SETI@Home project,” said Mr Wong.

“And it would be a great honour if it was one of my computers that helped contribute to that!”

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/science/australias-alien-ufo-hunters-number-34000-and-use-85-million-computer-hours/story-fnjwlbuc-1226970112893

Retired US soldier claims he has spent 17 years battling ALIENS on Mars

A FORMER US marine has sensationally claimed that he has spent nearly a decade battling ALIENS on Mars.

By Andy Wells/Published 23rd June 2014

The ex marine, who goes by the name of Captain Kaye, says that there are five human colonies on the Red Planet and he has spent 17 years fighting to protect them.

Serving in a space fleet known as the Earth Defense Force – that recruited military personnel from countries like America, Russia and China – the one-time ex-naval infantryman was trainee to fly a variety of bombers and Star Wars-style space fighters.

He then spent his time protecting the colonies from martians, who presumably wanted to take over and make the planet their own.

Captain Kaye's incredible testimony to ExoNews TV doesn't end with Mars, either.

Spacecraft training apparently took place on the MOON, as well as on Saturn's moon Titan and even in deep space.

His retirement ceremony after 20 years of service also took place on the moon, with guests including ex US Scretary of Defence Donald Rumsfield.

We know you're all laughing now – but what if he's telling the TRUTH?

Starship Troopers had to be based on something, after all...


http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/385250/Retired-US-marine-Captain-Kaye-battle-martians-aliens-Mars

Proof of life on Mars? Conspiracy theories emerge over 'alien thigh bone'

Date August 23, 2014 - 11:18AM

Ben Grubb

Is this photo an alien or dinosaur thigh bone on Mars, as some conspiracy theorists have suggested? Highly unlikely, NASA scientists have concluded.

The photo, taken by the Curiosity rover on August 14, had conspiracy theorists in a fit online over the past week because they believed it showed a bone-like object lying on the surface of the red planet.

"Simply put, this shows that there were some living things on the Mars [sic]," an anonymous writer at Northern Voices Online claimed, while a popular UFO blog compared the alleged bone to previous images of a "fossilised, reptilian spine" and a "human finger".

In an effort to stop the speculation on numerous sites, some of which said it proved there had been life on Mars, NASA finally decided to give its opinion on Friday, a week after it was taken.

"Seen by Mars rover Curiosity using its MastCam, this Mars rock may look like a femur thigh bone," NASA's scientists said. "[But] mission science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind or water. If life ever existed on Mars, scientists expect that it would be small simple life forms called microbes. Mars likely never had enough oxygen in its atmosphere and elsewhere to support more complex organisms. Thus, large fossils are not likely."

Astronomical Society of Victoria's Perry Vlahos, who is an astronomer and also a columnist for Fairfax Media, publisher of this article, said the human brain often played tricks on us.

"One of the fantastic things about the human brain is that we're wired for pattern recognition," Mr Vlahos said. "And so [it means] we look for familiar things in whatever it is that we're glancing at.

"It's been a huge part of evolution in being able to understand patterns and visualise things that help us avoid predators ... and it's something that's grown up with humans over a long period of time.

"So I'm not surprised that people see a 'man in the moon' and a 'thigh bone' on Mars."

He added that he would be "extremely surprised" if the object seen in the photo was anything other than what scientists already expected to see on Mars. "If there was something genuine to this image as being something that could be anything other than just a natural occurrence and just light and shadow playing with our minds and our eyes I would be very surprised," Mr Vlahos said.

So far there had been no evidence that life had ever existed on Mars.

"If there was evidence of [life] on Mars it would have been front-page news way before any of this conspiratorial stuff came up," Mr Vlahos said. "There have been a number of press conferences that have been held by scientists where they reported such discoveries.

"[For example] there was a meteorite that was found in Antarctica some 10 years ago and we thought that we had found evidence of bacteria in it coming from Mars and later on it was decided that that wasn't the case. So no, there's been [no evidence] and if there ever was it would be at the bacterial level. It won't be anything like a large animal that would give us such bones."

Although there have been findings that would suggest there was water on Mars, which is now likely to be in ice form, Mr Vlahos said this would not be enough alone to support life on the planet.

"Water on Earth works in conjunction with a lot of other things," he said. "It's not just water on its own. There's an atmosphere, there's vegetation, there's all sorts of other systems that work together, precipitation etc [to support life]. So there's a combination of factors."

The Curiosity rover has been on Mars for just over two years now, producing many images that have intrigued scientists and conspiracy theorists.

Earlier this year its counterpart, the Opportunity rover, spotted a mysterious rock shaped like a jelly doughnut that appeared to come out of nowhere when comparing two separate images of the same spot. It was later explained as a piece of a larger rock that had been broken and moved by the Mars rover Opportunity's wheel in early January.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/proof-of-life-on-mars-conspiracy-theories-emerge-over-alien-thigh-bone-20140823-107j6r.html

The world’s biggest mysteries scientists still can’t solve

This story was published: 6 hours ago September 02, 2014 5:10PM

WHILE Harry Houdini prided himself on leaving audiences from around the world mystified at his illusions and escapes, modern science has revealed how he accomplished many of his spectacles of grandeur. Time doesn’t always shed light on unexplained mysteries, though. Consider the 5-tonne statues that dot remote Easter Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, or 5,000-year-old coins that have been found buried in the United States. Such oddities continue to baffle modern science as experts continue — to date in vain — to search for rational explanations to the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries, which are as confounding as they are exhilarating.

12.The Moai statues of Easter Island

The mystery of Easter Island and the Moai statues that inhabit it is something that most of us are at least vaguely familiar with, but the fact that there are still so many legitimate unanswered questions surrounding the island is in itself quite remarkable. Back in Easter in 1722, a Dutch explorer happened upon something strange. He was originally in search of a hypothetical land mass called Terra Australis, thought to exist because at the time they thought that the northern and southern hemispheres should be balanced. Instead though, he discovered an island in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean, which he would later name Easter Island due to the date of its discovery. He was surprised to discover that the island was inhabited, and he reported seeing 2,000 to 3,000 people there. This was surprising, because the island is ... well … really far from anything else at all. A staggering 1,900 kilometres away from the nearest inhabited land, and about 3,500 kilometres off the coast of Chile. And yet despite its incredible remoteness, The Rapa Nui people who called the island home managed to carve and transport a mind-blowing 887 statues, some measuring 33 feet tall and weighing up to 82 tonnes, an average of 17 kilometres each. And this all happened roughly 700 years ago. The biggest remaining question mark concerning the statues themselves is definitely their transportation. Theories have been proposed that involve ropes, sleds, rollers, levelled tracks, or even that the people slowly rocked the statues back and forth to their destination. Attempts have been made to recreate the methods that could have been used, but most resulted in damage to the statues, or would have required hundreds of people making just 0.08 kilometres of progress per day. The truth is, we don’t really know exactly how they did it. But however the Rapa Nui managed to move the Moai, they would have certainly needed to be incredibly patient, creative, and organised to make them a reality.

11.The Confederate Treasury

The year was 1865, and the American Civil War was drawing to a close. As the Union army marched the final path to victory, however, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury George Trenholm made one last effort to preserve the South’s assets: he liquidated them. While a veritable fortune in gold, silver, and jewels had been carried by President Jefferson Davis and his men when they abandoned Richmond, Virginia, when they were captured, it was all gone. All of it, save a few confederate banknotes. And the most improbable part of all was the staggering 4,000 kilograms of Mexican silver dollars that seemed to simply have vanished. Dozens of theories have been proposed to explain the mystery behind the missing treasure. Some maintain that the gold was distributed among plantation owners and buried, waiting for a day when the South will rise again. Many believe that the silver was buried in Danville, Virginia, where it still resides today. Others have claimed that the funds were entrusted with a secret society called the Knights of the Golden circle, so that they could finance a second civil war in the future. But the truth is, the real fate of the Confederate treasury still remains a mystery to this day.

10. Gobekli Tepe

Every so often, a discovery happens that forces us to re-imagine what we think we know about humanity, and how we got to where we are today. Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe is certainly one such discovery. The site, located at the top of a mountain ridge, is composed of more than 200 pillars, up to 20 feet in height and weighing up to 20 tonnes, arranged in roughly 20 circles. Many of the pillars have predatory animals engraved on them. And none of this would be surprising if it was built in, say 2000 B.C., but Gobekli Tepe was built more than 13,000 years ago, predating Stonehenge by more than 8,000 years. Its existence completely up-ends the conventional view of the rise of civilisation. The idea of a religious monument built by hunter-gatherers flies in the face of our knowledge about both religious monuments and hunter-gatherers. Prior to the discovery of this site, we believed that the people of that time lacked complex symbolic systems, social hierarchies, and the division of labour — three prerequisites, we thought, for building a 22-acre massive temple. Formal religion, meanwhile, is supposed to have appeared only after agriculture produced such hierarchical social relations. The findings at Göbekli Tepe, however, suggest that we might just have the story backward — perhaps it was the need to build a sacred site that first fuelled hunter-gatherers in their quest to organise themselves as a workforce, to settle down in one place, to secure a stable food supply, and to, eventually, invent agriculture. But the existence of the site raises far more questions than it answers. How did nomadic, neolithic man manage to organise a workforce to complete this site? Why was it built? How come it predates similar structures by thousands of years? Excavation started on the site in 1996, and most of it still remains to be unearthed, but for now these questions must go unanswered.

9. Sea Peoples

During the late Bronze Age, civilisation was progressing at an impressive rate in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean regions. Kingdoms rose, order was established, and technology advanced. The Mycenaean and Minoans had intricate palaces in Greece and Crete, the Hittites dominated what is now Turkey. And the Canaanites controlled what would become the holy land — Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan. But in the years surrounding 1200 B.C., all of the would change. Over the course of a single generation, all of those civilisations would be almost entirely wiped off the map, and those that did survive would be set back a thousand years, losing the ability to write and turning back the clock on the sophistication of their art, architecture, and pottery in the hundred years to follow. This event was part of what is known as the Bronze Age collapse, and it remains one of the largest dark spots in historians’ records. And one of the causes of this bizarre collapse was the mysterious “Sea Peoples” — a technologically inferior, unaffiliated group of seafaring warriors who raided the lands and are often credited with the collapse of these once-great civilisations. The problem is, historians still have little if any idea of where these warriors came from, or what became of them after their conquest finally ended in Egypt. Also unknown is how the Sea Peoples managed to conquer civilisations hundreds of years more advanced in weaponry. But without solid records from the time, and with only scattered details of the origins of these strange raiders, we may never know their true identity.

8. Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism is an incredibly intricate analogue computer found in a shipwreck near Greece in the year 1900. The device was used to determine the positions of celestial bodies using a mind-bogglingly complex series of bronze gears. The device in and of itself would already be impressive, but the unbelievable part of the mechanism? It was created 100 years before the birth of Christ, and more than 1,000 years before anything even approaching its level of technological complexity and workmanship would be discovered again. The device also came long before our modern understanding of astronomy and physics. The Antikythera mechanism was built over 1,600 years before Galileo was born, and over 1,700 years before Isaac Newton was born. Now, the rational explanation is that the device used working theories on the movements of celestial bodies established at the time, and some remarkably brilliant craftsmen. But if you were looking for a jumping-off point for your new time-travel novel or alien sci-fi epic, this one should hit you like a 10-tonne brick. Because for all the explanations we can offer, the Antikythera mechanism raises even more questions.

7. Oak Island Money Pit

Throughout history, we’ve never ceased to be enamoured with tales of buried treasure, secret inscriptions, and booby traps. But one of the most enduring treasure mysteries of all time comes from a tiny island off the coast of Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. Oak Island is the home of what is informally known as the “Money Pit,” an incredibly deep hole of incredibly elaborate construction discovered in 1795. Over two centuries of excavation have unearthed no treasure thus far, but what has been discovered is arguably just as fascinating. Underneath the surface of the pit are a series of wooden platforms, and even deeper, flooding mechanisms formed from multiple underground canals leading to water. The first time someone managed to dig deep enough, the entire pit was immediately flooded, and due to the construction of the mechanism, it would fill back up with water as fast as you could remove it. At the 90-foot mark, an inscribed, encoded stone tablet was found that was revealed to say “forty feet below, two million pounds lie beneath.” In search for whatever the island is hiding, the money pit has attracted the attention of hundreds of search parties, including former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who in his youth spent a summer with fellow Harvard grads in search of the treasure. It’s truly a historical oddity, but considering that we’re no closer to finding out who dug the pit and why, after 200 years of searching, one must wonder if we ever will.

6. The Voynich Manuscript

History is littered with ancient languages that have been decoded, and ciphers that have been cracked, but if there is one bizarre occurrence that marks a thorn in historians’ sides, it has to be the Voynich manuscript. Purchased by rare-book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in 1912, the text doesn’t appear particularly remarkable at first glance. A series of paragraphs over the course of 240 pages accompanied by illustrations and diagrams, broken into what appear to be six distinct sections. The sections appear to describe different topics of herbal, astronomical, biological, cosmological, and pharmaceutical nature. What is so remarkable about the manuscript, then? Well, It’s written in a language unknown to man, and has evaded all attempts to decipher its contents to this day. The writing is composed of over 170,000 characters written in patterns that resemble natural language. Twenty or 30 glyphs can account for nearly the entire text, with the exception of a few stray characters that appear only once. It was written smoothly, with no evidence of errors or corrections anywhere, and no evidence of pauses during writing, which one would expect with encoded text. Almost as to suggest that the language was natural for whoever wrote it. Carbon dating revealed that the script was written between the years 1404 and 1438, and although theories have been offered, nobody actually knows the author of the work. Due to the numerous failed attempts to decipher the Voynich manuscript, many have suggested that the manuscript is an elaborate hoax, and can’t actually be deciphered. But until the truth becomes known, this strange text will remain one of history’s most fascinating unsolved mysteries.

5. The WOW! signal

On a summer night in 1977, Jerry Ehman, a volunteer for SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, recorded the strongest hard evidence of extraterrestrial life in human history. Ehman was scanning radio waves from deep space, as his volunteer position entailed, hoping to come across a signal that bore the hallmarks of one sent by intelligent aliens. And on that night, he saw his measurements spike, in a big way. The signal lasted for 72 seconds, the longest period of time it could possibly be measured by the array that Ehman was using. It was unmistakable, and appeared to have originated from within the Sagittarius constellation near a star called Tau Sagittarii, 120 light years away. Ehman wrote the words “Wow!” on the original printout of the signal, thus its being known as the “Wow! Signal.”

If you’re wondering what the fuss is about the signal, think of it this way — the signal that was received was at precisely the right frequency that wouldn’t be interpreted as noise, and wouldn’t be intercepted along its journey. In other words, if we were going to send a signal out into the universe to try to communicate with an alien race, that’s exactly the frequency we would use. Despite the incredible occurrence however, all attempts to locate the signal again have failed, leading to much controversy and confusion about its origins and its meaning.

4. The real identity of Benjamin Kyle

In 2004, A man that would soon adopt the name Benjaman Kyle woke up outside of a Burger King in Georgia without any clothes, any ID, or any memories. He was diagnosed with retrograde amnesia, unable to remember who he was, and with no identification, unable to find out. Now, if this was like any other story about amnesia, it would have probably resolved itself soon afterwards. But the trouble was, authorities couldn’t identify him either. Local and state police failed to discover him in any known records despite an exhaustive search. And then in 2007, the FBI became involved, but were also unable to identify him, making him the only US citizen in history listed as missing despite his whereabouts being known. One particularly unfortunate side effect of not having your own identity is that, without a social security number, he is unable to obtain full-time employment, and without memory of any past skills or disciplines, the problem is only amplified. After a student documentary was created about Benjaman, news media picked up the story, which attracted the attention of local business owners. One of the owners offered him a job washing dishes, a job which he is still working today. This enabled him to move out of the woods where he was sleeping, and into an air-conditioned shed, where he now stays. But his true identity and past remain a mystery to this day.

3. The Dancing Plague of 1518

The story of the dancing plague sounds like something straight out of fiction. On a summer’s day in the town of Strasbourg during the year 1518, a woman began dancing wildly in the street. The day turned into night, the night turned into morning, and she was still dancing. Within a week, 34 others had joined her, dancing as though they were possessed, without stop, for no apparent reason. And within a month, the number of dancers had reached 400. Religious sermons were called to address the issue. Physicians were called in to document the event and try to find a solution. And all the while, the dancing worsened. Many became ill or died as a result of exhaustion, strokes, or heart attacks. The authorities eventually decided that the only way the dancers would recover is if they danced it out of their systems. Gild halls and a grain market were opened to the dancers, and a wooden stage was even constructed for them. Musicians were even brought in to keep those affected moving. Numerous theories have been proposed for the cause of the bizarre event, including poisoning, epilepsy, typhus, mass psychogenic illness, and even secretly coordinated religious rituals, but to this day we still have no answer for this truly unbelievable historical event.

2. The S.S. Ourang Medan

In June 1947, multiple ships travelling trade routes in the strait of Malacca, off the coast of Malaysia, received a terrifying SOS message that read: “All officers including captain are dead lying in chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.” After a short period of time, one final message was received, that read simply ... “I die.” Nearby ships identified the source of the signal as coming from a Dutch freighter, the SS Ourang Medan. The nearest merchant ship, The Silver Star, travelled as fast as they could to the source of the distress signal. But upon boarding the Ourang Medan, they were horrified by what they found: Every member of the crew lay dead, their corpses scattered on the decks. The eyes of the men were still open and expressions of sheer terror were frozen on their faces. The Silver Star’s party found the deceased radio operator as well, his hand still on the Morse Code-sending key, and eyes wide open. But strangely, there were no signs of wounds or injuries on any of the bodies. The Silver Star’s crew decided to tow the ship back to port, but before they could get underway, smoke began emanating from the decks below. The boarding party quickly returned to their ship and barely had time to escape before the SS Ourang Medan exploded and swiftly sank. Some theorised that clouds of noxious natural gases bubbled up from fissures in the seabed and engulfed the ship, and others have even blamed the occurrence on the supernatural, but to this day, the exact fate of the ships crew remains a mystery.

1. Baghdad Battery

When we think of electricity, most of us recall back to a time in school where we learned about Benjamin Franklin, a metal key, and a kite. The year of Franklin’s fateful discovery was 1752. But the existence of the Baghdad batteries suggests the possibility of far more shocking scientific advances in the field — a mind-blowing 2,000 years earlier. Discovered in 1936, and thought to have been created in the Mesopotamian region, these clay pots contain galvanised iron nails wrapped with copper sheeting, and some archaeologists theorise that an acidic liquid was used to generate an electric current inside the jar. If correct, these artefacts would predate the currently accepted timeline for the invention of the electrochemical cell, attributed to Alessandro Volta, by more than two millennia. Whether or not the artefacts were in fact used as batteries is highly contested by archaeologists, and what the resulting electrical current was used for is also a complete mystery, as we have no historical records from that time. Some people theorise that they might have been used for electroplating objects, but such evidence of their use for that purpose is yet to be found. What we do know, however, is that the batteries would actually work, at least in theory. At least twice, experiments were conducted to test replica constructions of the batteries, including once on the show Mythbusters, and both experiments showed that the batteries were indeed capable of producing electricity when filled with an acidic solution. But for now, the true purpose of these artefacts remains unknown.



http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/the-worlds-biggest-mysteries-scientists-still-cant-solve/story-fnjwl1aw-1227045377722

When my younger brother was 3 or so, he came out of his room one day and said that Grandma had just been to visit him. She died a little while before and I'm not sure of how aware he would have been to really know her as she lived in Canada.

And a year or so ago my 2.5 year old cousin was watching tv and her dad walked though the room past her. When he came back in my cousin asked him who the other man was who had walked past with him. There wasn't anyone with her dad.

Nothing to crazy but kind of interesting I guess.

Going from Marconi's post, port Arthur is very interesting, even during the day its haunting
Went in yr 8 (about 6 years ago) with school, the ghost tour at night though was pretty tacky and easy to take the piss out of

For the record, I believe in both UFO's and the Paranormal as I have had experiences with both. I am not saying I believe in "Aliens" but I along with about 20 other people who pulled over on the side of a freeway, saw things flying in the night sky that were clearly not planes, helicopters or from my understanding of modern technology, clearly nothing man made. Likewise for the paranormal, I have experienced things that were completely unexplainable. Once again, I am not saying I believe in "ghost's" but I do think there are things out there that just cannot be explained.





Edited by Colin: 3/9/2014 09:44:15 PM

I have read stuff about kids being able to see things that adults don't. Interesting stuff!

My mum works in a children's hospital and she has heard many similar stories

They sailed it out into the Atlantic, and down into Sub-Saharan Africa, where they took it up the Niger River into Mali. Unfortunately the River dried up and the sands blew in, and the ironclad was hidden. Luckily Dirk Pitt and his band of merry, yet unlikely heroes saved the day, kicked some bad guys ass, and found the ironclad, along with all the gold.

His reward was to shag Penlope Cruz. Win-Win.

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Edited by Heineken: 3/9/2014 10:47:23 PM

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/astronomy/buzz-aldrin-saw-unidentified-object-during-1969-apollo-11-flight-20140712-zt5gh.html

does anyone know about this chick.

“The group that’s behind the network of control are the Jesuits, and there are also some groups behind them. One of these groups are hominids, they’re not human beings. They are very smart, they are not creative, they are mathematical. They had a much stronger force in the earlier ice-age. They have elongated skulls, they may produce offspring in mating with female humans, but that offspring is not fertile. We live in a world of secret societies, and secrets, and the information that ought to be public is not public.”

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/03/28/former-world-bank-senior-council-says-a-second-species-on-earth-controls-money-religion/

You mean like reptilians??

nope, she is talking about coneheads

UFO 'Five Miles Wide' Caught Hovering Above The Ocean In NASA Photo

The Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle

Posted: 18/09/2014 10:08 BST Updated: 18/09/2014 10:59 BST

Brace yourselves for inanity.

Someone has found a five-mile-wide black disc hovering over the ocean in a NASA photograph.

Our friends at UFO Sightings Daily, a blog somehow able to deliver 'MIND BLOWING!' content on the greatest conspiracies in human history once every 24 hours, published news of the find on Thursday.

The disc was discovered in a picture taken November 2013, the original (much darker) version of which is still available on NASA's website.

The website says that while the UFO appears to be above the ocean, it's actually hiding underneath it - though not very well, clearly.

"This shows a massive stealth black disk over the ocean. The dimensions are almost perfect. Streetcap1 of Youtube found this one and I have to say its beyond words. This UFO looks to be more than 5-7 miles across. Since it is over the ocean area, the only place that it could hide without being noticed is below the ocean."

They also published the video analysis of the image, which we've embedded above.

Needless to say there are numerous other possibilities here, including camera glitches, gaps missed by the process of stitching together smaller images to make a large enough one to publish, and interference.

Either way there is no evidence of five-mile-wide stuff hiding under the ocean. Unless you include Atlantis. Which is also not true.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/18/nasa-ufo-ocean-photo_n_5840972.html

Video of a suspected lake monster in Iceland, decide for yourself *spooky music*

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/19/iceland-lake-monster-video_n_5848170.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Excitement over Mars ‘petroglyph’ latest in string of Red Planet alien ‘sightings’

This story was published: 8 hours ago October 28, 2014 11:37AM


Ancient Aliens On Mars

AN ‘ancient engraving’ pictured on the surface of Mars has fired-up social media conspiracy theorists, reigniting speculation that Earth is the lost outpost of a space-faring civilisation.

The “Mars Petroglyph” joins a string of “anomalous” objects found among the thousands of images being beamed back by NASA’s robotic rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity.

Among them are a “humanoid statue”, “ball-bearings”, a microscopic “gearwheel” and a “thighbone” — not to mention the almost inevitable “bigfoot” sighting.

The latest “xenoarchaeological” evidence is said to come from an unusual rock caught in a picture from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover earlier this year.

You may have seen it on social media.

Can you see it? Try the NASA original.

Are there really the remnants of an ancient, petroglyph-covered column in this picture?

Some think so.

The shattered — and heavily pixelated — piece of rubble appears to be heavily marked with scratches and indentations.

Combined with a few red lines, some smoothing of the pixilation and the “primer” of a comparative Earth sourced relic, it can be interpreted as part of an engraving. If you squint.

But that’s enough for YouTube presenter UFOvni2012. He goes on to “prove” its “creators” were humanoid, based on a rather selective red-line tracing of some of the apparent scratches.

Once pointed out, you can see the three deep engraved lines on its surface. But are they really as symmetrical and uniform as the ancient Egyptian comparison?

Or is it just one of millions of unusually weathered rocks combined with the power of suggestion?

Pareidolia is the name for a “shortcut” the human brain takes when interpreting the input of the eye. It sees familiar shapes and objects where there are none — a “quick-draw” response evolved to give us the edge when dodging dangerous beasts in the dark. As a result, it’s easy for us to see blurry rabbits in clouds, or faces on Mars.

The idea that Mars once held an advanced human-looking civilisation first emerged in the late 1970s after a group of NASA scientists poked fun at the way shadows made a nondescript Martian mountain look like a face.

Problem was, many took them seriously.

The Face of Mars has launched a thousand books, blogs and television documentaries — as well as speculation that a vast city of pyramids and honeycomb structures was just waiting to be explored.

But NASA, seeking to set the record straight, made the Cydonia region one of the first locations to be examined by its Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft in 1997. It found rocks, and a mountain which — under the right lighting conditions, could be made to look like a face. From a distance. With added blurring.

It wasn’t enough to douse the flames of speculation.

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/world/excitement-over-mars-petroglyph-latest-in-string-of-red-planet-alien-sightings/story-fnjbobeg-1227104470109

Edited by Joffa: 28/10/2014 09:11:50 PM

Link, Joff?

Fixed, thanks.

NASA satellite captures ‘Earth-sized’ UFO emerging out of the sun: Alien craft?

October 28, 2014 4:30 PM MST 

An amateur astronomer was watching the live feed of the Sun from a NASA satellite over the weekend, and he caught what he believes is a mysterious UFO. 

An amateur astronomer, watching a live feed from NASA’s sun-monitoring satellite, captured what he believes to be an enormous, Earth-sized UFO emerging from our solar system’s yellow dwarf star. The stargazer was watching feeds from the Helioviewer – a solar data browser funded by NASA.

Armchair astronomer Scott Waring was watching the real-time broadcast on Oct. 25 when he saw the massive object rise from the Sun’s turbulent plasma surface. Waring was observing feed from NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, and posted his observations to UFO Sightings Daily, writing:
“

I check out the SOHO photos every day, and was fortunate enough to catch this massive ship as it was exiting or entering the sun. This UFO is solid as you can see. It is as large as Earth itself. Look closely at the surface of it. There are no flames or heat changes. Its color does not change on its surface...unlike the sun itself which has many mixing colors. Russian scientists alerted the world over five years ago to the UFOs that flew around the sun in orbits that suddenly make hard right angles and changes in speed. This is one of them.

Apparently, Mr. Waring himself reported back in 2012 about the “dozens of UFOs” that were buzzing about the sun, again posting his proof-positive pics to UFO Sightings Daily and writing: “Honestly, do you expect aliens with millions of years of advance tech to build tiny ships that carry only a few people? Humans constantly make airline jets bigger and bigger to carry more at once. So do aliens.” He has a point – why would the aliens build a SmartCar version of a spacecraft when they have the technical savoir-faire to construct a Death Star?

The CSMonitor on Oct. 27 had a bit of a different take on the recent "sun UFO." The site carried a video with a different angle on the so-called UFO, and dubbed the angular fin-shaped object a “sun shark.” Of course, diehard UFO enthusiasts will say the craft is a 27 million degree Fahrenheit heat-resistant, magnetic field-dampening futuristic ship full of advanced creatures that are siphoning off hydrogen and helium and using it to power their warp core. As reasonable as that all is, those that are more down-to-earth – literally – will just say it’s a sunspot. But where’s the fun in that?

As the Headline and Global News asks: “How could something withstand that heat and radiation? How did it not burn up and vaporize? If the UFO is a spacecraft, it appears to be as big as the planet Earth.” Indeed. Also of concern: How can I get some help to get my giant, UFO-spotting telescope out of the bedroom in mom's basement?

So what’s it going to be? UFO hiding in the sun? Sun shark with its dorsal fin piercing the gaseous surface? Camera glitch? Sound off below.

http://www.examiner.com/article/nasa-satellite-captures-earth-sized-ufo-emerging-out-of-the-sun-alien-craft

Interactive map shows every recorded UFO sighting since 1933

This story was published: 5 hours ago April 09, 2015 5:08PM

HUMANKIND’S quest for intelligent extra terrestrial life has many of us gazing skyward trying to find any traces of their activity.

UFO sighting over the past century have become almost as common as they are mystifying and intriguing. Just last month, the internet was miffed when a clip of a high speed UFO whizzing over California went viral.

UFO sighting capture popular imagination like nothing else and can lead to the craziest conspiracy theories, including Larry Holcombe’s idea that aliens played a part in the death of JFK.

Regardless of the questionable sanity that can be attached to many claims of UFO sightings, people keep seeing something. Fortunately for all the conspiracy buffs and alien hunters, someone has created an interactive map which shows all recorded UFO sightings since 1933.

In sequence, the world map shows the location of each sighting with a rather fitting flashing dot. The interactive tool was made by MBA candidate Christian Pearson using data from the National UFO Reporting Centre.

“It was a fun way of conveying the point that beautiful data visualisation can provide deep insights,” Mr Pearson told City Lab.

Unsurprisingly, sightings became more frequent in the 1960s as aviation technology began to take off. This also coincides with an increase in CIA activity such as the U-2 program and ariel efforts of Cold War surveillance — something the CIA recently admitted was responsible for UFO sightings at the time.

When scrolling across Australia, it shows how nearly all the recorded UFO sightings have occurred near major coastal cities.

According to its creator, the map discredits the commonly held assumption that UFO sightings tend to happen in isolated, rural areas. “The map clearly shows large clusters of reporting in urban areas,” Mr Pearson said.

Whether you’re a believer or not, you can do your own investigation below.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/interactive-map-shows-every-recorded-ufo-sighting-since-1933/story-fnjwlcze-1227297436178

Project Blue Beam conspiracy theory suggests NASA has secret plans to create new world order

October 24, 20159:17pm

The cityscape seen in the sky over China has fuelled speculation over Project Blue Beam.

Matthew Dunn,news.com.au

WHEN a bizarre event was captured on film showing what appeared to be dark skyscrapers floating in the clouds above China, the world was puzzled.

While scientists were quick to dismiss the occurrence as a mirage, not all agreed.

In the days after the event, one particular conspiracy theory started to gather serious momentum — the belief the sighting was the result of a secret NASA mission known as Project Blue Beam.

Canadian journalist and conspiracy theorist Serge Monast first developed the theory in 1994, before publishing his beliefs in a book entitled Project Blue Beam.

The theory suggests NASA and the United Nations are planning to create a new world order by using technologically simulated mind control to shape a global New Age religion.

Mr Monast believed generating a global New Age religion was the only thing that would make a worldwide dictatorship possible.

Speaking at a presentation in 1994, he speculated that Project Blue Beam would be carried out in four different steps.

STEP 1: The breakdown of all archaeological knowledge

Mr Monast detailed his belief that NASA would aim to discredit all existing religions through the breakdown of all archaeological knowledge.

“[Step 1] deals with the setup of earthquakes at certain precise locations of the planet where supposedly new discoveries will suddenly explain the wrong meaning of all major religions’ basic doctrines,” he said.

The theory suggests that by providing evidence to falsify the teachings of all major religions, people will be more likely to accept the New Age religion when it is formed.

STEP 2: A gigantic space with 3D holographic laser projections

Mr Monast said the second stage in creating a new world order would be using a gigantic space show with 3D holographic images, lasers and sounds to seduce people into believing in the new god.

“The show will consist of laser projection of multiple holographic images to different parts of the world, each receiving a different message according to predominating regional/national religious faith,” he said.

“From the depths of space, astonished followers of the various creeds will witness their own returned messiah in spectacularly convincing lifelike realness.”


Mr Monast said all of these depictions of the messiah would then merge into one.

“This one god will in fact be the anti-Christ who will explain the various scriptures have been misunderstood, that the religions of all are responsible for turning brother against brother, nation against nation; therefore the world’s religions must be abolished to make way for the Golden Age,” he said.

Jesus is coming from the sky to explain your religious beliefs are wrong.

STEP 3: Telepathic two-way communication

This is where things start to get really creepy.

It is believed NASA will use low frequency radio waves to telepathically communicate with humans in an attempt to shape their beliefs to match those taught by the New Age religion.

Mr Monast said the telepathic communication would be used as a form of mind control to trick people into thinking their god is delivering them messages directly.

“[The message will be sent from a] device that can deliver audible signals directly to an individual while they remain undetectable by anyone else,” he said.

“The microwave beam generated by the device is moderated at audio frequencies and can broadcast voices directly into the brain.”

STEP 4: Universal supernatural manifestations using electronic means

The final step of Project Blue Beam is to create chaotic event that will leave people willing or desperate enough to accept the new world order.

Mr Monast said this could occur with up to three different orientations.

“One is to make mankind belief that an alien invasion is about to strike down on each major city of the earth,” he said.

“The second is to make the Christians believe to a major rapture with the supposedly divine intervention of an alleged good alien force coming to save the people from a brutal satanic attack.

“The third orientation in the fourth step is a mixture of electronic and supernatural forces … the goal of this one deals with global Satanic ghosts all around the world in order to push all population on the edge to drown into a wave of suicide, killing and permanent psychological disorder.”

Nothing like staging an alien invasion to send the world into panic.

Is there any evidence to suggest the theory?

As you would expect with such a highly contentious topic, there are strong beliefs supporting and discrediting the conspiracy theory.

Each of the four stages has evidence suggesting they are under way, although it is possible these things are just a coincidence.

The largest supporting evidence for stage one occurred in 2012 when 39 earthquakes rocked the Earth in just two days.

Following the event, leading seismologist Gheorghe Marmureanu said he was puzzled.

“There is no doubt that something is seriously wrong. There have been too many strong earthquakes. The quakes are a surprise that cannot be easily explained by current scientific knowledge,” he told The Watchers.

The recent discovery of what some believe to be Jesus Christ’s tomb and skeleton remains also gives merit to this stage.

Stage two has the most prolific evidence, with endless sightings of holograms in the sky reported.

In addition to the recent city appearing in the clouds over China, there has been video evidence of a Jesus crucifix and a transparent humanoid both appearing in the sky.

While stage three is harder to prove, there has been a whole US government department working to allow communication without the use of vocalised speech through analysis of neural signals. Having already taken control of monkeys limbs through telepathy suggests this may not be far off.

Stage four also lacks substantial evidence, although there has been a number of cases of paranormal investigators discovering ghosts using electronic voice phenomenon recording devices.

If all these factors aren’t enough to convince you, then maybe the suspicious heart-attack death of Monast two years after he began trying to expose Project Blue Beam might sway your opinion.

Then again, this whole concept could be one crazy idea that snowballed out of control.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/project-blue-beam-conspiracy-theory-suggests-nasa-has-secret-plans-to-create-new-world-order/story-e6frfrnr-1227581131784

Schoolboy claims he lived past life as a girl who cooked for a US president

December 29, 20159:06am

A YOUNG boy was just four when he first claimed to be the reincarnation of a girl who cooked food for the first US president, George Washington.

Tristan Martin was watching an episode of Tom and Jerry on TV while his mum Rachel was getting dinner ready in the kitchen.

With the smells of cooking food seemingly triggering a memory, he asked his mum: “Do you remember, a long time ago, I used to cook in George Washington’s kitchen? I was a kid.”

His mum thought he was playing a make-believe game and jokingly asked him if she had been there too.

He replied: “Yes. We were brown people. But later I died — I couldn’t breathe.”

Tristan then gestured with his arms wrapped round his throat.

Rachel read up on George Washington and discovered that his cook, Hercules, had three children — Richmond, Evey and Delia.

After talking to her son, he said he remembered Richmond and Evey — but couldn’t think who Delia was.

Therefore, this gap in his memory has given rise to theories that Tristan was, in fact, Delia in a former life — helping her dad to serve meals to the president.

Her astonishing account can be found in Memories of Heaven, by Dr Wayne Dyer and his assistant Dee Garnes, which features similar stories from other parents with their children.

Dad-of-eight Dr Dyer even claimed his daughter, Serena, often talked in a foreign language in her sleep.

In the book, he claims his daughter told her mother: “You are not my real mother. I have a real mother that I remember, but it’s not you.”

The eerie tome, which is based on dozens of letters and emails sent to him by parents, also includes a girl who says she was a wartime soldier with a blue-eyed daughter and a child claiming to be a much older relative.

Judy Knicely was dumbstruck when her three-year-old daughter announced she used to be a boy, and that her grandmother had been her mother: “I was her little boy and I died when I was almost four.”

Sure enough, her grandmother had lost a son just before his fourth birthday.

One woman reports how her two-year-old son told her he used to be her father.

Another was Suzanne Robinson, who fell asleep, only to be woken by her three-year-old daughter smoothing her hair and saying: “Don’t you remember? I used to be your mother.”

Zibby Guest, from Chester, claims her second son Ronnie was 16-months-old when he started talking, and would often refer to his “other house” where he was “a grown-up” with another mum and dad.

And Susan Bowers, from the US, didn’t know whether to gasp or laugh when her three-year-old looked up from struggling with his shoelaces and grumbled: “I used to be a man before, but I guess I’ll have to learn how to do this again.”

Author Dr Dyer, who was ill with leukaemia for years, died of a heart attack before the book was published.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/schoolboy-claims-he-lived-past-life-as-a-girl-who-cooked-for-a-us-president/news-story/c6c54b0fac34dc0665b0c8dfd1d08f3e

Malaysia: More than 100 secondary school students and teachers affected by mass hysteria outbreak

by Asian Correspondent Staff | 18th April 2016 | @ascorrespondent

A MYSTERIOUS wave of mass hysteria has struck secondary school students and staff at several schools in Kota Bharu, the capital of Malaysia’s Kelantan state, since last week.

The “epidemic” began last Monday when more than 10 students and a teacher at one school were overcome with hysteria.

As the week progressed, it quickly spread throughout the school, affecting more than 50 female students and a few more teachers, disrupting classes.

Students were seen roaming around the school freely, reported local newspaper The Star, with some students claiming to have seen “strange, supernatural beings” at the school.

By Wednesday, more than 100 female and male students, as well as teachers, were allegedly hit by the condition, forcing school officials to shut down the school from Thursday to Saturday to avoid more students from being possessed.

The state education department was said to have sent several ustaz (Muslim scholars) to the school to recite Quranic verses and conduct prayers with students and staff in the hopes to “cleanse” the school. A Chinese bomoh (shaman) from Perak, along with his team, were also called in for assistance.

However, these attempts proved unsuccessful, as on Sunday, though the press was barred from accessing the school, they could hear screams and shouts coming from within the school compound.

Today, three other schools, located less than 10 km from the school which was first hit, reported incidences of more than 30 students succumbing to hysteria.

When reached for comment, state education department officials have said that this was an internal issue and declined to comment further.

A local traditional medicine expert, Wiru Sankala, told The Star that the recent hot weather and repressed emotions, as well as the widely-shared reports of what has been happening, could be why the hysteria has spread to other schools.

In Malaysia, mass hysteria appears to be a fairly common psychological phenomenon, normally striking young teenage girls, especially those at boarding schools.

In May last year, a local university announced an anti-hysteria kit claiming to deter “evil spirits”, which costs up to RM8,750 (US$2,224) and comprises everyday items such as salt, vinegar, black pepper, lime, chopsticks and formic acid.

On social media, Malaysian netizens have jokingly questioned why the kit has yet to be used to help solve the schools’ hysteria problems:


With the hysteria outbreak at KB, wonder what happen to the greater invention off the 20th Malaysian century – Anti hyteria kit, RM 9k only.

— Vmal (@Vmal_Selvamany) April 18, 2016




why not use the anti-hysteria kit from uni msia pahang? oh wait those are like rm 8000 per kit

— kacak (@cheechoong) April 18, 2016




Quick! Send the anti-hysteria kit to SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2!

— Anas Zubedy (@AnasZubedy) April 15, 2016


http://www.theweek.co.uk/71702/mass-hysteria-closes-school-for-a-week

Mass hysteria is such an interesting psychological phenomenon. Going all the way back to the Salem witch trials.

Humans are weird!

Pope has 'PROOF' of ALIEN LIFE: Sensational claim by legendary astronaut in leaked email

THE Vatican has evidence of alien life, according to a sensational leaked email by a late astronaut.

       By              Tom Parfitt                     Tom Parfitt                    PUBLISHED:         19:16, Sat, Oct 8, 2016                                    | UPDATED: 20:24, Sat, Oct 8, 2016                       

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The Pope has proof of alien life, according to the late Edgar D Mitchell

Edgar D Mitchell – the sixth man to walk on the moon – made the staggering claim in an email sent in January 2015, just months before his death.He told John Podesta, now the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, the Pope is "aware" of extra terrestrial intelligence (ETI).Discussing an upcoming meeting, Mr Mitchell wrote: "My Catholic colleague Terri Mansfield will... bring us up to date on the Vatican's awareness of ETI."

The message is one of 2,000 emails released by WikiLeaks last night – with many more disclosures expected to follow.Mrs Clinton's campaign responded by claiming Russian operatives are using WikiLeaks to "meddle in our election" and help get Donald Trump elected.A spokesman also attacked WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying he is intent on "damaging" the Democratic candidate.

WIKILEAKSThe message was sent to John Podesta, chair of Hillary Clinton's campaign

    We're arguably closer than ever to war in space   Edgar D Mitchell

In another leaked exchange with Mr Podesta, the late austronaut warned of the potential war could break out in space. He wrote: "We're arguably closer than ever to war in space. Most satellites orbiting Earth belong to the US, China and Russia."And recent tests of anti-satellite weapons don't exactly ease the scare factor."

Mrs Clinton has vowed to "get to the bottom" of questions about UFOs and open up the mysterious X Files if she is elected in November.Speaking earlier this year, the former First Lady said: "I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that public as possible."If there is something there, unless it's a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public."
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/719093/alien-life-UFOs-Edgar-D-Mitchell-Hillary-Clinton-Wikileaks-Julian-Assange