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Friday, December 29, 2017

Unexplained Disappearances

“My older brother moved down there after he got a job at Cadbury's chocolate factory in Birmingham. A work colleague told him that story as it was well-known at the time as the "Disappearing Jaguar" story. Apparently, the police officers involved never once changed their story, even years later, but, a witness had come forward some 25 years later but had wanted to be kept out of it at the time. He now had to have a high risk surgery and felt he had to say what he had seen, in case anything happened to him while he was being operated on and wanted the truth to be told. The witness said that the car hadn't "vanished", but that the officers had approached the car and were just about to knock on the window when a bright golden white light burst out of the car through every window. The witness had turned away at that second as he thought his girlfriend had called to him as he was due to meet her. As he turned back because she wasn't there, he saw the 2 officers stood frozen to the spot, not moving, and the car then slowly drove away. After about 1½ minutes, the officers suddenly "re-animated" and carried on as if the car was still going to be there. They looked stunned, shocked and shaken, and as he watched them from the corner he got scared. The witness was really frightened and since this had happened to police men, he thought better about getting involved and walked away minutes later after his girlfriend finally arrived. This was just one of dozens of weird stories that this guy told my brother, and my brother subsequently told me, as he knew things like that scared the crap out of me.

AS A SIDE STORY: This guy was into paranormal stuff, before it became popular. My brother said that this colleague (Who I think was named Jim, Jeff, George, Graham??) who told the stories was always on time, never late, never had a day sick, and had to be made to have his holidays. After 13 years of working with him and just taking his stories as "bits of fantasy", he got very uncomfortable and weirded out one week by him. He told my brother that he had got the feeling that someone was permanently shadowing him, like a ghost was stood next to him or something, and that he was being followed whenever he went anywhere. He told anyone and everyone who would listen and all just thought finally all these stories were getting to him.

Three days later on the Thursday the guy didn't turn in for work and everyone knew something just must be wrong. They tried phoning him several times but the phone was off the hook. The tried the operator who said that the line was connected to another number and that that number was 999, (England's equivalent to Americas 911 Emergency number). She cleared the line and tried to connect them, but the phone was dead. After hearing this, a decision was made that someone should go to his home and see if everything was alright. Three hours later they came back saying they were totally freaked out - by nothing! Two had gone, a woman from personnel, and this guy's immediate boss. They walked to his front door and as they knocked, the door opened. They called out to him, but no response. They walked in expecting to see a body, but there was nothing. The house was neat and tidy. The phone was off the hook and on the floor, but apart from that and the half eaten plate of food on the table, knife and fork still stuck in to a piece of chicken, and one curtain in his living room being half open, while the other was closed, that was it. They checked the whole house for him but zilch! His toothbrush and paste were still in the bathroom. There was a load of washing finished in the machine, but not taken out to dry. His clothes were all still there, nothing was missing.

A neighbor had seen them come in and was now at the door with two policemen thinking they were robbing the place. Explanations were made, calls made and the police then took a missing persons report. This was then the next door neighbor commented that at about 8.15 p.m. the previous evening, when she was watching TV she was disturbed by a bright light coming through the curtains. She ignored it, thinking it was the police helicopter, but then she realised, she hadn't actually heard a helicopter she just assumed because of the fields at the back of the houses, the police were looking for someone, and that they had caught him because she had heard a "sort of a scream but not really a scream", some 3 or 4 minutes later, and thought whoever had been apprehended. Just after that, the lights disappeared and she carried on watching TV.

This guy was never seen again. The police did checks on all flights, ferry's, even coaches and bus companies in an effort to find him, but there was no trace. He had simply vanished off the face of the earth. The cops traced the few friends he did have, but none had seen him since the previous Sunday afternoon when they had all met for Sunday dinner at their usual pub. In roughly 18 years he had never missed a Sunday lunch there, as it was also the weekly meeting for the "Anything Odd" group. They looked in to UFO's, alien sightings, strange occurrences etc etc. Hope this helps."

Source: Youtube comments, Pebbles The Cat

This is my video that might help you understand what was going on - Beyond Creepy

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These accounts remind me of the The M6 and Paris 'Paranormal Crash' incidents. I have been keeping an eye on these cases for over 7 years. I received the following update in late August 2017:

Lon,

I've been turning up some interesting new evidence and this is helping in trying to unravel this mystery.

Firstly that domain name is strange in as much that is actually does nothing and appears to have no reason to exist, what's even stranger is this info:

https://www.whois.com/whois/1of26.com

I am looking into this at the moment as the street does exist in Manchester but there doesn't appear to be a link to Colin Luigi.

I've been doing some more digging and looked at the 1of26 Twitter feed again, but it appears to be all manner of dead ends so I'm not sure what to make of it. John Titor and Ronald Mallett are named in it though and both of these names are linked to time travel.

Titor appears to be a fictitious character from a few years ago however Mallett is the real deal - he's a top US physicist:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/07/05/meet-the-scientist-on-a-quest-to-reunite-with-his-dead-father/

I've managed to clean up the sound on this interview and you can clearly hear the suspects name being confirmed as Steve Garner - he does that after 25 seconds.

It also confirms that Garner was in the morgue and it also confirms he was tampering with dead bodies - something that Mark Collins wrote about in one of his reports.

http://markcollins1.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/paris-crash-latest-man-held-amid-body.html

1 min 34 seconds - the policeman confirms that doctors have never seen that device before.

https://itstimeforanswersblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/interview-with-sound-of-the-main-suspect-caught-in-paris-linked-to-the-m6-paranormal-crash/

This is the first real evidence I have to confirm a potential suspects name to another piece of evidence and also to Mark Collins' reports.

As you can imagine I am now working on the other files to see if they turn anything up.

But to have confirmation that Mark Collins' appears to be right after all these years is a major breakthrough.

Thanks, Time For Answers

As well as the following email:

Hey Lon,

This is SG from the UK, a long time blog reader and enthusiast of your site! I hope you're doing well and can remember that we have corresponded before about the multiple vehicle freeway pile up some years back on the M6 motorway in England that had mysterious elements to it and also linked to a similarly weird vehicle crash in Paris, France. Later there was an investigation by Mark Collins, but the trail went cold. There were intriguing hints of time travel and ''other dimensional'' elements to the story as well.

Another investigator, calling himself ''Time For Answers'' emerged and I updated you about him. Now, about a year since I last heard from him, I received this email (posted above), which is self explanatory. I've listened to the new video, but my computer can't pick up any meaningful dialogue. Perhaps you can do better..

You will see at the end that he asked me to forward his email on to you. I don't know if you can make anything of it, or even have any continuing interest in this story, but I can't get this odd event out of my mind and still hope it may lead somewhere at sometime...like the Todd Sees case which is also endlessly fascinating.

All the best to you, SG

CONSPIRACY? THE INCIDENTS ON THE M6 & PARIS

Here are my previous posts:

Security Footage Surfaces - The Paris 'Paranormal' Crash

New Information Surfaces on the Paris 'Paranormal' Crash

The M6 Crash and Paris Accident: Redux

'Fact or Fiction: The M6 & Paris Crashes'

Investigators Hunt For Key Witness In M6 Paranormal Crash

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Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind: Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances in UFO History

Gone, Just Gone: Thirteen Baffling Disappearances

Lost and Missing: True Stories of People Gone Missing and Never Found (Murder, Scandals and Mayhem) (Volume 5)

Missing Person Case Files Solved: People Gone Missing and Found Again True Stories of Mysterious Disappearances

Daily 2 Cents: Strange Sounds and Lost Time -- Be Wary Of Who You Help -- Man Rigged Front Door to Electrocute Pregnant Wife

Strange Sounds and Lost Time

Huntingdon, UK - 2009-05-31: I was fishing at the end of May beginning of June 2009. Where I was fishing was the middle of nowhere the odd farm but no shops or pubs. I settled down for the night about 1:30 / 2am in my bivvey / tent when a strange thing happened. I heard like a chitter-chattering (talking but loads of voices at same time). I couldn't make out what was being said but it scared the crap out of me. My brother was in the next swim so I went to see if he knew what it was but I couldn't move for the life of me. It was like I was frozen to my bed chair. I couldn't shout or anything. I've never felt like this ever before or after. It was like time had flashed by as the next thing I remember it was 6am and was just getting light.

Now I have started to have dream like flash backs and see things I cannot explain. The main vision is of a 3-fingered hand pointy finger like a lizard claw. But the strange part is what would be the palm of the hand is an opening with tiny wiggley things going all the way around it !!! And more recently I've started seeing an eye. It's jet black teardrop shaped and like a greenish brown skin tone. I don't know if this is linked, but me and my Mrs were trying for another baby since 2005 without joy then my partner fell pregnant within two weeks of this happening and my babe was born with a rare genetic disorder (only 80 case in UK). I don't know if it's anything to do with this or not. In fact I don't even know if anything really happened to me. But it is playing in my head. I don't drink or do drugs. I don't think I'm going mad but do sometimes wonder. Any help or advice would. Be great please. Anon carp fisherman - MUFON

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Man Rigged Front Door to Electrocute Pregnant Wife

A Palm Coast man rigged the front door of his home with wiring attached to a car battery charger in an attempt to electrocute his pregnant wife, Flagler County Sheriff’s investigators said.

Michael Wilson, 32, is accused of trying to kill his wife after he attached electrical devices to the inside of the deadbolt lock and the door handle of their Palm Coast home, according to a charging affidavit. The ploy, which could have easily led to her death, was to have her insert the house key and then grab the handle, completing the circuit and sending a jolt of electricity through her arm, chest and heart.

Fortunately for Wilson’s wife, who was in Knoxville, Tennessee with family at the time, she never took a hold of that door knob. Her stepfather, Jon Flositz, became suspicious after she told him Wilson had warned her not to let a child touch it. Flositz went to examine the house with his wife, Alissa, and they found the word “Hi” and a drawing of two eyes in what appeared to be lipstick on the back sliding door, according to the deputy’s report. Read more at Palm Coast man rigs door to electrocute pregnant wife, deputies say

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Be Wary Of Who You Help

'The hits keep on a comin' Sigh. Another hit-piece in reference to the Chicago sightings has surfaced. This time from Allison Jornlin, who was producing YouTube videos on the sighting locations and directly quoting the reports from Phantoms & Monsters on the video. I allowed the videos to be linked to the interactive map...which, of course, she also cashed in on through YouTube. I also took the time to participate on her podcast. I was just trying to be a nice guy. Allison was allowed to participate on the Chicago Phantom Task Force Facebook messenger thread...that is until I removed her for demanding that I give her witness information and for other statements and actions on the thread that were unbecoming of an investigator. After that, she began a campaign to discredit the Chicago sightings...all in an attempt to garner notoriety as a skeptic. It's also interesting that the push-back from her other associates kicked into full gear as soon as my book was released. The vindictiveness in the paranormal community is shameful...and will continue until the hacks are exposed. Mothman Problems: An Interview with Allison Jornlin. (NOTE: the witnesses who contacted me were independently verified by a well-known & respected paranormal investigator. There are others on the task force who will confirm this. Lon)

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Thursday, December 28, 2017

UFO Shot Down in 1829

By Jon Wyatt - In 1829 the British press reported an unidentified flying object was shot down at Wandsworth, England. Wandsworth is a suburb of London, about 4 miles (6 kms) SW of Big Ben; however, in those days it was still a traditional cloth-making village with many French emigres. Here is the old report as told in the language of the day:

“A very strong sensation was excited a few days ago in the vicinity of Wandsworth, by the appearance of an extraordinary animal, who was observed floating slowly through the air nearly over the village. Its appearance, which was that of a fish of about 20 feet [6 m] in length, and proportionate bulk, excited alarm amongst many, and astonishment amongst all, who beheld it.What it was? and how it came there? were questions very eagerly and naturally asked, but not so easily answered. Conjectures were hazarded, without number, and without result. Nobody could give a satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon, though every body made the attempt.

“It was a fish--it was a serpent,--it was ‘very like a whale’ but something supernatural, portentous of strange and awful events: one or two of the more shrewd looded upon [called out] it is one of the visitations with which the country had been threatened in consequence of the passing of the Catholic Bill [Catholic MPs could sit in the British parliament for the first time since 1728]. But whatever it was, it seemed to be the general wish that it should if possible be removed from the neighbourhood. But then came the question--how? To take a monster of such dimensions alive, was an attempt which might be attented with much danger. It was therefore considered prudent to kill it first, if it could be killed.

“For this purpose some of the best shots in the neighbourhood were put in requisition. Several fowling-pieces were discharged at it, without any other effect than that of adding to the terror of many of the spectators. At last a gentleman brought out a long strand-piece [a gun for waterfowl], loaded with duck-shot, and took his aim, he was successful. Some of the shot pierced the animal’s side, when to the terror of crowds who looked on, it changed its form and sank to the earth….

“For a time no person was hardy enough to approach it; but at last, not seeing it move, the gentleman who brought it down, advanced, and to his surprise, and the great relief of many present from their alarms, found, that it consisted of a quantity of silk made in the shape of a fish inflated with gas. The phenomenon was now explained.”

The Wandsworth “flying monster” was a novelty hydrogen-filled blimp. It’d escaped from the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, a fashionable amusement park in London and drifted a few miles to the village where it met its Waterloo. The press noted “The proprietors, it seemed, had prepared the monster, intending that it should rise from the waters of the Hydro-pyric Temple, and float amidst the fire-works over the heads of spectators. Having been properly inflated, it was slightly fastened to that part of the temple from which it would ascend, but, in the course of the night, the strings became loosened and it escaped!”

The scare was not unique. On August 27, 1783, when the world’s first hydrogen balloon, The Globe, went aloft in Paris, from where the Eiffel Tower now stands, it drifted NE to the small village of Gonesse, today a suburb of Paris, where the farmers took it for a monster and destroyed it with blunderbusses, pitchforks and scythes.

In both instances there was nothing to fear but the insurers.

Sources:
London Standard 18 June 1829, p4.
Sydney Monitor (NSW) 3 March 1830, p4
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Aircraft/Balloon-Charles.html

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Daily 2 Cents: 'Werewolf' Encounter Reported in Allegheny National Forest -- Shark in Lake Michigan? -- 'Mini Ice Age' Predicted For UK by 2030

'Werewolf' Encounter Reported in Allegheny National Forest

Location: Kane, PA – Allegheny National Forest along Route 6

Date of sighting: October 20, 2017

Time of sighting: approx. 2:30 PM EST

Witness statement: I was going home from work on Rt. 6 when a very tall, massive wolf like man crossed the road in front of me. After I passed it and looked in my rear view mirror it crossed the road again to where it came from. It did not look in my direction but I saw it in full view as in entered the road at an angle facing me. (Witness referred to creature as 'werewolf')

Description: Very tall, muscular, dark hair, funny looking legs. Strange bright shining eyes.

More to follow after meeting with witness and viewing location. Butch Witkowski

Butch Witkowski / Lon Strickler - Pennsylvania Lycan Investigations

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Shark in Lake Michigan?

MILWAUKEE — A woman visiting Milwaukee for the holiday weekend believes she spotted a shark in Lake Michigan.

In a message to WISN 12 NEWS, Carlin Hastings said she was walking along McKinley Beach when she spotted the big fish with what appeared to be dorsal fin resembling that of a shark.

"Everyone I showed it to said it looked like a shark," she wrote.

A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman could not identify the fish from the video.

"I can't say definitively what it is," Cheryl Masterson said, pointing out the fuzziness of the video and the lack of anything else in the frame to offer a size perspective.

Masterson said the fish could be a large sturgeon or chinook salmon. Video at Is this a shark in Lake Michigan?

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'Mini Ice Age' Predicted For UK by 2030

A mini ice age that would freeze major rivers could hit Britain in less than two decades, according to research from universities in the UK and Russia.

A mathematical model of the Sun's magnetic activity suggests temperatures could start dropping here from 2021, with the potential for winter skating on the River Thames by 2030.

A team led by maths professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University built on work from Moscow to predict the movements of two magnetic waves produced by the Sun.

It predicts rapidly decreasing magnetic waves for three solar cycles beginning in 2021 and lasting 33 years. Read more at Scientists predict 'mini ice age' could hit UK by 2030

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Robert Goerman and others have been calling for me to disclose witness information in relation to the Chicago sightings. This is Goerman's website...he should re-read his "My Investigator Code of Conduct", especially #3 - "An investigator will respect the wishes of witnesses, colleagues, and professionals; and shall safeguard confidences and privacy." #hypocrite