Greetings all you Graliens… I want to invite everybody to tune in live this evening to hear me fill-in hosting for Joshua P. Warren on the radio program Speaking of Strange from 8 PM to 11 PM EST. Though we broadcast out of the Southeast, you can listen live on the web from anywhere around the globe by visiting the link below:
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Many people I discuss UFOs with cringe when I mention the word skeptic (let alone when I verbally equate myself with being one in their presence). Sadly, skepticism is looked upon as a bad thing by many who study phenomenology, mostly due to the attitudes exhibited by those who openly label themselves “skeptics”. Conversely, it is just as unfortunate how the self-proclaimed “skeptics” unfairly label and judge those who, according to their ideology, exhibit belief… or anything similar to it. Strangely, I remember it being John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies, who famously (and perhaps best) stated the undying words of caution meant to fall on the ears of every blooming researcher of the unexplained: “belief is the enemy”.
I try to see it from both sides, and learn a little something from each. After all, I can’t go through my life existing without belief in something from time to time (I believe in that burrito I ate hours ago, for instance). Nor can I very easily convince myself that every light I see in the sky, however anomalous they may seem at times, are actually UFO craft from another realm. Fair, healthy, and even discriminating skepticism is an absolute must for anyone who hopes to look at claims of the paranormal seriously. However, what must be completely eliminated, in my opinion, is having a derogatory or otherwise negative attitude toward people from the opposite end of your ideology, regardless of where you may stand.
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Yesterday, every major news outlet had something to say about Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. Whether it was those advocating Mr. Jindal being groomed for running on the Republican ticket for Presidency in 2012, or more likely, the number of articles and commentary which compared him to a robot due to his stiff, emotionless banter 
after President Obama’s address to Congress, Jindal is arguably one of the most popular men in America today. What is far less popular about Jindal, however, is a true encounter he claims to have had with a “demon”, which he believes had possessed a female friend of his while they attended college together decades ago.
Raised in the Hindu tradition, Jindal later read the Bible, saying “I saw myself in many of the parables and felt as if the Bible had been written especially for me. After reading every book I could find on the historical accuracy of the Bible and Christianity, I was convinced that the Bible had remained unaltered throughout the centuries and that circumstances surrounding Christ’s death led to the conversions of thousands.” Slowly but surely, Jindal began to renounce the faith of his family, heading instead down a long, emotionally-trying conversion to Catholicism.
It was during his years in College at Brown University that Jindal stumbled into an encounter which ultimately led to his full conversion to Christianity, though under the most bizarre circumstances imaginable. The story involves a close friend of the future Louisiana governor, whom he refers to using the name “Susan.” Susan had begun to act strangely, and Jindal invited her to a Christian concert, from which he noticed her leaving early. After following her outside, he found her crying, a circumstance about which the governor shares the following:
“Since we had been very careful to avoid any form of physical contact in our friendship, I was not sure how to respond. My inaction and her sobs produced a very awkward situation.”
Ever since President Barack Obama first took office (and even prior to his election), many in the field have speculated as to whether Obama might be “the one”.
In saying this, I’m not referring to anything similar to “Neo” from the popular Matrix films. Instead, I am making a reference to the long-sought President who could assemble an administration which may bring about ultimate disclosure of government files involving UFOs. With his first address to a joint Congress taking place as I write this, I can tell you one thing: don’t expect to hear President Obama discussing UFOs any time soon.
Still, perhaps there are other things I would rather he discuss anyway.
Before I go any further with the notion of Obama’s association with Ufology and possible disclosure, I first would like to give a brief overview of the matters at hand which have occupied his interests instead; since taking office, it is safe to say that our new President has had his hands full. Obama has ordered two more U.S. combat brigades into Afghanistan, deploying 17,000 troops to join the 36,000 that comprise US forces already in the theater. Here at home, he has also worked to issue a $787 bilion dollar spending package which includes some of the following:
* Tax provisions for payroll tax cuts, credits for first time buyers
* Relief funds to individual states
* Health, labor, and education programs
* Unemployment and low-wage assistance
* Housing and transportation systems
The notion that something from within our bodies could be considered an illegal substance seems rather odd to me. However, this is very much the case with the powerful drug Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), active ingredient in the mysterious shamanic ayahuasca tea used by native cultures around the world for vision quests, which also happens to be found in the human body.
The catch is that we don’t know exactly where the DMT is created, though pioneering psychedelics researcher Dr. Rick Strassman has suggested that, in theory, the stuff could be produced within the human pineal gland, which Renee Descartes famously proposed “was the point of mediation between the material body and the immaterial soul.” In the realms of both fact and fiction, the pineal gland has occasionally played an important role with regard to man’s supposed innate abilities to “unlock” psychic powers from within, allowing us to perceive distant worlds which, to the naked senses in our typical day-to-day state of mind, remain hidden. H.P. Lovecraft’s maniacal character Crawford Tillinghast from the short story From Beyond described it as such:
You have heard of the pineal gland? I laugh at the shallow endocrinologist, fellow-dupe and fellow-parvenu of the Freudian. That gland is the great sense organ of organs – I have found out. It is like sight in the end, and transmits visual pictures to the brain. If you are normal, that is the way you ought to get most of it… I mean get most of the evidence from beyond.
The UK-based Sun reported today that an odd-looking “grid-like” structure has been discovered on the ocean floor nearly 620 miles West of the Canary islands at a depth of 3.5 miles. The images, obtained by Google Ocean (see above), have led to speculation that this could be the location of the long-sunken city of Atlantis. Read the rest of this entry »
In early 2007, radio enthusiasts near RAF Lakenheath, England picked up on a bizarre conversation shared between to American F-15 pilots, who appeared to be chasing “an unknown”. “I had a radar hit and it was swinging at what looked like 30 knots,” one pilot tells the other. “There was something there… it didn’t look like a bird, it looked like a rock to me.” Initially the two pilots attempt to avoid the object, the first warning the other pilot that he has “no idea what it was, but basically just heads up. Try to stay away from 17,000.” However, once it appears on their radars again, the two pilots begin to pursue the object in an attempt to get close enough to see what it might be.
In the video above (which is actually a compilation of stock aircraft footage put to audio supplied by UFODATA.co.uk), you can hear the confused banter between pilots as this strange, tiny object hurtles back and forth around them. At one point, one of the pilots actually says “I don’t think it’s falling,” comparing it to some sort of debris or meteorite. Instead, it appears evident that the object, described as “Something very small, some very small black object,” is indeed flying near them at an altitude of about 17,000 feet. What could this strange object have been?
Yesterday many news outlets chose to carry the story regarding internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies of Arizona State University, who (according to press releases) challenged the orthodox view 
that there is only one form of life on Earth in a lecture titled “Shadow Life: Life As We Don’t Yet Know It.” Davies presented his case for “Earthbound Aliens” to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, during a portion of the symposium titled “Weird Life.”
Though Davies calls his hypothetical lifeforms “shadow life”, this has little to do with anything related to the kinds of “shadow people” often described years ago by Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM. Instead, Davies is searching for bizarre life forms which may have differences so minute from those known to science that they could have managed to “fly below the radar”, so to speak, sporting such things as arsenic-based organisms. Arsenic, though poisonous to most living things, is deadly because it so easily replaces phosphorous in our chemistry… but what if some form of simple organism had managed to spring to life from the stuff? Might phosphorous, to these creatures, act much like arsenic would to other organisms?
In the study of cryptozoology, most reports of bipedal half-beasts consist of those falling into the “Bigfoot” category. Occasionally, there are from time to time reports of creatures which differ in various ways from the typical “ape man” and which, by all other accounts, could only be likened more to werewolves, the mysterious monsters of European folklore.
There are, however, various issues that come paired with the presentation of such claims, especially the fact that a werewolf, by definition, is something more likened to a by-product of magic, rather than an alleged flesh-and-blood animal. Historically, the werewolf is merely a man who, if attacked and bitten by another lycanthrope (a word derived from the greek words for wolf and man). Other sources describe the transformation as being the result of a satanic ritual, much like Richard Verstegan’s fifteenth century description which likened them to being evil sorcerers:
(Werewolves) are certayne sorcerers, who having annoynted their bodies with an ointment which they make by the instinct of the devil, and putting on a certayne inchaunted girdle, does not only unto the view of others seem as wolves, but to their own thinking have both the shape and nature of wolves, so long as they wear the said girdle. And they do dispose themselves as very wolves, in worrying and killing, and most of humane creatures.
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Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, father of many inventions that would define the modern electronic era, was perhaps best known for his relentless probing of all things electrical and capable of being machined. In his lifetime, he exhibited a masterful ability to wield raw electricity, earning him nicknames that include “The Father of Physics,” “The man who invented the twentieth century,” “the patron saint of modern electricity,” and “the master of lightning”. But of all the strange energies Tesla was able to harness, a few seemed to have less to do with his mastery of electricity and things physical in nature; at various times in his life, Tesla described “otherworldly forces” that seemed to act on him, often bringing inspiration from serendipitous meetings and almost ghostly events.