The Gralien Report

I thought I’d share a link to a recent interview I did with Greg Bishop on his radio program Radio Mysterioso:

Interdisciplinary Paranormalistics

Greg is a good buddy, and we always enjoy discussing a wide variety of topics. In this interview, Greg and I run the entire gamut on a variety of strange subjects that range from modern Ufology to the current state of science and how it relates to unexplained phenomena. An enlightening conversation, with several fun and slightly silly moments to enjoy along the way.

Along with various mention of excursions to the North Pole having taken place this year, one group has made some headway in organizing an expedition to find an opening at the Earth’s point where Earth’s axis meets the surface in the Northernmost hemisphere. The team, whose website is OurHollowEarth.com, shares this vision of discovery with us at their website:

This proposed expedition would like to conduct some scientific observations in the Arctic that is hoped will resolve once and for all whether the hollow earth theory has any validity. The indigenous Eskimos believe there is a hole in the Arctic Ocean. Observations of several Arctic explorers of mirages of land in the Arctic indicate that the most plausible location for a north polar opening that leads into the interior of the earth is located at 87.7 N Latitude, 142.2 E Longitude. To check out this theory, a group of hollow earth believers and scientists would like to charter a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker into the Arctic sea.

The notion that “mirages of land” can be visible stem from a variety of interesting sources. Apparently, Russians were some of the earliest to claim to have sighted what was dubbed “Sannikov Land”, north of the New Siberian Islands. Sannikov Land, in essence, is regarded by most historians as a pseudo-historic “phantom island” that may have existed in the Arctic Ocean. Yakov Sannikov and Matvei Gedenschtrom made the initial claim during their 1809-1810 cartographic expedition to the New Siberian Islands. Being first to report the sighting of a “new land” north of Kotelny Island in 1811, Sannikov’s name was also given to the supposed land mass.
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I wanted to take a moment to direct readers over to the new blog page for one of Nick Redfern’s latest offerings, Science Fiction Secrets: From Government Files and the Paranormal:

Science Fiction Secrets

Here’s what the editorial reviews had to say:

ALL THE INGREDIENTS FOR A HIGH STRANGENESS STEW: Mix two parts science fiction with one part high-level government secrecy. Add a liberal helping of the paranormal. Then let Nick Redfern heat and serve. The result is far, far stranger than anything that you could ever begin to imagine. SCIENCE FICTION SECRETS presents some mind-bending answers to a number of highly intriguing and thought-provoking questions, including: — Did the U.S. Government secretly assist Steven Spielberg in the production of his groundbreaking science fiction movies “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial”? — Why were special agents of the FBI so deeply interested in the life, career, and activities of science fiction author Philip K. Dick (of “Blade Runner” fame)? — How did “The X-Files” spin-off series “The Lone Gunmen” anticipate months in advance the terrible tragedy of 9-11?

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News of a strange “muck monster” has residents of West Palm Beach, Florida, buzzing… but true to Fortean factoid fame, there is a unique bit of synchronicity going on here also, involving a strange Bigfoot-like creature witnessed decades ago in a different locale bearing the same name.

At the website LagoonKeepers.org, several videos have been posted that depict what is being dubbed a “Muck Monster” (click here to visit the site and view the videos). “This appears to be one animal moving in this direction,” said Thomas Reinert, a Marine Biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “Nothing’s breaking the surface. Typically dolphins break the surface, sea turtles, manatee, a large school of fish… if it were a shark at that level you would see a fin.” Is the “Muck Monster” indeed a bizarre cryptozoological mystery, or is it more likely to be something a bit less glamorous?

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Sky News recently reported that Israel “is in the grips of mermaid fever after numerous sightings of the mythical sea creature off its coast.”

According to the report: Kiryat Yam municipality, near Haifa, says it has been told of dozens of sightings in the past few months.

“Many people are telling us they are sure they’ve seen a mermaid and they are all independent of each other,” council spokesman Natti Zilberman told Sky News.

Israeli officials are taking the matter seriously, and one town council “is offering a $1m (£609,000) reward to anyone who can prove the existence of a mermaid in its waters.”

There is a long history of mermaids existing in folk tales and traditions around the world, and in some ways, news of a teenage-looking “mer-woman” flipping around the coastal waters of Israel isn’t anything new, with reports of mermaids dating back several centuries at various locales around the world.

Indeed, mermaids have received the greatest amount of press in fiction, although in addition to fairy tales (as opposed to fish tails) dating back to times before the last century, in 1919 H.P. Lovecraft wrote his horror story Dagon about mer-creatures “damnably human in general outline despite webbed hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips, glassy, bulging eyes, and other features less pleasant to recall.” According to Lovecraft scholars, the story was inspired in part by a dream he had. “I dreamed that whole hideous crawl, and can yet feel the ooze sucking me down!” he later wrote. Critic William Fulwiler also cites Irvin S. Cobb’s “Fishhead”, a story about a strange fish-like human, as an influences, although he also suggested that Lovecraft’s theme of “an ancient prehuman race that will someday rise to conquer humanity” was borrowed from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At the Earth’s Core from 1914.

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As reported in an article at the website Seeking Alpha, The Institute for Supply Management™ ISM Manufacturing & Non-Manufacturing Report On Business® reports that six of the 18 manufacturing industries it monitors reported growth in July, with seven of 17 non-manufacturing sectors also reporting growth. Author William M. Wright states that the ISM “is considered by many economists to be the most reliable near-term economic barometer available.” With such anomalous trends of growth steming from the heart of the current recession, the headline at the top of the page read, “Economic and financial indicators prove green shoots are no UFO”.

“Green Shoots are sprouting around the world,” Wright says. “Everyone still agrees the climb out of the worst recession in decades will be long and slow. But you’d be in denial to ignore the improvements and economic facts.” Funny enough, many would say the same about real UFOs; you’d be in denial to ignore their presence with all the bizarre sightings being reported these days. Take for instance the wealth of reports we are literally hearing every day that involve these “triangle UFOs”, or even alleged visits to eastern Tennessee from “Klingons” (which actually is in conjunction with sightings of mysterious lights over the eastern part of the state that resulted in these photographs). But that’s not all that’s been going on.

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Washington DC area UFO columnist Roger Marsh recently posted this video from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) on his website, regarding fascinating footage of an alleged triangle UFO recorded over Florida just before midnight on July 17th of this year:

The witness described seeing “a triangular object” that moved left to right, as well as up and down. His neighbor had alerted him to the presence of the strange craft, and after seeing it, he went and awoke his sleeping wife, who he calls “the biggest UFO skeptic that I know”. The the object was recorded with the video function on a Casio Exilim 10.1 mega pixel camera, and relative to the circumstances, it is interesting to note that the witnesses observed two airplanes the same evening, which behaved differently from the object in the video above. Of course, this looks very similar to something Gralien Report readers may have already seen. Read on, dear seekers of strangeness…

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Having recently featured the strange (and now infamous) “Gable Film” on his program, now it appears that Fox News commentator Sean Hannity has turned his focus to UFOs, in accordance with his recent “Conspiracy Month” theme:

A complete transcript can also be viewed here.

In this piece, Hannity asserts that little evidence exists as proof of UFOs, save people’s own beliefs, which he says “are pretty much all the proof that they have”, and that most UFOs can be explained easily or are simply “random, unrepeatable occurrences.” Hannity also points out that “the government has not officially examined UFO sightings since 1969,” when the famous Project Blue Book ended. Established in the wake of the 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico, Hannity states that “the government says (the Roswell UFO) was a weather balloon, but conspiracy theorists, well, they still claim it was an alien spacecraft.”

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