Strange Rains

Mysterious things that fall from the Sky

Recently I began reading ‘The Book of the Damned’ by Charles Fort.  So far I have found it to be a very interesting read.  I had previously heard of weird things falling from the sky before, but after only a few chapters in, I found myself blown away.  The shear number of weird and strange things that rain from the sky over these many years was mind boggling.  Rocks, Fish, Frogs, Crabs, Lizards, Corn Husks, Snakes, Alligators, Mana, Candy, Flesh and Blood, to name a few.  This obviously sparked my interest to look into this a little more.

                                                                              Star Jelly

The following is a timeline I put together of some of these Mysterious Rains.  This timeline is by no means complete.  I hope you find it as interesting as I did.

1833 November 13th, Rahway, New Jersey - Had a very mysterious rain occur on the morning of November 13th 1833 that the citizens described as “Raining Fire”.  Upon investigating this strange phenomena, they came across a translucent yellow, jelly-like substance.  Weirder still is later when they went to retrieve some of this jelly, it had seemingly dried into a clump of particles resembling sand.  When touched, it is said to have disintegrated and disappeared.

1851 February 15th, Simpson County North Carolina - Citizens of Simpson County had one of the most disturbing rains of them all.  They had flesh and blood rain on them.  It was only over a small area, but it was also far from the last of it’s kind.

1851 July 24th, San Francisco - In the same year, blood and flesh again fell, this time on Benicia Army Base.  It was believed to be beef, and after some testing was shown evidence of it being tainted by a disease of some kind.

1857 January 17th, Ottawa Illinois - Speaking of Fiery Rains, Cinders or even ash fell upon a farm in Ottawa Illinois.  Though it only landed in a small area, the larger cinders burnt themselves into the ground.

1857 September 11th, Lake County California - The kids in Lake County California had a nice treat befall them as candy rained from the sky on two separate nights.  It is rumored that some of the sweets that fell from the sky where turned into syrup among other treats, and seemed fine to consume.  Whatever is causing these strange phenomena seems to not only have a sense of humor, but a sweet tooth.

1869 August 1st, Los Nietos California - Another rain of blood and flesh showered several acres of a farm in Los Nietos.  The rain only lasted a few minutes and then stopped.  The event was blamed on Buzzards whom might of regurgitated mid-flight.

1870 August, Sacramento California - Thousands of Lizards only a few inches in length rained over a small area in Sacramento California.  They where alive when the hit the ground and houses, and many survived the impact, living for several days after in the water drains.

1876 March 3rd, Bath Kentucky - Flakes of meat fell on Bath Kentucky.  The meat was believed to beef, as it couldn’t be properly identified as any other meat.  These flakes of meat averaged about 3 inches long and wide.  It fell over an area about 45,000 square feet

1877, South California - Several Alligators rained from the sky over a small area in South California.  They, like the lizards, where still alive upon impact and continued to move around.

1877, Memphis Tennessee -  Thousands of snakes about 15 inches in length fell on the southern part of Tennessee.  They again where still alive when they hit the ground.   It was theorized that a hurricane is what lifted and dropped off these snakes, but a lingering and unanswered question remained that put a stupor in the theory, which was how could so many of the same species of snake, collect together, then be lifted and dropped off by a hurricane in a particular location, without other debris tagging along.

1881, Worcester England - A strange storm poured tons of crabs, identified as the Periwinkle Crab upon Worcester in England.  Not much else seems known about this.

1881 October, Milwaukee Wisconsin - An interesting change of pace of strange things that fall happened in Milwaukee.  Long ribbons of what appeared to be spider webs fell in blankets.  Some where as long as 60 feet in length.  There was no mention of seeing spider before, during or after the event.

1886 September 4th, Charleston South Carolina - Stones rained from seemingly no where in the sky on a building in Charleston.  The stones where reportedly warm to the touch, and came down with a lot of force.  This stone rain repeated itself two additional times that day.

1896 November, Baton Rouge Louisiana - Baton Rouge experienced something that we recently have experienced.  A flurry of dead birds fell from a clear blue sky, cluttering the streets.  There where no discernable reason as to the bird’s deaths, but it was believed a storm drove them inland, in which they where struck by a sudden temperature change that caused the death shortly before plummeting.

1947 October 23rd, Marksville Louisiana - The same year as the famous crash of Roswell, New Mexico, Louisiana had it’s own little crash, of fish.  The conditions in the sky where fair, but not perfect.  Though there were no storms in the sky, there may have been fog at the time.  Fish then suddenly began falling from the sky over 300 meters long and 30 meters wide.  The falling fish also struck many pedestrians on the street.

1950 September 26th, Philadelphia - Two Philadelphia police officers on the night of the 26th spotted what appeared to be a luminous object falling from the sky into an open field in the distance.  Upon investigation, their flashlights illuminated what appeared to be a six foot mass of pulsating, purplish jelly.  Soon two other officers joined them and they tried to move the mass of jelly.  When they tried to lift it, it broke apart in their hands.  A half and hour later, the jelly mass had evaporated and was gone.

1953 September 7th, Leicester Massachusetts - A hailstorm of Frogs and Toads rained from the sky in Leicester.  This swarm of Frogs cluttered the streets and congested the storm drains.

1961 July 12th, Shreveport Louisiana - Green Peaches began raining from a single dark cloud looming in the sky above Shreveport.  The peaches where about the size of golf balls, rained down on some workers on a roof July 12th.  This strange event only lasted a few moments before passing.

1981 May, Nafplion Greece - One morning in May, Nafplion, a city in Southern Greece, awoke to a tiny, yet very large rain.  Little tiny frogs, weighing only a few ounces and native to North Africa, began raining from the sky.  These small frogs seemed unharmed by their fall, and continued hopping around after landing in the streets and some trees.

1994 August 7th, Oakville Washington - The little town of Oakville had a peculiar rain one evening when little drops of jelly-like substance rained from the sky.  After the rain, the townspeople began to fall ill, which lasted for several weeks.  This strange rain occurred at least five more times there, and after some testing on the goo, they found the jelly to be a living substance.

2001 August, Wichita Kansas - Residents of Wichita witnessed Corn Husks falling from the sky.  These sheathes fell in the thousands over east Wichita, and measured about 25 inches long.

2007 April 6th, Argentina - A man from Argentina and his friends decided to take a hike up a mountain for their Easter vacation.  At about 3:00 in the afternoon, the strangest, and probably creepiest thing occurred, it started raining spiders.  The sky had some clouds, but nothing beyond that, other then the spiders.  Several even landed on them as they preceded to hike up the mountain.  This event is widely recognized as one of the hikers managed to take several photos of this freaky rain.

2009, Scotland - Jelly again rained from the sky, this time in Scotland.  The small globs of jelly, dubbed ‘Star Jelly’, where investigated by scientists commissioned by National Geographic.  They have yet to find any DNA in this Jelly, and no adequate explanation as to the Star Jelly’s origins have been accepted yet.  It remains a mystery.

2010 December 31st, Beebe Arkansas - One of the most recent events to occur made it into the media across the country.  Blackbirds, presumably dead, began falling from the sky late New Year’s Eve, 2010.  Thousands of birds fell on houses, in roads and fields of the area.  The cause of this is unknown, but many theories are out there ranging from Fireworks that startled the birds into plummeting to their deaths, to a sudden change in temperature where they were flying which might have caused them to go into shock, and fall to their deaths.  The theories don’t end there, but the mystery remains in the air.

2012 January 26th, Bournemouth United Kingdom - Blue jelly-like spheres fell from the sky, along with a hailstorm on a man's yard. These spheres, about 3 cm in diameter, where near impossible to pick up by hand because of it's sleek coating, and had to be scooped up instead. They were found to be incredibly fragile, yet did not dissolve in water. It was also noted that they did not have a smell to them.

These are far from the only accounts of strange rains that have peaked our curiosity or plagued our imagination.  The more I looked into these rains,  the more I ran into additional events, too many to list here sadly.  But it seems throughout our history, strange, weird or even supernatural things continue to fall right out of the sky at us.

Some of the most popular theories as to how and why these mix of things pour down on us, range from Tornados to Hurricanes, or Volcanoes blowing something away or that they never rained in the first place, they either where there all along and we didn’t notice them, or in the case of animals, they came in on there own, and we assumed they fell from the sky.

The only real issue I have with these theories is in many cases, there is almost always something very specific about what, or how it rains.  Some cases involving animals would rain only a specific species of animal, or family.  Others it was the pin-point accuracy of these rains that was the anomaly, or that in many cases, the animals where unharmed, or even the shear number of animals in the rain.  My favorite is the Jelly, because it is just strange, and it’s origins and substance can’t be identified.

In any case, I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did researching it.

I now leave you with another lolcats!

Till Next Time!


Sources:

http://www.prairieghosts.com/falls_sky.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/433325/mysterious_rains_the_strange_things.html?cat=34
http://www.weirdworm.com/8-strange-things-that-fell-from-the-sky/

‘The Book of the Damned’ by Charles Fort:

http://www.resologist.net/damnei.htm

Is Exorcism Real?

Demonic and Spirit Possession

We’ve all seen the movies:  The Exorcist, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Last Exorcism, among many others, like BeetleJuice.  It’s a pretty big topic in Hollywood, and people flock to theaters to see these movies.  A new one coming out is The Rite, and a new show coming out I hear is The Exorcist Files, which will be a show that recreates actual Exorcism cases, with the help of the Vatican itself, or so the rumor goes anyways.

The topic of Exorcism here was surprisingly difficult to research.  There wasn’t a lot of information out there to really take from, at least from sources I felt where credible.  I did manage to get some information on it for the most part, but a lot of it is spread out, bits and pieces here and there.  Not surprisingly, when I started looking it up, what I mostly got was listings and information on the movies above.  Beetlejuice surprised me the most as an exorcist movie, I had to stop and remember for a moment, and I was like “Oh yeah, I guess it is…”.

Most of us are subjected to Exorcism through movies, but history is full of Demonic and Spirit Possessions dating back to as far as 1000 B.C.  From Ancient Persia, to Ancient Mesopotamia, to the Ancient Babylonian.  Almost every culture, at one point in time or another, recognizes this phenomena, including, Buddhism, Muslim and Christianity, and each developed their own form of Exorcism to remove unwanted entities from a person.  Each tailoring the ritual or rite to their specific beliefs and culture.

Though Demons are most often credited for possessing someone, Spirits have also been known to do so as well.  Some cultures, such as Shamans, both African and Native American, Balinese Animists and Haitian Voodou Practitioners, voluntarily invoke Spirits for possession,  in order to access knowledge, or information about the future.  Though they do this willingly, they do not do it foolishly, as they understand the risks involved.  Some spirits once in, don’t wish to leave, and others, don‘t need an invitation at all.  This has been found true in many cultures, even the ones that don’t voluntarily invoke spirits, and this is the basis and reason for Exorcism in it’s many forms.

A couple of the more famous cases had movies based on them:

Robbie Mannheim - Is the famous boy who was possessed (or allegedly, as some believe it may have been faked) back in 1949.  A book was published in 1971 titled “The Exorcist”, which would then go on to be a movie with the same title in 1973.

Anneliese Michel - Is the famous girl who was possessed and underwent exorcism starting in 1975, it ended in 1976, when Michel died.  Two movies where roughly based on this event.  The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Requiem.

These are only two of the more famous cases, mostly because movies where made after them, and now have a fan base.  But there are many more cases of exorcisms.  I was unable to find even a rough number of how many exorcisms are performed each years.  But, from what I’ve found, the number of both exorcisms and exorcists are on the rise, and have been since 1999.

On September 11th, 2000, Pope John Paul II performed an exorcism on an Italian girl who began screaming in St. Peter’s Square.  He apparently was unable to fully cure the girl.  However, this was not his first, nor his last.  In 1982 his first exorcism was performed on a woman who was stricken with pain from the exorcism, and his last was in 2001, on a 20 year old girl.

But Pope John Paul II, nor any other Pope, is the most famous exorcist known, in fact it’s Jesus Christ (was it really that surprising?), the bible has more then 20 references of him casting out spirits or demons from people.

Speaking of the bible, according to it, there are 3 types of Possession.

Oppression - Demonic influence (I’m assuming) puts pressure on someone, preventing them from doing things by creating hindrances and blocks.

Obsession - Creating trouble in the mind.  The person becomes infatuated with an idea, desire or emotion, so much so that the mind can not be taken away from it.

Possession - The Demon (Or Spirit) takes total control of the person.

According to the types of possession above, I have 2 out of the 3, and that scares me a little…

Some of the Symptoms said to be attributed to Possession are:

Convulsions; Seizures; Changes in personality; Lewd or Obscene behavior; Swollen Stomach; Rapid Weight Loss; Strange changes in the Voice; Horrible Smells emanating from the person; Sexual Thoughts; Speaking in a different Language; Having Knowledge of the Future; Superhuman Strength; Levitation.

So if you’re an under-weight, multi-lingual, psychic male, with epilepsy and gas problems, you may be in some serious trouble.  Oh and you may be possessed….

Looking at it from the medical perspective, Sexual thoughts would indicate most men are possessed.  Swollen Stomach might be due to Malnutrition.  Lewd or Obscene behavior could be caused by many Mental disorders.  Personality changes could by caused by Hysteria or Schizophrenia.  Seizures and Convulsions as stated might be Epilepsy.  Speaking in a different Language could be Glossolalia.  Knowledge of the Future could be Clairvoyance, and I would hold on to that one…. And go to a Casino.

A couple of my favorite theories though are.  Multiple Personality Disorder; Altered States of Consciousness; and Personality Thought Forms derived from the Subconscious mind to express itself much in the same way of Poltergeist Activity.  But these are only theories.

It would seem that Medical Science has all but completely mopped up the theory of Possession.  But, in light of the medical discoveries that share many of the symptoms of a demonic possession, the Catholic Church has taken the precaution of medically examining potential patients in order to determine if the person is actually possessed, or if it’s just an untreated medical condition.  But, even with the screening in place, the Church still performs exorcisms.  That says that some are believed to be actually possessed.

So, if it is just some Medical Conditions, how come both Exorcist and Exorcisms are on the rise?  I do believe in many things dealing with the supernatural or paranormal.  I may have taken the stance of a Skeptic here, but after reading what I read in order to research it, some good questions have been raised, on both sides of the topic.  If nothing else, I’m open to the possibility.

Believers of the Phenomena however are not convinced by the explanations provided by the medical community.  Claiming that many of the explanations don’t actually fit, or the odds of having all of these conditions in a single person is too large.  Some even say you have to be there, or experience it to believe it (Which I don’t think was a suggestion).

I guess I’ll let anyone who reads this decide.

Oh and here’s a video I found on it.  Oddly enough there weren’t a lot of videos on Exorcism, at least not many that didn’t cost money.

Anyways, hope you enjoy!



Ok, that’s all I got for now.  But here’s some lolcats again!

Hope you enjoyed!

Till next time!

Disinformation vs. Misinformation

The difference between Disinformation and Misinformation.

 

There are three kinds of information in this world, Disinformation, Misinformation and Truth.  Everything you learn, falls under one of these three categories.  The News, media, talk shows, magazines, gossip, articles, books, word of mouth, even your school teachers.  These are all primary places you can get information from.  They are all also capable of being deceptive, misleading, misguided, honest and factual.  But, how do you know which one it falls under? 

I started thinking about this during my last post on Subliminal Messages.  I presented some evidence to suggest it, but I’m no expert in this field.  Like everyone, I look to those who seem to have answers in order for me to have the answers as well.  I go read articles, and visit websites and watch videos and talk to people.  I try to spread my research abroad so I can gain as much information as I can about a subject.  But, Subliminal Messages was a tricky one, how can you tell which are actual hidden messages, and which are just coincidence.  Some of them are obvious enough to know for certain these hidden influences are going on, but some seemed quite stretched.  Like the words “Sex” spelt out with hair, or something else.  I couldn’t help but wonder, if this person makes it his business to find such hidden messages, then isn’t it possible, that they may dig so deep, they find things that aren’t actually there?

In one of the videos in my last post, at the end, he did admit some could be coincidence, but the question still got me thinking.  This blog deals with many Paranormal and Supernatural subjects, and even Conspiracies.  Many of which have not been accepted by science, and many questions are left in the air unanswered.  This is apart of its appeal to me, but at the same time, this worries me a little…

Disinformation is the deliberate act of giving false information, and to lie about something.  I know I will never deliberately lie about anything on this blog.  I’m after the truth, and I know, so are you.  But, I am worried a little about misinformation.

Misinformation is the unknowing act of giving false information.  Every post I have done about a subject, has several possible explanations.  Ranging from Supernatural and Paranormal explanations, to possible scientific explanations.  I will do my best to provide the best and most accurate information I can, but even after that, it is still possible my information could be misinformation.  I don’t want to scare people away, I definitely don’t want that, but it is a possibility.  In truth, this possibility exists on every site, and every source of information you go to.  So, how do you defend yourself against Disinformation and Misinformation?  Well, with Truth.

Truth is not fool-proof unfortunately, it is subjective.  But the best way to obtain truth is through experience.  You need to personally research a subject you take interest in.  Make it broad, spread it out and around, this will give you a much more wide gaze into what your researching, and allow for more information to be taken in.  But, as pointed out above, the information you are getting could be misinformation, or worse disinformation.  This is true, but there is a sequel to research, you also need to “Test” it.  If it’s a subject you can test, personally test it.  This will quickly weed out the crap and misinformation involved.  This is not to say to test everything.  Don’t try to explode into flame to test Spontaneous Human Combustion, that would probably end very badly for you, so I won‘t recommend it.  So, if you can test it, try and test it.  But if it’s a subject like Spontaneous Human Combustion, and you cant test it, there is one more thing you can do, but it’s less concrete.  Form an Opinion…

If you can’t test it, you can still likely research it.  If you research it thoroughly, you can find details, and repeating patterns, and other things that may stick out to help you learn more about it.  Once you have gathered enough on it, and feel comfortable, go ahead and test it, and give it the benefit of the doubt, who knows, you may be surprised at what you find.  But if you can’t, you can always form an ‘Opinion‘.  Opinions can ‘NOT’ be wrong.  It’s when they’re declared as ‘FACT’ that they can be wrong.  On most subjects in this blog, I try and give my opinion on the matter, I will show some videos and sources that helped me make up my opinion, and they themselves could be misinformation.  But, I sort of treat each subject like a case, in which I present the case and my opinion, maybe some other sources to show some of how I came to that opinion, and then encourage you to form one of your own. 

I also want to spread awareness of these abnormal phenomena going on in this world, as they really are going on.  But we don’t know how, or why, so I try and spread the word a bit, and get people to take more of an interest in the Paranormal and Supernatural and even Conspiracies, so we can answer some of these puzzling questions, whether it be a Scientific answer or Paranormal one.  The reason I include Conspiracies here is, there are a lot of conspiracies that raise some good questions, and through some reading, I am beginning to wonder if the government, or some organization does hold many answers to a lot of these questions and just isn’t sharing.

I also know they have used Disinformation tactics before, and still do to this day.  I am constantly plagued with the question, ‘What do they know, that I should’…



I love this guys video series.  They’re quick, and fun to watch.

Anyways, I think that is it for this post.

The Ghost Post

Ghosts

Everyone’s heard of Ghosts.  Many even believe they have had a Ghostly encounter of some kind in their life.  A temperature change, a sudden feeling of unease, a light touch or breathing on the back of your neck.  A sense of another presence in the room, just staring at you, as if it had intentions for you, intentions you aren’t quite sure of, but something you're sure, you wouldn’t like.  Shadows moving in your peripheral vision.  Strange noises like foot steps or voices coming from places when you know no one is there.

In the darkness, from the shadows, they watch you, planning new ways, to hide your favorite bunny slippers.  Devious and mischievous beings, their only purpose seems to be, to annoy the living crap out of you…  Or scare the living crap out of you, which ever one comes first...

Bad/Failed jokes aside, the Phenomena attributed to Ghosts is a very real phenomena.  Though science, and it’s predictability can’t rest until it has abolished such things from the world, it has come up with several possibilities to challenge Ghosts and the activity closely associated with them.

I personally believe in Ghosts, but I also believe that some phenomena aren’t Ghost related.  I find myself at a crossroads when it comes to Ghosts.  I have had things happen to me that I can’t explain, but maybe the videos listed below can.  First I will share a few of my tales.

Some basics things, I stay up fairly late at night, sometimes (Most the time) I play my video game.  It’s the only time of day I get a chance to.  There is usually only one light on, and it’s just behind and above me.  At night, I will begin to see shadows on the wall, almost always in the same spot to my right.  Or things moving always to my right, and as I look over to see what it causing the shadow or movement, it stops or goes away.  When this started happening, I didn’t attribute it to Ghosts, and I still don’t.  To me, it is the unfocusing of my eyes, specifically my peripheral vision that turns a light shadow, into a darker one, which makes it look like weird shadows on the wall.

Doesn’t sound spooky, does it?  Because it’s not.  Infact I’m pretty certain it’s not a Ghost, and if it is, it’s lame, and needs a better bag of tricks.  This is sort of my control of sorts.  Now, back up in time a little and we come to my old home, bout 5-6 years ago.  At that time, I was sleeping in the basement (I don’t want to hear any jokes) because no one else wanted to.  The basement was unfinished at the time, and we had a washing machine and dryer, a hot water tank, the furnace, and an old, kind of creepy desk that the original owners left behind, and no one seemed to toss out.

To cut to the chase, things happened down there.  Every person in my family, including all my friends, had experiences in that house.  Most of which was localized down stairs and at night, when I was trying to sleep, hence the annoying or scaring the crap out of you comment above.  The lightest of activity would just be weird or incoherent noises that I usually attributed to the furnace or hot water tank, or something else down there.  The less frequent, but a little more creepy experience was when I started to hear little girls giggling down there, just on the other side of my wall.  It wasn’t always distinct, and I kept wondering if it was just in my head, so I let it go.

It began to get more intense.  It came to a point where it would take most of the night just to fall asleep, as this figure, which I could see in my mind very clearly, came into my room, fists clenched, breathing heavily and just staring at me from the corner of my bed.  I could draw this guy perfectly the image was so clear.  His presence was clearly felt, and his intentions felt far less then peaceful, like he wanted to do physical harm to me or something.  He scared the crap out of me.  I actually had to sleep with a nightlight for a while because of how frequently I checked to see if something was there.  It was a very disturbing feeling.

Some nights (Very few) nothing would happen, and I could fall asleep with no problems, but he was most of the time there.  This persisted for the better part of a year before I couldn’t take it anymore and decided to move upstairs to the couch.  Eventually I managed to trick my sister into trading rooms with me, hers which was upstairs from mine which was downstairs.  My conscious got the better of me and I ended up telling her its creepy down there, to which she replied, “I don’t care”.  Anyways we switched rooms, and since then I didn’t have another experience.  Except one time upstairs.  Same guy, just for one night, sitting at the end of my bed, huffing and puffing for the little piggy with the new upstairs room.

After that though, it was over, and my sister started talking about her experiences.  Besides the basic creepiness, some of my friends had some alarming experiences.  One of my friends would frequently come over to play video games with me, since he didn’t own the game.  One night he stayed over and up late playing.  He said that when he was playing, he saw a shadow form to his left, right in front of the front door, when he looked over he could see this transparent old man, kind of tall and skinny.  The reason why this story is so interesting, is because on occasion, my family and I all saw this old man (He seemed nice and didn’t cause any trouble, except for when loud music was playing, but I’ll get to that).

We began to get curious and looked into the house’s previous owners a little and found the man who first owned (Or maybe built, can’t remember) the house, fit the description of my friend.  He said he only saw it for a moment before it faded away.  Another experience one of friends had (Different friend) was when my bedroom was downstairs, and me and my friend where down there talking, and I had to go to the bathroom.  The bathrooms upstairs, so I headed up.  I went and did my duty, and as I came down, I noticed the light was off.  I figured he was going to try and scare me, but as soon as I hit the bottom of the stairs, I heard him get up and quickly switch on the light.  When I looked at him, he had a bewildered face, so I asked “What’s wrong?”.

He proceeded to tell me that when I was in the bathroom, the light switch flipped off.  He said he thought it was me trying to play a joke on him until he saw me coming down the stairs, at which point he got up and quickly turned on the light.  When I asked him about the light switch, he said he thought it was me because he distinctly heard the light switch flip off.  I was actually kind of jealous, it was my room after all, why couldn’t that have happened to me!

The last one belongs to my sister.  After I tricked her into moving downstairs, she, after her own experiences, moved back upstairs and into the living room.  She would frequently listen to music far to loud (And still does, thankfully she doesn’t live with me anymore).  One day she began to complain about us touching her stereo, as every time she would turn it on, the volume would be to low to hear anything.  We told her it wasn’t us, (And it wasn’t), but she didn’t believe us until one day she came flying out of her room screaming and babbling about her volume.

Once we calmed her down, she proceeded to explain that while she was listening, the volume turned down all by itself.  I didn’t really think much of it, I mean, if the power goes out inexplicably, I don’t chalk it up to Ghosts.  I figured it was just some weird occurrence, and we reassured her it was nothing to worry about.  A few more days passed and she came running back all a sudden, panicked, like she saw a spider… or a ghost, and said, she actually witnessed the dial on her stereo turn down.  She said it moved all by itself.  I sort of chuckled and thought it was my fault.  After a while we began to tease her saying it was the Ghost in the house turning her music down because he didn’t like it.

We never could really tell if it turned down by itself or if she did, as we generally weren’t around to verify it.  Except one time when I was in the kitchen, which was right next to the living room she was staying in.  I started to hear the volume change so I turned around thinking “Finally, she turned it down”, (It was loud and annoying).  But, she wasn’t touching it.  I literally listened to the volume turn down as she just sat there looking at me.  I was a little shocked at what just happened.  All she said was “See!”, and I replied “Well, I guess you were right”.  It wasn’t creepy or anything, it was actually more cool then scary.

Ghosts don’t generally scare me.  To me their often not trying to be scary though, except that one douche-bag Ghost, if it was a Ghost.  Hell, we get our family and friends together on Halloween night and sneak into graveyards just for things like that to happen.  Nothing ever happens in a graveyard though, and I always think to myself, ‘Oh yeah sure!  On the one night of the year when it matters, you all get tired and don’t do anything… Lazy-ass Ghosts’.

Moving along, finally.  Yes folks, it’s going to be a long post.  Grab your favorite bunny slippers and settle in, if Ghosts haven’t hidden them from you, we still have videos to watch!

Many of the experiences in my stories above could likely be explained scientifically.  It may be true that other natural phenomena can cause many of the same experiences that occurred.  But just because there are natural forces in the world that can do the same thing, doesn’t mean all the phenomena related to Ghosts are therefore not real.  We as people replicate a lot of natural forces in the world, so, why couldn’t Ghosts?

Try to keep that in mind when watching these videos.











I kind of thought the story about the faces at the end was a very heartwarming.

The videos above are from a scientific viewpoint, in an attempt to explain away Ghosts.  I personally believe it is important to know what other things could cause Ghostly Phenomena so I don’t misdiagnose an event.  Based on some of their theories, many circumstances in my stories lost somewhere far above could be explained by one or more of their explanations.  Magnetic Fields, Infrasound  or Darkness and Imagination.  We did have electronics in the house, often going, and all appliances give off an electromagnetic field, so maybe that’s the cause?  We did have a ceiling fan in the house, maybe Infrasound?  It was often dark downstairs and I was known for having a wild imagination, possibly one or more of these?

Maybe… But then again, the electromagnetic fields that come off of appliances are very small, and usually don’t have enough impact on a person to influence them one way or another.  Infrasound may be coming from the fan, but we usually had it off since it wasn’t bolted well to the ceiling and would shake and wobble pretty violently, so when we had it on, it was on low.  Darkness and imagination on the other hand, may explain the huffin and puffin, wanna-be, big bad wolf guy.  But nevertheless, the experience did feel very real, so I guess it may never be known for sure.

But there are things that these explanations can’t explain…

 

Magnetic Field?  Infrasound?  Darkness and Imagination?  These explanations don’t explain objects moving, at least to this degree.

Poltergeist means “Noisy or Restless Spirit”.  Often moving things around or causing disturbances to express it’s presence.  Some can get fairly violent though.  Besides the common, dishes flying around, or things being knocked over, strange noises and electronic malfunctions, there are other things they can do.  Scratches are one of them, or being pulled or jerked in different directions, or other bodily harm.

To me the evidence stacks in favor of Ghosts being real.  When you take everything as listed here, and probably more elsewhere, you get much of these phenomena in a Ghost, whereas you need several separate explanations to explain each occurrence of the same phenomena with science, with some of the phenomena still unexplained.  So when you look at places where Ghost activity seems to be high, and many different seemingly supernatural events occur in the same place, then I got to ask myself, if it’s a bunch of different scientifically explainable circumstances, which all managed to be present and in effect at a given time? Or is it a single, possibly supernatural presence which is known to produce the same phenomena, but can’t quite be explained?

Ultimately the choice is yours.  This is just my opinion.

In the end, I will say I’m pretty sure, some, if not most of the phenomena attributed to Ghosts can be summed up to people scaring themselves.  I even scared myself a few times while writing this post, and I felt like a complete idiot.  But, there are some things that do happen in this world that I feel are no less then supernatural phenomena, and can’t be easily explained away.

I can probably list a lot more videos and add a few cases to this post, but I think this post is a bit long, and I may have repeated myself a few times where it wasn’t needed.

Rate and comment if you like, you're always welcome to.

Until next time, I leave you with another picture!

Wait… what’s that behind you?!

Bet you didn't see that coming...

SHC - Man vs Fire!

Spontaneous Human Combustion.

Everyone has heard of spontaneous human combustion or SHC for short.  "The Burning of a living body without an apparent source of Ignition".  Well, that's because they didn't find the Match!

Kids, don't light your farts...


There are over 200 recognized cases dealing with SHC.  We as people inherently try to explain everything.  If something can't be explained, we hide or deny it.  Some of the Possible explanations for SHC are...

Unverified natural phenomena

    * Since every human body contains varying strengths of electrical field and the human body also contains flammable gases (mainly methane in the intestines), an electrical discharge could ignite these gases.

    * SHC victims are sometimes described as lonely people who fall into a trance immediately before their incineration. Heymer suggests that a psychosomatic process in such emotionally-distressed people can trigger off a chain reaction by reacting nitrogen within the body and setting off a chain reaction of mitochondrial explosions. This theory has been criticized on the basis that Heymer "seems to be under the illusion that nitrogen exist as gases in the blood and are thus vulnerable to ignition, which is, in fact, not the case." (Mitochondria are organelles found within cells.) The theory also fails to take into account the fact that nitrogen is an inert, non-flammable gas.

    * Another theory suggests high-energy particles or gamma rays coupled with susceptibilities in the potential victim (e.g. increased alcohol in the blood) triggers the initial reaction. This process may use no external oxygen to spread throughout the body, since it may not be an oxidation-reduction reaction. However, no reaction mechanism has been proposed, nor has a source for the high-energy particles.

    * The victim is an alcoholic and has been smoking while drinking or shortly after drinking a strong spirit. There are claims that this raises the blood alcohol level to a point where it ignites; however, this theory is implausible, since ethanol typically burns only if the concentration is greater than about 23%, whereas a fatally toxic level is about 1%. However, this does introduce the probability that the victim will fall asleep while holding a lit cigarette.

    * A suggested possibility is that both clothing and the person are caused to burn by a discharge of static electricity. A person walking across a carpet can build up sufficient charge and voltage to create a spark. It is unlikely that this could start a clothing fire, as although the voltage can be high (several thousand volts), the stored energy is very low (typically less than a joule).

    * The controversial phenomenon of ball lightning has also been proposed as one of the causes of spontaneous combustion.

Natural explanations

    * Cigarettes are often implicated as the source of ignition. Usually, the victim is alone at the time of death, and it is thought that natural causes such as heart attacks may lead to the victim dying, subsequently dropping the cigarette. Embers from cigarettes and pipes may also ignite clothes. Additionally, cigarettes smoulder at a temperature too low to trigger a flare up of most otherwise combustible materials. Typically if a person drops a lit cigarette on an article of clothing, it will create a burn-hole, but not ignite into an open flame and spread.

    * The "wick effect" hypothesis suggests that a small external flame source, such as a burning cigarette, chars the clothing of the victim at a location, splitting the skin and releasing subcutaneous fat, which is in turn absorbed into the burned clothing, acting as a wick. This combustion can continue for as long as the fuel is available. This hypothesis has been successfully tested with animal tissue (pig) and is consistent with evidence recovered from cases of human combustion.

    * Scalding can cause burn-like injuries, including death, without setting fire to clothing. Although not applicable in cases where the body is charred and burnt, this has been suggested as a cause in at least one claimed SHC-like event.

Source - Wikipedia

As you can see, so many people have stepped up with so many explanations to try and take it from "Supernatural" to "Nothing but Science, People!".  Why do we feel so compelled to strike the Magical and Unknown from the world?  For me it makes the world far more fun when it's Mysterious.

The explanations above sound logical.  Some sound fitting.  But there are some things involved with at least some of the cases of SHC that don't exactly line up with the theories above...











As you can see from the videos, the theories listed above from Wikipedia, are nothing more then theories.  Certain details about SHC stand out from these theories as mentioned in the videos, such as:  The time frames of each Incineration, the degree of Incineration, the source and ignition seems at best guessed at.

In my opinion, there is more to the phenomena of Spontaneous Human Combustion, then can be explained away.  But that is just my opinion...

What do you think?

Anywho... until next time.

For now, I leave you with another lolcat's picture... their so funny, and cute!