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Post by auntym on Apr 14, 2012 12:41:09 GMT -6
www.unexplainable.net/ Famous Disappearances in Flight [/color] By Yona Williams 4/14/12 When it comes to people disappearing in an aircraft, one of the most infamous of tales centers on aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific in 1937. Her plane is thought to have downed somewhere in the vicinity of Howland Island. Rumors had it that she was captured and killed by the Japanese military. In this article, you will learn about other disappearances that involve an aircraft. Charles Nungesser and Francois ColiCharles Nungesser and Francois Coli were World War I pilots from France who wanted to beat Charles Lindbergh in being the first to travel nonstop on a transatlantic flight. On May 8, 1927, the two pilots took off from Paris in a modified Levasseur PL.8 biplane named the White Bird. They planned on flying a circular route over the southwestern part of England and Ireland – crossing the Atlantic to Newfoundland. They then headed south to a water landing in New York. However, when the plane did not arrive at its intended destination, a search involving international participants was launched. No trace of the pilots or their plane was uncovered. There are two theories regarding what happened to Nungesser and Coli. The first one deals with a sudden change in weather that caused the plane to crash into the Atlantic. The second theory is that the pilots made it as far as Newfoundland (or possibly Maine), but then crashed thereafter. Numerous eyewitness reports claim to have heard the sound of an aircraft sputtering over his isolated camp at Round Lake, Maine – late in the afternoon of May 9, 1927. In Maine, there have been small pieces of wreckage found that suggest a plane did reach the coast, but there has been no evidence to conclusively state that it belonged to Nungesser and Coli. Glenn MillerIn the world of Big Bands, Glenn Miller was king. The jazz musician played the trombone, arranged music, composed and was a bandleader of the swing era. From 1939 to 1943, Miller was one of the best-selling recording artists. However, in 1944, Miller disappeared while on a flight from England to France to play for troops. D.B. CooperD.B. Cooper was the name given to a skyjacker – someone who hijacked an aircraft while it was in mid-air. The suspect purchased his airline ticket under the alias of Dan Cooper. After collecting a ransom of $200,000, he used a parachute to jump from a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest in 1971 and was never seen again. The FBI investigated the case and could not believe that the man was able to survive such a risky jump. While his file is still considered an active case, most people think he did not live to enjoy the ransom money. Hale Boggs and Nick BegichWhile flying in their Cessna 310 in Alaska, US House Majority Leader (D-LA), Hale Boggs and U.S. Representative from Alaska, Nick Begich disappeared in the state in 1972. UNSOLVED DISAPPEARANCES: www.unexplainable.net/info-theories/unsolved-disappearances-foul-play-or-suicide.php DISAPPEARANCES THAT HAVE STUMPED POLICE: www.unexplainable.net/info-theories/disappearances-that-have-stumped-police.php UNSOLVED DISAPPEARANCES--- SPORTS FIGURES: www.unexplainable.net/info-theories/unsolved-cases-of-disappearances-sports-figures.php UNSOLVED DISAPPEARANCES IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY: www.unexplainable.net/info-theories/unsolved-disappearances-in-a-foreign-country.phpCONTINUE READING: www.unexplainable.net/
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Post by lois on Apr 15, 2012 22:22:35 GMT -6
When this topic comes up all that I can think about is the disappearance off Freddie Valentich ... Ufo related or not. he vanished with out a trace. You would think the search they did would of came up with something as they knew the location, which in a lot of cases they don't.
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Post by lois on Apr 15, 2012 22:44:50 GMT -6
He is famous in my book ;D I remember how my Mother spoke of Glenn Miller's plane going down. Many died in that war.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 16, 2012 18:50:47 GMT -6
I read a book that said that Glenn Miller's plane might have been accidentally bombed by an allied plane that ditched its remaining bombs after returning from an unsuccesful raid. Miller's plane was reportedly flying low to the ocean and when the bombs exploded nearby the pilot lost control and went into the sea. Don't know if that is true or not but it sounds possible. It would have been a freak accident for sure.
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I enjoyed his writing style
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Post by auntym on Mar 26, 2014 11:57:32 GMT -6
apmagazine.info/index.php/component/content/article?id=515March 27, 2014 Strange Disappearances and Multidimensional JourneysBy Brad Steiger www.bradandsherry.com. Since the publication of our Real Encounters, Different Dimensions, and Otherworldly Beings (Visible Ink, 2013), Sherry and I have received remarkable accounts from individuals who say that they have experienced occasions when they have been seen to have “disappeared” during incidents of missing time and, thankfully, been returned. Others claim to have briefly entered scenes from the past. Still others firmly state that they have interacted with multidimensional beings who have entered our dimension of reality for purposes that as yet appear to be beyond our present capacity to understand. One of the most popular of my early books was Strange Disappearances (Lancer Books, (1972), which reflected a personal interest that was first ignited in 1949 when at age thirteen I bought Tales of Haunted Houses, a collection of Ambrose Bierce’s newspaper articles that had been published originally by the Neale Publishing Company and was reissued by E. Haldeman- Julius as a title in the famous Little Blue Book line. In the San Francisco of 1876, Bierce had reigned as unchallenged literary king, the best known writer west of the Rockies. Although the title, Tales of Haunted Houses, declared that the book would be about ghosts and hauntings, the majority of the accounts were about mysterious disappearances. In his eerie account of the "Spook House," Bierce writes that it was located on the road leading from Manchester in eastern Kentucky, to Booneville, twenty miles away. For five years prior to its destruction, the mansion was known as the "Spook House," because the plantation owner, his wife, and their five children had all disappeared one night without a trace. Whatever strange disintegrating force may have existed on the old plantation, it was able to exercise its power once again on a stormy night in June, 1859, when Col. J. C. McArdle, a lawyer, and Judge Myron Veigh, both of Frankfort, Kentucky, sought shelter within the foreboding walls of the mansion. Judge Veigh never exited from the strange sanctuary. Col. McArdle's account of his friend's complete and mysterious disappearance appeared in the Frankfort Advocate of August 6, 1876. According to McArdle, the two men found a room that was "suffused with a faint greenish light." Within the blank stone walls of that room were human corpses. Col. McArdle wrote: "In number they were perhaps eight or ten ... They were of different ages, or rather sizes, from infancy up, and of both sexes… The bodies were in various stages of decay, all greatly shrunken in face and figure. Some were but little more than skeletons." Judge Veigh ignored Col. McArdle's warning to leave the mansion and walked quickly to the center of the room so that he might closer examine the bodies. "A strong disagreeable odor" overwhelmed Col. McArdle, and he reeled, felt himself falling. He knew no more until he awakened six weeks later in a hotel at Manchester. He had lain ill with a constant delirium ever since he had been found by strangers several miles away from the house and brought to the hotel. "No one believed a word of my story," he wrote in the Advocate, "and who can wonder? And who can imagine my grief when, arriving at my home in Frankfort two months later, I learned that Judge Veigh had never been heard of since that night?” Col. McArdle was never to convince the suspicious family of Judge Veigh that he had not murdered his friend. And search as he might, McArdle never found that eerie room wherein his friend had disappeared forever. According to Bierce's article, Col. McArdle died in Frankfort, Kentucky, on December 13, 1879. CONTINUE READING: apmagazine.info/index.php/component/content/article?id=515
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Post by skywalker on Mar 26, 2014 12:26:58 GMT -6
There is an old house here in Texas that was once owned by a family that disappeared one day. Nobody has a clue what happened to them. They just vanished without a trace leaving all of their belongings and a freshly prepared dinner sitting on the dining room table. I'll see if I can find some more info on it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2014 10:20:40 GMT -6
That would be cool Sky.
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Post by lois on Mar 29, 2014 21:09:14 GMT -6
I heard of a similar tale like the boy who went to fetch water. This boy only went to the well. It was in Wales.. mid 18 hundreds . When the family went to the well they could hear his voice coming from above but very far off. He was pleading for some one to save him and that they had him. He only said they. I read it from a book at our local library back in the early 70s. I of course thought Alien abduction as I was searching for the subject as this encounter of mine had just taken place. It was the only thing I could do at the time.
It was so strange. His family did not see a thing as they searched the skies above the well.
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ufodigest.com/article/interdimensional-vortexes-0515 INTERDIMENSIONAL VORTEXES THAT TAKE PEOPLE!By Paul Dale Roberts / ufodigest.com/users/paul-dale-robertsMay 15, 2015 Could a US Military Helicopter have vanished because of the interdimensional portal near and around Shambhala? Read on: Crews are continuing the search for a missing U.S. military chopper and its eight passengers after it vanished Tuesday somewhere in the cloaked and craggy Himalayan hillside of Nepal. But there remains no contact from the UH-1Y Huey, military officials say, even though the helicopter was equipped with a GPS device, radio and emergency beacon. Its unexplained disappearance has left even experienced helicopter pilots perplexed. "It's baffling," retired Army helicopter pilot Jim Weatherill told NBC News on Thursday. "Why isn't the emergency beacon transmitting a frequency to where they might be?" The Huey vanished late Tuesday night following a magnitude-7.3 aftershock that rocked Nepal earlier that day, killing at least 96 people. The chopper was on its way to deliver aid in the hard-hit district of Dolakha, east of Kathmandu. Six Americans and two Nepalese service members were on board. Defense Department officials have said there were no reports of smoke or a loud bang indicating that the aircraft crashed. Two Marine MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft have been combing a search area. Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said a helicopter from India reported hearing about a possible fuel problem with the Huey. The Marines had just dropped off their supplies in one location and were on their way to a second stop when they lost contact. HISTORY OF THE DRAGON’S TRIANGLE?What can we learn about the Dragon’s Triangle. Awww…it’s a lot like the Bermuda Triangle, in fact if you placed a straight line through the Earth from the Bermuda Triangle, the other end would be the Dragon’s Triangle. Remarkable eh? Read on: The Devil's Sea , also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa (Taiwan) Triangle and the "Pacific Bermuda Triangle", is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo. The Devil's sea is one of 12 Vile Vortices, originally plotted by Ivan T. Sanderson. The size and area varies with the report (the only reports stem from the 1950s), with various reports placing it 110 kilometres (68 mi) from an unspecified part of Japan's east coast, 480 kilometres (300 mi) from the coast, and even near Iwo Jima, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) from the coast. This area is said to be a danger zone on Japanese maps, according to Charles Berlitz's books The Bermuda Triangle (1974) and The Dragon's Triangle (1989). He states that in the peacetime years between 1952-54 Japan lost 5 military vessels with crews lost totaling over 700 people and that the Japanese government sent a research vessel with over 100 scientists on board to study the Devil's Sea, and that this ship too vanished; and finally that the area was officially declared a danger zone. According to Larry Kusche's investigation, these "military vessels" were fishing vessels, and some of them were lost outside the Devil's Sea, even as far away as near Iwo Jima, 1000 km to the south. He also points out that, at that time, hundreds of fishing boats were lost around Japan every year.
DID MALAYSIA AIRLINES – FLIGHT 370 DISAPPEAR OVER THE DRAGON’S TRIANGLE?Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. Flight 370 last made voice contact with air traffic control at 01:19 MYT (17:19 UTC, 7 March) when it was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff. The aircraft disappeared from air traffic controllers' radar screens at 01:21.[3][4] Malaysian military radar continued to track Flight 370 as it deviated from its planned flight path and crossed the Malay Peninsula. Flight 370 left the range of Malaysian military radar at 02:22 while over the Andaman Sea, 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) northwest of Penang in northwestern Malaysia.[5]:3[6] The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations. A multinational search effort began in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, where the flight's signal was lost on secondary surveillance radar, and was soon extended to the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea. Analysis of satellite communications between the aircraft and Inmarsat's satellite communications network concluded that the flight continued until at least 08:19 MYT and flew south into the southern Indian Ocean, although the precise location cannot be determined; Australia took charge of the search effort on 17 March, when the search shifted to the southern Indian Ocean. On 24 March 2014, the Malaysian government, noting that the final location determined by the satellite communication is far from any possible landing sites, concluded that "flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean." The current phase of the search is a comprehensive search of the seafloor about 1,800 kilometres (1,100 mi) southwest of Perth, Australia, which began in October 2014. Despite being the largest and most expensive search in aviation history, there has been no confirmation of any flight debris, resulting in speculations about its disappearance. From Paul: How is it that a large airline like Flight 370 disappear without leaving any kind of trace of wreckage or bodies? With the huge search party and large areas of search, something should have turned up. How can a 21st military helicopter disappear in Nepal? With all of the advanced tracking devices that this helicopter is equipped with, we can’t get a reading on its location. How is this even possible? Is there a UFO / alien connection? On average, 90,000 people are missing in the USA at any given time, according to Todd Matthews from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUs, a national database for missing people. Some of these people never turn up ever again. I am talking about missing people in the USA, now if we looked at statistics for missing people every year throughout the world, you are talking millions. Where are all of these people going? Why do some UFO abductees say that they see other people on board Mother Ships? Why is this information being suppressed from us? What does the military and our government know? Is the government trading off extraterrestrial technology with aliens and allowing them to abduct us for experiments, harvesting or propagation for other worlds? What’s really going on? Please if you have the answer, I want to know! CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/interdimensional-vortexes-0515
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2015 7:20:41 GMT -6
"While there are dark possibilities, there are also some bright ones. While this is a troubling subject, it is possible that a few percent relate to ET activity. I have contemplated 'Why or What would they have with troubled children and bums that they would not return?' One possibility is that they are populating a new world (a new heavens view and new earth) with humans. Many indigenous people state plainly that the Gods brought them to this world. It is possible that the collapse of the ice age 12000 was an extinction level event for humans and they returned humans from another world where they added our species. We may be in another extinction level event and they might need to do the same after the chaos and teh Earth re-stabilized the biosphere. Troubled people might just find a good life on a pre-technological tribal human settlement world. Just one of countless possibilities (of course), but one that is not dark." Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/4697/missing-person-connection#ixzz3ay2ccQrW___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Just another thread where we talk about the "missing"
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2015 7:27:24 GMT -6
"Jordan talking with the father, he soon realizes this guy is not from here since he told Jordan things about Jordans child hood and that he can summon ufos for Jordan if he wants to see them." Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/4588/strange-disappearances#ixzz3b3u2jlmX______________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMO, doesn't mean "the guy is not from here". Not saying that the man was purposely deceptive. We get a "sense" sometimes, from people, animals, plants, etc., that the best way to term it (in the moment), is "other-worldly". Since this happened when Jordan was young, I would venture to say he has had more experiences like, but yet not quite the same (if open to it).
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Post by patsbox7 on Jun 9, 2015 0:20:48 GMT -6
Jordan Maxwell had a story about a strange incident he had when 18 years old when he had just come to L.A. He rented a room and one day he went out to eat at a cafe not far from his room. The place was packed, but a counter space was open next to a young girl. He sat down and eventually struck up a conversation with the girl and they became friends. One day the girls father told her to ask Jordan to come to the house and meet him. He did some time later after the girl insisted he come over by saying her father is someone special and Jordan must meet. Approaching the house he saw the father on the porch and soon realized this was no ordinary man. Jordan talking with the father, he soon realizes this guy is not from here since he told Jordan things about Jordans child hood and that he can summon ufos for Jordan if he wants to see them. Jordan says yes and the guy looks up with his hands over his face murmuring something and than tells Jordan it will be a few moments for them to arrive. They show up, Jordans amazed, the guy tells Jordan a strange tale of things to come and then tells Jordan the ufos have to leave now. Some time later Jordan walks over to this girls house to talk with her and when he went up to the door, it was open and no one was there and nothing was in the house. They all vanished and never said good bye. That's how it works when it gets strange Jordan Maxwell, aka Russle Pine is nothing but a fraud. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. For more information on this scam artist, simply Google Russle J. Pine, or visit the link below: muhammad-ali-ben-marcus.blogspot.com/2012/09/jordan-maxwell-aka-russell-joseph-pine.html?m=1
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Post by patsbox7 on Jun 9, 2015 0:26:45 GMT -6
Sorry to be so blunt about him in the post above, but I felt personally betrayed when I found out about his true nature as I was an avid follower of his content. Like most of the stuff I read, I took his writings with a grain of salt, but some of his stuff just spoke to me. Come to find out he is a bold faced liar, and has scammed good hardworking people out of tens of thousands of dollars. I take that back, hundreds of thousands if not millions! Needless to say I was disappointed to say the least, and when anyone mentions his name I make it a point to show his true colors. It is all listed online when you search his real name.
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Post by patsbox7 on Jun 9, 2015 0:49:11 GMT -6
Sorry to threadjack though, Back to the topic at hand I totally believe that higher dimensional overlaps are possible. Personally, I believe dark matter is simply matter embossed into upper dimensions, which is why we can't detect it. I also believe that higher dimensional math will eventually solve the information paradox with regards to black holes. As in stuff gets sucked into a black hole and is heightened into a fourth spacial dimension, not lost at all. Most unification theories call for many more spacial dimensions than three, so this just logically makes sense, IMHO. It happens on an atomic scale all the time, so why not with people, objects and even airplanes? I personally don't believe this is the case, but I am not ruling out the possibility.
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"Though I had no proof of any wrong doing at the time, my intuition started and kept buzzing to be cautious - and so I was. I began to think of hypothetical 'what if' scenarios where maybe Russell wasn't being completely honest with me about himself, his associates or his past. After all, if 'Jordan Maxwell' was so famous and so 'in-demand' as he often preached to me, why am I, a then 26 year old Joe from Woodland Hills, supporting this guy, giving him a place to live, feeding him, giving him money, helping him with his car, etc.?" from muhammad-ali-ben-marcus.blogspot.com/2012/09/jordan-maxwell-aka-russell-joseph-pine.html?m=1 (on Jordan Maxwell) The guy posting this stuff, pretty brave (IMO) to expose himself for trying "to help the guy" (Jordan Maxwell), if true. But it doesn't mean that everything Jordan says is made-up, or flat out lies, except that seems to be actually part of how he "drums up business". Plagarism of course can be proved. If Jordan felt like he was "lead" to be some "speaker", he obviously has enough truth or money backers to be able to pull this off, for a time. It's really really sad if "jordan" never experienced anything special himself (other than money to burn). ______________________________________________________________________ To me, there's a lot more at stake here. These guys, that can hold an audience's attention, for all day, a whole weekend, and people are "enthralled", what IS THAT? Back when I was a kid, there were religious "revival" services. A LOT of people questioned the draw of those . . .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 13:00:51 GMT -6
. . Seems to me, he has numerous nefarious political and religious detractors shadowing him so the public is beat over their heads, the guys blasphemous because he dares tell it like it is. Qaukademia writes reality and guys like Jordan reveal the secrets. My observation is simply this, our reality is based upon lies, deception and a little smidgen of truth to help it go down.
Well, I don't mind having differing opinions. Lol. Some people are definitely "attacked", and there's points in our lives when we need to talk about it. This talking about a "public figure" has no one here (so far), just calling the guy "names'. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 13:15:41 GMT -6
Sorry to threadjack though, Back to the topic at hand I totally believe that higher dimensional overlaps are possible. Personally, I believe dark matter is simply matter embossed into upper dimensions, which is why we can't detect it. I also believe that higher dimensional math will eventually solve the information paradox with regards to black holes. As in stuff gets sucked into a black hole and is heightened into a fourth spacial dimension, not lost at all. Most unification theories call for many more spacial dimensions than three, so this just logically makes sense, IMHO. It happens on an atomic scale all the time, so why not with people, objects and even airplanes? I personally don't believe this is the case, but I am not ruling out the possibility. Yep. back to the thread. We can't detect dark matter? Or we can only detect it in large quantities (ie: a black hole) ? happening on a "atomic scale" to me (macro or mini), is like when I set my keys in a specific spot, and I go to pick them up later and they seem to be gone, only to be there, in that spot, a short time later. (BTW, it's never happened to me with my keys like this. Other things, yep). If only objects could talk, LOL. But possibly, people do this, step into a portal let's say, and can't remember . . . they come back and nothings's changed, so their brain compartmentalizes it away from active consciousness . . . supposedly, one of "mind controls" goals is to teach the brain to develop multiple personalities. Obviously we can't send a human off somewhere with a tracking device, and the tracking device work. Can we?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 13:24:55 GMT -6
He doesn't, and I never heard him ask for money other than by donation off his jordan maxwell show website. Every speaker has that request on their websites, if they have one. . . . . Jordan has said he gets a small social security income that doesn't pay the bills. He sleeps on the floor of his brothers apartment and has no car. In that situation, I would accept rides, food and any cash from those concerned. 500 people donate $1, that's $500. In one day, one afternoon, one week. And who goes to the trouble of donating only one dollar?? Everything gets "muddied" up these days by the personal cost of living (personal). Why does Jordan talk about his financial status? Is this part of his spiel? And how do you know it is true?
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Post by patsbox7 on Jun 9, 2015 13:29:07 GMT -6
Hahaha, didn't mean to stir the pot bringing Russle Pine up. jcurio, as I understand it, we can detect large quantities of dark matter because of the gravitational effects. But we currently have no way of observing it directly. It has been theorized that gravity is so weak (compared to the other forces) because it is just spilling over from a higher dimension, and exerting it's full force on the dimension it is native to. This is just my understanding of it, and I am VERY fascinated by this kind of thing. I am in no way educated in the subject, other than what I read and think I comprehend, so take my opinions as just that, opinions.
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Post by patsbox7 on Jun 9, 2015 13:32:37 GMT -6
Also, the scamming I was referring to was his "fix your credit score" business, where he literally ruined people financially who were at very desperate times in their lives. I don't know where the heck that website link came from that I posted before, that was not what I intended to post. Again, you can read all about it when you search his real name, Russle J. Pine.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2015 15:22:09 GMT -6
"fix your credit score"? doesn't that sound devious in itself?? __________________________________________________________________ It's all good. Just giving opinions, myself. And always questioning (and this one kind of lines up with technology we have/don't have. Theories are just theories. A smidgen of information gets out. What is the "collider" going to be used for, eventually? etc. etc.). "Black Holes" at one time, was a postulated theory. So was the idea behind those brothers making the movies the ~matrix. Look where we are now!
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Post by auntym on Jan 31, 2017 12:57:34 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/11/bizarre-cases-of-people-who-spontaneously-ceased-to-exist/ Bizarre Cases of People Who Spontaneously Ceased to Exist November 20, 2015 Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/ Bizarre Cases of People Who Spontaneously Ceased to ExistMysterious disappearances aren’t new. For whatever reasons, some people just seem to vanish without a trace, never to be seen again. Yet, as bizarre as these cases may be, there seems to be an even stranger type of disappearance out there; people who vanish in full view of others, under circumstances where it seems impossible that they could have even gone far, let alone totally disappeared. These are the cases in which people were there one moment and gone the next, seeming to have just literally faded from existence, leaving us baffled and perhaps even questioning what we think we know about this mysterious world of ours. Let’s take a look at the history of some of the more curious accounts of these spontaneous vanishings of people who by all indications seemed to have just ceased to exist. One of the earliest well-known accounts of people spontaneously vanishing comes from back in the 1700s. Sometime in the 1760s, in the English town of Shepton Mallet, there lived an elderly man in his 70s by the name of Owen Parfitt. Crippled with disease, Parfitt was said to be unable to get around on his own, instead spending his days either bedridden or sitting outside by the doorway to his home, where he lived with his sister. According to the story, one day old Owen was sitting in his usual spot by the door, where his sister, also his primary caretaker, had been keeping an eye on him as usual. On this day the weather was rather chilly, and Owen had covered himself with a coat, but there were no indications that anything was amiss, or that this day was any different from the many other times Owen had sat outside. When his sister went to move him, she found that only the coat remained where Owen had been sitting just moments before. Since he was unable to walk on his own, she at first thought that perhaps a neighbor had moved him inside for her, as was sometimes the case, but the old man was nowhere to be found and the neighbors denied having moved him, although they had seen him sitting there all day. In fact, there were many witnesses about on that day, yet no one had seen anything unusual at all. Owen’s sister searched the area but Owen was nowhere to be found, and it was baffling that he could have gotten far so soon, in front of so many people, and with the inability to walk. A search was launched by authorities, but no trace of Owen Parfitt was ever found, leading to the popular legend at the time that the Devil had come for him as payment for a pact they had made. His disappearance remains a mystery to this day. Other equally baffling cases continued into the 1800s. On the night of November 25, 1809, a British diplomat by the name of Benjamin Bathurst was on his way to Berlin in order to get back to London after an important trip to Vienna. On the way, Bathurst made a stop at the town of Perleberg in order to get new horses and to have a meal. When the horses were ready and he had finished eating his dinner, Bathurst excused himself and told his assistant he would go out and wait in the carriage so that they could continue on their trip. The diplomat then went out to the carriage and the assistant followed moments after, yet when the door to the carriage was opened Bathurst wasn’t there. In fact, he was nowhere to be seen, and there was no sign of where he could have gone, even though he had been there just seconds before. Considering his prominence as a diplomat, a massive search was immediately put together, complete with dogs scouring the woods, house to house searches, and thorough dragging of the nearby river Stepnitz, but nothing could be found. After several more searches, a coat thought to have belonged to Bathhurst was found in a restroom and some boots were found in the surrounding wilderness, but it was unclear if they actually belonged to the missing man or not. At the time, the region was ravaged by war due to the rampaging Napoleon Bonaparte, and Bathurst’s wife thought the French had kidnapped her husband, but Bonaparte himself reportedly denied having any knowledge of such a thing, and even aided in search efforts. In the end, no definitive trace of Bathurst would ever be found and he was never seen again; seemingly erased from existence. Sometimes, not only did the person disappear, but they did so right before the eyes of witnesses, literally fading away in plain sight. Just a few years after Bathurst’s odd case, another even more bizarre disappearance was to occur. In 1815, at a Prussian prison at Weichselmunde, a prisoner by the name of Diderici was doing a 10-year sentence for assuming the identity of his dead employer by dressing up in his clothes and a wig and trying to withdraw a large amount of money after the man had died of a stroke. Allegedly, one day Diderici was being led through the exercise yard in chains in a line of other prisoners, when something very odd began to happen. According to other prisoners, Diderici began to literally fade away, his body gradually becoming transparent and immaterial until finally his empty manacles and chains clattered to the ground as baffled prisoners and prison guards looked on. An inquiry into the case would turn up nearly 30 eyewitness accounts from both convicts and guards that reported the exact same thing; that Diderici had become slowly invisible until he was simply not there anymore. Puzzled by the case, the authorities would end up brushing the whole affair under the carpet, closing the case and proclaiming it an “Act of God.” Diderici would never be seen again. A similarly bizarre vanishing supposedly happened in 1873 in Leamington Spa, England. A shoemaker by the name of James Worson was out with his friends when he suddenly made a bet with them that he could run without stopping all the way to Coventry, which was a full 16 miles away. The friends did not have faith in Worson’s ability to do this, and readily took him up on the bet. In order to make sure he followed through, the friends allegedly followed Worson in a horse drawn cart. Worson ran for a few miles without any problems, and his friends were starting to think they might actually lose the bet when he suddenly tripped on something in the road. The story goes that Worson pitched forward, but never hit the ground, instead completely blinking out of existence right before his terrified friends’ eyes. A police search turned up nothing and this seems to be another case of someone who just spontaneously ceased to exist in full view of witnesses. One of the more famous such cases of baffling sudden disappearances in the same era happened in 1890 to the French inventor Louis Le Prince, mostly known today for his contributions to cinema and as the first person to ever capture moving images on film. On September 16, 1890, Le Prince boarded a train to return to Paris after having visited his brother in Dijon. As the train rattled along on its way, Le Prince was seen checking in his luggage and entering his cabin, from which no one would see him leave during the rest of the journey. When the train reached Paris, Le Prince did not disembark, and a train conductor was sent to his room to rouse him, thinking he had merely fallen asleep in his cabin. When the cabin was opened, it was discovered that both Le Prince and his luggage were gone. A complete search of the train turned up no trace of the man or his belongings, and no one could be found who could recall Le Prince ever leaving his cabin once the train had departed. Since the train had made no stops between Dijon and Paris, he could not have gotten off anywhere, and the cabin windows had been closed and locked from the inside. Additionally, there was no sign at all of any foul play and no reports that anything had been amiss during the trip. Le Prince was just simply gone. Interestingly, his disappearance would allow Thomas Edison to take credit for inventing motion pictures, even though Le Prince had already been in possession of plans for this invention long before, which he had been hoping to have patented in America and would have if he had not gone missing. This is an interesting case of a mysterious disappearance actually shaping history as we know it. Of course, stories of such baffling vanishings have continued into more modern times as well. In April of 1959, a man named Bruce Campbell was travelling by car with his wife from Massachusetts to go visit their son, who lived far away. At one point on their long, cross country journey they allegedly stopped for the night at a motel in Jacksonville, Illinois. The couple, exhausted from driving all day, promptly retired for the night. When Mrs. Campbell woke up in the morning, she found that her husband was no longer in the bed with her. At first she was not so concerned, thinking he’d just gotten up early, but it soon became clear that he was nowhere in the room. Even more strangely, Bruce’s clothes were still right where he had left them the previously evening and his suitcase had not been touched, meaning that he had gone outside in his pajamas. Additionally, all of his personal belongings and even his wallet with all of his money were also still precisely where he’d left them. Even after an investigation by authorities Bruce Campbell was never found. A similar well known case involving a couple allegedly occurred in 1975, when a Jackson and Martha Wright were driving from New Jersey to New York City. According to Jackson’s version of events, the two were driving through the Lincoln tunnel, in New York City, when they noticed that there was a large amount of condensation on their windows. The couple then pulled over and Jackson went about wiping the fog off the front windshield while Martha took care of the back. It was at this point that Jackson says he turned to see how his wife was doing and found that she was gone. In fact, the woman was nowhere to be seen, even though she had been there just moments before. Jackson would claim that he had not seen or heard anything unusual, and it would have been impossible for her to get very far in such a brief amount of time. Although this all sounds highly suspicious, police were never able to find any evidence of foul play, and Jackson was never considered a suspect in the disappearance. Martha Wright’s sudden disappearance remains a baffling mystery. Even more recent is the strange disappearance of bob Shaffer, who was a medical student at Ohio State University. On April 1, 2006, bob went out to have some drinks at a local bar called the Ugly Tuna Saloona. Some drinks turned into a lot of drinks, and bob was reported to be heavily intoxicated as the night wore on. At some point between 1:30 and 2 AM in the morning, bob made a drunken call to his girlfriend and then was seen talking to two women at the bar. This would be the last time anyone would ever see him. A subsequent investigation found that no one remembered seeing him after he was witnessed talking to the two women, and even more bizarrely, security camera footage showed bob entering the bar but at no point does it ever show him actually leaving. With no evidence of foul play or any reason for why he would have suddenly disappeared, it remains yet another eerie unsolved vanishing. On July 18, 2007 there was another case of someone who seems to have just stepped off the face of the earth. 55-year-old Barbara Bolick was out on a hiking trip with her friend Jim Ramaker in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains, with Barbara walking about 6-9 meters (20-30 ft) behind him. At one point along their scenic hike, Jim claimed that he stopped to admire the scenery, and when he turned to look behind him after a mere minute, Barbara was nowhere to be seen. A complete search of the surrounding area would turn up no trace of what happened to the woman, and although Jim Ramaker had been the last person to see her, police never found any reason to suspect he had done anything to her. No new leads in the case have ever been found. Yet another creepy recent case happened in 2008. On the evening of May 14, 2008, 19-year old college student Brandon Swanson was on his way to visit his family in Marshall, Minnesota, when he lost control of his car and crashed it into a ditch. Brandon was not injured, but without a ride he decided to call his parents to have them come pick him up. He called them on his cell phone and tried to explain to them where he was, but they were not able to find him. His father then called Brandon’s cell phone to ask for more details on where they could find him, and his son told him that he was headed toward the town of Lynd. As they talked, Brandon reportedly suddenly cursed and the line went dead. Subsequent efforts to call him back went unanswered and police were called in, who were able to locate the car but could find no trace of Brandon or his phone. It remains a mystery as to where he went and why he abruptly swore when talking to his father on the phone before disappearing without a trace. On rare occasions, there has even been video evidence put forward purportedly showing people disappearing in the blink of an eye. One such piece of weird video footage uploaded to YouTube seems to show a man walking along a dark street in Jackson, Wyoming, which seems rather normal enough until he seems to steadily fade until all that remains are two white dots where his feet should be. These white spots continue right along until they are off camera. There is a good chance this is some sort of video glitch or even a hoax, but it is certainly a bizarre piece of footage. The video can be seen here. www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/video-watch-man-disappear-thin-3510647What are we to make of these cases of people just vanishing within seconds? There have been many theories seeking to explain this phenomenon, ranging from the scientific to the decidedly fringe. Some of the more far out theories have revolved around alien abduction, stumbling through spontaneous interdimensional portals, and time slips. Those subscribing to the alien theory point out that the few spontaneously vanishing people who have later been found often exhibit what are considered classic signs of alien abduction, such as disorientation, lost memories, and missing time. Author and researcher David Paulides has explained on this further, saying: In the vast majority of the cases that are chronicled, if people are found, they are located unconscious or semi-conscious and many times in areas that were previously searched. In The vast majority of these incidents, the people are so young they cannot speak or they have a disability that prohibits them from speaking, or they can’t remember what happened. In the rare incident where they do remember facts, they are baffling.Others have proposed that there are certain areas in the world that just seem to suck people in and never let go. In his book Missing 411, David Paulides investigates 411 cases of bizarre missing person reports with baffling clues. One of the theories he shares is that there seem to be around 30 geographical “cluster points” where most of these vanishings occurred, and that these disappearances often happened within moments, and in areas full of witnesses. In many of the cases of people disappearing in these areas, baffling clues were left behind, such as clothes removed and neatly folded. Are there truly places in the world that for reasons we may never know simply make people vanish? WATCH VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/11/bizarre-cases-of-people-who-spontaneously-ceased-to-exist/
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Post by auntym on Jul 21, 2017 14:49:09 GMT -6
alien-ufo-sightings.com/2017/07/the-man-who-went-to-space-and-disappeared/7-19-2017 The Man Who Went to Space and DisappearedThirty-five years ago, Granger Taylor left a note saying he was boarding an alien spaceship for an interstellar journey. He was never seen again. This article originally appeared on VICE US Today Robert Keller looks out of his office window, thinking about the last time he saw his best friend more than 30 years ago. “Granger and I were inseparable for years… everywhere he went I was on his heels… Granger and I were like best friends.” On the evening of November 29, 1980, 32-year-old Granger Taylor left his parents a peculiar note before vanishing from their farm in Duncan, a small town on southern Vancouver Island. The note read:
“Dear Mother and Father,
I have gone away to walk aboard an alien spaceship, as recurring dreams assured a 42-month interstellar voyage to explore the vast universe, then return. I am leaving behind all my possessions to you as I will no longer require the use of any. Please use the instructions in my will as a guide to help.
Love, Granger.”Granger Taylor. Photo courtesy of Grace Anne Young In Taylor’s own will he crossed out the word “death” and replaced it with “departure.” According to a local newspaper, the Times Colonist, there was also some sort of map drawn on the back of the note. The significance of it has never been determined. The same article says Taylor was last seen leaving a local diner, Bob’s Grill, around 6:30 PM. Soon after, Taylor vanished. Police were called and a search ensued, but neither Taylor nor his bright pink Datsun truck were found. “One would expect the car at least to be found,” Cpl. Mike Demchuk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) told the local paper. “You just don’t get rid of something that large without someone knowing about it.” The note that Taylor left was a surprise to many, but those who knew him were well aware of his ongoing obsession with aliens and space. Just before his disappearance, Taylor’s obsession grew to a point where he decided to build a life-size replica spaceship on his parent’s farm that he sometimes slept in. Taylor’s friend Robert Keller told VICE, “He did have dreams that they [aliens] were coming to get him.” Granger Ormond Taylor was born on October 7, 1948 on Vancouver Island. His early years were mired in tragedy; when he was a young boy his father drowned in an accident near the family cabin on Horn Lake. Taylor grew up to be a large man. Stocky and strong, he can be seen throwing friends around a wrestling ring in family photo albums. However, his personality was in complete contrast to his imposing figure. Taylor was shy and quiet in person. Some called him eccentric. Taylor dropped out of school sometime around Grade 8 and began working at local mechanical shops and become infatuated with machines. It wasn’t long before friends and family noticed Taylor’s uncanny ability to fix almost anything. By his mid teens, Taylor had restored a one-cylinder car and overhauled a bulldozer that he used to help neighbors with construction projects and odd jobs. Later he restored an old steam locomotive that he hauled from the bush; it was eventually featured at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan. One of Taylor’s crowning achievements was the restoration of a World War II P-40 Kitty Hawk which was later purchased by a collector for tens of thousands of dollars. “In my books, he was a genius,” Keller, who helped Taylor restore the Kitty Hawk, told VICE. Keller said that he and Taylor met through a mutual hobby: smoking pot. And one of the many recurring conversations they had while getting high was the topic of space and aliens. “He [Taylor] took me under his wing,” Keller said. Like Taylor, Keller had also found little interest in school and dropped out at a young age. Almost immediately, a bond formed between the two men. For Keller, spending time with Taylor was enjoyable—fun. But Taylor took his work seriously, “I think he was a genius bordering on insanity,” Keller added. The popularity of UFOs, aliens, and space sky-rocketed in mainstream culture during the 1940s and 50s. During WWII pilots reported seeing large balls of light, later referred to as “foo fighters,” in the sky; their existence was unexplainable (later experts would justify these phenomena to electrostatic, electromagnetism, and/or the reflection of light, others suggested it was linked to an issue with the pilot’s psychological state). Following the war there were a number of infamous UFO sightings and claims of abduction. One of the most notorious examples was the 1947 claim of an extraterrestrial ship crashing near Roswell, New Mexico (it later came out that it was actually a United States Air Force surveillance balloon that had crashed—or so the government would have you believe). In 1961 a couple, Barney and Betty Hill, claimed they were allegedly abducted by aliens in rural New Hampshire. In 1976 two Iranian F-4 Phantom II pilots reported losing instrumentation and communications abilities while flying over Tehran. The pilots reported “bright lights in the sky” and a UFO was blamed for both the equipment and weapons failure. By the end of the 70s, UFOs and aliens had become a cultural phenomenon, reflected in Hollywood with the release of films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, and Star Trek. CONTINUE READING: alien-ufo-sightings.com/2017/07/the-man-who-went-to-space-and-disappeared/
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Post by auntym on Aug 10, 2017 13:28:59 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/mysterious-vanishings-with-creepy-last-surveillance-footage/ Mysterious Vanishings with Creepy Last Surveillance Footageby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/August 11, 2017 There was a time when people would vanish into thin air and that was that. We had no way of knowing where they were or what the circumstances were surrounding their stepping off into the unknown. With the advent of technology we now have myriad and numerous security and surveillance cameras set up all over the place, at times capturing every move we make. With this new advancement in technology we are sometimes offered glimpses into the last moments of people who have mysteriously disappeared, and while this may not always do anything to solve the enigmas surrounding these cases it is usually enough to add another layer of creepy bizarreness to it all. At 11PM on the evening of September 12, 1987, 50-year-old Dale Kerstetter began his graveyard shift at the Corning Glassworks plant in Bradford, Pennsylvania, where he had worked as a security guard and maintenance man for 27 years. The shift started as always, and it was a routine Dale had been through countless times before, yet when the next guard came in to relieve him as always, Kersetter was nowhere to be seen, even though his truck was still in out in the parking lot with all of his personal belongings, including a carton of his beloved cigarettes, lying untouched within. There was even a lunch pail carefully set out on a table along with the food totally uneaten, along with a set of car keys. A complete search of the plant turned up no sign of him and he had just inexplicably seemingly vanished without a trace. When authorities arrived on the scene it was found that along with Dale Kersetter, a load of platinum pipe estimated to be worth around $250,000 had also mysteriously gone missing, leading to the conclusion that the missing man had simply stolen the valuable platinum and made himself scarce. When police dogs were brought in, they traced Kersetter’s movements to the 2nd floor and right up to the door of the large glass furnace where the piping had been stored, a place he had no business being as it had not been part of his security route, further incriminating him in a possibly heist. This did not sit well with his co-workers, who insisted that Dale was an honest, hard-worker and loving family man who would not have stolen the platinum and then abandon his family. Things got interesting when the police turned their attention to the plant’s surveillance camera footage, which would only serve to baffle authorities. In the footage, an unknown masked man can be seen entering the plant from a back entrance, and the unidentified individual is later seen talking with Kersetter, after which the two make their way through the plant to where the platinum was kept. At one point in the footage, Dale looks up directly into the camera for a time, but police could not tell if he was signaling for help or not. Nothing in the footage indicates whether Dale was being forced along by the masked man or if they were conspiring together. It is difficult to tell if Kersetter is under duress or not, although the plant manager has made it clear that he thinks the look into the camera was in fact a way to taunt them, saying of this: I think the fact that he did everything in front of the cameras was once again just Dale Kerstetter saying to us, ‘Look, hey, here I am. I’m taking your platinum and there isn’t a thing you can do about it.’Regardless, the masked man can then be seen leaving while carting off a large, unwieldy bag, which could contain the platinum or possibly even Dale’s body. Dale Kersetter was not seen on the footage to leave the plant at any point. A lot of speculation raged at the time. Had he been in on the robbery and working together with the masked man? Had he been forced to hand over the platinum and then been kidnapped and possibly killed and disposed of? No one knew for sure. Investigators soon found that Kersetter had been in some amount of debt, to the tune of around $30,000 or possibly $40,000, further bolstering the idea that he may have been in on it, but once again family members and friends dismiss this sinister possibility, pointing out what an honest, loving person he was. Dales’s daughter, Wendy Kerstetter, has always adamantly denied her father’s willing involvement in any sort of crime, and has said: If he had planned on taking off anywhere, why would he bother packing a lunch? I mean, just little things like that. And a whole carton of cigarettes, and he smoked all the time. I mean, he would’ve taken his cigarettes. Also he had six kids, two grandkids. And to do something like that and take off, and not call any of them–you know, just take off and never talk to your kids again? I just… can’t believe it.Whether Dale Kersetter was the victim of a robbery or a participant, the fact remains that he has not been seen since, he remains missing, and all we have to go on is that piece of creepy footage. Equally creepy is another vanishing that occurred in the year 2000, in Dublin, Ireland. On December 8, 2000, 22-year-old Trevor Deely went out drinking at a hotel with some co-workers from his job at the Bank of Ireland Asset Management, after which they headed off to a nearby nightclub to keep the party going. At around 3:30 AM, Deely headed back to his office, where he had coffee with co-worker Karl Pender, after which he picked up an umbrella and made his way out into the rainy night. He would then place a call to his friend Glen Cullen, leaving a voice message saying that he had enjoyed the party and was on his way home, but he would never arrive and has not been seen since. When authorities investigated the disappearance, they found some curious hints in the CCTV footage of that night. Footage shows that when Deely entered the building there was another unidentified man lurking in the doorway of the building, as if taking shelter from the heavy rain, and Deely can be seen talking briefly with him, after which the stranger goes off to cross the road. Footage then shows Deely some time later leaving the office and walking off, perhaps because a taxi strike had been in effect at the time. The last known CCTV footage of Deely shows him walking past an ATM at 4:14 AM, and there can also be seen a man walking directly behind him carrying an umbrella. After this, Deely proceeds to vanish off the face of the earth. Investigators believe that the person Deely can be seen speaking with and the one seen in the ATM footage could possibly be the very same person, and that he may have followed the missing man, although there is no evidence to connect him to any wrongdoing at this point. All that is known is that this mysterious figure is seen when Deely enters the office building, after which he crosses the road, possibly to wait for him to leave, and then there is another unknown figure, perhaps the same unidentified individual, seemingly following behind Deely in the ATM footage. Investigators have spent a lot of time trying to track down who this enigmatic stranger could be, believing him to hold a crucial piece of the puzzle, but so far he remains unidentified, his connection to the vanishing unclear, and Deely has not been seen since. CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/mysterious-vanishings-with-creepy-last-surveillance-footage/
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Post by auntym on Aug 10, 2017 13:50:04 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/mysterious-people-who-drove-off-the-face-of-the-earth/ Mysterious People Who Drove off the Face of the Earthby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/ August 8, 2017 There are plenty of cases of vanished people who have seemingly stepped off the face of the earth to leave abandoned vehicles behind. However, even more curious is those cases where the disappeared have gone off to take a drive and completely vanished along with their vehicles, never to be seen or heard from again. It is one thing to have a person disappear, but for them to just melt away from the world along with their vehicles and never have a trace found is truly odd indeed. Here are some of the myriad, bizarre cases of people who got into their cars to go driving, and keep going seemingly right off the face of the planet. Our first case finds us at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, on May 15, 1970. On this evening, there was a cocktail party going on in full swing, and among the various people mixing and mingling were 63-year-old Edward and Stephania Andrews, of Arlington Heights, who were there because of a trade convention sponsored by the Woman’s Association of Allied Beverage Industries. At some point at around 9:30 PM, Edward made some complaints to other party goers about feeling rather ill, and he was described as looking noticeably pale and under the weather, although if this was a result of alcohol some sickness is not known. Some witnesses who asked what was wrong claimed that he had told them he was just hungry. Not long after this, witnesses say that the couple made their way to the parking garage, where Edward was seen to be stumbling, staggering, and practically unable to walk. As he fumbled with the car keys, his wife was seen to cry and beg him not to get behind the wheel, but despite this objection the two were seen to head off in their vehicle, a black-and-yellow 1969 Oldsmobile, smashing across the garage door to scrape it on their way out. The couple were last seen driving down Michigan Avenue against traffic, and then they just vanished off the face of the earth. When the couple wasn’t heard from and could not be located afterward, it was feared that they had been driving under the influence of either alcohol or medication, or that they had been otherwise disoriented, and somehow had driven their car clear off the road into the nearby Chicago River to sink down into its depths, and a pair of skid marks on a bridge seemed to point to this dire possibility. A search of the river was immediately launched, but no trace of the car was found despite all efforts. It was all considered to be very odd, as the Andrews’ were a happy, well-off couple who were not known to drink heavily and they did not have any known enemies or ties to criminal activities. A search of their home turned up no sign of any foul play or theft, with their valuable still there, and there was absolutely no activity with their credit cards or various stocks and bonds. None of it made any sense. Ron Van Raalt, a detective who worked on the case at the time, mused: Two people in their 60s, in a car, just don’t vanish off the face of the earth. Not intentionally, at least. In the years after the disappearance there were no further leads, and a complete clean-up of the Chicago River in 1980 served to dismiss any ideas that this was their final resting place. During the operation, the river bottom was thoroughly dredged, and although this turned up a total of 12 submerged vehicles, none of these turned out to be the one that had belonged to the missing couple. The best possible lead came forth in 1994, when a 36-year-old man from Knollwood contacted police with information on what he claimed had really happened to the couple. The man claimed that the couple had been murdered in cold blood, and that their bodies had then been stuffed into the trunk of their car and the vehicle intentionally sunk into a nondescript pond located south of Atkinson Road and east of the Tri-State Tollway near Green Oaks. Police were apparently impressed enough with the man’s claims and knowledge of the case to warrant a search of the stagnant pond, and it was thoroughly dredged and scoured by divers, but no sign of the missing car was found. The search was eventually called off, with the cold case no closer to being solved. Interestingly, a large, unidentified object was allegedly discovered lodged deep in the muck of the bottom, but there was no way to tell what it was and police were unable to reach it with the equipment they had at the time. It is uncertain whatever became of this possible lead, and the strange disappearance remains unsolved. Neither the Adrewses nor their car have ever been seen again. CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/08/mysterious-people-who-drove-off-the-face-of-the-earth/
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Post by auntym on Aug 17, 2017 12:54:46 GMT -6
www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27808/the-goodyear-blimps-ghostly-past/?src=socialflowTW The Goodyear Blimp Has a Ghostly, Mysterious Past The U.S. Navy's L-7 airship went to sea with a crew of two and returned without them.By Kyle Mizokami Aug 17, 2017 In 1942, a U.S. Navy airship flew over the Golden Gate, its mission to search for Japanese submarines. Hours later, it would crash into a house just south of San Francisco, its crew missing. What happened to the two man crew of the L-8 airship, which would later become the Goodyear Blimp, is a mystery. The airship, L-8, was based at the U.S. airship base at Treasure Island, San Francisco as part of an effort to detect Japanese submarines off the California coastline. The airship was crewed by two Navy officers, Lieutenant Ernest D. Cody and Ensign Charles D. Adams. The U.S. Navy received more than 150 airships between 1942 and 1945. Produced by the Goodyear Corporation, they were useful as convoy escort vessels, capable of spotting enemy submarines and dropping depth charges on them. Early on the morning of August 16th, 1942, L-8 lifted off and headed west towards the Pacific on what should have been a routine patrol. Five hours later, the residents of Daly City, a suburb just south of San Francisco, were startled by the sight of a massive airship rapidly descending towards a row of houses. The airship crashed and rescuers discovered the airship empty. L-8 was put back into service and later became the Goodyear Blimp, flying until 1982. The fate of Cody and Adams remains a mystery. Source: USNI News www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27808/the-goodyear-blimps-ghostly-past/?src=socialflowTW
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