LAIR OF THE BEASTS: In Search of the Death-Worm
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Nick Redfern, Mania.com
IAs someone who spends pretty much his
entire life chasing, investigating, and writing about mysterious
beasts and diabolical monsters, I have to admit that I have come
across some extremely wild and far-out stories in my time – and
that’s putting it mildly!
But, the one strange creature that fascinates and intrigues me
perhaps more than any other, is the aptly- and intriguingly-named
Mongolian Death-Worm.
Now you might very reasonably ask: what on Earth can be so deadly
about a mere worm? Well, I’ll tell you. And it has absolutely
nothing at all to do with the sort of worm you might find in your
back-yard.
Rumored to inhabit the sands of Mongolia’s harsh Gobi Desert, this
particular worm is said to be a lean, mean, killing-machine of
electrifying proportions. And I do mean that quite literally.
Local legend among the tribal folk that inhabit the region tells of
a fearsome, writhing, worm-like beast – five-feet in length and
bright red in color, no less – that has the ability to kill its prey
by spitting a mouthful of sulfuric acid in their direction. Nice!..
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The Hauntings of Rachel
The Paranormal
Pastor
There are some people who seem to
attract the paranormal. They have a lifetime of incidents both
intriguing and sometimes terrifying that they can refer to on any
given subject of the unexplained. Be it ghostly hauntings, demonic
influence or oppression, UFO encounters, or even cryptozoological
sightings.
Rachel was that type of girl, and she had a wide variety of
experiences with various entities since a young child. I met her
last year at a business meeting, when by chance I mentioned my
appreciation for unexplained phenomena. She was a waitress who had
overheard a conversation between a colleague and myself on the
subject of local hauntings. She was serving our lunch and as she
laid the last platter on the table she could not help but stand
there and listen. After a few moments she weighted in on the
subject.
“You know I could tell you so many things.” She said haltingly,
"must be because our town is built on an old Indian village or
something but there are so many things I’ve seen around here. In
fact there’s a ghost of a little girl that was harassing me, she was
making my life miserable for months.” She was going to explain but
as the restaurant was filled, duties called her away. When she came
again to fill our coffee I handed her my business card and asked her
to write me of her experiences. It took her a few months, but she
did finally write and not only was it quite lengthy, the encounters
that she related in the e-mail were quite dramatic and terrifying.
Her experiences with the paranormal began when she was a young
child. She grew up in an old farmhouse in Elgin Pa. She would often
wait for the school bus alone on the dirt road in front of her
house, and one early twilight morning as she stood in the sacked
snow that had just been plowed to the edge of the road she saw
something across the field. At first it was just a dull dark shape
that seemed to be shifting in the driven snow, but it grew in
density and purpose as it seemed to make its way to her bus stop. As
it neared the ridge of snow piled on the opposite side of the road
the shape distinctly looked like that of an old lady trudging
through the knew deep snow, and young Rachel was just about to run
across the street and offer her assistance when the shape just
blinked out of existence. But before it did so, the young girl was
sure it was an old lady- she even saw the polka dotted scarf that
covered her hair and the tattered grey jacket very clearly. She
remembers the sight to this day. As the bus came moments later, she
sat on a seat facing where she last saw the old woman, but all she
saw was flat snow covered farm fields without a person in sight as
far as the eye could see...
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RAF Radar Chief: I Saw UFO Fleet
by Virginia
Wheeler, The Sun
An RAF expert yesterday revealed how
he tracked a whole fleet of “spaceships” on military radar — but the
Ministry of Defence told him to keep quiet.
Wing Commander Alan Turner, 64, said colleagues sat stunned when 35
super-fast vessels appeared on their screens.
Wing Cmdr Turner, who was a chief operator of the RAF’s radar system
for 29 years, said the craft were equally spaced and shot from
3,000ft to 60,000ft at almost 300mph.
Incredibly, every few seconds one of the UFOs would suddenly vanish
from radar and be replaced by an identical vessel moments later...
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Mike Conley's Tales of the Weird: Supercarrier Had Strange
Experience
by Mike Conley,
McDowell News
Last week,
this column took a look at the ghosts that are believed to haunt the
battleship USS North Carolina. Today, we shall consider the tale of
the crew of an aircraft carrier encountering a UFO while sailing
through the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
Sometime in
1971, the USS John F. Kennedy, one of the U.S. Navy's supercarriers,
was returning to its port in Norfolk, Va. after a two-week readiness
exercise in the Caribbean. The carrier and its crew were sailing
through the Bermuda Triangle, that section of the Atlantic Ocean
were so many ships and planes are believed to have mysteriously
vanished. Since the time of Christopher Columbus, sailors and later
pilots have also reported seeing weird objects in the sky while
traveling through the dreaded Triangle.
During that
voyage, one of the John F. Kennedy's crewman was on duty in the
communications center, monitoring eight separate teletype machines.
If any messages were received on the teletype machines, they had to
be sent to the Facilities Control Center, which would in turn
monitor the incoming messages. In the same room, the crew had
equipment that allowed them to communicate with the shore and other
ships at sea...
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