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Post by Ian Warren on Feb 27, 2017 15:53:11 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 24, 2018 13:13:22 GMT 12
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Post by isc on Mar 24, 2018 21:50:08 GMT 12
I remember that when I was in Form two at Dannevirke North school we had a local bloke along one day to tell us about his flying saucer sightings, and his trip on one, and how the aliens studied him medically. Out of the 30 or so in the room that day, I think there was about 1 who believed the story told, and it wasn't any of us kids, and I think the teacher was a bit skeptical too. About a month later a couple of blokes from the Russian Embassy came and gave us a load of bull about Russia, and I think we believed that about as much as the flying saucers. isc
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 2, 2018 20:39:42 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 28, 2018 23:49:02 GMT 12
This comes from the Aspen Daily Times, July 13, 1892
THE HIDEOUS MONSTER
That Startled a Fisherman at Chain Lake, Maine.
That the Chain Lake serpent, which had been the subject of many stirring yarns from Washington county, had subsided was believed generally, but the monster has started on tho warpath again, and a party of fifteen bold hunters started out from Whitneyville recently to lay him low, writes a Bangor correspondent of the New York Sun.
About ninety feet in length by three feet in breadth of beam are the general dimensions that were given by a man who saw it cross the lake at railroad speed three years ago, and that estimate was declared to be very nearly correct by other parties who saw the monster’s trail in the mud on the shore.
The latest news of the snake is furnished by Clarence S. Lunt, who went to Chain Lake on a fishing trip. Arriving at the lake early in the day he chiseled a hole about a foot square in the ice, set his lines and was filling his pipe when there was a shock such as would be caused by a log falling upon the ice. A second shock came soon, and the water in the fish hole began to boil.
Suddenly, to the horror of the fisherman a most hideous head was thrust up through the hole. It was a long, black, flat-shaped scaly snout, changing to a smooth, oily gray under the lower jaws. The mouth had rows of saw-like teeth and it opened and shut convulsively. At intervals a great red tongue of the brilliancy of flame ran out and as the bead rolled from side to side in vain efforts to force its way further through the aperture in the ice it emitted great flecks of spume of a dense, sickening odor. The head protruded about fifteen inches above tho ice, but no eyes were visible, and Lunt is certain that they were below the surface, for the creature must have eyes, else it could not have found the fish hole.
The monster struggled fearfully for a few minutes and then withdrew. Lunt sat down on the ice completely unnerved by his experience, and it was some time before he could muster sufficient strength to walk home. He had proceeded only a short distance when he heard the same commotion as at first, and, looking back, he saw the hideous head protruding again from the hole. Then he fled, and he cannot be induced to go back to Chain lake .
Great excitement was caused by Lunt’s story of the monster, and some persons were unkind enough to drop remarks about the increasing consumption of Portland whisky in those parts, saying that the article smuggled in from New Brunswick was better. But many believe in the existence of the reptile.
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Post by haughtney1 on May 29, 2018 17:25:08 GMT 12
Im not generally a fox news fan, but every now and then the content can be a bit compelling..
Make up your own minds, personally...I blame Lockheed.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 29, 2018 19:25:10 GMT 12
I have no idea but my gut feeling is you're right, Lockheed or Boeing or similar working on high speed unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Post by mumbles on May 29, 2018 22:40:52 GMT 12
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Post by mumbles on May 29, 2018 22:45:37 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 26, 2018 11:41:03 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2018 22:00:24 GMT 12
Can this possibly be true? From the WAIKATO INDEPENDENT, 12 JULY 1946 UNCANNY POWERSSTRANGE STORY FROM AUSTRALIA SUBMARINES SPOTTED MILES AWAY Here is one of the strangest stories of the war, a story that seems fantastic but is vouched for by a senior official of the Australian Army Inventions Directorate, states an overseas exchange. One night in June, 1942, a Japanese submarine fired a few shells into Sydney’s seaside suburbs. It was a futile gesture and little damage was done. But the next morning a shy little man of 75. walked into the office of the Director of the N.S.W. branch of the Australian Army Inventions Directorate, Mr R. M. Service. The man was accompanied by his 40-year-old son, who said: “My father and I have been worried by that submarine. Dad located it and watched its movements, so we’ve come to you.” Mr Service was used to dealing with cranks, so he listened patiently and said: “That’s'fine. Where it is now?” The son chose a stick from a bundle he had brought and handed it to his father. The old man placed it against his nose, chin, and chest and turned around several times and then remained perfectly still. At last he said: “It’s over there—in that direction, about 35 miles away.” Mr Service was startled by the man’s assurance, and decided to take no chances. He telephoned the Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. While the Director was waiting for news, the son explained that his father had been divining, or dowsing, for 60 years, and that his powers had reached such perfection that he could locate paper money, metals and other items. He was then put to the test. Squares of newspaper were cut up and two currency bills were wrapped singly in two of them. The other pieces of paper, all of identical size, were scattered round the office, and, unknown to the old man, those containing the notes were put in almost inaccessible places. When Mr Service told him to go ahead and find the money, the diviner took a stick from a bundle of untrimmed native woods and. after a few minutes of preliminary feeling about, located the two notes unerringly. Wide-eyed by now Mr Service tried another test. He sent the old man out of the room and hid a gold chain. The diviner located it as soon as he came back into the room! Mr Sendee was puzzled. He did not know what to do with this rather unique character. Finally he called up a professor at Sydney University and asked his advice. The professor said: “Just wrap that man in cotton wool and send him to the Psychical Research Society in Britain he’s precious.” Mr Service called the Navy and the Air Force again and told them about the office experiments. This time they really were interested. They took the diviner to a Pacific headland in the Sydney suburbs. The old man selected his sticks, moved around for a while, and then indicated the position of the marauding submarine, 30 miles away! The Air Force sent a plane over, the submarine was located, and bombs were dropped just where the diviner had indicated. After that the Navy put him to work. They took him out to sea on a destroyer, and he located submarines 60 to 400 miles away! Investigation proved that in every case the diviner was right, although in some cases the submarines were Allied ones. The diviner refused all payment for his uncanny work. He just liked to think that his powers were helping the war effort.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 30, 2018 14:36:21 GMT 12
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Post by shorty on Aug 30, 2018 19:20:01 GMT 12
more likely space junk
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 14, 2018 23:34:14 GMT 12
This one intrigues me a lot.
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Post by mumbles on Sept 15, 2018 0:25:19 GMT 12
This one intrigues me a lot. Myself not so much. I'm happy with the science given for it being a natural formation, besides other factors that preclude anyone but polynesians being the first inhabitants of NZ.
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Post by delticman on Sept 15, 2018 6:52:01 GMT 12
This one intrigues me a lot. Myself not so much. I'm happy with the science given for it being a natural formation, besides other factors that preclude anyone but polynesians being the first inhabitants of NZ. I thought it strange myself but we have now seen these built in our time, north of Kaikoura. R
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 15, 2018 7:41:04 GMT 12
What intrigues me most is they have never allowed a team of archaeologists to go in ad excavate it properly to find out how extensive it is and to look for more clues.If it's just a natural rock formation then it does not matter a jot that the soil is removed from it. So why has it not happened? Are they terrified they might find an ancient pyramid?
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Post by mumbles on Sept 15, 2018 11:00:28 GMT 12
What intrigues me most is they have never allowed a team of archaeologists to go in ad excavate it properly to find out how extensive it is and to look for more clues.If it's just a natural rock formation then it does not matter a jot that the soil is removed from it. So why has it not happened? Are they terrified they might find an ancient pyramid? Who is "they"? Archaeologists won't be interested in it because they understand that geologists know what they are talking about when they say it isn't man made and they have better things to do, like digging on actual historic sites. Debunked 20+ years ago. skeptics.nz/journal/issues/41/a-new-age-myth-the-kaimanawa-wallowlcation.com/humanities/Kaimanawa-Wall-Ancient-Wall-from-Lost-Cvilization-or-Natural-FormationThese things are also used by some to pursue a distinctly racist agenda, which I object to.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 15, 2018 13:40:12 GMT 12
Racist? What? How on earth do you figure that when it's never been excavated properly to see if what some archaeologists and other experts in ancient structures have said about it being man-made are true, so we have no idea whatsoever if it is man-made or not, only the conjecture from government officials looking at the surface. We all know how often such assessments by by so-called experts can be wrong.
If it was actually found to be man-made, which I actually doubt, we do not know by whom nor when it was built, so racism does not even enter into it. Even if an ancient civilisation were discovered it detracts absolutely nothing from any of the cultures that have come along since at all, it simply adds to our history as a nation.
In fact I think it is pretty ridiculous that anyone would consider people curious about this structure to be racist; and even more so if they prove it was from a previous civilisation, anyone rejecting that is racist themselves!
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 15, 2018 13:58:07 GMT 12
Racist? What? How on earth do you figure that when it's never been excavated properly to see if what some archaeologists and other experts in ancient structures have said about it being man-made are true, so we have no idea whatsoever if it is man-made or not, only the conjecture from government officials looking at the surface. We all know how often such assessments by by so-called experts can be wrong. If it was actually found to be man-made, which I actually doubt, we do not know by whom nor when it was built, so racism does not even enter into it. Even if an ancient civilisation were discovered it detracts absolutely nothing from any of the cultures that have come along since at all, it simply adds to our history as a nation. In fact I think it is pretty ridiculous that anyone would consider people curious about this structure to be racist; and even more so if they prove it was from a previous civilisation, anyone rejecting that is racist themselves! The (generally implied, rather than explicit) agenda in play is the idea that Maori destroyed earlier peoples, therefore it is ok that Europeans destroyed the existing Maori society in the process of killing so many of them directly and indirectly. This is why the idea that Moriori were a separate race was also attractive to 19th/early 20th Century Europeans. This isn't saying that everyone curious about the claims is racist. But people should be aware of the context, and how ideas have been and will be mis-used.
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