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A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
If you’re looking for something else to add to the list of things that keep you up at night, the Earth’s magnetic field already has a weak spot known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) and a new study took measurements which show that it is increasing at an alarming rate – since 2014, the anomaly weak spot has expanded by an area nearly twice the size of Texas and is moving towards Africa; author Chris Finlay, Professor of Geomagnetism at the Technical University of Denmark, says: “There’s something special happening in this region that is causing the field to weaken in a more intense way”; the SAA already forces orbiting satellites, space missions and the International Space Station to avoid the area or fly higher due to higher-than-usual levels of ionizing radiation – this expansion will cause a bigger danger area for them; Finlay calls the anomaly a reverse flux patch and describes it in the study: “Normally we’d expect to see magnetic field lines coming out of the core in the southern hemisphere. But beneath the South Atlantic Anomaly, we see unexpected areas where the magnetic field, instead of coming out of the core, goes back into the core”. If only we had a flux capacitor to escape this reverse flux patch.
In a recent interview, Congressman Tim Burchett, a longtime proponent of UFO research and government disclosure, shared a report he received from an unnamed “very high-ranking member of the Navy “ about an alleged unidentified submerged object (USO) encounter by a U.S. submarine; Burchett said the official described is as “big as a football field” and traveling at an underwater speed of 200 miles an hour; according to the congressman, “The best we have is probably in the high 30s”; Burchett says he’s frustrated, as are other Congress members: “There’s several of us, Luna, myself and several others that are concerned about this issue and we want some answers” but they need “somebody in the White House that says enough is enough and just discloses it; in the meantime, Burchett says “There’s a movie coming out” with testimony that “They’ve got their beings, and there’s saucers or some craft or something” and people saying, “they were there and they identified these things, they diagnosed them, and they saw them. I saw the craft.” Burchett reaffirmed that the issue is bipartisan, but he has no idea if disclosure will happen. We need a new generation of Woodwards and Bernsteins to follow the money and the UFO.
Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and chairman of the board of the UAP Disclosure Fund, is another official going public with his quest for UFO disclosure – in an opinion piece in The San Francisco Chronicle, he points out that after the release of three Navy videos showing UFO encounters with Navy pilots (which Mellon helped release, the intelligence community ”reclassified almost everything concerning UAP, slowing disclosure to a trickle”; he reveals that under his direction, the UAP Disclosure Fund filed many requests under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain UAP records from the government, warning that “If necessary, we will litigate these requests in federal court”; he states the obvious consequences about the current lack of transparency: “Withholding information also fuels conspiracy theories and cynicism, undermining faith in our institutions. When Congress and the public struggle to pry even basic answers from the Pentagon, what message does that send to the American people?” Again, we don’t need all the president’s men – just a few dedicated people to keep the pressure on without being intimidated.

It’s not hard to find the right drawer with the secret stuff.

There is a reason why psychics have historically been looked down upon in so many societies and that reason raised its ugly head once more in Pennsylvania where the Montgomery County District Attorney charged two men with numerous felonies related to the theft of more than $600,000 from two victims using a fortune telling scheme where they claimed to be removing curses in exchange for payment under the name “Jenkintown Psychic Visions”; over the course of 11 months, one woman gave them fraudsters jewelry, cash, clothing, concert tickets and gift cards totaling almost $600,000 to “cleanse” the curse; sadly for legitimate psychics, the charges – Corrupt Organizations, Dealing in the Proceeds of Unlawful Activities, Theft by Unlawful Taking, Theft by Deception and Receiving Stolen Property – also included one still on the books for Fortune Telling; none of the payments were recovered. To those who can’t believe people would give up their money so freely to something that others think is an obvious losing proposition, have you ever been to Las Vegas?
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts and monster witnesses who say that the video they have shows something that could only be the Loch Ness Monster – as is the case with a recent video recorded by Nessie webcam watcher Eoin O’Faodhagain from the Visit Inverness Loch Ness webcam at Shoreland Lodges; it shows what O’Faodhagain describes as “a long thick neck” that is “thick as a man’s thigh” and appears to be swimming with it “over three to four feet out of the water” as it moves across the loch/screen; O’Faodhagain uses this logic to justify his diagnosis of the thing which is following in the wake of a boat: “When last viewed, it is high out of the water, as a high as a man, but you can see from the footage, it is neither man nor wildfowl, or seal or otter, what else could it be? Only Nessie, because I am at a loss trying to explain it as anything else. There is no bird that has a neck that thick and long, you can even see the shadow of it on the water, of how high and big in thickness it is. Seals do not swim with their necks up continuously for over a minute out of the water, and neither do otters”. Sounds logical, but the process of elimination hasn’t proven the existence of Nessie yet.
The answer to the mystery of what killed off the Neanderthals may finally have a modern answer thanks to a new study led by Alysson Muotri, a developmental biologist at the University of California, San Diego, which began by analyzing 51 fossilized hominid teeth, dated to between 100,000 and 1.8 million years old and found “clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo)”; the team then ran tests on lab-grown mini-brains that had one of two variants of a gene called NOVA1, which is found in modern humans as well as have, and one found in Neanderthals and other extinct species, and found that mini-brains with the Neanderthal gene variant suffered significant disruption to the activity of a gene called FOXP2, which is crucial for the development of speech and language, while the damage was less in modern humans and other species; Muotri says that “These results suggest that our NOVA1 variant may have offered protection against the harmful neurological effects of lead”. The Neanderthals are sending a message: get rid of the lead pipes and paint already!
There are two perceived bands of animal mutilation cases – one along the 37th parallel in the U.S. through Colorado, Nebraska and other states, and one through Argentina in South America; a rancher in Argentina has reported his second case in a month; the head of the Calderón family told local media he found one of his missing heifers dead on the 25 de Mayo Highway with a perfectly cut jaw and missing a tongue, an eye and its udder; recently, he found a dead horse that had a similar cut on the jaw and was also missing an eye and part of its rear around the genitals and anus; he ruled out a human killer because “It doesn’t make sense for one or more people to do all this and leave the animal lying there”; instead, he concluded that “From the news and documentaries we’ve seen, they say this could be due to two reasons: the chupacabra, which no one knows or has seen, or aliens”. There are many who believe the chupacabras are aliens, which could explain the killings – especially if aliens have a taste for quality Argentine and Midwest steaks.
Chupacabras can’t catch a break these days – besides livestock mutilations in North and South America, a man in Colorado blamed one for his single vehicle truck accident; according to the Lawrence Police Department report, the man said his 1 am crash happened when a “Chupacabra ran out in front of him”; the cryptid must have been bringing Colorado beer back to Puerto Rico because the report, along with medical records from the blood test, said that he failed a sobriety test and tested positive for intoxication, leading to a felony charge of operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 percent or greater. The Chupacabra was not charged and will most likely not show up for the trial.

Don’t mess with Chupacabras drunk or sober.

Brandon Biggs is a seer who claimed to have forecast the assignation attempt on President Trump has moved into the paranormal world with his latest prediction – he claims to have had a vision of an “alien” spaceship flying over the both the Vatican and Mayan temples in Mexico and says he saw “little bitty ships coming out of this mother ship that were balls of light” which will eventually “make everybody freak out because they’re going to see it moving across the ocean. It’s going to be something that’s going to be on TV.”; if this sounds familiar, many people viewing Bigg’s video making the predictions think he’s referring to the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS that NASA says is a comet but some scientists and Harvard professor Avi Loeb think could be an interstellar spaceship that may or may not be hostile to Earth and its inhabitants; Bigg’s prediction takes a religious turn when he says that “here is no such thing as aliens” and he believes these are “fallen angels” from a “demonic-looking light” in the sky. 3I/ATLAS is getting more warnings than a Category 5 hurricane – is it time to stock up on bottled water and toilet paper?
With the Milwaukee Brewers in the Major League Baseball National League Playoffs, talk has turned from home runs to hauntings as Los Angeles Dodgers player Teoscar Hernández announced that he will not stay at the Pfister Hotel at his wife’s request (she’s traveling with him) because she heard it is haunted; stories of the Pfister Hotel’s ghosts have been around for years – according to Hernández,  “My wife told me. The lights — some of the rooms — the lights go off and on. The doors, there are noises, footsteps. Things like, I dunno. I’m not the guy that I’m gonna be here saying, yeah, I’ve experienced that before. And I don’t think I’m gonna experience that”; Dodger star Mookie Betts believes – he’s been known to stay at an Airbnb to avoid encountering any ghosts at the Pfister Hotel “just in case” the stories are true; this has been going on for so long, many blame the Brewers for perpetrating it just to mess with the minds of opposing players. If the Brewers win the World Series, perhaps the management of the Pfister Hotel should get a cut of the winnings plus a ring.

If they thought the hotel was haunted – wait until they see the dugout.

Dr. Robin Corbet, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland but based at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, published a paper proposing that the answer to the Fermi Paradox questioning why we haven’t seen any aliens despite the abundance of planets that could host them is simple – under the principle of “radical mundanity”, extraterrestrials living in the Milky Way galaxy are only slightly more advanced than we are and, having followed our path of exploring their own solar system with robotic probes, have decided space travel is boring and are staying home to deal with their own more mundane but still important problems; Corbet compares the slight difference in technology to “having an iPhone 42 rather than an iPhone 17” but “They don’t have faster-than-light, they don’t have machines based on dark energy or dark matter, or black holes. They’re not harnessing new laws of physics”; in other words, they’re just as mundane as we are. And they’re probably wondering why we haven’t visited them – and pondering their own ET-Fermi Paradox.
Move over Planet X and take Planet Nine with you because researchers at Princeton University have discovered a mysterious warp in the plane of the Kuiper Belt of giant icy objects that could be explained by another large planet pulling the objects beyond Neptune – a planet that is not X or Nine but a Planet Y; the researchers lay out their calculations in a new paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters and conclude with a note that “a hypothetical Planet Y as described in this work would likely be detectable by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory if it is currently located within the survey footprint. If such a body exists but is not discoverable by LSST due to its on-sky location (i.e., high ecliptic latitude), LSST will nevertheless elucidate the details of the Kuiper belt mean plane warp induced by the planet”. Pluto is still angry, disappointed and a little verklempt.
In his relatively short time on the job, Pope Leo XIV has weighed in on baseball, U.S politics and various religious doctrines and practices, but nothing stirred the masses (small ‘m’) like comments made public recently that Pope Leo made at the Vatican Observatory earlier this year; speaking to young astronomers about the telescope, he said: “Thanks to this remarkable instrument, we are able for the first time to peer deep into the atmosphere of planets in other solar systems, where life could develop. The new technology also makes it possible to trace the ancient light of distant galaxies, which tells us about the origins of our universe” and deepens “our knowledge of the cosmos, of which we are only a small but significant part”; many are wondering is Pope Leo has come out and endorsed a belief in life on other planets and might even be getting ready to make an announcement of aliens already being here. Or he’s just a kid like the rest of us who’s excited about seeing other planets through a telescope.
An archaeological survey of the large prehistoric canal systems in the central portion of Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley has uncovered what appears to be an effigy mound in the shape of a scorpion which, because of its location, may have been part of the civilization’s highly developed agricultural and irrigation infrastructure; researchers noticed that mound’s orientation has the scorpion’s tail stinger and left claw facing 65 degrees east-northeast, which is exactly where the sun rises during the summer solstice; during the winter solstice, the sunset also aligns with the scorpion’s tail in reverse when viewed from the left claw, making the mound a kind of solar calendar to mark the changing seasons something the paper on the discovery notes that this information was not just useful to ancient farmers, “It was essential to survival”; they suspect the mound was part of a local civic and ceremonial complex because they found ceramic jars, tripod grinding bowls, incense burners, and fragments of hollow figurines used in ritual activities; of particular note was the set of “killed” tripod bowls that were intentionally broken and discovered near the scorpion’s head – they contained a relatively modern offering of tobacco and chilies which indicates the mound had a spiritual significance to the culture long after its construction. What would we know about Mesoamerican civilizations if the jungles hadn’t hidden them from developers for so long?
Before it destroys humankind as we know it, artificial intelligence may help us understand what our dogs are trying to say to us – computer scientist Kenny Zhu of the University of Texas is working on a ‘Poogle’ translator to do just that; Zhu and his colleagues have collected the world’s largest video and audio catalog of canine vocalizations and are using AI to identity word-like patterns in dog barks, growls and other sounds that can be translated into sentences; he says, “The ultimate goal is to make a translator where you can talk freely with your pet. We can already do instantaneous communication between human languages” so maybe we can do it between species as well; Zhu started by trying to see if a language model could hear a difference between Shiba Inus in Japan and in the United States – it didn’t reveal any doggy dialect split; Zhu then compiled hundreds of hours of synced audio and video to train an AI model to separate canine vocalizations into discrete phonemes; so far, the team has transcribed about 50 hours of barks into syllables and identified some possible words like cat, cage and leash; they also identified how these words differ between dog breeds, how a dog’s linguistic capability appears to change as it ages – in one husky, as it grew older bark lasted longer and became more sophisticated; it’s not just dogs – Zhu is working on decoding cats and cow vocalizations. The cows are excited, but the cats couldn’t care less – do we really need AI to tell us that?

The conspiracy world is a strange place to step into. It is often a strange and potentially dangerous mix of obscured partial truths, bizarre claims that border on the preposterous, and muddied and distorted facts, statistics, and statements. Perhaps because of this, it is also a world where individuals or groups can hijack or even outright invent conspiracies for their own ends, a situation that potentially affects us all.
While we won’t debate the rights or wrongs of indulging in conspiracies here, other than to say the need to question everything, particularly where an authority is concerned, is very real, and that the simplistic statement that all conspiracies rise out of the lack of understanding on the part of the masses is as dangerous as some of more extreme and out of touch conspiracies themselves. With that in mind, we will explore several conspiracies here that, on the surface, appear bizarre and outlandish, but that, upon further investigation, have the potential to be more accurate than many people would like to think.
Perhaps a good place to start here would be with the alleged so-called Light Apparition Experiments, which not only feature apparent projects involving cold explosions, but also offer further testimony to the apparent credibility of remote viewing and just how far such projects went. Moreover, the alleged documents that gave birth to these conspiracies appear to correspond with documented events at the time.
Before we delve into these bizarre experiments, it is worth our time first turning our attention to the CIA’s remote viewing program, Project Stargate. This program began in the early 1970s, officially, at least, and involved various renowned remote viewers. Arguably the most well-known of these, and certainly one of the most accurate, was Ingo Swann. While we won’t go into them in detail here, Swann offered some remarkable details during his remote viewing sessions, including information about Jupiter during a mission to the gas giant, which was confirmed by scientists several years later. If we accept that Swann was truthful and accurate about what he discovered during his remote viewing mission to Jupiter, then we should perhaps also take his offerings of what he saw on the Lunar surface (huge domed buildings and non-human intelligent life forms) equally as seriously, at least potentially.  

Officially, the project was brought to a close in 1995; however, as we might imagine, there are many who believe these experiments have continued behind closed doors, and perhaps continue today. Whatever the truth, in the years that have followed, there have been many declassified documents that have offered peeks into the world of remote viewing, as well as multiple Freedom of Information requests that have done likewise. While many of these documents are thought-provoking and intriguing in their own right, some stand out more than the others, one that featured a very credible remote viewer seemingly “spying” on the Cold War nemesis of the West, the Soviet Union, and mysterious light apparition experiments. Although the document details these experiments and the consequences thereof, they don’t, unfortunately, detail the technology or methods used to achieve what appears to be the creation and control of huge bursts of energy that resulted in apparent temporal disturbances that seemed to alter time itself.
According to the documents in question, this particular remote viewing session took place on June 19th, 1984, with the remote viewer labeled as Source 01 (although many have suggested the viewer was Joe McMoneagle, one of the most renowned remote viewers on record). To begin with, Source 01 stated he was looking up from the ground and could see a “swirling mass of (what) looks like very low clouds”. After being asked to scan his surroundings, he stated that he was looking at some kind of building and that there were “some people off to one side”. He elaborated that the building was “in the form of a ‘T’” and that “it’s got twin domes on each end of the crossbar”. Moreover, he offered that he could see a large set of doors with an “inverted ‘V’ over them”. He further stated that he had the impression that he was “inside an energy field”. His instructors then told him to go inside one of the domed buildings.
Moments later, he began describing what he could see inside the building. He stated that he could see a table that appeared to have been pushed up against a wall, seemingly to make space in the middle of the room. More bizarrely, he stated he could see multiple colors all around him and that he could “sense flames of some kind”. He was then instructed to make his way to the other domed building. He did so, and reported that although this room was almost identical, he could also see something “like a mushroom shape” and “a pedestal of some kind” that had “very ornate gold handles on the base of something”.
Then, the session guide instructed Source 01 to “examine the 24-hour time window known as 9 April 1984”. He did as instructed, and his revelations take this account in a drastically strange and thought-provoking direction.
To begin with, Source 01 struggled to put across what he was witnessing, offering only that it had “something to do with time”. He then added that he had a “perception of a broadcast of energy that’s very finite, but it’s not, that’s very localized”, like an “energy ball”. Even stranger, he could see multiple people in the room, all of whom were concentrating on this “event”. Moreover, he sensed the overriding feeling among these people was one of uncertainty and even fear. He was then asked to concentrate on the “event” and describe exactly what he was seeing.
Source 01 did as instructed and responded that he believed he was witnessing something akin to a portal, elaborating that he looked “like a hole drilled through nothing”.  He further stated that this portal appeared like the “connected tissue of reality” that was “twisted around in a corkscrew-like fashion” that made a “very strange light effect”. He then clarified that this light was “not reflective light, it’s just light” with an “iridescent outline of some kind”. Then, the session turned even more bizarre.
He stated that it suddenly appeared “very much like something popped in our reality”, and that he could see a “hazy outline of light is like defining an area where there’s a whole different energy format”. He was asked to focus on this energy, but whenever he did so, he claimed to feel “a whole surge of different frequencies” that was “really strange, (and was) like thousands and thousands” of frequency waves. The session guide then asked where this energy came from, to which Source 01 responded that it was “from somewhere else, like, it just appears there”.
At this point, the session guide instructed Source 01 to concentrate on the people in the room who were viewing the event. He did as requested, noting first off, whether of consequence or not, that all of the people in the room had dark hair. Moreover, all of these individuals wore the same black and white uniform. Source 01 was then asked to select one of the individuals at random and focus his attention on them. He did so, and immediately sensed great fear within him, something he also stated he could feel from the group as a whole. Interestingly, he elaborated that although there was great fear among the group, so much so that they desperately wanted to flee, they also seemingly had a desire “to throw themselves down and worship this light!”
Source 01 was then asked if he could pick out an individual who appeared less affected than the majority of the people in the room. He scanned the room and picked out an individual whose emotion appeared much more in check than the rest. He then stated that this person believed that the “event” was “an effect from another location – like a broadcasting of a focal point”, before adding that this was “just a side effect to the real objective”, although he wasn’t clear what that objective was.
The session guide then directed Source 01 to examine the “mechanics” of the experiment in an effort to establish what was taking place. He did so, but because he had little understanding of what he was witnessing, he struggled to communicate this to the guide. He stated that he was watching some kind of “coming together of wave formats” that were “overlapping and colliding with each other”, which produced extremely high peaks and extreme lows. The session guide then asked about “the mechanics of what happens”, as well as the “machinery that makes this happen”. All Source 01 could offer in reply was that he could see “sets of coils” that appeared to be “protected by shields”. These coils, Source 01 continued, produced “extremely low frequencies”. Then, the session came to a close. There were, though, further sessions that took place on this event, which resulted in further remarkable revelations.
One of these sessions had actually taken place several weeks earlier, on May 30th, 1984, and involved a remote viewer referred to as Source 63. They claimed, for example, that they had witnessed some kind of “man-made explosion” while sensing a “muffled boom” and a “powerful light”, as well as “whining, ripping, and water sounds”. After this, Source 69 continued, they witnessed a “large, dome-shaped object (that) rose out of the water”. Moreover, they offered that these strange events were somehow connected to a “one-story fenced-in building” that had a “strange, secretive, quiet electric feeling” to it. Also of interest, Source 69 also claimed, just like Source 01, that all of the people present in the building wore black and white uniforms and had dark hair.
Yet another remote viewer, referred to as Source 02 in the documents, made their own startling observations during a session that took place on June 7th, 1984. With a focus on the date, April 9th, 1984, Source 02 reported seeing an “awesome explosion” which “produced a brilliant white flash containing colors and rainbows”. Moreover, this explosion “produced tremendous quantities of heat and measured in miles”. They continued that the explosion was “an energetic, electrostatic event producing static, humming, popping, and roaring sounds”, which is very similar to observations made by Source 01. Furthermore, the explosion “produced a column rising up” as well as “dirty, layered clouds”, with “shock waves, upheaval, and earth tremors” expanding out from this column.
With all of these remote viewing sessions made and the apparent revelations made in them, we might ask just what they were witnessing, and if we recall the date the remote viewers were asked to concentrate on – April 9th, 1984 – we might find clues as to at least part of the story.
On the date in question, around 200 miles off the coast of Japan, a freak and bizarre incident unfolded, one that is both documented and still without explanation, when residents on the Japanese coast saw a huge mushroom cloud rising above the horizon. Given the fact that the Cold War was still very much ongoing, not to mention Japan’s own tragic history at the end of the Second World War, many of those who saw this strange cloud rising high into the sky believed that some kind of nuclear weaponry had been deployed. This strange cloud remained for several hours, with multiple cargo planes and commercial airliners having to drastically alter their course to avoid it. One such plane was Flight 36 of Japan Airlines, whose captain, Charles McDade, began an emergency descent as well as changing course. He stated to flight controllers in Alaska that he could see something bizarre that “looks like a nuclear explosion, only there’s no fireball”.

As the years have gone on, many people have put forward suggestions to explain the bizarre mushroom cloud that April morning and afternoon, including that it was produced by known underwater volcanoes in the region. However, no data support any such volcanic activity on the day in question, or any time near it. Perhaps because of the lack of a solid explanation, not to mention an apparent disinterest in the events by the authorities, many people have contemplated whether this strange mushroom cloud was part of something much more ominous than the natural world. And following the revelations of the remote viewers in the CIA documents we have just explored, we might consider if this unexplained cloud was the result of some kind of secret Cold War experiment. In fact, some researchers have seemingly pieced together a fuller picture based on these documents and the known events of the date in question. Before we turn our attention to them, however, it is worth our time here looking at the basics of Scalar Physics, which can, in theory, result in “cold explosions” that can, again, in theory, create portals or wormholes.
Scalar physics revolves around a hypothetical type of longitudinal wave that differs from electromagnetic waves, named scalar waves. Moreover, these waves, in theory, according to some scientists, may have the ability to influence and interact with the matter of the universe, and even the fabric of time and reality, including the potential to create portals or gateways. If we return to some of the details given by Source 01 in the remote viewing experiments for a moment, we might recall that they stated that they were aware of some kind of rip in the fabric of reality. Just one theoretical consequence of the manipulation of scalar waves is something termed “cold explosions”, which, unlike traditional explosions that release a massive amount of destructive energy and heat, cold explosions unleash huge amounts of energy but without the heat, making it a non-widespread destructive explosion.
If we now return our attention to the events of April 9th, 1984, off the coast of Japan, as well as the strange scenes described by the remote viewers regarding that date, we might ask if some kind of Cold War experiment was taking place, perhaps behind the Iron Curtain somewhere in the Soviet Union, perhaps in the far east of the country, experiments that involved scalar waves, and if this was what the coastal residents of Japan were witnessing. Moreover, according to another CIA document, Star Wars Now! The Bohm-Aharonov Effect, Scalar Interferometry and Soviet Weaponization, dated April 24th, 1984, written by T.E. Bearden, this might not be that of a stretch of the imagination.
According to the document in question, on the morning of April 9th, 1984, at 5:14 am, a vast explosion occurred around 200 miles off the coast of Japan in a known weapons testing area of the Soviet Union. The result of this explosion was a huge mushroom cloud that rose out of the ocean to a height of around 60,000 feet in only two minutes, with a diameter of around 150 miles. It is worth noting that official records do show that a weapons test in this Soviet territory was scheduled for April 9th, 1984, although they were scheduled to take place at 9 am. Could it be possible that these tests were brought forward at the last minute? Or perhaps the time was purposely incorrect to create even more secrecy?
Of even more interest, this document also details five commercial airplanes and two military cargo planes that found themselves caught up in the mushroom cloud, particularly the two military planes that had been sent into the cloud intentionally to gather data. This data revealed that the cloud was made of solid particles of ice, and furthermore, the cloud was substantially colder than the atmosphere surrounding it.

The document determined that the explosion and the strange events surrounding it were “man-made” and were very likely the result of a Soviet scalar weapons test. Moreover, the reasons for this test were seemingly to achieve a cold explosion. According to Beasdon, if two scalar waves were crossed at a specific location, the result could very well be a cold explosion. Of even further interest, Beardon put forward that one consequence of this explosion would be the presence of rainbow-like lights. We might recall that this was another detail that was witnessed by the remote viewers.
It is also worth recalling the remote viewers’ descriptions of the building connected to these experiments, particularly the T-shape. If we look at a proposed device that would be required to weaponize scalar waves – a Large Scalar Interferometer Transmitter – one detail that stands out to us is that its dimensions are distinctly T-shaped. Could it be possible that the T-shape of the buildings was part of some kind of upscaling of such a device?
What should we make of all this? Could it be possible that the Soviet Union was experimenting with scalar waves back in 1984? And if there is any truth to this, what should we make of the possibility that the United States, and possibly other Western nations, are experimenting with such energy? And perhaps more than anything else, did this speculative experiment result in the bizarre mushroom cloud that appeared off the coast of Japan that April morning?
Perhaps another seemingly bizarre conspiracy we should pay a little more attention to is one revolving around the Georgia Guidestones, which author Paul Blake Smith makes a compelling argument for in his book President Eisenhower’s Close Encounters. It is a conspiracy that not only involves an apparent elite group operating outside of the government framework, but also potential contact with intelligence from elsewhere. Of course, if there was any truth in such assertions, then we would have to reexamine the nature and context of the Georgia Guidestones from a totally different perspective. Moreover, the speculative origins of this equally speculative conspiracy stretch back to the start of the Modern UFO era in the early 1950s.
Before we delve into this fascinating conspiracy, it is worth examining just how the Georgia Guidestones came into existence and why. In fact, there is no mystery as to when the stones appeared. On the morning of March 22nd, 1980, in Elbert County, Georgia, the stones had been unveiled to the public for the first time, and were credited to “Robert C. Christian”, who claimed to represent “a small group of loyal Americans”. In fact, Christian had not made a secret of creating the stones. Only nine months earlier, he had commissioned the monument, claiming in the public record that the group he represented had planned the structure over the course of two decades, a group that wished to remain completely anonymous. It is also interesting to note that when Christian first approached the Elbert Granite Finishing company for them to construct the stones, the president of the company, Joe Fendley, determined that he was not mentally stable, and because of this, he drastically overinflated the quote, thinking that Christian would be put off by the high costs. To his surprise, they were accepted without question.
Interestingly, there were ten guidelines in total etched into the Guide Stones, which some people have taken as a twist on the Ten Commandments from the Bible. Moreover, these guidelines are written in eight different languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, which were chosen, Christian claimed, as they represented the largest overall collection of humanity.
Ultimately, the Guidestones had been created, it was claimed, due to the belief of those behind them that nuclear war was imminent. The stones were to act as a guideline for potential survivors, or even a human civilization that might arise in the future. These guidelines were:

“Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.”

Initially, while some people were skeptical of the message behind the Guidestones, most people were indifferent to them, and Christian eventually agreed to transfer the rights of the land they stood on to Elbert County, which, in turn, agreed to protect and preserve them. They would eventually erect a barbed wire fence around the stones to prevent cattle from approaching the stones and causing damage to them. However, the move seemingly lit a slow-burning conspiracy that swirled around the Georgia Guidestones and grew steadily as the 2000s unfolded. While there had been unsubstantiated rumors of Devil worship and Occult rituals secretly taking place at the monument for years, claims that the monument was connected to the “New World Order” began to grow, specifically, that they were a blueprint for their “depopulation” agenda, which many people insist is underway.
Whatever the truth, those conspiracies seemingly boiled over, and at 4 am on July 6th, 2022, a purposeful explosion completely destroyed the stones written in Swahili and Hindi, as well as significantly damaging the capstone. Not long after, the monument was dismantled by the authorities due to safety concerns. Meanwhile, investigators had highlighted a vehicle leaving the location shortly after the explosion on CCTV. However, no leads came from the back of this potentially suspicious vehicle. Moreover, no organization ever claimed responsibility for the act, something which we might expect they would, given the statement-like brashness of the move, leading some to question just who was behind the move, and why. Although there are plans to rebuild the monument, the remains of the original stones are still in the hands of the Elberton Granite Association.
Now here is where we turn our attention back to the research of Paul Blake Smith and his previously mentioned book, President Eisenhower’s Close Encounters. He detailed how it could be possible that the six men behind the Georgia Guidestones (sometimes dubbed the “Secret Six”) could be men who had close connections to President Eisenhower during his presidency. Moreover, if there was any truth to such claims, then these men had almost certainly been privy to what was discussed during Eisenhower’s alleged secret meeting with extraterrestrial representatives in 1954.

Smith goes on to highlight a group of six mystery Georgia police officers who, it appeared, had been recruited to act as some kind of secret security unit for President Eisenhower. What’s more, this unit had accompanied Eisenhower when he went to California in February 1954, when the alleged meeting with extraterrestrials took place. Smith, whose research is extensive and thorough, highlights a note in the following year in the official appointment logs. For the date, February 12th, 1955, the official logs state that at around 4 pm, “The President autographed a group picture taken February 19, 1954, showing members of the Georgia State Police who assisted the Secret Service in setting up the security on that occasion.” Of course, this is the date of the alleged meeting with alien representatives. As Smith asks, why would a photograph have been taken with this particular group unless they had been part of some truly momentous event? Moreover, the picture had been signed during what was, officially, a hunting vacation that the “secret six” security unit was also part of. Was this really a hunting vacation?
Smith then relays the research and revelations of Art Campbell. According to Campbell, during the hunting vacation in question, President Eisenhower was accompanied by the secret six unit on a “covert middle-of-the-night trip somewhere out west”. He detailed that at around 3 am on February 11th, 1955, Eisenhower and his security unit discreetly made their way to Spence Air Force Base. From there, they flew to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. According to Campbell’s source, the plane touched down just before 9 am and immediately made its way to the furthest point of the runway, as far away as possible from the barracks. The most suspicious move of all, though, was the alleged order to radar controllers to switch off their equipment on the morning in question. Then, things turned even stranger.
Two shiny disc-shaped objects were seen hovering over the base, while a third identical object hovered a short distance away. Then, one of these discs landed at the base, a short distance away from the plane containing the President and his secret six-member security unit. Moments later, with many of the soldiers watching from the barracks, an opening appeared on the side of the object before a silver ramp extended from it. Moments after that, the steps were put in place at the side of the President’s plane. President Eisenhower then appeared at the top of these steps and made his way down them. He crossed the short distance between the plane and the disc-shaped object before walking up the ramp and into the disc. He remained inside for around 45 minutes before he appeared at the top of the ramp to make the return journey to his plane.
Was this secret security unit – the Secret Six – privy to briefings by the President before and after this alleged second meeting with extraterrestrial visitors? And did they preserve and then use whatever knowledge or information they learned to put onto the Georgia Guidestones just over two decades later? As bizarre as it might sound, there could be more truth in such assertions than many people would like to believe.
There is little doubt that one of the most bizarre conspiracies of the Internet era is that of Mel’s Hole, which, although we should treat it with extreme caution, is certainly very interesting. The tale of Mel’s Hole first surfaced in the late 1990s on the popular radio show Coast to Coast. Mel Waters contacted the show’s host, Art Bell, in February 1997 and informed him that he had discovered a well-like hole on his property, which was somewhere near Ellensburg in the state of Washington in the American northwest. Waters described the well as measuring around nine feet across, with a brick retaining wall that went around 15 feet down. He also admitted that, like the property’s previous owners, he regularly dumped trash and unwanted items in the well. In fact, it was because of this that he began to suspect there was something out of the ordinary about the well, as despite what he threw into it, he never once heard anything hit the bottom, as if the well itself was endless. He had spoken with his neighbors about the well, and all offered that no one had any idea who had constructed it or when. To the best of anyone’s knowledge, it had simply always been there.
Waters then went on to detail how he had carried out several experiments as a way of determining just how far down the well actually went. He first attached a weight to one of his fishing lines, which was 4,500 feet long, and then unreeled the line and lowered the weight into the well. However, when the line was fully unreeled, the weight had still not touched the bottom. After this, thinking there could be water at the bottom of the well, he attached Life Savers candy to the end of the line. If he was right and there was water there, it would dissolve the Life Savers upon contact. However, after unreeling the line and then reeling it back in, all of them were still fully intact. He began increasing the lengths of the line he was using, eventually using a line that was 80,000 feet long. He still, however, hadn’t reached the bottom.
He had also begun to notice other strange details about the well. His dogs, for example, refused to go anywhere near it, even when he tried to coax them with treats. After noticing this, he realized that no animals seemed to want to go near it, not even birds. It was at this point that Mel revisited with his neighbors, asking them if they had ever seen any animals near the well, or if their own pets had acted strangely near it. It was during these conversations that Mel learned of a particularly unsettling encounter.
One of the neighbors told Mel that when one of his dogs had died several years earlier, they had decided to dispose of the body by dropping it into the well. However, several days later, to his utter shock, he saw his dog walking through the woods near the property. To begin with, he tried to tell himself he was looking at a dog that simply looked like his own. However, when he noticed the very distinctive collar the dog was wearing, he was in no doubt that this was his dog. Despite this certainty, when he tried to call the dog, it completely ignored him, seemingly having no memory of him.
Mel also experienced further bizarre incidents while at the well, including sudden and intense interference with radio broadcasts. In fact, one afternoon, Mel tuned his radio to what he believed was a modern baseball game, only to eventually realize he was listening to a radio broadcast from 30 years earlier in 1967. It was not long after this strange experience that Mel made the decision to contact the radio show. There would, though, be immediate consequences.
The following day, after going about his normal daily routines, Mel returned to his property to find his access blocked by a heavily armed military unit. He was told that a plane had crashed onto his land, and this access to the area, including his property, was temporarily prohibited. Although Mel accepted the explanation, he couldn’t find any information on a plane crash in the area anywhere on the news or online. He returned to his property and asked for an explanation. However, rather than provide one, Mel later claimed that he was threatened with “false charges of drug possession” unless he complied with the orders to stay away from the area. Around a week later, according to what neighbors told Mel, a strange beam of light suddenly appeared, shining directly upwards, as if coming from the ground near the well.

Needless to say, Mel contacted Art Bell once more, who wasted little time in informing his audience of the developments surrounding Mel Waters’ claims. As we might imagine, there was a flurry of interest and suggestions as to what was taking place there. Some people suggested that the light beam was likely the opening of a portal, possibly connected to the bottomless well, while others pointed to how UFOs are witnessed in the area. Bell eventually dispatched a broadcast team to the property to take a look for themselves. They didn’t locate the well. They did, though, find evidence of a military presence in the area, including tire tracks from heavy-duty vehicles, and military-style boot prints on the ground.
Then, with no warning, Mel Waters seemingly disappeared. He failed to show up at the studio for a pre-arranged recording, which prompted the show’s producers to contact him. However, he failed to answer his phone on multiple occasions, and he didn’t respond to any messages. Then, just as mysteriously, three years later, he suddenly reappeared. And what’s more, he had yet another captivating and potentially ominous encounter to share.
Waters told Bell that shortly after his initial contact with him, a mysterious man approached him and offered him $3 million to lease his land. The man refused to name who would be leasing the land and insisted that Mel must sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing him from speaking to anyone about the arrangement. Of more concern, though, he would have to leave the United States and never return. Mel, figuring he had nothing at all to lose, accepted the deal and left America to start a new life in Australia. However, as time went by, he began to feel increasingly homesick, so much so that he decided to return, only temporarily, to the United States to spend some time with family and friends.
Indeed, Bell attested that Waters had contacted him upon his return to the United States, and an interview was arranged. Mel, however, didn’t show up at the studio once more. Mel now told Bell that on the day of the planned recording, he was visiting a family member. However, at some point during the journey, the bus he was traveling on was stopped by a patrol unit. Here is where Mel’s memory began to get hazy. The last thing he could recall was being ordered to board a different bus. Then, he seemingly blacked out. The next thing he knew, he was waking up in an alleyway in San Francisco, California. He eventually realized that 12 days had passed since his last memory of traveling on the bus to visit a member of his family. He discovered that both his wallet and his keys were missing, and he noticed a distinct puncture mark on his arm, suggesting that he had been injected with something. More bizarre and unsettling, he further claimed that several of his back teeth had been removed.
By the time he had returned to Washington, he was officially served papers informing him that his property and land had been seized due to “illegal construction”, something he claimed he was not responsible for. Even worse, all of the funds in his bank account were gone, with no explanation from his bank. He offered that his decision to return to the United States, even temporarily, had resulted in those he had made a deal with in making good on their threats if he were to return.
Around the same time as this was happening, Mel was contacted by representatives of a Native American tribe in Nevada. They had heard of his encounters on his property and invited him to their reservation, where, they claimed, a similar bottomless hole existed. Mel accepted the invite and traveled to Nevada to meet the tribe and inspect the anomaly on their land. Upon inspection, Mel determined that the hole was approximately the same diameter as the one on his land. However, unlike the ground surrounding the well on his property, he could feel intense heat coming from the hole, as well as from the ground itself around it.
The group decided to use ice to conduct experiments in an effort to learn more about this strange hole in the ground. Keeping a bucket of ice at the surface, they lowered another bucket of ice down the hole. When the ice on the surface had melted, they raised the bucket of ice from the well. However, not only had it not melted, it had changed into what seemed like large grains of sand or salt. The men attempted to set these strange cubes alight, expecting them to melt away immediately. Instead, however, they burned brightly for several minutes. After several more experiments with the ice, the group, rightly or wrongly, decided to lower a living creature down the hole. The results were unsettling, to say the least.

The men placed a sheep into a crate and began lowering it into the hole. The closer it got to the entrance, the more agitated it became, much like Mel’s dog. Unlike with the ice, however, after the sheep had been lowered into the hole, they heard a strange humming sound, as if something was taking place deep below the ground. Half an hour later, they raised the crate back to the surface, and while the sheep appeared unharmed with visible wounds, it was clear that it was dead.
They performed an autopsy on the sheep, and were shocked and perplexed to find that although the exterior of the animal was undamaged, its insides were completely cooked. Even more ominous, they discovered a large, tumor-like mass that now occupied almost all of the animal’s internal body cavity. Then, they noticed something move inside this mass. Cautiously, they cut into the mass, revealing a truly strange creature that looked seal-like but with an umbilical cord-like appendage that connected it to the sheep. However, more than anything else, the most disturbing detail of this bizarre creature was its human-like eyes. The group looked on, a mixture of awe and horror, as this monstrous-looking creature crawled out of the sheep’s dead body and onto the autopsy table. Mel eventually picked up the curious animal and carried it to the entrance of the hole. Eventually, the creature re-entered the hole and disappeared.
The strange events, though, were far from over.
According to Mel, shortly before his trip to Nevada, he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had been given only months to live. However, upon his return, after attending a routine appointment with his doctor in light of his recent diagnosis, they were astonished to discover that Mel was suddenly cancer-free, something Mel believed was down to his interaction with the creature, quite possibly his act of returning it to the hole.
Several months after this, Mel contacted Art Bell again. He claimed he had remained in communication with the people from the Nevada reservation, and he had learned of further remarkable developments. He claimed that one person on the reservation had used the transformed ice as a fuel source to heat his home. However, not long after, he began to experience an unquenchable thirst, as well as noticing that the atmosphere in his home appeared to be extremely dry. Perhaps strangest of all, though, whenever he would boil water, the steam would rise from the pan and head directly to the burner where the transformed ice was.
One particular evening, the man heard a loud crashing sound in his kitchen and discovered that the heater had somehow crashed through the floor of the cabin. However, as it was undamaged, the man placed a board over the hole and continued to use it, and the transformed ice, to heat his home. Several nights later, however, he returned home to find the entire cabin had seemingly collapsed in on itself. When the ruins were cleared several weeks later, the heater was discovered several feet down into the ground, as if it, or the ice inside it, was attempting to burrow deep under the ground.
Following these revelations, despite promising to remain in touch and appear on the show very soon, Mel Waters vanished once more, this time, it would seem, for good. Further attempts were made to contact him by telephone, but all calls went unanswered. A short time after this, the number was permanently disconnected.
To many people, the claims of Mel Waters, whoever he might be, are nothing but a hoax, and they very well could be right. However, there appeared to be no claims from Waters to benefit financially from his claims, and we should note that three years of silence is a long time to perpetuate a hoax. Moreover, he seemed to wish to protect his identity and didn’t appear to be seeking fame or celebrity.
There are also several other thought-provoking details to examine. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, for example, the equivalent of Google Earth was Terraserver. On Terraserver, the location where Mel Waters claimed the mysterious well was located was greyed out, with no explanation as to why. And we should further note that Terraserver wasn’t operational until six months after Mel first contacted the radio station, meaning that he couldn’t have used it for credibility or even known of this greying out at the time he made his claims.
We should also note, though, that his claims of the hole being 80,000 feet deep go against our modern understanding of science, which suggests that such a hole would simply collapse in on itself – essentially, it couldn’t exist. Unless, of course, either a scientific explanation resides outside of our understanding, or somewhere down this hole, science, as we know it, morphs into something not yet understood.
Whatever the truth, the account of Mel Waters continues to fascinate researchers and enthusiasts today, either through intrigue or spectacle. Of course, if there is any truth to the claims, as much as it would fascinate us as to just what these strange holes might be and where they might lead, it would be lengths the authorities, or perhaps a group even higher, would go to keep public knowledge of such matters largely under wraps.
Ultimately, while we should treat all of the conspiracies and claims we have explored here with a pinch of salt, like myths and urban legends, almost all conspiracies have some kernel of truth to them, even if that truth has been twisted dramatically. We know, for example, that remote viewing is very real and governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with it. We also know that both Cold War sides sought bigger and more technologically sound weapons to threaten to use against the other. We also know that there are people who believe in depopulation, and while most are sensible and are looking at a very long-term plan over such matters, others perhaps have a more radical and extreme view. And we know that governments around the world will put any location off-limits in the interests of “national security”. Indeed, if any of the conspiracies we have explored here today are true, even in part, and they are but three of many that exist, it would perhaps be a great concern to each and every one of us, as should just what else goes on that we are not aware of, at least not yet.