Deadly Fog

In my files, I have two reports of mysterious fogs that were injurious to all sorts of life.
The first incident occured in 1978 in Brazil. A deadly cloud killed sea lions, fish, horses, cows, dogs and a person. While most of the dmamage was centred around the city of Porto Alegre, dead sea life was reported along 286 miles of the Brazilian and Uruguayan coasts. Survivors reported the death-cloud as having an "ammonia like" odor. Fits of nausea and dizziness were common.
The second incident occured in 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Around the northern end of Vancouver Island, a fog rolled in off the ocean and killed a large swath of vegetation. Environmental spokesman Lanny Hubbard said that the vegetation "curled up, turned brown and died for no apparent reason."
These two incident occured about two years from each other, with the first incident taking place on the Atlantic and the second taking place on the Pacific. The fact that 286 miles of Soth American coast were effected makes me think some sort of very large chemical explosion occured far out at sea, and the fumes slowly spread so that by the time they hit land they had a damage area of over 200 miles. Underwater volcano? Military experiment?

A Weird Trip To The Skull & Bones Tomb

As I mentioned in a previous post, I was contacted by an individual who had gone to New Haven, CT and taken some pictures of "The Tomb," the clubhouse for the infamous Yale fraternity Skull and Bones. But these are not your typical pictures of The Tomb, as you may find doing a Google image search. I'll let the photographer explain himself. I quote here from an e mail he sent me:

"I took a picture of the front door and a little side alley
was fenced off. I even got a passer-by to photograph me in
front of " The Tomb." But what I really wanted was to get
some views of the tomb you can't get just walking by. I had
a brainstorm and went into an adjacent building. I thought that maybe there was a way I could get onto the roof of this adjacent building and get aerial shots of The Tomb. It was interesting - as I climbed the stairs in this building, all of the windows on the Tomb side of the stairwell were fogged over. I tried to open a few, hoping I could lean out and get some clear shots, but that did not work. I was just about to give up when I noticed an open window on the opposite side of the stairwell. I could not believe my luck! This window opened up onto a lower roof of this building. Crawling through the window and onto that roof, I saw a ladder that went up to the tip-top of this building. Climbing up there, I was astonished to see that I had a perfect aerial view of the roof of The Tomb. Here was a totally new view of The Tomb that few people had seen before. The enclosed pictures are rather interesting. "

I agree, these ARE interesting photos. We can see the roof of The Tomb, complete with skylights and all. In one shot you can see a bit of what looks like a courtyard in the back of the building. This may be the same courtyard where the "Bones Ritual" video (that made its way all over the net a few years back) was filmed. It's also strange that in one of Ron Rosenbaum's old articles, he mentions using an "adjacent building" to get a bird's eye view of The Tomb when they were spying on some Skull and Bones goings on. Here's the rest of those pictures my contributor sent me. The last picture is of a little alleyway on the right hand side of the front of The Tomb. The other pictures are shots of the roof of The Tomb.

Time Warp Television

In 1953 people in England began picking up images of the station card and call letters for KLEE-TV, a TV station from Houston Texas that had been out of business for four years.
Frank D. Drake, head of the United States' Project Ozma (an attempt to establish contact with extraterrestrial life) headed over to England. This KLEE-TV business had caused such an uproar that Drake was there on behalf of the US Government to get to the bottom of things.
He eventually came to the conclusion that it was the work of two well-known British pranksters. Apparently the jokers had done this all as part of a stunt to sell new television sets.
If you go to various Urban Legend sites on the net, the story usually ends here. But there is actually more to it.
Not long after Drake finished his investigation, people in the Northern U.S. and southern Canada started seeing the "KLEE-TV" station letters. This was usually seen when they were "tuning in" their televisions, and the knob was between stations. (Obviously TV technology has changed a lot since then.)
Following the call letters, there would usually be seen exactly twelve and a half minutes of a TV show that culminated in a fellow running up a flight of stairs shouting "Help me! Help!" Then that particular spot on the dial would go blank until 9:15 PM the next day.
A lot of people saw this , sporadically, for about two months.
I've often wondered if there was a way you could tune in to all of those old TV shows that are heading out into the beyond at the speed of light. About the only way (theoretically) that you could pull this off would be to send a space probe out into space FASTER than the speed of light. When it gets past the farthest out of these old TV show waves, it could conceivably bounce them back to the earth. If it were able to bounce them back faster than the speed of sound we may not have to wait that long to start watching all those old shows again.
This leads me to another idea, which is about as close as we could ever come to a time machine. Everything you see is a reflection of light. The stars you see in the sky are images of the light they reflected billions of light years ago. The stars may not even be there today. Light does not just reflect off planets, it reflects off people, cars, trees, and everything else under the sun. Theoretically, somewhere out in space there should be light waves carrying images of The Battle of Hastings, the 1970 Super Bowl, and just about anything else that ever happened out of doors on Earth.
If we could somehow send out a space probe faster than the speed of light and get it past those very first light waves that came off planet Earth, we would have a start. Then if we could equip the probe with the mother of all telescopes and aim that toward the earth. Then beam the images from the telescope back to Earth,
real quick like. (I told you this was theoretical.) Then we could sit at home and watch trilobites crawl around , knights on horseback, and a million other strange things. (Maybe equip the telescope with infra red vision so we could see things like the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) I still haven't worked out how you'd focus on one era or another...
Stay tuned, this week I'll be posting rooftop photos of the Skull and Bones Tomb in New Haven, CT. The fellow who sent them to me (and asked to remain anonymous) also included information on how he managed to get these unusual pictures.

GOO-ey Candy

In the late 1950s in Munich, Germany medical investigators undertook a curious study.
Sexual body fluids were taken from male and female volunteers, sterilized, and incorporated into candies. These candies were then distributed at random to young adults. The candies were distributed by both the original body fluid donors and unknowing volunteers.
The investigators discovered that within a short time, a large number of these candy-eaters found one another and hooked up. These randy candy munchers often had to go a fair distance to find (unbeknownst to them) another person who'd eaten the candy. Of course, they also had no idea that the person they were suddenly so attracted to had eaten the candy too.
When later debriefed by the investigators, the participants simply could not explain what led them to behave as they did.
There's no mention of whether or not they tried to kick the asses of the medical investigators after being informed of what they'd been eating.

Man Made Ball Lightning

This may sound like a modern, state-of-the-art possibility, but some sources say its been around for nearly 50 years.
As far back as October, 1960 an entire article on man made ball lightning was written in The New Scientist by John Lear.
Apparently this research was being directed by Donald J. Ritchie of the Bendix Corporation. Electron tube oscillators or radar transmitters (!) could be employed. When it came to radars, the size of the antenna or mirror focusing the beam had to be greater than the length of the electromagnetic wave.
A "1.000 mgc frequency wave" used with an antenna dish several meters in diameter would cause ball lightning several meters away.
From what I can gather, creating ball lightning would require TWO radar dishes, their antennae aimed so that the waves from each radar collide at a distant point in the sky.
Also around 1960 , in the Soviet Union, Professor Georgi Ll'ch Babat published a paper entitled " A Star Ignited By Physics." It describes a method of creating continuous bright light above a city. In order to pull that off, Georgi outlines the following scenario:

Two radar dishes , each greater than 15 feet in diameter would cause a one centimeter wave to produce ball lightning one half mile up in the air.

Not too long ago on that interesting show "MythBusters," they tackled the myth that microwave ovens could create ball lightning. The myth was "busted." One wonders what would have happened if they'd have used radar dishes instead.
It's not like you can walk into Circuit City and buy a couple radars, but I did read somewhere about how you can make a radar out of a television set. So maybe it's not microwave ovens that can create ball lightning, but T.V. sets!

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