False Widow Spider Picture
(r inch) in length and 'thorny green with blac k st ri pes' h ave n ot yet bee n identified by the authorities. Samples have been sent to XI n|lang Agricultural University.Oneherdsmansaid:'The pastu re was gree n a we ek ago. Bu t now the wo rmsare creeping around, and they even come Into my house. I have to sweep them out several times an hour.1 (Reuters, May s>
RATS AND SPIDERS: The false widow spider from the Canary Islands has established colonies in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. The purple and black spider is about the size of a lp coin but holds enough venom to kill a human. Its bite is not fatal, however, but it can cause pain and swelling The spider has also been found elsewhere in Britain. In January Lyn Mitchell be came c riti cal ly ill afte r havi ng b ee n bitten by a false widow in her bed in Egre m o nt, Cu m bria. Sh e sai d:' I jum p ed out of bed, pulled the duvet and sheets backandsawasplderrttnningover the otherside. It was only tiny, black andshiny,and it ran so quickly. When I looked down I noticed two little pin marts on my chest.'The spielers began arriving over 100years ago in banana shipments. Meanwhile, rat numbers intheUKaresoaringoutofcontrol due to th e fact that they are becotm i ng resistanttopolson:infact,twotowns in Berkshire have rat populations that are completely immune to any kind of poison. A British scientist warned that'a new type of super rat with genetic mutations is infesting town 5 across Britain' (Source-Yahoo News / The Guard (an, 21st May)
■ALLO NESSIE: 'Alio'Alio actress Vic k ie Mic he I le c lai ms s he saw Nessie while on a pleasure cruise on Loch Ness. The crew picked up a signal on the sonar, and the actress rushed down to look. They saw five 'mysteriousarchshapes'onthe screen.Theskipperoftheboatsald he had never seen anything like it in the lSyears he had been on the loch. Adrian Shine said:This has got me puzzled. It has every appearance of a genuine sonar contact. It certainly adds to the Loch Ness mystery and will be th e s u bj ect of fu rt he r i nvestlgat ion.' (Source - Daily Record, 2Bth May)
mystery skull: PlumberDavid Evans, working in Alvarado, Dallas, Texas, found a skull buried five feet underground beneath aschool. Mr Evans said it was 'six I nch es from front to back and two inches wide.
Bleeding stigmata
Italian stigmatic Giorgio Bongiovanni, born in Sicily in 1963, first received his stigmata during a visit to Fatima in Portugal, the famous pilgrim site where visions of the Virgin Mary were witnessed in 1917. The five passion marks (two in his palms, two in his feet, and one in his side) bleed almost daily - photographed here in 1993- Bongiovanni has had several visions of jesus and Mary; the first time he saw Jesus, he was descending from a UFO and was dressed in fuchsia-coloured overalls, ©DR Elmar R. Gruber/Forte an Picture Library
| Madonna in the sky
| In 1980 Mrs Ivy Wilson
| photographed a rainbow at her
5 property near Woombye, south-
| east Queensland, Australia. She
| didn't notice anything unusual in
= the sky, but when the picture was
= printed a friend noticed an image f resembling the Madonna and Child.
| It was suggested that perhaps the
= photograph had been taken through
= a window and a small statue behind
| the photographer had been reflected i ¡n the glass, but Mrs Wilson was
| adamant that there was no glass
= between her and the sky, | In 1990 a seer named Susanna
§ D'Amore moved to Woombye and
= claimed she saw the Virgin Mary
= hovering over a gum tree. She built
| a small chapel, found a spring of
E healing water, and busloads of
= pilgrims soon started to arrive.
Most of the te et h, inc I ud i ng on e-in c h canines, are intact.'Anthropologist Dr Dana Austin from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said: 'It was definitely an old-world primate, possibly a mon key or chimp.'Other experts believe it may have belonged to a baboon. A small bon e was also fou n d n earby which could be part of a 'femurorhip'. (Source ■ DFW News, 'jth May)
BIGFOOT COLONY: TomSurnett says he has seen Eigfoot-like creatures on many occasions and believes there is a colony living near Old Fort, Carolina, alt ho ugh he will not give the exact location. He claims the creatures are nowfamiiiarwith him, and they'have made peace'with each other, being able to live side-by-side; they even leave himgifts from time to time. He said:They know I'm not out to hurt them, that I'll protect them. They're used to me now. They're more awareofyouthanyouareofthem: th ese are very a lert c reatu res.' Tom be I i eves the creatu re's dome sti cate ot her a n I mals. He sai d: Th ey u se bearto hunt, they hunt in groups'
He has taken photographs of the creatures and even sent askull to the Texas Laboratory but has received no word back. He claims thatamotherabandonedababy on his a farm, but he retu rned it to the woods. Days later he found the creature dead. He has published a book titled Nature's Secret Agents, wh i ch is an account of h is expe riences and observations. (Source ■ McDowell News, 91'n May)
BIGFOOT AGAIN: Ateam of up to 30 re searc hers scoure d th e O k laho ma
Woods in late May to search for Bigfoot. On recent expeditions the team have seen Bigfoot several timesandclaimthatthecreatures have thrown rocks at them as they sataroundtheircampfire,onerock even hittinga researcher. One team member said: 'We heard whoop sounds, atte mpted Imitatio ns of whippoorwills andmimickingof dove and owl calls were heard.' (SoeRcE - Tulsa World, june a).
MONTAUK MONSTER:On May
6'a new M on tau k Monster* was
© Dr Ei.mar R. Gruber.' Fortran Picture 1 .ierary
Sightings washed ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, Th e' m o nste r" has since turned out to be a raccoon given a Viking burial by students. Video footage of the carcase can be seen at http://naturalplane.blogspot
co rrVioosi/o^new-rriontau k-mo n ster-wash es-u p-o n -long.htm I (Sounc e - Phantoms a MONSTERS, !2:i{ Mays
CHAMP: Footage taken in early June In Lake Champlainis said by so me to show the legendary Lake Monster Champ. EricOlsenwhotookthe footage said: 'I was just ft Itn I ng the water when,outof the corner of my eye, I saw something move, and 1 tu rned toward it and tri ed to zoom In on It You can see that It is mov i ng ho rizontal ly, across th e wate r, an d ve rtically, goi ng u nder th e su rface an d c oming bac k up. It struc k me as something that was long, that it didn't have much girth.' Cryptozoologist Lore n Cole man res po nded: 'We need tofigureoutwhatisgoingon here. Thefilm needsto have a formal forensic analysis performed ...to break it down frame by frame. It needs to be looked at very serious ly.'(Source -Burlington Free Press, 3rd June)
Holy holes
Another Italian stigmatic* is Antonio Ruffini, who has had the stigmata since 1951 when he saw an apparition of the Virgin Mary. He built a chapel at the place where this happened, south of Rome. The wounds have been examined by doctors. They go through the palms of the hands and the feet, and usually such wounds would become infected, but Mr Ruffini has had no problems and can use his hands without difficulty.
© Dr Ei.mar R. Gruber.' Fortran Picture 1 .ierary
TASSIETIGER: Richard Elliott was d rivi ng alo ng Dry Creek Road toward Princess Margaret Rose Cave, Donavan.when he spotted a mystery an imal near a pine plantation. He said; 'At first I thought itwasafox, but it was too long and gangly, it had along tall; It definitely wasn't a fox.' The animal moved too quickly to see whetheror not it had stripes, but Mr Elliott saidthe animal was long and skinny with expose drib sand believes it was a Thylaci ne, or Tas man Ian Tiger. (Source - Border watch, 2nd June)
DRAGON ATTACKS: Villagers who forgenerations have lived alongside KomodoD rago nsunafraidarebecoming in c reas ingly worried at their aggressive behaviour, with an increase in outright attacks. A rangerwas doingpape rwo rk whe n a dragon slithered up the stairs of his wooden hutandthenwentforhis ankles. He tried to prise its Jaws open but the teeth thenlockedintohishand.The ranger said: 'I thought I would n't su rvive... I've spent half my Irte working with Komodosand have never seen anything like it' He needed 55 stitt hes in his hand. (Source - AOL News. 26th May)
STONE THROWING: In June Mark Fraser was contacted by a witness who claimsthatheandafriendsawtwoape men'onCannockChasein Staffo rds hi re.
= Tears of blood
| Weeping and bleeding statues,
E usually of the Virgin Mary, are
E a familiar phenomenon in the
| Catholic world. Sometimes they
= are proved to be hoaxes, but not
| always. In 1971 a lawyer in Italy
| awoke to find that a painting of
| the Madonna hanging over his
| bed was dripping blood from her
E eyes, heart, hands and feet, and
| the bleeding continued even after
| the police put the painting in a
E Socked box at their headquarters.
This photograph shows a statue
E of the Virgin Mary shedding
| tears of blood in the home of
| Enzo Alocci in Porto San Stefano
E in Italy in October 1972. Since
E 1966 Alocci has also experienced
| the stigmata and seen visions of
= religious figures such as Jesus,
E Mary and tile Archangel Gabriel
Theyal egedlythrgwa stone at one of the wi tnesses who was h it on the arm, but he suffered n 0 i njuries. T he witness, wh 0 wishes an onym ity, said that the 'ape-me n' were 'sfttal I with longs haggy hairandwearlngsome kind of clothing.' nvestigatio ns i nto the witnesses' c lai ms are on-goi ng (Source - Mark Fräser www. eiccatsikbritain.org June 2009).
british big cats: Large felines are still being spotted In the country, quietly amblingth rough th e cou nt ryside, and q u iet ly i rivest igatedbydedicated researchers.OnewitnessonCannock Chase estimated the size of the black cat he saw inJunetobe at least three feet off the gro u nd. C hristo ph er Hall ofBigCatsin Britain found prints belonging to a large fe I i ne 0 n the s ho res ofLochDoon in Ayrshire, these are thefir5t prints to have come from the county i n several years, an d the area i 5 no stranger to s(ghti ngs of large black cats. They have been spotted in Aberdee nshire, chased eye lists in Kent, killedrabbitsinNorthumberlandand reportedly dined on sheep in Devon. (Source - Bic. Cats in Britain).
'nordics' atsilburv: Onthe 7th of July an off duty police officer was driving towards Marlborough ontheA4 passing Silbury Hill near the new crop circle that had recently appeared. He saw three 'exceptionally tall beings inspecting the crop circle'. Hestoppedand watc hedthemfora few minutes. They we re all over 6ft tall, had blond hair and we re wearing one-piece white suits, the hoods dropped back onto their backs. He shouted at them but they ignored him, he entered the field and then they 'ran at an amazi ng speed to th e so uth\
The police officersaid: '¡recognized that I could never catch up with themsincetheywereexceptionally fast.'He looked momentarily away and they disappeared. The police officer became unnerved and left. (source - comnandrews.riet).
GIANT SNAKES:Mlke Warner and h i 5 so n G reg Warner, after 23 years of research, have photographed a giant snake in the Peruvian Amazon, according to some reports reachinga length of 40 metres,and two metres indiameter.lt is reportedly dark
Sightings brown in colourand known by the locals as 'black boa'or Yucumama, mean in g' Moth e r of Wate r.' Sightings of the creature abound in the area and are even said to be responsible for recently smashing thro ugh the house of an elderly couple. On July the ist the Maine Warden Service in the USA received two sightings ofagiantsnake in the Rumford canal system, near Lewiston, The local police said that two people contacted them to report seeing a snake about 17 feet long enter the canal from behind a local store. Snake expert Robbie White believes it could be a red-tail boaora Burmese python. Sightings are still continuing in the area. (Source - UtsTER Star May, Sun .Journal (USA) July).
BIGFOOT: Columbia police in Mississippi are investigatingaspurt of Bigfoot sightings near the Pearl Kiver.ColumbiaWaterpark. Police chief Joe Van Parkman believes they are hoaxes, and said: 'An out-of-state organization had visited the area with specialized equipment for primate study and had found no evidence of anything unusual.' Detect ivesare following up leads and are appealing to the public for information. (Source - The Rankin Leduer, Mississippi June 2.009).
OREGON HUMANOID: On the i6thof June a man went outside fora cigarette at his Oregon home, when he sawa light in the sky flickers, flashes in both crescent shapes and orbs'. The witness said:'As I watched this very lengthy light show, l was aware of a passing car. Mydogthen began to get unnerved and looked in the same direction as I was looking As the car came closer down the road, across the street I noticed a pairof eyes as if an animal's eyes were reflecting in the light, except they we re a deep purple/ indigo. As the car passed, I watched the spotwherel had observed the eyes,andwasshockedtoseeawhitish humanoidshapestand up and quickly walk into the neighbou ring yard across the street'His wife Joined him at that point and saw the lights. The dog acted nervouslythroughouttheexperience. (Source - MUFON: itfTH JUNE 2009).
MICHIGAN DOGMAN: Anew film ofthe'Dogman'hascometolight Researcher Linda Godfrey said the film isstillunderi nvestigati on.andcould still be proven to be a hoax,'but if so it's an extremely sophisticated and well done hoax'. The film was taken using an
Wee ping statue
A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary {known as the Rosa Mystica) began to weep at Maasmechelen in Belgium in late 1983.
8mm camera and found, allegedly, in an estate sale in the Lower Peninsula. LindacontinuesiThefilmis grainy, blurry, shows a lot of nondescript landscape and begins with some ordinary shots of a lady chopping a log. It appears that the filmmaker sawthe creature while riding in a truck, jum p ed out of the true k to shoot it, then was surprised by a side ambush and ended up with a view ofthecreature'sfangsandgaping maw - perhapsafter the camera was tossed to the ground In haste as the filmer hustled back into the truck. (I
think the mouth shots are the least convincing part of the film.) But the firststillsthatshowthecreature clearlyindicateacanine-headed animal moving thro ugh knee-high undergrowth. It has pointed ears on top of its head and shoulders, which ordinary dogs (or bears orother quadrupeds) do not have. It turns and movestooneside.chargingthrough the brush in away that would be very difficult for a human to do. At on e point it appears thereisalongtail. (The video can be seen at httiv/
natl'ralpi.ane.blogspot.com).
BIG CAT ROUND-UP:MOD Police OfficerChris Swallow could not believe his eyes whenhesawagiant cat on a rail track near Helensburgh, Argyll.Heimmedlatelytookfootage on his mobile phone while a friend took still photographs. The video was released in July, but Big Cats in Britain hadthefootageintheirpossession fortwo weeks before this. Initial analysis shows thistobeavery large animal Indeed,and deflnitelyfellne. Shaun Stevens of BCIB said:'After size investigations, the body is at least 3.5feet in length, which does not include the long tail. This is one of the best pieces offootage to come out of Scotland.' Meanwhile in Ayrshire the police launched a hunt for an animal, believed by them to be a big cat, that cau sed severe inju ries to a horse neartheSund rum Holiday Park nearCoylton. Photographs have also come fro m Abe rd ee nsh ire, Cornwall and Lincolnshire, prints from the CannockChase.Northampton, Aberdeenshire, and DNA samples from Wales are currently undergoing testing; In fact this has been a bumper month for reports coming into
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