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10. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Totness

 There are a number of legends associated with this 14th-century castle, and it has a reputation of being haunted. It has 2 famous female ghosts; the White Lady and the Blue Lady. According to legend the White Lady is the spirit of Margaret Pomeroy, who starved to death while imprisoned in the dungeons by her jealous sister. Apparently she haunts the dark dungeons, and rises from St Margaret’s Tower to the castle walls. The Blue Lady is not confined to specific areas and is supposed to lure people into parts of the ruin. Apparently it’s a very bad idea to follow her!

9. Dominican Hill, Baguio City, Philippines.

According to some people the ghosts of people who were killed during the war haunt this place. Some say the patients who died here despite having the hope to be alive turned into ghosts. Hearing the banging of doors, windows, clattering of dishes and screaming voices during night are reported by people. 

8. Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

  
This magnificent castle is typically medieval, perched atop a rocky crag, giving it an amazing vista of  Scottish hills. But inside the empty halls and narrow streets of Edinburgh, there are the echoes of the dead. At least, that’s what has been reported. Hot spots for specters include the castle’s prison cells, the South Bridge vaults and Mary’s King Close, a disused street used to quarantine and eventually entomb victims of the plague. There are also reports of ghost dogs, a headless drummer, and the bodies of prisoners taken during the French seven-year war and the American War of Independence.

7. Monte Cristo, New South Wales, Australia

  
Monte Cristo, Australia’s most haunted mansion is located in Junee, New South Wales. Mrs Crawley, the owner of the house never came out of her home after the death of her husband in 23 years of her remaining life except for two times. After her death her ghost haunts the place particularly her former room. Bodiless ghost, phantom face in the window, floating apparition, strange and ghostly voices, automatic turning on and off lights are some haunting experiences of the people. Some people reported that when they entered the boy’s bed room they were breathless and turned purple and almost died, they became normal after coming out from the room.

6. Ancient Ram Inn, Gloucestershire, England

Whether you believe in ghosts or not, a trip to the Ancient Ram Inn is an unsettling experience. Its creaky floorboards, cold bare walls, musty smells and dimly lit nooks and crannies epitomise everything a haunted house should be. And the stories attached to this creepy building are not for the fainthearted: Murder, satanism and child sacrifice are just a few of the dark deeds said to have occurred here, oh and did we mention apparently it’s built on a pagan burial ground?

5. Highgate Cemetery, North London, England

By night, Highgate Cemetery is like something out of a horror movie. Eerie crooked gravestones, headless angles covered in ivy, dark overgrown passages between the tombs, it’s no wonder this is Britain’s number-one ghost spot. Despite it’s chilling atmosphere, by day Highgate Cemetery showcases some of the Britain’s most spectacular Gothic architecture, offers fascinating guided tours. It’s also the burial place of Karl Marx.

4. Bhangarh Fort, India

Bhangarh Fort is on way from Jaipur to Alwar in Rajasthan, India. According to a legend, Singhia, a black magic tantrik cursed the palace that everybody would die in the palace and their souls will stay there for centuries without rebirth. Another interesting point is, all the houses in this area are without roofs because whenever a house is built with roof, the roof collapses. This is the called most haunting place in India. People who visit this place experience anxiety and restlessness. It is said that nobody returns from this place that stays there after dark. Government prohibited this area from staying after sunset. You will find a board installed by Archaeological Survey of India displaying “Staying after sunset is strictly prohibited in this area”.

3. Screaming Tunnel, Niagara Falls, Ontario

The haunting of the Screaming Tunnel is one of Niagara Falls’ most enduring legends. Located off Warner Road, the tunnel runs under the railway tracks that link Niagara Falls to Toronto and New York City. According to local legend, over a century ago, a farm house located just past the south entrance to the tunnel caught fire one night. A young girl, her clothes engulfed in flames, fled screaming from the house. She ran through the tunnel in an attempt to extinguish her garments but collapsed and died on the tunnel floor. A variation of this story has the girl set ablaze in the tunnel by her enraged father when he learned his wife had won custody of their children during an nasty divorce battle. Another version tells of a young girl who was raped inside the tunnel and her body burned to cover the evidence. All these stories allege that if you stand in the middle of the dark tunnel at midnight and light a match, the flame will go out and a girl’s screams will be heard.

2. Ohio University,  Athens, America

Ohio University is known in state folklore as the most haunted college campus. A large number of places on campus are said to be haunted, and numerous other popular tales are told about the university across Athens county. The British Society for Psychical Research claims that Athens, Ohio, is one of the most haunted places in the world. Wilson Hall, famous for a girl (a supposed witch)who killed herself moments after writing satanic and supernatural things on the wall in her own blood. The five cemetaries that form a pentagram that surrounds the campus, with the administrative building being in the center of the devil’s sign. Washington Hall, which is famous for housing a team of basketball players who all died in a terrible crashm their ghosts still haunt the hall, and you can sometimes hear them dribbling. The catacombs of Jefferson Hall, where numerous ghost sightings have occurred. And finally, for The Ridges, an abandoned insane asylum that was known for thousands of labotamies and electro shock treatments. Also, a patient who disappeared, and was found five weeks later, her body decomposed onto the floor and left a stain that outlines her body. This stain can still be seen today.

1. Changi Beach, Singapore

Changi Beach served as a popular killing ground for the Japanese during the Sook Ching massacre of The Second World War. Thousands of Chinese were tortured and killed during this Operation as they were suspected of being anti-Japanese. Strange crying and screaming are reported by people. The heads of the Chinese dead bodies are sometimes seen flying everywhere and headless bodies walk around the beach. The scariest thing is that the ghosts leave blood stains. During nights people observe dug holes that appear as if they were used for burying bodies.  

Eyewitnesses claim lights seen over Phoenix are UFOs.

Multiple sightings were reported

An Air Force flare

 

 

 

 

CASE DETAILS

On the night of March 13, 1997, Phoenix resident Michael Krzyston shot amateur video of lights flying over his home in a “V” formation:

Many in Phoenix saw the mysterious lights

“Before I knew it, an entire display of lights comes on. I got a little excited at that time, and I called my wife… it was really quite unusual”


Michael Krzyston was not the only eyewitness that evening. Thousands of Arizona residents claimed to have seen the exact same formation of lights.  Were the lights UFOs?  Many of the eyewitnesses were immediately convinced.

Not surprisingly, an official explanation soon emerged from Capt. Drew Sullins of the Air National Guard:

“The 104th fighter squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th wing was conducting a night training exercise in the vicinity of the mysterious lights.  What they were doing was dropping night illumination flares over the north tactical range at Luke Air Force and a lot of people seem to think that those flares could in fact have been the quote, unquote, mysterious lights.”
It seemed plausible that flares would be the cause for the sightings.  However, there was a problem with the military’s explanation.  The military said the flares were dropped between 9:00 and 10:00 PM.  However, the most impressive sighting occurred between 8:00 and 9:00 PM.  Taken together, these eyewitness accounts seem to indicate that there was something other than flares in the Phoenix sky that night. 

Frame from an actual home video

At 8:10 PM, nearly an hour before the military began dropping flares, Ross Nickle and his family were driving on Highway 89 when they spotted the lights overhead:

“I saw some lights in a very small pattern. And what they really looked like at that point was just dim stars, several of them in a very tight pattern. They were white like stars when they were coming towards us. And at that point, they changed colors and went from white to red. They were just overhead at that point and they were, in my estimation, not very high off the ground.  I’m guessing a thousand feet. And there was absolutely no sound. During the whole time, from the start to finish, there was absolutely no sound.”

Twenty minutes later, a commercial airline pilot and his wife were driving home after dinner when they too spotted the lights.  For professional reasons, the pilot agreed to tell his story only if his identity was concealed:

“I've been flying for 29 years now, and I’m not used to looking up in the sky and not being able to figure out what I’m seeing. I looked at it then and tried to make it into an airliner. I realized again, it's going too slow, and… there's no noise at all. And then the next thing that struck me is that, man, why would his landing lights be pointed straight down?”

Given the locations of the sightings, the lights appeared to be heading south.  At 8:30 PM, Ozma Linderman and her boyfriend were just settling down for the evening when they had their own encounter: 

“It was very clear in my mind that it was one solid craft. The lights were traveling too perfectly spaced apart, and there was a void clearly between the lights that blacked out the stars when it came down. The whole thing just slowed, I don't know, maybe to a stop or it hovered for a second, and then, what looked like one solid red oval object, it just turned red and shot straight up and disappeared, gone, completely gone.”

At 8:45 PM, 15 minutes before the military began dropping flares, trucker Gary Morris spotted the lights while driving:

“To me it didn't look like floodlights. They didn't really look like spotlights. There was something different about them that I had never seen before.”

Between 8:00 and 9:00 PM the Phoenix lights had traveled over 300 miles and been seen by hundreds of witnesses.  An hour passed.  Then at 10 PM Michael Krzyston shot the video that would provide the basis for the military’s official explanation:

“If you lived in Phoenix, these flares, some of them were dropped at 14,000 and 15,000 feet. They burn very bright. They burn for five to six minutes. They are suspended by a parachute, and it's a large flare. You would be able to see those flares, I would imagine, for 150, maybe even 200 miles.”

The commercial pilot is convinced the lights he saw were not flares:

“I've seen them from the ground, I've seen them from the air, and these weren't flares. And probably the major reason that these were almost certainly not flares dropped by the military was they're dangerous. So they would never, ever be dropped over a population center.”

Will the mystery of the Phoenix lights ever be solved?  For the military, the case is closed.  But for hundreds of eyewitnesses the question remains: did the Phoenix lights come from somewhere beyond the stars?

American military men encounter multiple UFOs near an air force base in Bentwaters, England.

Airmen said they saw a glowing red object

 CASE DETAILS 

Eyewitnesses reported mysterious lights

Rendlesham Forest, England, is home to America’s Woodridge Air Force base. On December 26, 1980, at around 2 AM, Airman First Class John Burroughs, and his partner, were on routine patrol along the base perimeter. The base was nearly empty. But, according to Sgt. Burroughs, something bright was lighting up the nearby woods:

“There was definitely something out in the woods.  It seemed to me like a massive light show. I was nervous, he was nervous. We didn’t know what to expect, and we decided at that point that we better get back and let somebody know what’s going on in case something did happen.”

Burroughs quickly notified his immediate superior. In minutes, another security patrol arrived. They had also seen the strange lights.  Burroughs and the second security team went off base to investigate. Sgt. Burroughs said they were ordered to leave their weapons behind because they were moving out of American jurisdiction:

“We didn’t know what we were getting into. We started in on foot towards the lights. At the same time, we could hear the animals. They were very upset because you could hear a lot of ruckus. At that point we had a radio transmission. They’d just gotten contact from Heathrow tower in London that an object had been seen over our base and that it had disappeared on radar. All of a sudden, in the clearing, there was an object. It had a bank of blue lights on it. And it was sitting there strobing. It was unbelievable. We all hit the ground and it went up into the trees. When it was happening, everything seemed to go slower. We seemed to be in, like, I wouldn’t say a time warp, but like everything was happening slower to us and everything felt different. But when it disappeared, it was like everything was normal again, the perception of the ground, the air, the sky, the stars, the whole nine yards, were different.”

For more than two hours, Sgt. Burroughs said he and the two other men played a game of cat and mouse with the mysterious craft:

“It was off the ground and near the horizon above the trees. And it always stayed out in the distance at the horizon, and sometimes it appeared to get close, as if we were going to get close to it again, and then we never did.”

Col. Charles Halt, USAF (Ret.)

When Sgt. Burroughs and his men filed their report, they assumed no one would believe their account. Yet the events of that night resulted in one of the most well-documented sightings of a UFO in history. The next morning, Sgt. Burroughs nervously reported the sighting to his shift commander:

“He basically said, ‘Gentlemen, you saw something. Heathrow tower confirms that you saw something. And now, let’s go out into the area and see if we can find any physical proof of what happened.’  I was hoping when I got out there that basically I would see nothing. There would be no telltale evidence that possibly something happened. That would make it easier for me because, if there’s nothing proving that something happened to me, you can just kind of check it off.  But when you get out there and you find damage to the trees, depressions in the ground and stuff, that makes it even more unexplainable.”

Later that same day, Burroughs and a British police officer explored the site where Burroughs saw the strange object. According to Burroughs, there were circular impressions in the earth directly below the spot where the craft appeared to hover:

“It was more of a mystery because when I first saw it, I didn’t perceive it as something sitting on the ground with a tripod type thing.  Now, all of a sudden, there’s physical proof showing that something sat down in that area.”
The British police officer dismissed the circles as the marks of animals that had been digging there. But he did order his men to measure the distance between the circles.  
They were exactly the same distance apart and formed a perfect equilateral triangle.

Rumors of the UFO sighting had spread like wildfire. Later that morning, Col. Charles Halt, deputy base commander, arrived at Woodbridge security headquarters:

Halt’s report, released through FOIA

“I was very skeptical. I found what had allegedly taken place hard to believe and I was really going to debunk it, quite frankly. And as events unfolded, I became more and more concerned that there may be something to this. I kept telling myself that there had to be some type of an explanation for it. But I certainly couldn’t find one and even to this day I, I can’t explain what happened.”

That evening, unusual lights were once again spotted in the forest. This time, the base commander ordered large floodlights, devices commonly known as light-alls, to be set up in the woods. At 9:30 PM, Col. Halt received word the lights had mysteriously stopped working. Base security was immediately ordered to set up more floodlights. Col. Halt put together a special investigative team:

“I called the on-duty, or stand-by, man of disaster preparedness and had him get his camera -- he was a professional photographer -- and calibrate several radiac instruments to take along. We were going to go debunk this.”

When Col. Halt arrived at the site, he said the second set of light-alls had also stopped working. And that’s not all:

“Some of the vehicles weren’t working properly and radio transmissions were limited at best.”

Armed with a Geiger counter, a starlight scope to enhance night vision, and a tape recorder to record his first impressions, Col. Halt led his team into the woods. Suddenly, a strange, glowing object appeared. As the object began to move away, Col. Halt said he and his men followed:

“As we were pursuing this glowing object through the woods, we noticed a farmhouse directly in front of us.”

The farmhouse appeared to be glowing very brightly, as though it was on fire. Then, according to Col. Halt:

“The object broke into five white objects and disappeared. And it was a very strange feeling in the air. It made your hair bristle, sort of like static electricity, you just had a very unusual feeling. And I don’t think it was all psychological. I think there was something physiological about it. I think there was some type of guiding force behind these objects. Whether it was trying to communicate with us, whether it was trying to warn us, or whether it was trying to do something to us, I don’t know.”

One of the members of Col. Halt’s team was Sgt. Robert Ball:

“To me, it looked like a grid search, like they were boxing off an area and looking for something. And that was the thought that hit me right away, and it stayed with me over the years. It looked like a search pattern.”

Col. Halt said as the object moved about, it emitted laser-like beams of light:

“We could very clearly see it.  It sort of danced about in the sky and it sent down beams of light. I noticed other beams of light coming down from the same object, following different places on the base. My boss was standing in his front yard at Woodbridge and he could see the beams of light falling down. And the people in that weapons storage area and several other places on the base also reported the lights.”

Staff Sgt. John Burroughs wasn’t on patrol the second night:

“I woke up about 3:30, 4 in the morning and for whatever reason, I felt like maybe something had happened again. I don’t know why. I just woke up and felt like something had came back, don’t ask me why, it just was a gut feeling.  So I went ahead and got up and went up to the base. All of a sudden, a couple of blue transparent type lights appeared in the sky. They were all of a sudden on the horizon and one of them broke towards us. The only time the light-alls were working as far as coming on and off when I saw them, were when the blue light passed by. And I have no idea what caused the light-alls to come on and off, other than the fact that the blue light as it passed, the light-alls came on .”

At about the same time, just 300 yards away, Col. Halt and his team also had a remarkable close encounter:

“The object was coming at us at a very high rate of speed.  One of these beams of light fell very, very close to us, sort of a pencil beam of light.”

Once the object took off, it never returned. The next day, Col. Halt drafted a memo about the incident. It was submitted to British military authorities, who never acted on it. The United States Air Force would not acknowledge the episode either. Then, in 1983, a private citizen used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain Halt’s memo. But not everybody was convinced by what it reported. James McGaha is a noted UFO skeptic and director of two private observatories:

“The burden of proof for any event that is extraordinary is upon those making the claim, not upon those who look at it from a skeptical perspective.  Where is the evidence? Show me the evidence?  And that’s what science is all about.  On the first night, at about 3 o’clock that morning, a bright fireball, which is a very bright meteor came into the earth’s atmosphere.  And this is unquestionably what John Burroughs saw that night.”

Sgt. Burroughs says, not so:

“I’ve seen meteor showers come down before.  It wasn’t a meteor falling out of the sky.  And it went up, not down. Meteors fall from the sky. They don’t go back up into the sky.”

Col. Halt said what he saw was not a meteor:

“Meteor’s not going to go up, go back and forth and maintain position in the sky for a long period of time.  A meteor’s not going to send beams of light down.”

James McGaha believes both men were mistaken:

“I think both of them are being honest as to what their perceptions are. But human perception is very, very easily fooled. And I think when they went out there to the woods, everybody was out there expecting to see a UFO.  With a pre-conceived notion, the way you view things can be greatly influenced.”

McGaha believes that the glowing red light Col. Halt saw that night was simply a reflection from the revolving beam of a nearby lighthouse. Col. Halt doesn’t think so:

“There are too many unrelated things. If it were just a reflection, how does one explain two different sightings in two different places in the sky?  How does one explain the object moving through the forest?  How does one explain the sighting in the forest by the three airmen?  There were just too many things. I have a lot of unresolved questions I’m not sure I’ll ever have answered.  I’ve had people suggest all sorts of things, everything from, I’ve seen the second coming of Christ, to the devil’s after us. I can’t explain it, I really can’t.  I know it was beyond the realm of anything that we experience in ordinary life.”

Around the same time, two other unconfirmed sightings were reported in the vicinity of Woodbridge Air Base.  At least 15 men, all of them US Air Force personnel, witnessed the strange lights and objects first-hand.  The Air Force continues to have no official comment on the entire series of events. 

Mysterious crop circles appear in Canada.

Edmonton crop circle

Lab report

 CASE DETAIL

Crop circles have become a well known phenomena all across the globe.  Of the 10,000 documented cases, 80% have been proven to be hoaxes.  But what about the other 20 percent?

Two farmers from outside of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Rusty Manuel and Thelley
Whitman, woke up one day to find a crop circle formation on their land -- seven precise circles pressed into a field of thistle and barley.  Thelley was stunned:

Mysterious light near crop circle

“The grain was all flattened down. It almost looked liked a pattern, like petals, the way the grain came out and then the heads turned back in towards the center again.  It was just amazing.”

The Canadian Crop Circle Research Network, a volunteer organization that documents such cases, wasted no time getting to the site.  Judy Arndt is one of the group’s field researchers:

“It looked like the place had been electrocuted.  It was just amazing.  Looked like there had been a huge force of some sort.”
Skeptics dismissed the Edmonton crop circle as a hoax.  As shown in a documentary,  pranksters can make a crop circle using a piece of wood and some rope. They call their creations, “human land art.”  Paul Anderson, Director of the CCCRN, has studied many of the circles in western Canada: 

Interior view of crop circle

“Anybody can go out with a board and flatten down wheat.  And yet something you have to take into account is, it’s not just the formation itself, but it’s the complexity of how it’s actually constructed, like multiple layers going in different directions, one on top of the other, and so on.”

At the Edmonton site, Judy Arndt documented each of the circles within the formation and gathered up crop and soil samples for scientific analysis.  The samples were sent to Nancy Talbott, director of B.L.T Research Team, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Nancy worked with a network of scientists who have studied more than 350 crop circle cases from eight different countries: 

“The three major changes in plants in the real McCoy, as opposed to man-made crop circles, are node elongation, expulsion cavities at the nodes, and germination abnormalities.”

Each of these conditions was present in the Edmonton samples.  That means that the characteristics of the crops were profoundly altered in ways that could not be induced by humans using ropes and boards.   Colin Anderews is a researcher and author:

“The geometry is precise.  There are no tracks in or out.  The plants are not damaged,  they’re bent over. They’re not knuckled or broken.  The plants are changed in their internal structure at the cellular level.  You don’t find that in a hoax.”

The soil samples from Edmonton were sent to Dr. Sampath Iyengar in California.  Dr. Iyengar specializes in materials analysis: 

“We went ahead and looked at the mineralogy of the clays, using a technique called x-ray powder diffraction.”

The results showed a dramatic difference between soil samples taken from inside the crop circle compared to those taken from outside the circle:

 “This has been seen by geologists before, but this is in a geologic time over several millions of years. And this has to be some kind of a fantastic energy that’s causing this change. And I don’t have any idea what it is.”

Theories on what’s creating the circles ranges from geothermal and magnetic forces, to some kind of cosmic energy.   Colin Andrews has explored many of the theories:

“We looked at meteorology.  We looked at Earth energies.  We looked at chemical application of the farmers, and all of them led to a blank.  It just did not fit. What we now know is we have a solid mystery.  This cannot be explained in the terms of people making them.  We have many hundreds that are absolutely certainly not man made.  And that is a solid fact.”

Judy Arndt has one final theory that connects crop circles to UFOs:

“I was contacted by a young couple who had been driving along in late evening. He looked out the window and saw some lights and rolled down the window to make sure it wasn’t just a reflection on his passenger side window.  And the lights were still there and he got quite excited about it and asked his wife to pull over.  There were two small lights, brilliant bluish. Then they said these two lights were playing tag with each other.  This sighting occurred about a week before the crop circle formation was found.”

Around the same time, Edmonton farmers Rusty Manuel and Thelley Whitman had a similar experience:

“First, you thought it was a helicopter, ‘cause it moved like a helicopter.  But still, there was no other lights on it. It was just bright and would just hover over the field and sort of move off and then come back again. And it just seemed like it passed over the back end of the pickup. And it just disappeared.  It just was so fast.” --Thelley

“I tried to picture it as being an aircraft but it was much too big for an aircraft.”--Rusty

Was there a connection between the strange lights and the sudden appearance of the Edmonton crop circles?  Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, had this to say:

 “I believe that the aliens are out there, but I don’t think they’re visiting here. The fact that so many people feel that there may be something unusual going on here, I think bespeaks a psychological need that we all have to believe that there’s some powers that we don’t understand. And after all, it’s much more interesting to think that this pattern in the wheat here was graffiti from beings from another world than to think that it was students from the local university. That’s not a terribly interesting story.”

However, there are crop circles that simply defy logic, formations that show no sign of human intervention.  One, a giant ‘Star of David’, literally appeared overnight in Red Deer, Alberta, not far from Edmonton.  It measured 422 feet across.  But Seth Shostak is not convinced:

“I don’t understand how they’re all done. But to say that they are something other than humans is a radical or revolutionary claim.  And consequently, I’m not going to be swayed by what amounts to very anecdotal evidence.  It’s got to be better than that.”

Colin Andrews says:

“I don’t think we need, necessarily to be talking or trying to prove that it is or isn’t extra-terrestrial.  I don’t know that either.  What I know is what I’m looking at that has arrived in our fields.  Something knows what it’s doing here.  There is intelligence of some sort. And I know they’re not made by people.”

Over the past decades, more than 10,000 crop circles have been reported from around the world.  Assuming that 8,000 were made by pranksters, that still leaves 2,000 that are unexplained, and remain unsolved mysteries. 

 

Four men camping in Maine believe they were abducted by aliens.

Allagash wilderness

UFO eyewitness

CASE DETAILS 

 Four men -- Jack Weiner, Jim Weiner, Chuck Rak, and Charlie Foltz -- say they  experienced a terrifying encounter with aliens while camping in the Maine wilderness.  It’s taken the men years to go public.  Each has been polygraphed and hypnotized, and their stories hold up. 

For years, Jack Weiner was disturbed by reoccurring nightmares. He told no one about them except for his wife, Mary:

“I was starting to have nightmares, really terrible nightmares that I could not explain.  I found myself in a very brightly lit room.  I had no idea where I was or why I was there.  To my left, I could see my brother Jim, Chuck Rak, and Charlie Foltz sitting on some type of bench, and they were all naked. I was wondering why they weren't helping me, because I felt like I was in danger, and while I'm trying to figure this out, I notice this figure or a dark, shadowy-type figure emerging from this light-- this bright light in front of me. I would wake up, uh, uh, sweating and breathing heavily and just in a-- in a state of terror and shock.”
In 1988, Jack's twin brother Jim confessed that he, too, was haunted by exactly the same nightmares: 

witnesses saw a light in the sky

“There were always certain elements of the dream that were the same-- some type of creature, being helpless, being violated was a feeling I often woke up with.”

In every dream, the twins were with Charlie Foltz and Chuck Rak, two friends they had met in school.  They wondered if these nightmares could be connected to a camping trip 12 years earlier in Maine. In August, 1976, the four men had spent two weeks in Maine’s Allagash wilderness.  The Allagash covers thousands of acres in the northernmost part of the state.  On the second night out, Jim noticed a bright object in the sky:

“It was just floating above the treetops, didn't seem to be moving in any direction.  And I looked at it through the binoculars for maybe 15 seconds, 30 seconds, and it suddenly just winked out from the outside edges inward. I mean, it literally just went whooht, like that, and it was gone.  There was something about this thing that left me with an odd feeling that wasn't quite right, but I really didn't dwell on it.”

The men continued through the Allagash wilderness.  On the fourth day, they decided to try some night fishing.  They built a bonfire to mark their campsite.  Once out on the water, Chuck Rak was the first to realize they weren't alone:

“I had a feeling there was someone staring at me from behind me.  I turned over my right shoulder like that, and I saw this large, round globe of light that looked exactly like what we had seen two nights previously.”

“It had this roiling effect to it, like a miniature sun, very, very bright.  It lit the treetops up like daylight, and it was absolutely silent.”—Jim Weiner

“After looking at it for what seemed like several moments, we decided to signal this thing.  That's when Charlie picked up the flashlight and squeezed off a message--s.o.s.”
--Chuck Rak

The response was instantaneous: 

“Well, when the light started coming toward us, my curiosity was satisfied. And I just dropped the flashlight. The only thought in my mind was to get to shore.  I never looked back.”—Charlie Foltz

The men began paddeling back to shore:

“I remember looking over my shoulder, trying to keep an eye on this object as it was coming up behind us.  It was getting very close.  It was almost on top of us at this point.  I remember thinking that we’re not going to outrun this thing.”—Jack Weiner

Their next memory was being back on shore, just staring up at the bright object:

 “I remember thinking, ‘I could pick up a stone and bounce it off this thing's side.’  That's how close it was. And then, all of a sudden, it just streaked away very, very fast, and within a few seconds, it was like a star, just another light in the sky.”—Jim Weiner

“I remember stepping out of the canoe, and going up to the campsite… And I remember there was no panic. People seemed to be very relaxed.”—Chuck Rak
All four men agree they were out on the lake for less than 20 minutes.  The huge bonfire should have burned for hours. And yet only coals remained, indicating a longer passage of time.  Jack Weiner recalls:

Alien as described by the witness

“The unusual thing is that we didn't stay up for hours and discuss this thing, which is what you'd think four young guys on a camping trip would do.  We just seemed very fatigued and wanted to go to bed.  The next morning, we got up and got our camp together and paddled to the next campsite.”

The men spent another 10 days in the Allagash wilderness but never again saw the bizarre light. 

As the years went by, they told friends and family about the UFO sighting, but no one really believed them.  The men hardly believed it themselves.  Then the nightmares began for Jim and Jack Weiner.  Finally, Jim contacted UFO researcher Ray Fowler for help.

Fowler suggested the Allagash four undergo hypnosis with a trained hypnotherapist to recover details of the sighting.  Under hypnosis, each of the men experienced terrifying repressed memories of being abducted. They were almost exactly alike.

Independent of one another, each of them drew illustrations of their incredible recollections. All four said they were taken aboard the craft.  The aliens forced them to strip naked and seemed to be conducting medical examinations. The aliens took samples of the men's skin and body fluids, their blood, urine, and semen. 

What follows are excerpts from the actual sessions:

“They're--they're-- they don't know what to do. I think they think I'm going to come after them. I feel like I want to. I feel like I want to-- the first one that comes near me, I'm going to throttle him.  I don't like these things. I don't care where they come from. They shouldn't be doing this to people.”—Jim Weiner

 “They're right there. Their face is right in my face. I don't know why. I don't want to know. I don't want to know what they want. They're saying things. In my head they're saying, ‘Don't be afraid.  They say, ‘Do what we say. Just do what we say.”
—Jack Weiner

“It's like a doctor's office. I get that, it's cold like a doctor's office is cold. They put the panel over your chest.  Then they scrape your arms and your chest, your legs and thighs.  We shouldn't be here. I just—I just keep thinking, "I want to be back in the canoe."
--Charlie Foltz

Chuck Rak could see what the aliens were doing to Charlie:

“I see some sort of device on him.  They've got a--this looks like a silvery, it looks like the-- like it's got curves on it. It's almost like-- like it sucks something. He's got his head tipped way back. It's almost like he's in pain. We're--we can't help him.  All we can do is watch him.”

It was not until after the hypnosis sessions that the Allagash four discovered that each of them had recalled the same horrifying events.  The each took polygraph tests and passed. 

For skeptics, however, stories of alien abduction do not stand up to scrutiny.  Some suggest, including clinical psychologist Dr. William Cohn, that images from popular culture or horror movies may have triggered inspiration for memories of alien abduction:

“This movement is media driven. It's cyclical. People hear about good cases on TV.  They think they may have had the same thing happen. It sort of feeds upon itself.”

Dr. John Mack is a psychiatrist and author:

“Usually, these are people who have no interest in abductions, have not read about it, are unfamiliar with the beings, and are shocked and astounded when they hear someone else has had these experiences as well, or that there is material in the media about it.”

“The investigators have a very clear-cut agenda about what they're looking for. So if you get somebody that’s doing UFO abduction research, this is a person that has already decided that UFO abductions are real, that thousands of people are having them.  They have a symptom list.  And if you come in the door with those symptoms, then you must have been abducted.”—Dr. Cohn

“It really doesn't work like that.  The person comes because they've heard that I'm open to listen to something which other therapists or, uh, other mental health professionals have not been able to listen to. This is not a club anyone wants to belong to.”—Dr. Mack

The four men have never backed down:

“This happened.  If you believe it, that's all right.  If you don't believe it, I don't care. I don't care, 'cause it did.”—Charlie Foltz

Did a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947?

A mysterious craft was found near Roswell

Debris was located in a remote field

CASE DETAILS

In 1947, a mysterious craft was found near Roswell, New Mexico.  The government said it was a weather balloon, but eyewitnesses believed it was a UFO.

The story began in July of 1947, when a violent electrical storm swept over the desolate plains of South Central New Mexico.  At his remote ranch house, “Mac” Brazel patiently waited out the lightning and thunder when he heard a strange thunder clap.


Kevin D. Randle has written extensively on the Roswell UFO:

Military clean up of debris

“The story is that Mac Brazel supposedly heard a loud crash at some point during the storm and didn’t know if it was related to the storm or not.  According to his son, Mac was on the range the next day, looking to see which fields may have gotten precipitation the night before.  And in his process of looking to see where the rain had come down, he found the debris field spread out near his ranch house.”
Something had crashed in one of Mac’s fields the night before.  According to Kevin Randle, the object was broken up beyond identification:

“The debris field was approximately three quarters of a mile long, maybe as much as two or three hundred feet in width. Scattered along there were bits and pieces of material we refuse to call… metal, because from the descriptions we have, it was more of a plastic- like material.  Very strong, very lightweight.  Pieces of it were described as being three or four feet long but as light as a feather, as thin as newspaper.  There were metal beams that were slightly flexible but very strong.”

The military claimed it was a weather balloon

Some of the metal pieces appeared to have strange qualities and unusual tensile properties.  The pieces could not be cut or burned.

The following Monday, Brazel reported his discovery to the Sheriff, who informed the nearby Roswell Army Air Base.  That afternoon, Mac Brazel led two Army intelligence officers to the crash site.  One of the officers was Major Jesse Marcel, Sr., whose primary duty was to investigate air accidents.  Even with his experience, Marcel was unable to identify the craft.  Marcel died in 1982, but before his death, he was interviewed about what he saw that day:

“It was just fragments strewn all over the area, an area of about three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide.  So we proceeded to pick up the parts.  I tried to bend that stuff, it would not bend.  I even tried to burn  that, it would not burn.  See, that stuff weighs nothing.  It’s not any thicker than tin foil.  We even tried making a dent in it with a 16 pound sledgehammer.  I was certain… it was not a weather balloon, nor an aircraft, nor a missile.  It was something else which we didn’t know what it was.”

Late on the night of July 7th, Major Marcel loaded his car with the unusual debris and drove back to Roswell.  But before going to the base, he stopped by his home.  He wanted to show his family what he had found.  Jesse Marcel, Jr., was 11 at the time and remembered the strange material his father brought home:

Some questioned the document’s authenticity

“When he came back to the house, he had a bunch of wreckage with him and he brought the wreckage into the house.  Actually awakened my mother and myself out so we could view this because it’s so unusual.  It was about two o’clock in the morning.  He spread it out so he could get some basic idea of what it looked like, what it was.  We were all amazed by this debris that was there probably because we didn’t know what it was, you know just the unknown.”

The most remarkable fragment was a short piece of I-beam, which was covered with strange symbols and markings.  Jesse Marcel, Jr. was convinced the object was from another planet:

“This writing could be described as Egyptian hieroglyphics, but not really.  The symbols that were in the I-beams were more a geometric type configuration, in various designs.  It had a violet purple type color.  And was actually an embossed part of the metal itself.  Years after this incident happened, we would talk privately among ourselves about what the possibilities of… what this thing was, and I feel that we, well I know we came to the conclusion that it was not of earthly origin.”

Were alien bodies removed from the crash site?

Major Marcel took the wreckage to the Roswell base, where he was stationed.  That same morning, Colonel William Blanchard, the commanding officer in Roswell, made a crucial decision.  He went public with the story of Mac Brazel’s discovery.  Second Lieutenant Walter Haut was the Public Information Officer for the Roswell base at the time.  Colonel Blanchard ordered him to issue a press release, telling the country that the Army had found the wreckage of a flying saucer.  Second Lieutenant Haut never questioned his commanding officer’s orders:

“In 1947, when a colonel told a first lieutenant to do something, the first lieutenant did that.  There’s a little bit of difference.  You didn’t have any democracy back in 1947 in the military establishment.”

The press release was immediately picked up by newspapers across the country.  The story created an uproar.  Then surprisingly, that same day Barney Barnett of Socorro, New Mexico, discovered the wreckage of a similar UFO-like object.  Vern Maltais was a friend of Barney’s at the time of his discovery:

“Barney was just a real straight forward, just what you would call a real straight guy.  He wouldn’t… tell you one story out of color or nothing. That’s why I was really surprised when he related this information to me about a crashed saucer.  He told me that he come on this space ship. It was during the daytime.  It was an oval shape, and it had crashed and it had broken open. There was beings laying about, four beings laying on the ground, not in the… spaceship.  They were scattered not too far from the object. He did describe that their heads were larger than the bodies by proportion.  And they had some type of clothing on that looked a little bit different, not exactly like our spacesuits or that sort of thing.  But four were laying on the ground.”

Actual headline announcing UFO crash

Barney told Vern that he reached the crash site at about the same time as a group of archaeology students who had seen the wreckage from their nearby dig.  The military also discovered the second crash site after an aerial search, but arrived too late to properly secure the area.  Barney Barnett and the students had a clear and detailed look at the craft and its occupants.  But according to Vern Maltais, their story was hidden from the public:

“When the Army showed up, they immediately escorted these people from the scene and then at that time they give them a warning not to relay any information.  From that time on, Barney never mentioned it to anybody until the time that he told me about the thing.”

All efforts to track down the members of the archaeology dig have been unsuccessful.  While the Barnett story has only been told second hand, many believe there is too much supporting evidence to completely dismiss it.

On July 8, 1947, newspapers across America published accounts that a UFO had supposedly crashed in New Mexico.  That same day, a cargo plane carrying the debris from the crash site arrived at an Air Base in Forth Worth, Texas.  Brigadier General Roger Ramey, was a high ranking Army Air Force official at Fort Worth.  Within hours, Ramey’s office issued a new press release stating that the material recovered in New Mexico was not a UFO, but was the wreckage of a U.S. Army weather balloon.

According to his son Jesse, Mac Brazel was immediately skeptical:

“My dad said obviously it was a cover up story.  It was not a weather balloon.  He was a little disturbed about that, but he had his own security classification to protect.  He could not really go public with hey, this is not a weather balloon.  So he had to keep that to himself.”

But the UFO incident was still very much alive for Mac Brazel.  At the time, a rumor surfaced that Mac was briefly detained at the Roswell Base until after the new press release had been circulated and accepted by the public.  When Mac returned to his ranch, all traces of the “Roswell Incident” had apparently been removed from the area.

In spite of circumstantial evidence, there was no real proof to dispute the Army’s statement that the wreckage was a weather balloon. Then, more than 30 years later, UFO researchers obtained a document containing, what they believed, was new evidence.  Known as the MJ-12 memo, this top secret document was mailed anonymously to a UFO researcher in 1984.  

The contents of the report stunned researchers.  It claimed that four small beings had been recovered from the crash site in Roswell.  All four were dead.  The report also stated that the news media was issued a cover story claiming the object had been a “misguided weather balloon.”  The government has consistently refused to comment on the MJ-12 memo, and there is still no proof of its origin.  But if this document and the other accounts from 1947 are true, then the question remains: Does the government have evidence of alien life?

Many years have passed since that hot summer night when a violent thunderstorm swept over the Brazel ranch.  The military declared that the remnants found in that remote field came from a downed weather balloon.  But the people who actually saw and held the wreckage disagree.  Perhaps it was an experimental aircraft that the military wanted to keep top-secret.  But perhaps, just perhaps, it was something else.

UPDATE

For almost fifty years, the events that took place at Roswell and the official explanation that followed fueled suspicion of a cover-up.  The Air Force has always insisted that rumors of alien contact were just that—rumors.  But new witnesses have continued to come forward claiming that the Roswell story was true.  Of all the new accounts, the statement provided by a man named Glenn Dennis is too compelling to be ignored.

In 1947, Glenn Dennis was 22-years-old and just out of college.  That summer, he was working at a funeral home in Roswell.  Two days before the UFO story broke, Glenn received a strange phone call from the Roswell Air Base:

“He was wanting to know what size hermetically sealed baby caskets do we have, did we have specifically three feet six inches, or did we have, maybe no larger than a four-foot, hermetically sealed casket.”

That afternoon, Glenn was called to transport an injured airman to the Roswell base.  When he arrived, he was surprised to find the base infirmary surrounded by military police.  Two ambulances parked at the curb immediately caught Glenn’s attention:

“I looked in through the ambulance, and I saw quite a bit of wreckage of some type.  It looked like stainless steel that had come in contact with a high degree of heat.  It was a purplish-bluish color.  I noticed one large piece of the wreckage did look like there was some Egyptian hieroglyphics.  The confusion at that day that I was out there was so great, that I don’t think anyone really knew what the other man was doing.  Then I don’t think they even knew each other.  I think they were brought in from different military bases or whatever.”

According to Glenn, one of the officers told him not to repeat what he saw:

“Two MPs came up and said, ‘Sir, we have to escort you back to your mortuary.’  And that’s when he said look mister, somebody be picking your bones out of the sand if you go starting a lot of rumors.”

As Glenn was being escorted from the Roswell infirmary by the two MPs, a group of doctors stumbled out of a storeroom overcome by noxious fumes.  With them was a nurse, who Glenn recognized.  Hoping to find an explanation for the strange events at the base, Glenn Dennis asked the nurse if she would meet with him.  The next day, the nurse agreed on the condition that Glenn never reveal her identity.  According to Glen, the nurse told him she was ordered to take notes during an alien autopsy:

“She said… they were doing a partial autopsy.  There was a crash bag that was open, and there was two very mutilated, very small bodies…. The head was very large, the eyes were set back, they didn’t have the earlobes or anything.  There was like two canals, like two ear canals.  There was only two orifices… there was no teeth.”

In all, the nurse claimed to have seen three bodies.  She was adamant that none of the bodies were earthly in origin.  Glenn never saw the nurse again.  A few weeks later, rumors circulated that she had died in a plane crash after being transferred out of the country.  To this day, Glenn remains convinced that the details of her story are true:

“There had to be some type of a body present.  There had to be something there.  I don’t think the nurse lied about it because I don’t think she knew how to lie in the first place.  And I just think something happened very unusual and… I doubt very seriously if the world will ever know what happened.”

The air force has claimed that the “alien bodies” were actually dummies that were part of a “parachute test”.  Perhaps one day we’ll find conclusive evidence of UFO’s.  Until that time the events at Roswell, New Mexico, will remain one of the most compelling UFO mysteries ever reported.

Three people suffer radiation burns after a fire-spewing UFO hovers near their car.

Betty cash encountered a UFO

Betty was treated for

 CASE DETAILS

On December 29, 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's 7-year-old grandson, 

Colby, were returning home after dinner on State Road 1485, near Dayton, Texas, on the 

outskirts of Houston. At around 9 P.M., according to Vickie Landrum, they noticed a bright 

light in the sky:

 “You could see it through the trees. It started to get real close. Then I knew it wasn't a plane.”

Betty Cash described what happened next:

“We didn't know what it was, but we knew there was something that was lighting up the sky. 

We had begun to feel heat, and all of a sudden Vickie screamed for me to stop. And when I 

John Schuessler investigated the scene

stopped, she went forward and her handprint was imbedded into the dash of the car.  And I 

thought, well, I've got to see what this is. So I got out, walked toward the front of the 

automobile, and I stood there looking up to try to figure out what this object was.  It was a 

diamond- shaped object. Then at the bottom, flames were shooting out. The heat was 

tremendous. It just felt like I was burning from the inside out. When I reached for the door 

handle, the door handle was so hot, I couldn't even begin to hold on to it.  I was more than 

scared. The only thing I was thinking was, are we going to get out of here alive?

Vickie Landrum said that just moments later, a large squadron of helicopters descended on 

the area:

“They were the large helicopters that have the double rotaries on them. I counted 22 and I 

knew they had to belong to the army.”



For years Betty, Vickie, and Colby have battled with the government, trying to get clear 

answers about what actually took place that night. They’ve also fought against mysterious 

The craft had left its mark

illnesses whose symptoms appeared just hours after the encounter. According to Vickie 

Landrum, later that night, at around 1 A.M., Colby woke up crying: 

“He was begging me for water. He had a fever and he had vomited all over the bed.”

The next morning, Vickie and Colby were still suffering from nausea and what appeared to 

be severe cases of sunburn. Betty was in even worse shape. Her temperature was 

dangerously high and large red welts had appeared on her face and hands.

Over the next four days, Betty's condition grew more serious. Vickie finally convinced her to 

see a doctor in Houston. He immediately admitted Betty to the hospital. Three weeks later, 

she underwent treatment for acute radiation poisoning. Betty was in the hospital six weeks. 

She lost more than fifty percent of her hair and patches of skin on her face. She was treated 

by Dr. Brian McClelland:

“There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that Betty was exposed to high doses of radiation. 

As to what the source was, I can't exactly say.”

After her release from the hospital, Betty asked for help from UFO investigator John 

Schuessler, a former NASA project manager:

“We had done several interviews with Betty and Vickie, and then we went out to the location 

where this happened. They were very clear on where it happened and how it happened. 

They told us exactly where along the road they stopped, because there were markers that 

identified the spot. They were able to point out exactly where they saw the object coming 

down out of the sky, over the road, and hovering there. They were able to point out a spot on 

the road that indicated that it had been heated to an extreme level of heating. It was burned, 

and it was very clear to the naked eye. Several weeks after we went to the spot and saw this 

burned area, someone dug up the road and hauled it away and replaced it with new asphalt. 

Some of the witnesses that watched this happen said people brought in unmarked trucks, 

dug up the road, put the material on the trucks, covered it with a tarpaulin, and drove away.”

John Schuessler also questioned everyone living within a 5-mile radius of the area:

“At least 10 other people had seen the object, and seven or eight other people had seen the 

helicopters. And their descriptions were all very similar to what Betty and Vickie described.”

One eyewitness was police officer L.L. Walker, who was in the area on the night that Betty 

and Vickie encountered the object:

“My wife Marie and I were returning from her mother and dad's. As we were coming out of 

some tree lines, I saw a helicopter. It was shining a spotlight at the ground. Then I heard the 

noise of other helicopters behind it. And I stopped the car, 'cause I didn't know what was 

going on. The helicopters were military and they were all flying fairly low to the ground, and 

all of them had search beams on. I thought maybe there was an airplane down, but they 

didn't hesitate.  They kept going in the same direction, which would probably intersect the 

area where Vickie said her encounter was.”

Convinced that the military was somehow involved, Betty and Vickie appealed to their 

senators. The Air Force agreed to a meeting at Bergstrom Air Force Base. As they entered 

the room, Vickie noticed a large map. The exact spot where the encounter had occurred was 

clearly marked.

According to Betty and Vickie, they were questioned for more than two hours. The interview 

was recorded by a military stenographer. In the end, the two men denied that any military or 

government operation had been conducted at that time and place. The women were told 

they were entitled to file a claim and the Air Force would review the case. Four weeks later, 

Betty and Vickie's claims for medical damages were denied.


What did Betty Cash, and Vickie, and Colby Landrum see in the Texas sky on that winter 

night in 1980? John Schuessler offered two explanations: 

“One is that it was an experimental craft of some kind, probably from our government. The 

Was the military involved with the UFO

other, it was an unidentified flying object, possibly extraterrestrial.”

Vickie Landrum:

“I don't believe in little green men. And it had to be an object. It could have been a spacecraft 

that the government was carrying, but our government was carrying it.”

Betty, Vickie, and Colby continue to battle illnesses that doctors say could be the result of 

massive radiation exposure. Betty has been diagnosed with several types of cancer.  She, 

Vickie, and Colby all have white blood cell counts that are far below normal. Their immune 

systems now have difficulty fighting off even minor infections. Dr. Brian McClelland:

“Vickie's having visual problems. And there are lots of suggestions that they may be related 

to radiation as well, but that depends on the kind of exposure. And someone needs to tell us 

what the exposure was so we can figure it out.”

Betty Cash said that all she wants is information that could help her medically:

“If it's a top-secret object that's protecting the United States, then I could say I could forgive 

them for that. But at least they owe us to tell us exactly why we were burned, and what type 

of radiation that we were exposed to and how much.”

After the UFO incident, Betty Cash was hospitalized for cancer treatments at least once 

every year.  She died 18 years later at the age of 69.  The Air Force declined to be 

interviewed for this story. Their official position is that no military or government operation 

occurred.