Zombies

There are so many zombie movies now a days, that one has to sort of think, well what if?

to begin with, lets find out where the whole zombie idea cames from....

In Haitan terms, a zombie is an animated courpse resurrected back to life by mystical means. (1)
Zombies are suppose to be self aware, and aware of their surroundings.

In west Africa a zombi can be made by a witch person, who will then be able to command such zombi. the way to do this is to capture a little bit of the dead persons soul, and then they can command the body.


South Africa

The idea of zombies is present in some South African cultures. In some communities it is believed that a dead person can be turned into a zombie by a small child. It is said that the spell can be broken by a powerful enough sangoma.
It is also believed in some areas that witches can turn a person into a zombie by killing and possessing the victim's body in order to force it into slave labor.  After rail lines were built to transport migrant workers, stories emerged about "witch trains". These trains appeared ordinary, but were staffed by zombie workers controlled by a witch. The trains would abduct a person boarding at night, and the person would then either be turned into a zombie worker, or beaten and thrown from the train a distance away from the original location.

 Voodoo priests that were concerned with the study and application of black magic, posessed the ability to ressurrect the deceased through the administration of coup padre--coup padre is a powder that is issued orally, the primary ingredient of which is tetrodoxin, the deadly substance of the notoriously poisonous fou-fou, or "porcupine fish." According to lengend, "a zombi(e) is someone who has annoyed his or her family and community to the degree that they can no longer stand to live with this person. They respond by hiring a Bokor..to turn them into a zombi(e)." (Keegan, www.flmnh.ufl.edu)

  Once they had been issued the coup padre, the subjects being prepared for their descent into zombidom would appear to die insofar as their heart rate would slow to a near stop, their breathing patterns would be greatly subdued and their body temperature would significantly decrease. The public, thinking that the person was dead, would bury him/ her as if they were a corpse. They would then be exhumed, still alive, by the Bokor and, although their physicality remained intact, their memory would be erased and they would be transformed into mindless drones. "Though still living, they remain under the Bokor's power until the Bokor dies." (Keegan, www.flmnh.ufl.edu)



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 In 20th century American culture, the idea of zombies has traditionally been portrayed almost exclusively through the medium of film. The prototype for early zombie movies was White Zombie (1932), which took its subject matter directly from the zombie myths of Hatian folklore. White Zombie, one of the celibrated horror films of the "Universal era" (which also included important versions of Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman and The Mummy) starred Bela Lugosi as a rich Haitian businessman who had taken upon himself to win the hand of a lady by turning her husband into a zombie. He had hoped that, by doing this, he would be able to rid her of her connection to her husband and thus clear the way for she and his romantic union.

  Other zombie movies of the 30s and 40s followed suit insofar as they generally portrayed zombies as they existed in Haitian folklore: as beings whose brains had been zapped by some "master" who was then able to control their actions. Many of these pictures, such as The Voodoo Man (1944) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943) maintained that zombies were directly rooted, geographically and thematically, in Haitian myth. Other films, such as Revolt of the Zombies (1936) and Zombies on Broadway (1945) kept the theme but altered the geographic location. Also, while some of these films reinforced the idea that zombies were, in fact, the reanimated dead, some films portrayed zombies as being the products of a sort of malevolent hypnosis. In such films, the monsters were not "dead" at all, but merely humans who were reduced to a trance-like state and who were, again, controlled by a "master."

   During the "Hammer Films era" of the 1950s and 1960s, zombies began to a adopt a more sinister air. Films such as I Eat Your Skin (1961) and The Plague of the Zombies (1965) offered zombies that were forced to maintain their posthumous existence by actually consuming human flesh. This version of the zombie was generally still "controlled" by a "master," but was awakened from its deathly state by some sort of supernatural or otherwise extraordinary force (satanic incantation, etc.). Here we see the invention of the "zombie-as-cannibal" type that was to characterize the genre for years to come. Virtually any given zombie from one of these movies was little more than "an utter cretin, a vampire with a lobotomy." (Twitchell, 265).


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Other mythologies

In the celtic world, they believed that the souls of the departed would come back on oct 31, the day of the dead. the family of the dead were responsible to feed their dead. some believe that if the family did not feed their dead relatives, they would become dinner themselves.

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Today, scientists have studied the zombie legend and have developed several of explanations for the belief. Victims of a number of psychiatric disorders such as catatonic schizophrenia may exhibit symptoms that could be wrongly interpreted by the superstitious as zombies.

Another explanation suggests that the houngans may have used combinations of toxic drugs to send their victims into a deep coma. Mistaken for dead, the victims would be buried, only to be disinterred and revived by the Houngan. Other drugs would be used to keep the “zombie” in a passive and obedient state.(2)

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Ok so lets say zombies are out to get you, what should you do to be prepared?

What I've learned by watching movies....

*Do not go back.
 something is really wrong with your loved one, and he or she just tried to bite you, so you ran to your bathroom, bedroom, or whatever to stay away from them. don't second guess your self. if you where wrong you can explain it later. just find a weapon, and get out of the house. hopefully to your car.

*help the living
 not only can you help each other later. but I think the reocurring theme in all of the movies, is that people do not help the living and then there a fewr of us to kill the dead.

*make sure your new friend has not be bitten.
strip them naked if you have to, and leave behind anyone who has been bitten or scratched. precaution is key.

*Zombies don't talk.
 you have no idea what is going on, and you have someone infront of you. ask them to say something, if they cant. run away.

* Don't go to safe zones.
millions of people will be flocking to the nearest safe zone. military will not have a clue what they are looking for, which means that even the sick and infected will be there. its a recipe for disaster.

*don't stay in one place too long.

*try the sewers
chances are, the zombies are not thinking about where to find you. the sewers will not be populated by people, and the odors will mask your own.

*propane gas + flare, then shoot.
how to kill a massive wave of zombies.

*chainsaws are not a good idea in close quarters

*Dont go after the dog.

*DOn't save experimental on animals.
you have no idea what decease or drug they have had injected on them. if you really want to help, take videos and pictures and show them to the public. dont go messing with things you dont understand.

*if you wake up from a comma during a zombie apocalypse, find newspapers. you will get an idea of what is going on.

*when there is no one around, money is useless.

*look for weapons first.
food will be the least of your problems f your dead.

*Dont go into a church.
its a safe place. many people will go there hoping god will safe them.

*DOnt hesitate, its you or them.

*ask questions after your safe.

*old clorox bottles make great canisters to keep water for a long time.

* you only have to safe one.
help the living

*keep away from recorded messages of salvation

*don't go into dark tunnels

*give up your morals
it might be a child zombie, but it will still kill you.

* keep a jack and a spare tire in your car

*keep a hose handy
 suck hose to steal gas from other cars. hose should be short, six to ten feet long.

*make noise to find infected.
you walk into a supermarket to find food. make lots of noise, it will draw out any infected, and then you can kill them.

*keep playing cards
there is no television, music or entertainment in zombie land

*keep away from major cities

*batteries and held hand ratios are a blessing.

*birds and animals are bad.
you dont know if they can get sick, so just keep away from them.

*be ready to not feel sorry, humans will become animals too.

*try fireworks to distract them.

*do th eunthinkable

*dont give up

*always go for the brain

*think, they dont.

*Be a hero

*lights and noise atracts them

*enjoy the little things.

Guide to Zombie Movies

Astro Zombies -Director: Ted Z. Mikels, 1967. This movie has a running time of 83 min., and is on video. There was not much said about this movie, except that John Carradine plays the monster. (1, p.51)

Carnival of Souls - Director: Detkliarvey, 1962. This is on video. A girl is haunted by a menacing figure, after almost drowning. The movie has wonderful Photography. (1, p. 170; 2, p. 659)

Dawn of the Dead - Director: George Romeo, 1968. This movie is on video, with a running time of 140 min. Four people barricade themselves in a shopping mall to get away from man-eating zombies. This movie is packed with hard core blood and gore and is the sequel to Night of the Living Dead. (1, p.261; 2, p. 270)

Day of the Dead - Director: George Romero, 1985. This movie is on video, with a running time of 100 min. A female scientist is trapped in an army bunker with sexists. She tries to study the zombies, but the men want them destroyed. (1, p. 262)

Dead Men Walk - Director: Sam Newfield, 1943. This movie is on video and has a running time of 67 min. Two brothers, one good, one evil, battle in this flick. Includes Vampires and zombies as well. It is in black and white. (2, p. 671)

The Fog - Director: John Carpenter, 1980. This movie is on video and has a running time of 91 min.

Eighteenth Century pirates come back from the dead to terrorize a fishing village. As the fog moves in, the people roll out dead. (2, p.686) I have seen this one for myself, and it is not too bad.

White Zombie - Director: Victor Halperin, 1932. This movie is on video and has a running time of 73 min. " Now we understand each other a little better", says Bela Lugosi, as he turns his rival into one of his eerie slaves. This, by no means, is one of his more well-known lines from a movie; but after seeing this film, I am convinced that it has to be one of his most sinister quotes. Lugosi plays the evil overseer of a sugarmill, who turns his workers into zombies to do his dirty work. White Zombie is a wonderful low-budget flick, with wonderful background settings that add to the eeriness of the film. For the most part, the zombies are mindless creatures that would not have hurt anybody, if it had not been for Lugosi. So, they really do not add to any of the misconceptions that Americans have about Voodoo. The few Haitians we do see in the film are burying one of their dead. None of them ate depicted as being evil. The real big "misconception" in the film is a carved Voodoo doll. Iam under the impression that they do not exist. As one last note on the film; the way that Lugosi turned his victims into zombies, was to give them a special powder that would feign death. He would then go and get the body, giving it another concoction. Perhaps Victor Halperin was Wade Davis' "secret society." (Willey)

King of the Zombies - Director: Jean Yarborough, 194 1. This movie is on video and has a running time of 67 min. This is one of those mad scientist movies, only this time it adds Nazis on a tropical island. (2, p.709)

Night of the Demons - 1983. This movie, unfortunately, is on video. Teenagers party in the wrong cemetery. (1, p.816)

Night of the Living Dead - Director: George Romeo, 1968. This movie is on video. "Praying for church", says Johnny. Immediately you think to yourself, "you better pray." Johnny and Barbara, in the opening scene, are in the family cemetery putting flowers on the grave of their deceased father. Johnny's next line, "They're coming for you Barbara", is his last. He is intending to be teasing his sister about being in the graveyard, but what he does not realize, is that they really are coming to get her. After her brother gets killed by the Zombie, the girl runs off to an abandoned farm house, thus beginning her fight with the man-eating corpses.

As the movie progresses, six other people enter the farmhouse to get away from, what the news reports call, "unidentified assassins." This movie is jam-packed with stiff walking dead and the stereotypical screaming woman. The ending of the movie, I think, was supposed to be a social statement by George Romeo. (Willey)

"A government made chemical somehow gets into the air and brings the dead back to life. The effects are horrible, and unless you are a connoisseur it is hard to even sit through the whole hour and a half." Brook Turner.

Night of the Zombies - Director: Vincent Dawn, ?. This movie is on video. A very trashy movie with one long cannibal feast after another. (2, p.947)

Plague of the Zombies - Director: John Gilling, 1966. It is on video. This is a fairly intense story about a Voodoo cult in a Cornish village. Contains beautiful photography. (1, p.947)

Return of the Living Dead - Director: Dan O'Bannon, 1985. This movie is on video and has a running time of 91 min. A spoof on George Romero's classic that consists of the dead rising after a chemical leak. These morbid creatures are after one thing: Brains! (1, p. 1008)

"This was basically the same idea (as the return of the living dead) except in a more modern setting. The tanks containing some of the bodies of the living dead are now in a medical supply warehouse. The foreman is telling the story behind the living dead and asks if the boy wants to see the tanks. To make a long story short, the man hits the tank and it begins to leak the gas. Suddenly things begin to come alive in the warehouse including a cadaver. The gas leaks out into the graveyard and all of a sudden there is an angry mob of the living wanting "brains."

Return of the Living Dead II - Director: Ken Wiederhom, 1988. This movie is on video and has a running time of 89 min. The walking dead are once again in control and they want more brains!

(2, p.800)

Revenge of the Zombies - Director: Steve Sekely, 1943. This is not on video. The running time is 61 min.

Revolt of the Zombies - Director: Victor Halpetin, 1936. This film is on video, with a running time 65 min. This project lacks the style of White Zombie. Cambodian troops are turned into zombies.

(2, p.801)

The Serpent and the Rainbow - Director: Wes Craven, 1988. This project is on video, with a running time of 98 min. "In the legends of Voodoo, the serpent is a symbol of Earth, the rainbow is a symbol of heaven. Between the two, all creatures live and die. But because he has a goal, man can be trapped in a terrible place, where death is only the beginning."

I thought it pertinent to add this quote in my review, because from what I have learned, the concept was distorted. Distortion is probably the best word to describe the whole movie that this quote was taken from. The Serpent and The Rainbow is based on the Wade Davis book of the same title. From what I understand of what was taught to me, his account of Haiti is somewhat distorted as well. Hollywood, as everyone knows, has it's own little problem with distortion. So, the movie version is even less credible than Davis' book. Let's return to the quote, after all it's the first problem I saw in the movie. The serpent is probably a reference to the loa, Dumballah. He is, if anything, more of a father figure than an Earth figure. The Earth is a cruel place, and Dumballah is thought of as a protector. The Rainbow is probably a reference to Ayida, his wife. She is not the symbol of heaven, because the Haitians do not believe in Heaven, but the spirit world. Together they are the forces of human sexuality.

Basically, the movie is about an American scientist who goes to Haiti to find the powders that create zombies. For the most part, if one knows nothing about Haiti, this film would be rather hard. One should have some knowledge of the Duvaliers, the Ton Ton Macoute, and Houngans. (Willey)

Shock waves - Director: Ken Wiederhorn, 1975. Peter Cushing leads a brigade of Nazi zombies to power the 3 rd Reich's submarines. Watch it if you have to. Apparently, this movie is good for comic relief (1, p. 1095; 2, p.806)

Dr. Terrors House of Horrors - Director: Freddie Francis, 1965. A fortune-teller tells some terrible secrets. May or may not have zombies. This is on video, with a running time of 98 min.

Voodoo Dawn - Director: Steven Tierberg, 1990. Two college buddies visit a friend who is being turned into a zombie. (2, p.823)

"In this movie a bokor name Makoute goes around killing the Haitian migrant workers in a southern town. He then makes them into zombies and has them work in his fields. He then gets this idea to make a zombie man. He begins to gather bits and pieces of people to make up the man. When all is finally complete, Makoute slashes his wrist and lets the blood drip into the zombie man's mouth. In the meantime, the migrant workers, led by a mambo, decide to kill Makoute. They surround his house and when he comes out they attack him and get a piece of his clothing and use it for a Voodoo doll. With this doll, the Mambo kills Makoute and they burn his body. All seems to be well except for by this time the Voodoo man had come to life and was not very happy to see his master a clump of ashes. After a long battle between the Voodoo man and the hero, the Voodoo man loses his head, literally, and dies. However, for the grand finale, this demon thing looking like it came straight out of "Aliens" bursts out of the Voodoo man's stomach and tries to eat the hero. But the hero kills the demon thing too. So the hero and the pretty girl live happily ever after." Brooke Turner.

Voodoo Island - Director: Reginald LeBorg, 1957. Boris Karloff is a business man who goes to investigate strange happenings in Haiti. Very boring. This is not on video. It does have a running time of 76 min.

Voodoo Man - Director: William Beaudine, 1944. Lugosi has a zombie wife who he tries to cure, by experimenting on other women. This is not on video. Running time is 62 min. (1, p. 1325)

Voodoo Woman - Director: Edward L. Cahn, 1957. Englishmen are turned into monsters. This little dud is not on video. The running time is 77 min. (1, p. 1325)

I Walked With A Zombie - Director: Jacques Toumeur, 1943. A doctor is sent to a Caribbean Island to treat someone's zombie wife. This movie, believe it or not, is adapted from Jane Eyre. This movie is on video, with a running time of 69 min. (2, p. 603)

The Walking Dead - Director: Michael Curtiz, 1936. Not on video.

Zombie - Director: Lucio Fulci, 1979. This little beauty is rated X for gore and nudity. The tale is about a mad scientist who creates zombies that can only be killed with a bullet through the brain. It is on video, with a running time of 91 min. (1, p. 1400; 2, p. 827)

Zombies on Broadway - Director: Gordon Douglas, 1945. This movie is on video, with a running time of 68 min. Two men search for a zombie act to use in their nightclub. (1, p. 1400)

Zombie High - 1987. This dud is on video, with a running time of 93 min. An administration of a school lobotomizes it's students to keep themselves young. In England, this film is known as The School that Ate My Brain. (2, p.827)

"It takes place in a boarding school where the students are given a sort of lobotomy to turn the students into zombies. The professors, who are behind the operations, are taking tissue from the students' brains and replacing them with quartz crystals. With the tissue that is taken from the brain, the professors make a serum that will give them everlasting life, while the students remain zombies in a cheesy B rated flick." Brooke Turner.

Zombie Island Massacre - 1984. This film is on video, with a running time of 95 min- Corpses come alive on a Caribbean island.

"Strait to video. Never in theaters. In this movie you do not even see the zombies, they do all the killing behind the scenes. The plot is a group of tourists who go to the islands and watch a Voodoo service. During the service a lamb is sacrificed and the tourists are disgusted. When they reach the tour bus to leave it is broken down, what a coincidence. The tourists then decide to walk through a jungle towards a house they had seen earlier. Much to their surprise, they end up being picked off one by one by the zombies that you never see. It had horrible acting and special effects." Brooke Turner.

The Zombies of Mora Tau - Director: Edward L Cahn, 1957. This film is on video, with a running time of 70 min. All this does is show how dull movies were before Night of the Living Dead. (2, p.827)

Zombies of the Stratosphere - 1958. It is not on video, but has a running time of 70 min. Leonard Nimoy plays a Martian who saves the day. ( 1, p. 1400)

The Zombies of Sugar Hill - 1974. This film is not on video, but has a running time of 91 min. A woman tries to avenge her lover's death by conjuring black zombies. (2, p. 827)

References

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie

Keegan, www.flmnh.ufl.edu

Twitchell, 265

http://www.umich.edu/~engl415/zombies/zombie.html

(2) http://www.thingsinthebasement.com/index.php/site/comments/the_history_of_zombies/

Halloween, where did it come from?

The legend of Halloween

Since we are about to put on our customes and go out trick or treating, I figured we should look into the meaning of halloween. What does it mean? why is the united states the biggest idealist when it comes to it? do other cultures celebrate and how?

The first thing I discovered was that halloween is actually "All Hallows eve" which during the years has become shorter to make halloween. All hallows eve has been observed for centuries by many eastern europen countries. October 31st has been the date of many harvest festival and days of the dead in many different countries.

But where did such a ritual come from, well perhaps you wont be surprised that the now commercialised custome party actually came from the Samhain ritual. cool, huh?

samhein is a Gaelic festival, it celebrates the end of harvest season and the beginning of winter or the darker part of the year. this was the time when the cattle was brought in from the green warm pastures and retired to their warmer abodes. it was also when the sheep where slaughter, creating a big feast. this usually involved a large bonfire, where the meat was cooked and the people would gather around the fire to sing songs and dance (it sounds like a witches movie does it not?)
Part of the ritual involved the people walking through two bonfires as part of a ritual cleansing and the bones of the slaightered life stock where thrown into the fire. This was done partly becouse the celtic people believed that it was on oct 31st the beggining of the winter, when a door would open and the dead where allowed to walk among us. A feast was ritualistic offered to the dead and they where invited to partake in the festivities. this is where the custome of disguising oneself began. for they would put on customes to invite their dead relatives to come into our world.

Historically, this is also the best day for divination, since divination has been said to be actually a communication with the dead who will whisper in the ear of the receiver to tell them what is to happen on the rest of the year.

some believed that other beings could be seen on this day, since the mystic veil was lifted. such beings as feiries in the woods and eveil spirits. part of the ritual of dressing up began here, people thought that if you looked like the evil spirits they would leave you alone.

So how did the whole tradition of trick or treating come about?

The beggining makes a lot of sense, children where the one who walked from house to house collecting food for the feast. later, in the 18th centurie is was the job of young boys to walk from house to house asking for fuel for the bomfire, but in the 19th centurie a man dressed in a white mare (or horse) would would door to door with destitute children, they would all carrie sacks, and they would ask for food for the winter. it was believed to be good luck and a sing of a good person if where to share a little bit of food store with these kids. As I said before, they believed evil spirits where out on such a date, so they would dress up to confuse the spirits. sounds a lot like todays day and age does it not?

here is when it gets interesting, All saints day, a christian holyday, was on the same day, cristians also believed that it was during this day that they should pray to their saints, and pray for the recently deceased that had yet to arrive to heaven. (Cristians, as you know, believe in purgatory, which means the waiting period while you are being judged.) But here is what is really interesting. all saints day was originally celebrated on may 13 but in the year 835 it was changed by a pope to Oct 31st. some say it was because the chritian influenced had reached the celtic people, and the pope wanted them to switch their rituals from paganism to christianity, I dare say such tactic worked. by the end of the 12th centurie All hallows eve had been changed to all souls day, chritian people where expected to ring bells and pray for the souls that where in purgotory, and sweet cakes where baked and given to the poor children who would walk from door to door asking for them..

Prince sorie conteh of Italy wrote that if did not want to be discovered by a lost soul looking for revange you should where a custome.

Another ritual involved children placing candles inside of skulls in the graveyards, this was to remind the lost souls where they belonged, and how to find their rightful place. later this was replaced by jack o lanterns. I wonder if the people who place them on their door step knew the true meaning of it, if they would continue to place them there?

So why is the United States the most popular place in halloween. well, until th e19th centurie halloween was non existant in the US. but with the mass migration of the 19th century in which the irish began to populate the streets of such places like New york, halloween became more and more popular. It turned from a festival that only the irish would celebrate to a great party where veryone could join. slowly the true meaning was lost. although we all get a sense of the real reason when you walk alone in thedark on halloween.



*The information from this article was found in wikipidea.com as where the pictures.

Other humans???

We have this idea that it was only us in the beggining, but scientist have found that there are several types of humans, that although related to us by ancestry they have split and become a completley new kind of human, one that only has certain markers in teh DNA that are same of us, but would have looked completely different.
So where did they go?
not to be redundant but could these be the human that split off into the oceans (see my previous post)

There are so many possibilities....

The proof is in us. DNA evidence has proved that modernday humans actually breed with Neanderthal. which means that there are a little bit of Neanderthal in all of us, and they are not quite exists. 

Why is this significant? 

if you remember we are suppose to come from teh more evolved species cromagnum man. what this means that 4% percent of us are actually a cross species. 

This means that they where wrong for years. we where not the only ones to survive, and the Neanderthals did not become extinct as they had once claimed but where simply absorbed into our gene pool. 

Could this not mean that for a while there where other specieas of humanoids walking around? 

what about the Giant bones found in greece, India, the united states and more...

mermaids

Where do the mermaids myth come from, there are so many myths that claim sailors have seen and heard mermaids. how can so many eyewitness accounts have been wrong. and why do we not have any current records of eyewitness accounts.

The funny thing is that we do, we just don't believe. here are just a few videos that I found in regards to mermaids. 

In the video above, you will see that before they drop the catch a webbed hand reaches out and tries to free itself. 

In this next video the dead mumified body is found after a hurricane...

the next one is abit harder to believe, but what if.....

Animal planet actually did a documentary a few years ago, which I found most interesting. the following are some of the information that I took from the documentary, and then a link to the documentary itself. 

It all stared with a sound that could not be identified by the Oceanic recording device NOAA

A mass whaling was discovered, somehow two boys where able to record the scene, the video revealed more than they expected.

They had found a mermaid when NOAA biologist got to the scene they where surprised to find that navy was also on the scene.

Respected marine biologist believed that the many was utilizing a new sonic weapon that was killing the whales.

To prove this they listened to a sonic recording. They found a sonic Boom created by the Navy, but they also found something else. A mysterious sound that they could not identify.

The beaching where now happening all over the world, but whales where not the only things that where being washed ashore, Fish, with bone made spears cought on their sides where also found. Someone was fishing with spears in the open ocean.

The marine biologists began to think that perhaps when we began to evolve, we began to walk upright at the sea, our ancestors would walk into the sea gathering fish for foood.

Perhaps it is here that our intelligence began with the fatty acids that where found in the sea.

During this time some of our ancestors moved deeper into the sea while others moved away from it.

Could it be that the ones that stayed in the water would later evolve into mermaids?

It is not the first time in nature that this would happen, polar bears are now aquatic mammals, but they use to be brown bears, found only on land.

But then they found something strange inside of a great white shark, something that was impossible to determine what it was. They had only 30% of the body, but it was enough to study, this is what they found:

A collapsible ribcage, which is only something that marine mammals have.

Omnivore teeth – something that NO marine mammals have.

They took xrays of the tail flute which revealed bones – there are no marine mammals that have bones in their tail flutes.

They found a large spleen, which is something also found in Marine mammals.

A CT scan revealed that the hips where those of a creature that had once walked upright, in two feet.

Armed with all of these incredible identifiers they could only come up with one conclusion. Not only was this a newly discovered type of marine mammal, it was also once related to us. It came from the same family tree as us.

But how closely is this thing that lives in water….to us?

When they reconstructed the skull they found large eye cavities, which meant that the eyes where large, this is normal in animals that can see in darkness. The skull also reveled a similarity to our skull. Similar to our ancestors. They also found that it would be able to create sonic location, and intricate sounds. Which meant that this was the mystery creature that had made those strange sounds in the recording.

Finally there was only one explanation for what they had found.

Its was a mermaid.

Perhaps there are no scientific records of mermaids, but there hundreds and thousands of stories, told all over the world about this creatures.

Why is it that we can believe in God, but not in fable and myths told for thousands of years by hundreds of different cultures that had never met.

As soon as they dared to say the name out laud the government took all of their findings away “confiscation of a find with historical importance”

This means that they could not prove what they had found.

Why would the government do this? Why can we not find out the truth about such a thing?

What would it really mean for the human race if we discovered that mermaids, the thing of myth, are real?

Could it possibly mean that other creatures of myth and fables are also real?

Could it be that we are not as alone as we feel?

What else could possibly find if we where to allowed to explore deeper into the stuff of legends?

But ofcourse this entire ducumentary has been proclaimed false by the agencies involved. When I did a search of DR Paul Roberton I found another video of him, with another name, and even a small clip of the actor in a movie. So this whole documentary was put together by the great imagination of animal planet producers. That a waste....

But could some of their theories be correct? could it be that mermaids do exist? 

Some believe that sea cows have been mistaken by mermaids in the past ( have you ever seen a sea cow?) 

so why then the elavorate hoax? why an hour of information only to find out that all of the bioligists involved where fake, and only actors? 

can we find something in this world that is real? 

The truth is that we have not discovered all known underwater creatures. here is a video of recently discovered creatures of the sea. 

If so many creatures are yet to be discovered, why not mermaids?

Amelia Dyer: the baby farmer

Amelia Dyer

Unlike many of her generation, Amelia Dyer was not the product of grinding poverty. She was born the youngest of 5 (with 3 brothers, Thomas, James and William, and a sister, Ann) in the small village of Pyle Marsh, just east of Bristol (now part of Bristol's urban sprawl known as Pile Marsh), the daughter of a master shoemaker, Samuel Hobley, and Sarah Hobley née Weymouth. She learned to read and write and developed a love of literature and poetry.However, her somewhat privileged childhood was marred by the mental illness of her mother, caused by typhus.

Amelia witnessed her mother's violent fits and was obliged to care for her until she died raving in 1848. Researchers would later comment on the effect this had on Amelia, and also what it would teach Amelia about the signs exhibited by those who appear to lose their mind through illness.

After her mother's death Amelia lived with an aunt in Bristol for a while, before serving an apprenticeship with a corset maker. Her father died in 1859, her eldest brother Thomas inheriting the family shoe business. In 1861, at the age of 24, Amelia became permanently estranged from at least one of her brothers, James, and moved into lodgings in Trinity Street, Bristol.

 There she married George Thomas. George was 59 and they both lied about their ages on the marriage certificate to reduce the age gap. George deducted 11 years from his age and Amelia added 6 years to her age—many sources later reported this age as fact, causing much confusion.

For a couple of years, after marrying George Thomas, she trained as a nurse, a somewhat gruelling job in Victorian times, but it was seen as a respectable occupation, and it enabled her to acquire useful skills. From contact with a midwife, Ellen Dane, she learnt of an easier way to earn a living—using her own home to provide lodgings for young women who had conceived illegitimately and then farming off the babies for adoption or allowing them to die of neglect and malnutrition (Ellen Dane was forced to decamp to the USA, shortly after meeting Amelia, to escape the attention of the authorities).

Unmarried mothers in Victorian England often struggled to gain an income, since the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act had removed any financial obligation from the fathers of illegitimate children, whilst bringing up their children in a society where single parenthood and illegitimacy were stigmatized. This led to the practice of baby farming in which individuals acted as adoption or fostering agents, in return for regular payments or a single, up-front fee from the babies’ mothers. Many businesses were set up to take in these young women and care for them until they gave birth. The mothers subsequently left their unwanted babies to be looked after as "nurse children".

The predicament of the parents involved was often exploited for financial gain: if a baby had well-off parents who were simply anxious to keep the birth secret, the single fee might be as much as £80. £50 might be negotiated if the father of the child wanted to hush up his involvement. However, it was more common for these expectant young women, whose "immorality" even precluded acceptance, at that time, into workhouses, to be impoverished. Such women would be charged about £5.

Unscrupulous carers resorted to starving the farmed-out babies, to save money and even to hasten death. Noisy or demanding babies could be sedated with easily-available alcohol and/or opiates. Godfrey's Cordial—known colloquially as "Mother's Friend", (a syrup containing opium)—was a popular choice, but there were several other similar preparations.

Many children died as a result of such dubious practices: "Opium killed far more infants through starvation than directly through overdose." Dr. Greenhow, investigating for the Privy Council, noted how children "kept in a state of continued narcotism will be thereby disinclined for food, and be but imperfectly nourished." Death from severe malnutrition would result, but the coroner was likely to record the death as "'debility from birth,' or 'lack of breast milk,' or simply 'starvation.'"

Mothers who chose to reclaim or simply check on the welfare of their children could often encounter difficulties, but some would simply be too frightened or ashamed to tell the police about any suspected wrongdoing. Even the authorities often had problems tracing any children that were reported missing.

This was the world opened up to her by the now-departed Ellen Danes. Amelia had had to leave nursing with the birth of a daughter, Ellen Thomas. In 1869 the elderly George Thomas died and Amelia needed an income.

Amelia was apparently keen to make money from baby farming, and alongside taking in expectant women, she would advertise to nurse and adopt a baby, in return for a substantial one-off payment and adequate clothing for the child. In her advertisements and meetings with clients, she assured them that she was respectable, married, and that she would provide a safe and loving home for the child.

At some point in her baby farming career, Amelia was prepared to forego the expense and inconvenience of letting the children die through neglect and starvation; soon after the receipt of each child, she murdered them, thus allowing her to pocket most or all of the entire fee.

For some time, Dyer eluded the resulting interest of police. She was eventually caught in 1879 after a doctor was suspicious about the number of child deaths he had been called to certify in Dyer's care. However, instead of being convicted of murder or manslaughter, she was sentenced to six months' hard labour for neglect. The experience allegedly almost destroyed her mentally,though others have expressed incredulity at the leniency of the sentence when compared to those handed out for lesser crimes at that time.

Upon release, she attempted to resume her nursing career. She had spells in mental hospitals due to her alleged mental instability and suicidal tendencies;these always coincided with times when it was convenient for her to "disappear". Being a former asylum nurse Amelia knew how to behave to ensure a relatively comfortable existence as an asylum inmate. Dyer appears to have begun abusing alcohol and opium-based products early in her killing career; her mental instability could have been related to her substance abuse. In 1890, Dyer cared for the illegitimate baby of a governess. When she returned to visit the child, the governess was immediately suspicious and stripped the baby to see if a birthmark was present on one of its hips. It wasn't, and prolonged suspicions by the authorities led to Dyer having, or feigning, a breakdown. Dyer at one point drank two bottles of laudanum in a serious suicide attempt, but her long-term abuse had built up her tolerance to opium products, so she survived.

Inevitably, she returned to baby farming, and murder. Dyer realized the folly of involving doctors to issue death certificates and began disposing of the bodies herself. The precarious nature and extent of her activities again prompted undesirable attention; she was alert to the attentions of police—and of parents seeking to reclaim their children. She and her family frequently relocated to different towns and cities to escape suspicion, regain anonymity—and to acquire new business. Over the years, Dyer used a succession of aliases.

In 1893, Dyer was discharged from her final committal at Wells mental asylum. Unlike previous "breakdowns" this had been a most disagreeable experience and she never entered another asylum.Two years later, Dyer moved to Caversham, Berkshire, accompanied by an unsuspecting associate, Jane "Granny" Smith, whom Amelia had recruited from a brief spell in a workhouse and Amelia's daughter and son-in-law, Mary Ann (known as Polly) and Arthur Palmer. This was followed by a move to Kensington Road, Reading, Berkshire later the same year. Smith was persuaded by Amelia to be referred to as 'mother' in front of innocent women handing over their children. This was an effort to present a caring mother-daughter image.

Case study: the murder of Doris Marmon

In January 1896, Evelina Marmon, a popular 25-year-old barmaid, gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Doris, in a boarding house in Cheltenham. She quickly sought offers of adoption, and placed an advertisement in the "Miscellaneous" section of the Bristol Times & Mirror newspaper. It simply read: "Wanted, respectable woman to take young child." Marmon intended to go back to work and hoped to eventually reclaim her child.

Coincidentally, next to her own, was an advertisement reading: "Married couple with no family would adopt healthy child, nice country home. Terms, £10". Marmon responded, to a "Mrs. Harding", and a few days later she received a reply from Dyer. From Oxford Road in Reading, "Mrs Harding" wrote that "I should be glad to have a dear little baby girl, one I could bring up and call my own." She continued: "We are plain, homely people, in fairly good circumstances. I don't want a child for money's sake, but for company and home comfort. ... Myself and my husband are dearly fond of children. I have no child of my own. A child with me will have a good home and a mother's love".

Evelina Marmon wanted to pay a more affordable, weekly fee for the care of her daughter, but "Mrs Harding" insisted on being given the one-off payment in advance. Marmon was in desperate straits, so she reluctantly agreed to pay the £10, and a week later "Mrs Harding" arrived in Cheltenham.

Marmon was apparently surprised by Dyer's advanced age and stocky appearance, but Dyer seemed affectionate towards Doris. Evelina handed over her daughter, a cardboard box of clothes and the £10. Still distressed at having to give up care for her daughter, Evelina accompanied Dyer to Cheltenham station, and then on to Gloucester. She returned to her lodgings "a broken woman". A few days later, she received a letter from "Mrs Harding" saying all was well; Marmon wrote back, but received no reply.

Dyer did not travel to Reading, as she had told Marmon. She went instead to 76 Mayo Road, Willesden, London where her 23-year-old daughter Polly was staying. There, Dyer quickly found some white edging tape used in dressmaking, wound it twice around the baby's neck and tied a knot. Death would not have been immediate. (Amelia later said "I used to like to watch them with the tape around their neck, but it was soon all over with them"

Both women allegedly helped to wrap the body in a napkin. They kept some of the clothes Marmon had packed; the rest was destined for the pawnbroker. Dyer paid the rent to the unwitting landlady, and gave her a pair of child's boots as a present for her little girl. The following day, Wednesday 1 April 1896, another child, named Harry Simmons, was taken to Mayo Road. However, with no spare white edging tape available, the length around Doris' corpse was removed and used to strangle the 13 month-old boy.

On April 2, both bodies were stacked into a carpet bag, along with bricks for added weight. Dyer then headed for Reading. At a secluded spot she knew well near a weir at Caversham Lock, she forced the carpet bag through railings into the River Thames.

Discovery of corpses

Unknown to Dyer, on 30 March 1896, a package was retrieved from the Thames at Reading by a bargeman. It contained the body of a baby girl, later identified as Helena Fry. In the small detective force available to Reading Borough Police headed by Chief Constable George Tewsley, a Detective Constable Anderson made a crucial breakthrough. As well as finding a label from Temple Meads station, Bristol, he used microscopic analysis of the wrapping paper, and deciphered a faintly-legible name—Mrs Thomas—and an address.

This evidence was enough to lead police to Dyer, but they still had no strong evidence to connect her directly with a serious crime. Additional evidence they gleaned from witnesses, and information obtained from Bristol police, only served to increase their concerns, and D.C. Anderson, with Sgt. James, placed Dyer's home under surveillance. Subsequent intelligence suggested that Dyer would abscond if she became at all suspicious. The officers decided to use a young woman as a decoy, hoping she would be able to secure a meeting with Dyer to discuss her services. This may have been designed to help the detectives to positively link Dyer to her business activities, or it may have simply given them a reliable opportunity to arrest her.

It transpired that Dyer was expecting her new client (the decoy) to call, but instead she found detectives waiting on her doorstep. On April 3 (Good Friday), police raided her home. They were apparently struck by the stench of human decomposition, although no human remains were found. There was however, plenty of other related evidence, including white edging tape, telegrams regarding adoption arrangements, pawn tickets for children's clothing, receipts for advertisements and letters from mothers inquiring about the well-being of their children.

The police calculated that in the previous few months alone, at least twenty children had been placed in the care of a "Mrs. Thomas", now revealed to be Amelia Dyer. It also appeared that she was about to move home again, this time to Somerset.This rate of murder has led to some estimates that Mrs Dyer may, over the course of decades, have killed over 400 babies and children, making her one of the most prolific murderers ever, as well as the most prolific murderess ever.

Helena Fry, the baby removed from the River Thames on March 30, had been handed over to Dyer at Temple Meads station on March 5. That same evening, she arrived home carrying only a brown paper parcel. She hid the package in the house but, after three weeks, the odor of decomposition prompted her to dump the dead baby in the river. As it was not weighted adequately, it had been easily spotted.

Amelia Dyer was arrested on April 4 and charged with murder. Her son-in-law Arthur Palmer was charged as an accessory. During April, the Thames was dragged and six more bodies were discovered, including Doris Marmon and Harry Simmons—Dyer's last victims. Each baby had been strangled with white tape, which as she later told the police "was how you could tell it was one of mine".Eleven days after handing her daughter to Dyer, Evelina Marmon, whose name had emerged in items kept by Dyer, identified her daughter's remains.

inquest and trial

Police photo of Amelia Dyer after being arrested in 1896

At the inquest into the deaths in early May, no evidence was found that Mary Ann or Arthur Palmer had acted as Dyer’s accomplices. Arthur Palmer was discharged as the result of a confession written by Amelia Dyer. In Reading gaol she wrote (with her own spelling and punctuation preserved):

Sir will you kindly grant me the favour of presenting this to the magistrates on Saturday the 18th instant I have made this statement out, for I may not have the opportunity then I must relieve my mind I do know and I feel my days are numbered on this earth but I do feel it is an awful thing drawing innocent people into trouble I do know I shal have to answer before my Maker in Heaven for the awful crimes I have committed but as God Almighty is my judge in Heaven a on Hearth neither my daughter Mary Ann Palmer nor her husband Alfred Ernest Palmer I do most solemnly declare neither of them had any thing at all to do with it, they never knew I contemplated doing such a wicked thing until it was to late I am speaking the truth and nothing but the truth as I hope to be forgiven, I myself and I alone must stand before my Maker in Heaven to give an answer for it all witnes my hand Amelia Dyer.

—April 16, 1896

On 22 May 1896, Amelia Dyer appeared at the Old Bailey and pleaded guilty to one murder, that of Doris Marmon. Her family and associates testified at her trial that they had been growing suspicious and uneasy about her activities, and it emerged that Dyer had narrowly escaped discovery on several occasions.Evidence from a man who had seen and spoken to Dyer when she had disposed of the two bodies at Caversham Lock also proved significant. Her daughter had given graphic evidence that ensured Amelia Dyer's conviction.

The only defence Dyer offered was insanity: she had been twice committed to asylums in Bristol. However, the prosecution argued successfully that her exhibitions of mental instability had been a ploy to avoid suspicion; both committals were said to have coincided with times when Dyer was concerned her crimes might have been exposed.

It took the jury only four and a half minutes to find her guilty. In her 3 weeks in the condemned cell, she filled five exercise books with her "last true and only confession". Visited the night before her execution by the chaplain and asked if she had anything to confess, she offered him her exercise books, saying, "isn't this enough?"[1] Curiously she was subpoenaed to appear as a witness in Polly's trial for murder, set for a week after her own execution date. However it was ruled that Amelia was already legally dead once sentenced and that therefore her evidence would be inadmissible. Thus her execution was not delayed. On the eve of her execution Amelia heard that the charges against Polly had been dropped. She was hanged by James Billington at Newgate Prison on Wednesday, 10 June 1896. Asked on the scaffold if she had anything to say, she said "I have nothing to say", just before being dropped at 9am precisely.

Later developments

It is uncertain how many more children Amelia Dyer murdered. However, inquiries from mothers, evidence of other witnesses, and material found in Dyer’s homes, including letters and many babies' clothes, pointed to many more.

The Dyer case caused a scandal. She became known as the "Ogress of Reading", and she inspired a popular ballad:

The old baby farmer, the wretched Miss Dyer

At the Old Bailey her wages is paid.

In times long ago, we'd 'a' made a big fy-er

And roasted so nicely that wicked old jade.

Subsequently, adoption laws were made stricter, giving local authorities the power to police baby farms in the hope of stamping out abuse. Despite this and the scrutinizing of newspaper personal ads, the trafficking and abuse of infants did not stop. Two years after Dyer's execution, railway workers inspecting carriages at Newton Abbot, Devon found a parcel. Inside was a three-week-old girl, but though cold and wet, she was alive. The daughter of a widow, Jane Hill, the baby had been given to a Mrs. Stewart, for £12. She had picked up the baby at Plymouth—and apparently dumped her on the next train. It has been claimed that "Mrs. Stewart" was Polly, the daughter of Amelia Dyer.

Identified victims

Doris Marmon, 4 months old

Harry Simmons, 13 months old

Helena Fry, Age unknown, 1 year old or less

Jack the Ripper Speculation

Because she was a murderer alive at the time of the Jack the Ripper killings, some have suggested that Amelia Dyer was Jack the Ripper, who killed the prostitutes through botched abortions. This suggestion was put forward by author William Stewart, although he preferred Mary Pearcey as his chosen suspect. There is, however, no evidence to connect Dyer to the Jack the Ripper murders.

The Black Widow

Mary Ann Cotton: The Black widow

Mary Ann Cotton was born 1832, she was accused and convicted of over 23 murders. She was called the black widow

She was attractive, man found her very attractive, which explains why she killed four of her husbands. And several of her children and step children.

But lets begining at the beginning. Mary Ann Robson was born to a coal mining family in Low moorsley, England. When she was ten her father died in a mining accident. When her step father moves in after she turns 16, she moves out.

At age sixteen she goes to work as a domestic woman in a small house. Where she would clean and cooked and took care of the 12 children. Perhaps it is here when she begins to hate children so.

Finally she marries and is taken away to cornwell where her husband works in a railway shanty town. She has five or six children, but none survived….is this the beginning of her life as a serial killer or is the moment when she turns cold due to life being so cruel to her.

Her husband moves her to another town, where she finds herself as a mining’s workers wife.  She then begins to have children, one after another. Two of them die right away.

She knows how dangerous the mining business is. So she makes her husband take out an insurance on himself. 6 months later, she becomes a widow when her husband dies in a mining accident. And she collects 35 dollars.

She moves away, but then her last son dies, and so she cannot deal with her last daughter and sends her away to live with her grandmother.

She then marries another man, but he dies only 14 months later he also dies.

She takes a job helping a widower care for his sickly child, but only a week after she has the job the child dies.

Days later she is called to help her mother who is very sick, only two days later she is burying her mother.

But she doesn't stop there. Her daughter who had been safe until the grandmother dies, is found to be sick, and later dies only a month after coming into contact with Mary Ann. As well as two of the remaining step children from her third husband. She then get pregnant again, and only three months after giving birth to her 8^th child, the child also dies.

George Robinson, the last of the children she would have as the wife of James Robison (her third husband) is born only months later.It is then that James Robinson finds out that Mary ann had been altering his business books and had stolen 50 pounds (A year's wage at the time) and had placed him into debt for over 70 ponds. His business is ruined, and so the marriage was over.

So how is she killing all of these people?

Arsenic, a tasteless poison is readily available to kill vermin and other common pests. By giving her children and family small doses the poison, the eleven members of her family had no chance. The poison would have eaten them from the inside out, making the illusion of the children simply having a sickness and not being poisoned slowly.

Once she had gotten rid of her third husband, she decides to start again in a new town, this time she chooses Durham.

Margaret cotton had been a friend there, and so Mary Ann moved in her for three weeks, but then Margaret she dies after telling Mary ann that she had saved 70 pounds. Soon after Mary ann begins to sleep with Fredrick cotton (Margaret widow) and soon becomes pregnant. Fredrick does the Honourable thing, and marries her. Of course Mary ann does not tell him that the child could also be Joseph Natras, a family friend. She also forgets to mention that she is still married to George Robinson.

After their child is born, the cotton family has three children, only one is Mary ann’s child by blood. The other two are from her friend (whom she killed) Margaret.

A year and two days after his marriage to Mary Ann, Joseph cotton does of typhoid fever.

After three months of waiting, Mary Ann moves in her lover Joseph. But soon she gets bored of the situation.  She gets a job in a local hospital where she meets Quick manning, who is a vary eligible bachelor.

Within one month the cotton children die and then Joseph Natrass also dies from typhoid fever. Only boy Charles cotton is left from the cotton family. She offers the boy to the work house, but is denied. However when she tells the workhouse local named Riley that he is sickly and will go the same way as the rest of the family, he becomes suspicious. And he looks into all of the deaths that have happened around her.

A week later the boy Charles cotton dies of typhoid fever. He would be the last to die by her hands.  When she asks for the death certificate she finds that Riley has given his suspicious to the police, and so an enquiry is made. It is then that the doctor realises that arsenic is present and she is sent to jail.

Mary Ann was one of the first know serial killers, making her total of 16 or 22 murders of her own, mother, husband and even children.

When she was awaiting trial she was discovered to be pregnant and so the trial had to wait, and it was in this wait where she told almost all of her story to the press.

On the seventh of January the last of her children where born, two weeks later she is executed. 

Mary Ann Cotton,

Dead and forgotten

She lies in her bed,

With her eyes wide open

Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing,

Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string

Where, where? Up in the air

Sellin' black puddens a penny a pair.

Elizabeth Bathory: Female serial killer

Elizabeth Bathory: Blood countess

Elizabeth Bathory was born in Hungary to a powerful family in 1560. The country was involved in a bloody war with the Turks.

She has been accused of killing over 600 of her  servants.

She was a mother and a wife, as well as one of the first recorded female serial killers.  Like many landowners she brought in the local girls as slaves or servants.

But with so much power she was able to get away with torturing and killing them. She enjoyed torturing them by burning their pubic hairs with candles, biting them and there is the legend of her bathing in their blood.

So could she have gotten away with it. To begin with she was directly related to royalty in Transylvania and polish. Her family was one of the richest family in the country. And so no one would have ever questioned her… and if you did you would probably end up dead.

She was married at 15, an arrangement that had been arranged by her parents. He was not a bad pick however, he was rich, handsome and they both loved to torture their servants together. Elizabeth was just a pupil in the beginning, he would make her join and watch.

He once bathe a servant girl in honey and made her stand outside naked for a day while she was stung by her bees.

But then her husband needed to go away to war. Leaving her as lord of the manner. She needed to take care of her seven castles and overlook all the work of her servants, she continues to torture her servants, but her sadistic ways does not truly progress until she is 24 years old and her husband dies.

She did not do it alone, she had two woman helpers and one deformed dwarf to help her sadistic experiments.

There are insane tales of keeping her slaves naked in the freezing winter, and threw cold water over them until they literally froze to the ground.

But suddenly the peasants women began not to be enough, so she then began to kill the daughters of lower gentry people.

It is then that a official enquiry is made. When the right hand of the law arrives at the castle where he finds dying women , and discarded corpses as soon as he opens the door.

270 people where interviewed, but she was never convicted, instead her helpers where tortured and then killed.

In regards to Elizabeth, they locked her in her castle and no one was allowed to talk about her for a hundred years.

But how did a woman of wealth and royal position become like this?

Some say that it all stared when she was six, when her father tortured a gypsy in his court, and then open the belly of a horse, and place the gypsy inside. They then left the gypsy and the horse to die slowly. This might have been the beginning of her sadistic career.

But why girls?

Some say it is because she was a closet homosexual, and she would kill them when they would sexually aroused her with out meaning to. She would then sexually and sadistically tortured them until they would die. This type of torture is called sexual sadism.    

The entity

The Entity:

You’re asleep, when all of the sudden you feel like there is someone in the room. You wake up, but you can’t move, you can’t scream. Your eyes are open and you can see someone but its dark and you can’t turn your head to get a clear view.

You know you are awake, but the entity that is shrouded in darkeness walking towards you makes you wish this was a nightmare. He is getting closer, and closer, he is touching you now, choking you and as you try to struggle you notice there’s an old woman in the corner of the room. Watching you.

The shadow man is choking you, you can’t breath. The old woman glides closer and closer until her old hagged face is inches away from your face. Her eyeliner is running down her cheeks and you feel her weight as she sits on your chest.

You try to scream, the fear is so intense that your hands are bleeding from your fingernails digging into your skin.

YOU HAVE JUST EXPERIENCED THE ENTITY

The entity has been reported by thousands of people all over the world. The western world claims that this only a condition called sleep paralysis. A manifestation of a dream during the waking world. Basically you are in the middle of a dream and awake.

Some claim that this is a product of bad upbringing or something traumatic that happened to you as a child trying to come out during the dream cycle.

unfortunatly no one can come up with a clear explination of why this happens, or how to stop it. 

How ever those who believe in the more paranormal explications believe that the entity are demons. But what are they doing? How do they choose their victims?

To be able to tell the difference you should record the experiences, try EVP and ask the entity who they are, why they are there. You might just encounter that the entity will respond to you.  

Have you ever experienced something like this? 

let us know by commenting on this post. 

The origins of Satan

Satan;

An exorcist is a person who can cast out demons. We all know that. We have seen the movies. What most people don’t know is how the demons get in the first place.

Most movies start by a simple girl (why is it always girls?) who all of the sudden begin to see weird and unexplainable things. But why?

Frather Gary Thomas is a catehlic priest in California, he is one of the priests who has gone through the roman catholic training of exercism, his training is somewhat recorded in the book “the Rite” by Matt baglio, which is now a movie. Father Thomas explains that for an demon to take hold of your body, a dorr way must be opened. And you are the only one that can open it.

The origins of satan are unknown, there are no facts to dictate when or where he emerged. One story is that he once was the god’s favorite angel. And as time progressed greed and ego took over his heart and so he asked God to give him his own kingdom to rule over. God Granted him his wish, and Satan was cast out of heaven forever. The story continues to say that Satan did not fall alone, as he fell he grabbed as many angels as he could and they fell with satan to his new kingdom, hell. Once in hell they where his slaves, and became his new demon army. The once angelic beings where condemned to follow all of his order in the new formed Inferno.

His sefishness and ego did not end there, he realized that even though he had a kingdom, he did not have subjects. So he sent out his new form army onto the world to temp the humans to sin, if they sinned enough he knew they would move away from God and closer to him, allowing him to take their souls once they passed into the realm of the dead. 

Mothman

Mothman is a legendary creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated 16 November 1966, entitled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something".

Mothman was introduced to a wider audience by Gray Barker in 1970,later popularized by John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, claiming that Mothman was related to a wide array of supernatural events in the area and the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, was based on Keel's book.

On Nov. 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette told police they saw a large white creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a "flying man with ten foot wings" following their car while they were driving in an area of town known as 'the TNT area', the site of a former World War II munitions plant.

During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". Mason County Sheriff George Johnson commented that he believed the sightings were due to an unusually large heron he termed a "shitepoke". Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors", and blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature.

Wildlife biologist Dr. Robert L. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the Sandhill Crane, a large American crane almost as high as a man with a seven foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes, and that the bird may have wandered out of its migration route.

There were no Mothman reports in the immediate aftermath of the December 15, 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, giving rise to legends that the Mothman sightings and the bridge collapse were connected.

Claims of later sightings

UFOlogist Jerome Clark writes that many years after the initial events, members of the Ohio UFO Investigators League re-interviewed several people who claimed to have seen Mothman, all of whom insisted their stories were accurate. Linda Scarberry claimed that she and her husband had seen Mothman "hundreds of times, " sometimes at close range, commenting, "It seems like it doesn’t want to hurt you. It just wants to communicate with you. "

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman claims that sightings of Mothman continue, and told USA Today he re-interviewed witnesses described in Keel's book who said Mothman was "a huge creature about 7 feet tall with huge wings and red eyes" and that "they could see the creature flapping right behind them" as they fled from it.

Paranormal

Some UFologists, paranormal authors, and cryptozoologists believe that Mothman was an alien, a supernatural manifestation, or an unknown cryptid. In his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, author John Keel claimed that the Point Pleasant residents experienced precognitions including premonitions of the collapse of the Silver Bridge, unidentified flying object sightings, visits from mysterious or threatening men in black, and other bizarre phenomena. However, Keel has been criticized for distorting established data, and for gullibility.

Skeptical

Skeptic Joe Nickell says that a number of hoaxes followed the publicity generated by the original reports, such as a group of construction workers who tied red flashlights to helium balloons. Nickell attributes the Mothman reports to pranks, misidentified planes, and sightings of a barred owl, an albino owl, or perhaps a large snowy owl, suggesting that the Mothman's "glowing eyes" were actually red-eye effect caused from the reflection of light from flashlights or other bright light sources. The area lies outside the snowy owl's usual range and locals, unfamiliar with such a large owl, could have misidentified the bird. 

Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand notes that Mothman has been widely covered in the popular press, some claiming sightings connected with UFOs, and others claiming that a military storage site was Mothman's "home". Brunvand notes that recountings of the 1966-67 Mothman reports usually state that at least 100 people saw Mothman with many more "afraid to report their sightings", but observed that written sources for such stories consisted of children's books or sensationalized or undocumented accounts that fail to quote identifiable persons. Brunvand found elements in common among many Mothman reports and much older folk tales, suggesting that something real may have triggered the scares and became woven with existing folklore. He also records anecdotal tales of Mothman supposedly attacking the roofs of parked cars inhabited by teenagers in lovers lanes.

Festivals and statue

Point Pleasant held its first Annual Mothman Festival in 2002 and a 12-foot-tall metallic statue of the creature, created by artist and sculptor Bob Roach, was unveiled in 2003. The Mothman Museum and Research Center opened in 2005 and is run by Jeff Wamsley.[13][14][15] The Festival is a weekend-long event held on the 3rd weekend of every September. There are a variety of events that go on during the festival such as guest speakers, vendor exhibits, and hayride tours focusing on the notable areas of Point Pleasant.

The Mothman legend centers around a horrific event that took place in Point Pleasant, West Virginia on December 15, 1967. On that cold December evening around 5pm, the U.S. Highway 35 Bridge, known as the Silver Bridge, collapsed. The Silver Bridge connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Kanauga, Ohio. Thirty-seven vehicles were on the Silver Bridge when it collapsed, sending 31 of those cars into the cold river water. Forty-six people perished and nine were seriously injured.

There are many who claim to have seen a mysterious creature that by then had come to be called the Mothman in the Point Pleasant area not far from the bridge. Many believe that this mysterious creature was involved either directly or indirectly with the bridge’s collapse. For almost thirteen months prior to the incident Point Pleasant residents claimed to have seen a man-sized bird creature. Shortly after the Silver Bridge collapsed there were a couple of sightings; then the Mothman seemed to have quietly disappeared.

The first Mothman sighting occurred in the early 1960s when a woman driving her car near the Chief Cornstalk Hunting Grounds stopped to avoid hitting what she thought was a man in the road. The figure turned to face her, its eyes glowing red from the headlights. It spread two large thin wings and took to the air.

Another sighting took place in 1965. A woman living on the banks of the Ohio River informed police her son had come in from playing and told her he had seen an angel in the yard.

A year later a doctor’s wife reported seeing what she described as a giant, thin butterfly. In November of the same year five men digging a grave reported seeing a brown human being with wings fly out of the trees.

Later that same month Mr and Mrs Scarberry and their friends the Mallettes were driving toward Point Pleasant when they saw a tall figure on the side of the road in an area known as TNT. They told officials that it stood at least seven feet tall. They also stated it had large wings folded behind its back. As they drove on the figure took to the air and flew above the car. They reported the incident to the Mason County Sheriff’s office. The Sheriff returned to the scene with the four witnesses, but although his radio acted up, nothing else was seen or heard.

The TNT area became known as the home of the Mothman. TNT is a large tract of land covered in many concrete igloos that were used to store ammunition during World War II. The TNT land tract sits adjacent to the 2,500 acre McClintic Wildlife Station. The whole area is covered in dense forest, steep hills and is riddled with tunnels, making it the perfect hideout.

Only three sightings were recorded in 1967. Then in 1968 the Mothman re-emerged with a vengeance. He was said to have been seen several times on Jericho Road. The Mothman made his last reported appearance on September 18, 1968 when several people witnessed the winged figure, again in the TNT area.

Long-time residents of Point Pleasant say that the Mothman sightings, UFO sightings and encounters with ‘men in black’ are all somehow related. Researchers, investigators and monster hunters descended on the small town.

Between 1966 and 1967, all told over 100 people stated they saw the winged Mothman. All reports had the creature standing close to seven feet tall with bat like wings that glided rather than flapped. They say the Mothman's eyes were near the top of its shoulders.

Reporter John Keel began collecting information on Mothman sightings in December of 1966. Keel compiled evidence that pointed to a problem with televisions and phones that began in the fall of 1966. Lights had been seen in the skies, particularly around the TNT plant, and cars that passed along the nearby road sometimes stalled without explanation. He and his fellow researchers also uncovered a number of short-lived poltergeist cases in the Ohio Valley area. Locked doors opened and closed by themselves, strange thumps were heard inside and outside of homes, and unexplained voices were heard in the night wind.

The James Lilley family, who lived just south of the TNT plant, were so bothered by the bizarre events that they finally sold their home and moved to another neighborhood. Keel was convinced that the incidents in the intense period of activity were all connected.

By 1969, most of the sightings had come to an end and the Mothman just faded away as quietly as he had appeared. However the Mothman’s legacy lives on in Point Pleasant. In the middle of the Gunn Park, which is in the center of Point Pleasant, stands an imposing stainless steel statue by local sculpture Robert Roach.

Every year in September the Mothman Festival is held, drawing thousands to the small community. One of the highlights of the Mothman Festival is the eerie TNT-area haunted hayride. The TNT area is literally unchanged since the Mothman sightings throughout the 1960s.

Who or what was the mysterious Mothman and what was behind the mysterious events that took place in Point Pleasant in that time period? Whatever the creature was, many historians believe that it was not a hoax. There were just far too many credible witnesses to dismiss it in this way. John Keel believed that Point Pleasant was a ‘window’, a place marked by long periods of strange incidents.

Whatever the Mothman was, he has marked his place in West Virginia’s rich and diverse history and traditions.