Went fishing, caught four deer

This story came to me via email, its circling the usual suspects as one of those inspirational stories/emails that go viral. However as I read it the only question that was on my mind was, how did the deer get into the water in the first place? so far away from shore that they needed the help of a boat to get to shore, or risk exhaustion. 

Here is the email; 

A once in the history of mankind kind of thing. The Best Day Of Fishing Ever! Some fishing stories are a little hard to believe,  but this guy has pictures to prove his story...  I've heard of salmon jumping into boats,  but never anything quite like this...  Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out  with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel  when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly toward his boat.

"Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that the young bucks were distressed. I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it! Once onboard, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering."

"This is a picture I took of the rescued bucks on the back of my boat, the Alaska Quest. We headed for Taku Harbour . Once we reached the dock, the first buck that we had been pulled from the water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say 'thank you' and disappeared into the forest. After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help.

This is me carrying the little guy.

My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck to its feet. We didn't know how long they had been in the icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive. My daughter later told me that the experience was something that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!" I told you! Awesome... huh? Our Lord works in mysterious way.. "Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." - Mark Twain

Disappeared Without A Trace On A Cruise Ship

Disappeared Without A Trace On A Cruise Ship
The truth behind the idyllic façade
Drunkenness, drugs, sexual assault are everyday matters, and over 30 passengers have mysteriously disappeared from cruise ships in four years. The United States Congress is sounding the alarm.
Bones were recently found on Merry Island in Canada. The police suspected that they were the remains of Merrian Carver (40), who disappeared from the cruise ship “Mercury” on its way to Alaska in August 2004.

So the police contacted her father, Kendall Carver in Phoenix, Arizona in the hope that DNA tests would be able to give them the answer.

Merrian, the mother of one child, had left on the cruise without contacting her family. The second day the cabin attendant noticed that no one had used the bed, and reported this to her boss. He promised to tend to the matter. “Just forget it, and do your job,” he told the attendant.
Through the whole cruise the attendant therefore continued to place the customary chocolates on the pillow of the untouched bed. But no one saw Merrian again.

When the passengers went ashore in Vancouver, her possessions were packed away. No one notified the police or her family. Not until the retired businessman Kendall Carver reported her missing did the police learn of the disappearance. Carver has spent tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers and private investigators in his attempt to find out what happened.

Kendall Carver has gotten the US Congress investigate the cruise business after his daughter Merrian (pictured above) disappeared without a trace.
“It took the cruise ship company three days to conclude that Merrian had been on the cruise. By then 26 days had passed since her disappearance,” says Carver. “They confirmed that she hadn’t slept in her cabin after the first night, but hinted that this was not unusual. She could have spent the night in another cabin and gone ashore in Vancouver without having to document it, they said.

The company claimed that films from the surveillance cameras were erased after 12 days. That was a lie; they were erased after 30. But before that was known, it was too late. The trail was cold. Merrian’s case emphasizes what cruise passengers thousands of miles away from home ought to realize: At sea there are no police.
Kendall Carver has formed the group International Cruise Victims together with others who have lost loved ones on a cruise. One of them is Son Michael Pham, the son of Hue Pham and Hue Tran.

In May 2005 they took a cruise with “Carnival Destiny” which sailed between Barbados and Aruba in the Caribbean.
Not much is known about the disappearance on “Destiny” on May 12th.

The search on board yielded no result, and no traces of them have ever been found. Did they commit suicide? Hardly. Both were in good heath, and they were looking forward to a long-planned cruise back to Vietnam to see their relatives again. They were two American citizens at the happiest time in their lives, but they disappeared without a trace or any witness, declares Son Michael Pham.
24 cruise passengers disappeared between 2003 and 2006 (not including suicides and accidents due to drunkenness). Since then ten more passengers and two crew members have been reported missing. This has gotten the US Congress to investigate cruise ship security – to find out if they suppress or under-report disappearances. “A cruise ship is a small town,” says Congressman Christopher Shays. “Traveling on a cruise can be the way to commit the perfect crime.”

It is extremely difficult to solve a murder without a body, and the chances of finding a passenger tossed into the sea are minuscule. The security officers don’t always seal off the crime scene, take suspects into custody, or interrogate witnesses as they are supposed to.

From 2003 to 2005 no fewer than 178 such ship-board attacks were reported by ships owned by the 15 companies that account for 85 % of the world’s cruises. The FBI thinks the number is even higher. Royal Caribbean alone, which has 25 % of the passengers, registered over 100 complaints about sexual assaults during the same period.

Dianne’s Death
Mystery: Hue Pham and Hue Tran disappeared on “Carnival Destiny” between Barbados and Aruba in the Caribbean. Suicide seems unlikely.

Just how amateurishly tragedies at sea can be handled is shown by the death of Dianne Brimble (42), a mother of three from Brisbane. She had saved for two years for the cruise on the Australian ship “Pacific Sky.” But the first evening of her vacation in 2002 she lay naked, drugged, and dead on the floor of a cabin – ignored and scorned by her attackers.

A toxicology report revealed that Brimble, who rarely even took aspirin, had gotten an overdose of the party drug GBJ or “liquid ecstasy” – often described as a “date-rape drug.” Before the ship arrived in harbor, the attackers had cleaned the cabin.
No one has been accused of the death. Not until this year was the autopsy hearing re-opened in Australia. Eight men were identified as “persons of interest.” Before the death that night, one of them was seen running naked around on the ship. But the security guards said that naked people on deck were not uncommon.

Digital camera pictures revealed that at least one man had sex with Brimble. Pictures were even taken while she lay lifeless and naked on the cabin floor. They were planning to throw her over board, but there were too many witnesses in the corridors.

The Brimble investigation brought to light a foreign cruise culture that openly encourages senseless round the clock drunkenness, drug abuse and casual sex. An advertisement for one of the cruise companies was shown in the court room. It showed sun tanned bikini-clad women with the text: “Seamen wanted.”

Safe Travel

“Young women are especially vulnerable, especially to the crew,” declares the former English security officer Geoff Furlong, who worked for six years on two cruise ships. “The police were never involved. If the passengers complained, they were mollified with campaign and free vacations. Such complaints were not even recorded. If I came across a crew member picking up young female passengers, I would report him to the captain to be put off at the next harbor at his own expense.”
The Facts

Terror Cruises

Robert Nelson, USA: February 15, 2001, “Sovereign of the Seas,” Bahamas. Went out on a diving trip arranged by the ship on a day others cancelled because of heavy seas. Was never found.

Christopher Caldwell, USA: July 22, 2004, “Carnival Cruise,” Mexico. Last seen on deck at 3:30 AM by a bartender who said that Christopher was dead drunk after a night in the casino. He did nothing to help him.

Annette Mizener (37), USA: December 4, 2004, “Carnival Pride,” Mexico. Reported missing the last evening of a nine day cruise. Her purse was found near the railing on the lower deck. A nearby surveillance camera had been covered over.

Andrew Gready, Australia: January 7, 2005, “Pacific Sky,” Brisbane. On a cruise with eight friends. Jumped over board (for fun?) on the last evening. Life-preservers were thrown to him, but he went under and was never found. No life boats were put to sea.

George Smith, USA:  July 5, 2005, “Brilliance of the Seas,” Turkey. On his honeymoon when reported missing. Blood found on the balcony under the cabin. The case led to the first congressional hearing on security on cruise ships.

John Dresp, USA:  November 16, 2005, “Norwegian Dream,” Belize. Was snorkeling by the barrier reef in Belize with his brother Don and wife Winifred. Strong currents, poor safety precautions and supervision caused him to go under. He was never found.


Cruise passengers can end up in a complicated legal situation since ships are registered under flags of convenience from Panama, the Bahamas, or Bermuda. The companies assert that the ships are safe, considering the millions of passengers that travel each year. “Then the number of disappearances, reported sexual assaults, and robberies look good compared to the number on land,” says the director of the British cruise business, William Giddons. “When something does happen on a cruise ship, it’s always big news.”

On March 28 Kendall Carver and International Cruise Victims testified at a Congressional hearing for the third time. One of the victims, Laurie Dishman (36) was subjected to a sexual assault by a ship security officer on a Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico in February 2006. “There were three security officers working a ship that had 3000 passengers,” he noted. “In principle it was a small town without any laws.”


Sailing from Europe

Just the threat of Dishman’s testimony forced the cruise companies to make a deal. It promises now to report disappearances, rapes, and robberies on their ships immediately to the FBI. In the USA all the bad PR has led to a large decrease in the number of cruise passengers, and ticket prices have fallen to give away levels. Several companies plan to move much of their traffic to Europe, where passengers continue to flock to the ships. Royal Caribbean, for example, transferred seven ships to Europe in March.

This year over 15 million people world-wide will take a cruise. Monster ships with stores and theaters bigger than those on land are being built. The passengers hardly notice they are out at sea. As long as no one falls overboard.

Who Killed Merete?

In the wee hours of November 18, 1994 the cruise ship “Regina Renaissance” was underway from the Greek island of Kos to the resort town of Antalya in Turkey.
The 90 passengers were dreaming of dawn and more tourist experiences. But not everyone was sleeping; parts of the crew were on their feet, doing the jobs they were paid for. In a crew cabin there was a party for Lisa Upsher, who the next day would conclude her job on the crew and fly home to England.

At the party was her old cabin-mate Merete Breiven (24) from Sörum [Norway] and six other young people. They’re drinking and dancing and having a good time. Seven nationalities are represented. Several times in the course of the night Merete leaves the party, no one afterwards will be able or want to explain why. Around 2:30 she leaves the party for the last time. She is going to the bakery to get fresh croissants.

This is the last that is seen of Merete Breiven. The police never found out what happened to her. She was just gone. Suicide is hardly likely, neither is a fall overboard (with the railing chest high). The police investigation suggests murder, but can find no clues or motive. Still the names of all on board, both passengers and crew, are present in the police records. Surely among these individuals is the one who killed Merete?

In December 2005, Congress convened its first hearing on the issue of the safety of U.S. passengers on foreign flagged cruise ships.  The hearing came about primarily due to the efforts of several families who had lost loved ones from cruise ships on the high seas, under suspicious circumstances.
George Smith's family was instrumental in bringing a great amount of much needed publicity to the issue of passenger "disappearances" and the shoddy manner in which cruise lines respond to such tragedies.  George III and Maureen Smith and their daughter Bree Smith of Greenwich Connecticut contacted Congressman, Chris Shays (R-CT).  
The Smith family joined forces with the father of a young woman who also "disappeared" from a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean's sister cruise line Celebrity Cruises.  Ken Carver, a former president of an insurance company in New York, lost his beloved daughter, 40 year old Boston resident Merrian Carver, who went missing under suspicious circumstances during a cruise to Alaska aboard the Mercury cruise ship.
The cruise line tried its best to cover the incident up.  It didn’t report Merrian missing to either the FBI or the Alaskan State Troopers, even though the cabin attendant reported her missing early in the cruise. The cruise line either gave her personal items away or put them in storage.
When Mr. Carver asked for an explanation, Royal Caribbean responded by lying to Mr. Carver and disposing of evidence.  Mr. Carver didn’t go away.  The story went public.  The The Arizona Republic published an excellently researched and written story, revealing the hideous manner that this cruise line acted when people disappear at sea.
Mr. Carver's situation is simply the worst conduct I have ever seen by a cruise line.
One of Mr. Carver's daughters had been an intern of Congressman Shays when Mr. Carver had lived in Connecticut.  Mr. Carver's story was featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper's show.  The  producer for the program, CNN's David Fitzpatrick (a resident of Connecticut), recommended to Mr. Carver that he call on Congressman Shays and tell him about the way the cruise line treated his family.
As a result of the convergence of tragedies suffered by the families of George Smith and Merrian Carver, Congressman Shays convened a hearing to study the problem of passengers disappearing on cruise ships and the manner that the cruise industry treated the surviving the surviving family members.  He opened the hearing by stating:
"The bottom line is we are suspicious, candidly, that there's some huge problem in the cruise industry.  We think that people are not aware of some of the challenges and some of the potential problems they encounter."  
Mr. Carver attended the December 2005 hearing.  I attended the hearing with my client Jennifer Hagel.  Mr. Carver introduced himself to me at the hearing.  He asked me if I was interested in supporting legislation making cruising safer for the public?  I saw a conviction in Mr. Carver's eyes six years ago.  I realized that he was serious.
Mr. Carver realized that he could not fight the cruise industry alone.  He thereafter created an organization called the International Cruise Victims (ICV) organization, effective January 1, 2006.   As a former executive, Mr. Carver had the leadership and management skills to create a highly effective organization.  Like the many other ICV members, Mr. Carver also had a passionate dedication to his daughter and a desire to protect other families from going through a similar nightmare.
Mr. Carver was responsible for convening four additional Congressional hearings, taking the ICV organization internationally, and organizing a team of victims who were responsible for the enactment of the 2010 Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act.
George Smith, Merrian Carver and other victims may be gone from this lifetime, as we know it.  But their legacies continue today.
The cruising public is safer for the efforts of their families.

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1541034#.UVgyCpNmh8E
When 40-year-old Merrian Carver went missing on the second day of a seven-day Alaskan Royal Caribbean cruise, the crew didn't respond as one might expect. In fact, the crew acted as though nothing had happened.

Merrian, a former investment banker who loved to write poetry, was divorced and decided to take a cruise in August 2004. Merrian lived in Cambridge, Mass., and her 13-year-old daughter was staying with her ex-husband in England.

No one even knew Merrian had gone away, until her father, Kendall Carver, received a frantic call from his granddaughter.

"She said: 'Do you know where my mother is? I've been calling her, and I haven't gotten a response,'" Carver told "Primetime."

After several days of unreturned phone calls, Carver and his wife, Carol, filed a missing-person report. Weeks later, police learned their daughter had purchased the cruise ticket.

But when Kendall Carver called the cruise line -- three weeks after the ship had docked in Vancouver, British Columbia, officials confirmed that Merrian had boarded the ship, but they weren't sure whether she had gotten off.

"In effect, Merrian vanished from the Earth," he said.

Clothing Given Away, Purse Stored

"It seemed like kind of a rather basic thing. If you put 2,000 people on a ship, you ought to know if 2,000 people got off the ship. They didn't know that. They couldn't tell us that," Carver said.


Courtesy Ken Carver
Merrian Carver, 40, disappeared in August 2004 after embarking on a cruise to Alaska.
He became more alarmed when he said the cruise line casually explained that Merrian had stopped using her room after the second night, and that her belongings had remained in her cabin after everyone else had gotten off the ship.

Carver couldn't believe what he heard next: Royal Caribbean explained that it had given Merrian's clothes to charity and locked up her purse.

"They got rid of most of her stuff," he said. "A gold wristwatch, all her clothes were gone, vanished."

And most shocking of all, they told no one she was missing -- not the police, not the family.

"She was gone," Carver said. "And the purse had her name, Social Security number and everything. They just put it in storage, did nothing."

No Clues but Many Questions

Retired and living in Phoenix, Kendall Carver, the former head of an insurance company, went back into CEO mode and launched the type of counteroffensive the cruise line probably hadn't expected. Eventually, he would spend more than $75,000 trying to find out what happened to his daughter.

First, he hired one of the word's largest private-detective agencies.

"We wanted to talk to somebody on that boat that had seen Merrian," Carver said. "Now that seemed like a pretty reasonable request."

Tim Schmolder was the San Francisco private eye dispatched to find out what had happened to Merrian. Schmolder started asking questions, and while he said Royal Caribbean provided some answers, he said it also set up some roadblocks to his investigation.

According to Schmolder, his requests for interviews with passengers or crew were denied, as was his access to the ship's video camera system. He said cruise officials also limited the amount of time he could spend on the ship.

After a few hours, Schmolder left the ship without a single clue as to how Merrian might have disappeared.
"My report became, you know, kind of empty of content," he said. "But full of questions -- questions as to why access wasn't allowed, questions as to why the cabin attendant wasn't available, questions as to why I couldn't interview the security manager for the camera system. Question, after question, after question: Why? Why? Why?"

Was It a Cover-Up?

What was behind the silence? Did the cruise line not know or was it simply not telling? For four months, the Carvers were in limbo, waiting for answers, until, finally, they took legal action.

They demanded Royal Caribbean produce a list of other passengers from the Boston area, where their daughter had lived, in case there was a friend or someone who might know about Merrian.

Carver said that the subpoenas produced a list of the ship's 2,000 passengers, with no contact information, and a poor-quality picture of Merrian getting on the ship.

But the worst news was yet to come. When the Carvers' attorneys forced Royal Caribbean to make the cabin attendant, Domingo Monteiro, available for a deposition, Carver was crushed by what he heard.

"Domingo said he reported Merrian missing daily, and to his boss," Carver said. "And that at the end of the cruise, Merrian's things are in the room where they'd been for five days. He asked his boss, should we report this? The boss says no. He says, 'I'll take care of it. Just put all of her belongings in a bag. Put them in my locker and I'll take care of it.'"

Next they learned that since the Carvers started complaining, Royal Caribbean had held an internal hearing and fired Monteiro's boss. But for the three months that the Carvers had been asking questions, the cruise line had never shared that information with them.

"All along the way they've been lying to us, and leading us down a path. And I say it's tough to lose a daughter, let alone be dealing with a cover-up," Carver said.

Carver said that Royal Caribbean's own documents offer evidence of cover-up. One memo shows that months earlier, company officials knew Monteiro had reported suspicious circumstances to his supervisor.

Not only that, it seemed the company took great pains to make sure that "Domingo … did not speak with anybody." Carver said that one memo showed Royal Caribbean checked with 14 different employees to make sure the cabin attendant didn't speak with outside sources.

Jeffrey Maltzman, Royal Caribbean's attorney, said the memos showed no evidence of a cover-up. "What the company was trying to do was find out if he [Domingo] had talked to anybody," Maltzman said.

"If you look at the document, nowhere does it say: 'Don't talk to someone if they call you,'" he added.

That does not make the Carvers feel any better. "I still am upset," Carver said. "I mean, that was probably one of the worst days of my life, to figure out that they knew Merrian was missing. If only they had done something during that cruise, when she was reported missing daily, we would have known."

Royal Caribbean further infuriated the family when it issued a press release stating that Merrian "appears to have committed suicide on our ship."

Maltzman told "Primetime" that it was not the cruise line's responsibility to say what happened to Merrian. "They don't have the expertise," Maltzman said. "That's law enforcement's job."

Royal Caribbean put out the statement about suicide "because that's what the family has told us they believe happened," said Maltzman.
Carver said that is not true. While he concedes it's a possibility Merrian may have committed suicide, he said Royal Caribbean's handling of the case would prevent the family from ever knowing the truth.

Sympathetic Words Too Late for Family

Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., learned about Carver's case after one of his constituents complained about a similar incident.

"Merrian Carver's case just ignites me because I think of the arrogance of the industry, the cruelty of this industry," Shays said. "In the end, they acted like she was a nonperson."

Shays became so concerned about the cruise-line industry that he called a congressional hearing to look into its practices. He said he was unimpressed when Royal Caribbean's director of security expressed words of sympathy for the Carvers during the hearing.

"It would be better if you cooperated with the family," Shays said at the hearing. "And didn't make them have to seek this information the way they sought it -- having to spend literally tens of thousands of dollars. So your actions would speak more loudly than your statement, frankly, and your actions appear not to support your sorrow."

Merrian's last gift to her father was a picture frame that plays a recorded message that says: "Hi Daddy, this is Merrian. Hope you're having a great day."

It is a message that haunts the Carvers, who worry that they'll never really know how or why their daughter disappeared.

The Mind Body connection

The mind and body mysteries

The placebo effect

Science still does not know why when a patient is given a placebo instead of the real drug whilst drug trials, the body will sometimes cure itself regardless of no other changes. Only the fact that the mind believes they are receiving a real drug and so their mind convinced that the drug has been given will cure the ailment and so it tells the body cure itself.

                A placebo (pron.: /pləˈsiboʊ/ plə-see-boh; Latin placēbō, "I shall please"[2] from placeō, "I please") is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient. Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition, a phenomenon commonly called the placebo effect.

During medical trials placebo is given to a control set of patients, while the real drugs are given to another set of patients.  The patients themselves do not know if they are receiving the placebo or the drug.

The Placebo effect is a term used by doctors, when patients who had the ailment that they were trying to cure are suddenly cured after being given a placebo, in other words no drugs at all. Their ailment is then cured by the patients brains believe that he should now be cured.  Science cannot explain this miracle of nature, How does the body cure itself? Can this effect be replicated?

Many people believe that it can, a search in the internet for “how to cure the body with the mind” will reveal several sites that explain how visualization and self hypnosis can help you achieve this.

In an article found in healing.about .com I read that:

The hypothalamus, the emotional center of the brain, transforms emotions into physical response. The receptor of neuropeptides, the hypothalamus also controls the bodyís appetite, blood sugar levels, body temperature, adrenal and pituitary glands, heart, lung, digestive and circulatory systems. Neuropeptides, the chemical messenger hormones, carry emotions back and forth between the mind and body. They link perception in the brain to the body via organs, hormones and cellular activity. Neuropeptides influence every major section of the immune system, so the body and mind do work together as one unit.

The brain is a highly efficient system that is connected to every cell in your body by billions of connections. It is divided into two sides ñ the left, logical side (words, logic, rational thought) and the right creative side (imagination and intuition). Day to day circumstances usually are met in a logical, left brain mode; however by yielding to the right, creative side of the brain we actually restore balance in the brain. This allows access to the mind-body connection to achieve what you want. The right side of the brain automatically steers you to your goal. It totally accepts what you want to accomplish without giving an opinion and acts upon it without judgement. That is why visualization targets the right, creative side of the brain and not the left, logical side.

What does this mean?

Can it be that if we work hard enough we can cure ourselves of any ailment?

If its true how can we do it? Here are some examples of how to do it.

Define Your Specific Intention

Visualization puts your intention of what you want to work. The more specific the intention, the more specific the results. Remember whatever you believe is what your body will do. So when you are thinking of your intention make sure it is:

Clear

Specific

Achievable

You feel, know and trust it is being accomplished

Take Responsibility

Trying to do visualization without taking responsibility will prove to be futile experience. To accomplish what you want you must take action and responsibility. Visualization usually takes about 6 weeks to work. It is done once in the morning and before bedtime. Some people do see or feel results the very first time but remember everyoneís body and mind are different and so is the way they process information so have patience. Responsibility is:

Be accountable to and for yourself

Make a commitment

Do visualization regularly

Be persistent and patient

Keep positive

Get Mentally Relaxed

A relaxed state puts allows you direct access to your subconscious mind. Here are some steps to help you relax:

Find a quiet place. Relax in a favorite chair or lie down.

Get comfortable and loosen clothing

Uncross your arms and legs

Get centered by focusing on the breath and breathing (this activates the vagus nerve which is the major quieting nerve in the body)

Totally relax your body and mind

Visualize

Visualization for healing is a simple process. Once you are relaxed the next step is to actualize your visualiztion.

Think of or speak your intention out loud.

Close your eyes and imagine yourself in the healing process or as you want to be.

Watch as your body heals you

Feel the healing taking place

Know the healing is being accomplished

If you have difficulty you may want to try one or more of these methods:

Use creative imagery like seeing the cells in your body healing you; your immune system fighting off invaders; your pain being taken away by healing mud

Imagine yourself in a very beautiful place whole, healthy and happy

Try reading scripts from a visualization or self-hypnosis book

Try making your own tape in your own voice

Visualization does work to help boost your body back to health. Don't just work on the body, add the mind to maximize your healing process with visualization.

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?