LAKE MONSTERS SIGHTED
IN NORTHERN CHINA
[Story carried by FarShores]
CHUPACABRAS GO ON A
RAMPAGE IN CHILE
"A couple from Vina del Mar," just north of
Valparaiso, Chile, "went through a horrifying experience
after becoming aware that a strange animal, allegedly the
Chupacabra, had entered into their backyard where it
attacked the family's ducks."
"One of the ducks suffered a perfect perforation in
its spine. The remaining three disappeared."
"Most stunning for the protagonists of the event was
that they managed to see the animal face-to-face and even
strike it repeatedly with a metal cart. But the intruder
managed to escape. Its escape path was not ascertained."
"This strange event was recorded early Wednesday
morning," July 9, 2003. "The witnesses were Juan Silva and
Veronica Vildasola, residents of the Calle Las Maravillas
(street) in the town of Santa Julia. Both were hesitant
about disclosing their experience, since they feared they
would not be believed."
"Veronica Vildasola states that on the day in
question, around 5 a.m., she heard strange noises. 'First
I heard blows (thumps) on neighboring rooftops. It was
like something jumping from one rooftop to another.'"
"She added, 'I suddenly heard something like a very
heavy bird that landed on our roof. It immediately
started to scratch the rooftop with its claws.'"
"Faced with the fear that the animal or bird would
attack the ducks kept in the backyard or the hens in their
coops, she woke up her husband (Silva) so he could go out
and take a look."
"Juan Silva says, 'Upon going outside, I saw an
animal that wasn't a dog in spite of looking like a dog.
It was in a corner, hunched over the spine of one of the
ducks it had caught.'"
"'I got closer, hurling the wrench I held in my hand. But since it didn't move, I began to strike it with the
handle of a metal hand-cart that was in the yard. The
animal made some strange sounds, like moans of pain. Had
it been a dog, it would have barked and yelped. But that
wasn't the case.'"
"Silva added that the creature 'had very shiny
eyes.'"
"His wife continued the story: 'I was holding a stick with which to strike what I thought was a dog. That's
when I saw the creature trying to escape. It did so in a
semi-erect position, as though walking hunched over on two
legs. It looked at me, and I also saw its shiny eyes. I
don't know if I was paralyzed with fear or for another
reason.'"
"The couple indicated that the neighbors' dogs began
to bark like never before."
"The mysterious creature's escape was also a subject
of high strangeness for the protagonists of the event.
'Later on, we tried to see clearly which way the animal
could have escaped, but we couldn't find any point through
which it could have crossed. We think it could have only
flown away,' said the woman."
"They noted that the animal only left some claw marks in the dirt. 'These don't match dogs' paws, either,'
stated Juan Silva."
"Valparaiso, Vina del Mar and Quillota have been the
scenes of similar episodes in recent years. No logical
explanation has hitherto been found for any of them. For
this reason, those affected by poultry deaths have
ascribed the attack to the alleged Chupacabras."
"Furthermore, the case recorded in Santa Julia
coincides in several aspects with the two latest cases
known in Quillota. One of these is that the creature
appears during the early-morning hours, jumping from
rooftop to rooftop. The other is that, when faced by
humans, these people notice a strange eye glow that leaves
them paralyzed."
Elsewhere in Chile, "sedate residents of the La
Palmilla sector of the peaceful commune of Rauco in the
Sixth Region were startled to find 29 hens with their legs
in the air, completely exsanguinated (drained of blood--
J.T.), and with twin bites on their necks. The peasantry
were shocked at the find and, without thinking, assigned
blame to the now-legendary Chupacabra, which had attacked
again."
"They had no doubts in their views, because, aside
from the birds, the hens--which were all egg-layers--were
completely dry, as though some unknown beast had sucked
their last drop of blood."
"Still trembling from their fear of the Chupacabras,
and concerned by the loss of their birds, the residents
noted that the deaths had occurred simultaneously in two
neighboring homes on Tuesday morning," July 15, 2003.
"What is strange about the matter and causes belief
in a supernatural animal prone to vampirism is that no
resident heard noises, which is very strange given the
fact that hens tend to be very vocal if attacked. Even
the guard dogs in both houses never realized what was
going on, and never made a fuss."
"The first attack affected the house of Maria
Carolina Bravo, who lost 24 hens."
"According to this woman, upon inspecting the
henhouse, she found the hole through which some animal of
the Chupacabras could have gotten through. The woman did
not hear any sounds, either."
"Martha Varas was speechless when she found five dead hens, slain in the same mysterious fashion, in her
backyard."
"Carabineros (Chilean national police--J.T.) of the
Rauco cuartel (barracks) appeared immediately and
witnessed" the crime scene and its "inexplicable hen
slaying for themselves." (See the Chilean newspapers La
Estrella de Valparaiso for July 12, 2003, "Chupacabra gets
a beating," and La Cuarta of Temuco for July 17, 2003,
"Terror spreads among farmers of La Palmilla." Muchas
gracias a Scott Corrales y Gloria Coluchi para esos
articulos de diario.)
MYSTERY FIREBALL SIGHTED
IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA
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DAYLIGHT DISC SPOTTED IN
STURBRIDGE, MASS
On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 7:15 p.m., Bob Zalewski
reported, "My wife Vicky and myself spotted a silver craft
for maybe two to three seconds. It was a teardrop shape.
When we tried to see it again, it was gone."
"It was sunny and no clouds in sight. We were
heading east on (Interstate Highway) I-84 in Sturbridge,
Massachusetts, about four miles (7 kilometers) north of"
Mashapaug Pond in Union, Connecticut.
"There was no place in the sky where it could hide.
There was only open space. At arm's length, it appeared
to be the size of a quarter-carat diamond. I'd say it was
about 28,000 feet (8,400 meters) up. We swear that it was
no plane."
Sturbridge, Mass. (population 2,047) is on Routes 20
and 131, located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest
of Boston. (Email Form Report)
NIGHT SAUCER SIGHTED IN
BOULDER, COLORADO
On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 12:10 a.m., five
witnesses saw a UFO "come over the northwestern horizon
over mountains" in Boulder, Colorado (population 94,673).
It headed northeast after dancing in the sky for a few
hours" until 5:20 a.m. "There were five of us who saw it,
and we were facing northwest."
"It was a disc-shaped object with many different
colored lights. Moved like nothing I've ever seen," the
witness reported.
At first, "we noticed a bright light up behind the
tree line. The light changed to many different colors but
flashed a brilliant red the most. It rose to the top of
the tree and hovered and flashed for about ten minutes or
so."
"Then it started making erratic movements up, down,
left and right very fast."
"There was a second object that rose from the same
area but was closer and more to the south of the other
object. It rose and flew to the right of the other
object, flashed a bright white light and then vanished."
"The other object disappeared for about ten seconds,
then reappeared over the top of us at a very high
altitude. It danced from right to left in very fast
movements. It then disappeared again and then reappeared
back over the tree line. It flashed a very bright
greenish-blue light at the ground. It did this in various
spots over the tree line. It then started to rise back
into the sky and disappeared."
Boulder, Colo. is on Highways 36 and 19, located
approximately 26 miles (42 kilometers) northwest of
Denver. (Email Form Report)
SILVER SPHERE UFO SEEN IN
LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 4 p.m., Kevin M.
reported, "My father saw a bright silver round object,
travelling from the northeast to the southwest" over
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK. "The object was very high
in a clear blue sky, small amount of cloud, no engine
noise. Real bright silver, very high, no contrails, a lot
faster than a military fighter, almost instant speed."
(Email Form Report)
JAPANESE MOUNTAINEER
TO HUNT FOR YETI
[Story carried by FarShores]
KAZAKH MOM KEPT DEAD
DAUGHTER AS A MUMMY
[Story carried by FarShores]
GORDON CREIGHTON DIES
IN ENGLAND AT AGE 95
On Wednesday morning, July 16, 2003, author,
ufologist and magazine editor Gordon Creighton died at the
age of 95.
"Up until his death, the former British diplomat was
the editor of Flying Saucer Review," one of the world's
best known UFO magazines.
"Graham W. Birdsall, editor of the UK's UFO Magazine, said, 'Gordon Creighton was arguably one of Ufology's
greatest-ever proponents. For the best part of 50 years,
he sought out information on the phenomenon from around
the world, and his lasting legacy will be that which he
came to publish in Flying Saucer Review. He was a
remarkable man in every respect, and the world of Ufology
will mourn his passing.'" (Many thanks to Loren Coleman
and Graham W. Birdsall for this report.)
From the UFO Files...
1941: IRAQ AND THE
ILLUMINATI
The growing guerrilla war in Iraq has shown Saddam
Hussein's Baath Party to be far more resilient than anyone
realized. To understand their resilience and grass-roots
strength, one must look at the party's mystical origins.
Columnist Maureen Dowd says the Arabic word Baath
stands for resurrection.
But Baath is not a word that translates well into
English. A better synonym would be the Italian word
Risorgimento.
Actually, the party had its origin in the little town of Asadabad in western Iran. Here, in 1839, was born
Sayyid Jamal ad-Din, a Muslim mystic sometimes known as
al-Afghani (Arabic for the Afghan--J.T.) and "the Sage of
the East."
Jamal ad-Din was raised as a Shiite Muslim and, in
1845, his family enrolled him in a madrassa (Islamic
school) in the holy city of Najaf in what is now Iraq.
Here Jamal was initiated into "the mysteries" by
"followers of Sheik Ahmad Asai (1753-1826). He also may
have had some family connections with the Babis, followers
of Siyyid Ali Mohammed al-Bab," an imam keenly interested
in politics.
"After years studying Shia theology at the holy city
of Najaf, Iraq, he spent several years in India, the
Caucasus and Central Asia before surfacing in Afghanistan
as the senior advisor to the pro-Russian ruler."
(Editor's Comment: Strange that a supposedly devout Muslim
would head for India instead of making the traditional haj
or pilgrimage to Mecca. It appears that Jamal ad-Din was
one of the few Illuminati to actually set foot in the
"hidden city" of Shambhala.)
Jamal ad-Din's travels and movements in occult
circles brought him into repeated contact with Elena
Petrovna von Hahn Blavatsky during the 1850s and 1860s.
He and Madame Blavatsky met for the last time in Paris in
1884.
Through these occult circles, Jamal became friendly
with the directors of the Illuminati regional headquarters
at Djoum (pronounced Joom) in southern Lebanon, Sheik
Medjuel el-Mezrab and Lydia Pashkov. Between 1870 and
1875, the Illuminati apparently began a project to
replicate the Italian Carbonari in all the countries of
the Middle East. Jamal began "sowing the dragon's teeth"
first in Istanbul and then in Cairo, where he became an
advisor to the Grand Mufti.
(Editor's Comment: And what does this have to do with the
USA today? Well, a nephew of a latter-day Grand Mufti of
Cairo is none other than Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second
in command of Al-Qaida.)
In Istanbul, Jamal and Omar Pasha organized a Masonic lodge, the Golden Square (from the compass-and-square
symbol of Freemasonry--J.T.) which made deep inroads into
the officer corps of the Ottoman Turkish army. But if the
Golden Square was popular in Turkey, it caught on like
wildfire in Iraq, particularly in "the Sunni triangle,"
the region around Tikrit.
During World War I, the Allies invaded Iraq, won a
battle at Ctesiphon but got bogged down at Kut al-Amarna,
where their army was surrounded by the Turks and the
Arabs. After their surrender, over 100,000 Allied
soldiers went to a P.O.W. camp in western Turkey, and the
Golden Square was riding high in Baghdad.
Their success proved short-lived, however. The
Ottoman Empire collapsed in October 1918, and the new
League of Nations gave Iraq to UK as a "mandate." Feeling
that they had been cheated of their independence, tribes
like the al-Bufahadi and the al-Bunasiri revolted and
began a guerrilla war that lasted until 1925.
During the 1920s, a new Golden Square grandmaster
arrived in Baghdad. His name was Satia al-Husri and he
began organizing new lodges. A former captain in the
Ottoman Turkish army, Rashid Ali al-Qaylani, already a
Golden Square member, abandoned his law practice to lead
"the national revolution."
On October 3, 1932, the new kingdom of Iraq attained
its independence and joined the League of Nations. King
Faisal had barely seated himself on the throne when the
Golden Square struck.
General Bakr Sidqi, like Rashid Ali, was a former
Ottoman Turkish officer and longtime Golden Square member.
In August 1933, he launched a pogrom against the Assyrian
Christians, massacring thousands, over the protests of
King Faisal.
On September 3, 1933, Faisal died and was succeeded
by his son Ghazi, who, unknown to the old man, was a
"member of the secret brotherhood," the Golden Square.
Ghazi ruled uneasily for three years, and then, on October
29, 1936, Bakr Sidqi decided to stop being polite and
"overthrew the government in the Arab world's first
military coup."
But Bakr Sidqi was too friendly with the Ahali
Socialist Party, so on August 11, 1937, he was
assassinated by his "lodge brothers" of the Golden Square.
"Six more (military) coups followed in quick succession,"
paving the way for the rise of Rashid Ali in 1940.
During October 1932, the Golden Square received help
from an unexpected source--the German mystics of the Thule
Society. The new German ambassador to Baghdad, Fritz
Grobe, was a long-time Thule member.
(Editor's Note: A relative, Arthur Grobe-Wutischsky, was a
frequent contributor to Germany's occult magazine, Ostara,
and in 1915 wrote the book Der Weltkrieg 1914 in der
Prophetie (Translated: The 1914 World War in Prophecy),
possibly the first use of the term "world war.")
A year later, in October 1933, Grobe purchased an
Iraqi daily newspaper, al-Alim al-Arabi. At first the
paper had a bad case of the blahs in terms of circulation.
Then it began running Arab translations of Adolf Hitler's
book Mein Kampf (German for My Struggle) and the numbers
picked up a little. But when the staff began running The
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, the circulation
numbers jumped into the millions. Everybody in Iraq was
reading al-Alim al-Arabi, including unlettered shepherds
like Hussein al-Majid, the future stepfather of Saddam
Hussein.
This led to Iraq's "newspaper war" of the 1930s, with al-Alim al-Arabi and the Jewish-owned daily, al-Hassad,
constantly sniping at each other. Meanwhile, the Golden
Square was building its "national revolution" by creating
ideological organizations like the Arab Cultural Society
and Mutana Bin Hartha Society.
(Editor's Note: Bin Hartha was the commander of the first
Muslim army in Iraq.)
One of Rashid Ali's most ardent disciples was an
Iraqi officer named Khayrallah al-Tulfah. His articles
and his book, Al-Madaris, al-Yahudiyya wa al-Iraniyya fi
al-Iraq (To give the Arabic a free translation: Against
Iran and the Jews--J.T.), became the "voice of the
national revolution."
But the Golden Square's top organizer was Yunis es-
Sabawi, who founded a mass movement for young Iraqis, Al-
Futuwwa, which he modeled after Germany's Hitlerjugend
(Hitler Youth). By 1939, Al-Futuwwa had grown to 63,000
members, complete with uniforms, battalions, daily
lectures and military training, all fanatically loyal to
Rashid Ali.
On April 1, 1941, the Golden Square struck. Four
colonels staged a coup in Baghdad and proclaimed Rashid
Ali the new prime minister. He organized a "government of
national defense" and opened negotiations for a military
alliance with Hitler's Third Reich.
Partly because of the riots in Palestine, there had
already been anti-Jewish violence in Iraq. In September
1936, three Jews were murdered on a Baghdad street. In
October 1937, an Iraqi nationalist firebombed a Baghdad
synagogue on Yom Kippur. But Rashid Ali's ascension led
to new unrest. "Anti-Jewish demonstrations took place in
Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, Irbil and Amara, often ending in
violence."
Unwilling to lose Iraq--and its oil--Winston S.
Churchill ordered the British Army to oust Rashid Ali.
British troops landed and took Basra on May 16, 1941. In
marked contrast to the invasion of 1915, the British moved
swiftly up the Trigris and took Baghdad on May 30, 1941.
Rashid Ali and his aides fled to Iran.
Staying behind were Khayrallah al-Tulfah, who was
promptly arrested, and Yunis es-Sabawi, who had not been
idle during Rashid Ali's brief reign. Sabawi had selected
the best fighters in Al-Futuwwa and organized them into a
new guerrilla army, al-Ketaib a-Shabab (Arabic for Youth
Battalions--J.T.) for attacks on "enemies of Iraq."
On June 1, 1941, the Jewish festival of Shavuot, "a
group of Jews in festive attire" approached the Al-Har
Bridge "to welcome Abdul Illah, the pro-British regent, on
his way to the capital." They were attacked by a mob of
Iraqi soldiers and civilians. "Leading the mobs were the
Ketaib a-Shabab cadres, which had been trained by es-
Sabawi."
The result was Al-Farhud, anti-Jewish riots that
broke out all over Baghdad. "In all, 179 persons were
killed in the riots, and 2,118 were injured. The number
of people whose property was looted was put at 48,584.
Unspeakable brutalities were committed in the pogrom:
rape, murder and the crushing of body organs of babes in
arms, women and men, young and old. Synagogues were
profaned and Torah scrolls defiled."
The Allied occupation authorities cracked down hard.
Ketaib a-Shabab members were arrested and exiled to Iran.
The Golden Square went underground once more.
But not for long. Sporadic attacks on Jews continued throughout World War II. On December 17, 1942, al-Ketaib
a-Shabab activists slit the throats of eight Jews in
Sandur, in northern Iraq.
On July 24, 1943, ten Iraqis met at a hotel in
Damascus, the capital of Syria, to found a new order, Al-
Baath (The Risorgimento--J.T.) Nearly four years later,
in April 1947, the first meeting of the Baath Party was
held at Fallujah in Iraq.
The Golden Square had risen again. (See the books
Republic of Fear by Samir al-Khalil, Pantheon Books, New
York, N.Y., 1989, pages xi and xii; Out of the Ashes by
Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, Harper-Collins
Publishers, New York, N.Y., 1999, pages 68 and 69; Saddam
Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf by Judith Miller and
Leslie Mylroie, Random House, New York, N.Y., 1990, pages
24 through 29; The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas
Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1985, page
243; The Masters Revealed by K. Paul Johnson, State
University of New York Press, 1994, pages 47, 48, 49, 50,
51, 52, 53 and 57; and The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust,
Volume 1, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, N.Y., 1990,
pages 716 to 718.)
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