Good Starter / Beginner Books for UFOs & Aliens

 

On this post, I will talk about a few different types of books that cover the UFOs & Aliens subject. I will also explain why each one makes the cut for being in a good 5-book starter kit for the beginner. In addition to that, I will provide several more recommendations for other books of similar quality along with the more elaborate, advanced reading material, etc.

First up, as eccentric as it sounds, is "Secret Journey to Planet Serpo." Even if a person doesn't believe that this is an actual true story of interplanetary travel, there is a reason it is on this list. The actual "journey" probably only makes up about 1/3rd of this 282-page book. The reason this is a good starter book for everything extraterrestrial, is the first 90 pages in the Prelude. 

It provides an excellent refresher course for some of the history surrounding this subject. It covers the various topics of Germany (German disc technology and more), Antarctica (Nazi Base, Operation Highjump, etc.), Roswell, The Ronald Reagan Briefings, Los Alamos, Kingman (another UFO crash site), John F. Kennedy (DIA involvement, MJ-12, and so on) and a detailed Appendix section with a lot of additional information. It even has a chapter at the end of the book about Steven Spielberg and his movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

I actually first wrote about this book a few years ago, along with a quick link to easily purchase, here: Interplanetary Travel - Secret Journey to Planet Serpo

#2 - The Day After Roswell - This is definitely a good starter book when it comes to aliens & UFOs turning into Research & Development (R & D). Even if you are not a beginner, you will enjoy the fact that all of this information comes from a former Pentagon Official. Col. Philip J. Corso not only reveals the U.S. Government's UFO cover-up, but he also provides a lot of detail on how a multitude of modern technology came from the reverse-engineering process within the R & D programs. Integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, super-tenacity fibers, enhanced night vision and much, much more. This book will really give you a better understanding of our "technological boom" we had several decades ago.

There are many other subjects within this book outside of technology. Roswell crash site remains, the Cover-up, UFOs, aliens (EBEs), space defense programs, Tesla's Death Ray, Project Moon Base, U2 Program and Project Corona, the Other Cold War, and so much more.

#3 - Dreamland - Autobiography by Bob Lazar - No UFO fanatic should have a bookshelf void of this guy. Although this particular book doesn't have much detail about actual aliens, it has a lot of good details about the experience Bob Lazar had at S-4 while trying to reverse engineer alien technology, etc. It also outlines a lot of the trouble that comes from top secret operations, how everything is way too compartmentalized, and so on. Many people in the past used to think he was a fraud, but his story has remained the same, decade after decade. I once wrote about this subject a few years ago, here: Was Bob Lazar one of the greatest UFO frauds? Either way, if you like UFOs, this is an excellent book for your starter collection.

#4 - The Interrupted Journey - Two lost hours aboard a UFO - The Abduction of Betty & Barney Hill - No stack of books about UFOs & Aliens are complete without some abduction material. The author of Incident at Exeter (another book in the extraterrestrial genre), John G. Fuller, did an excellent job of putting this all together. This was perhaps the first widely publicized alien abduction account that went global. This whole event occurred late one night on September 19th and into the early morning hours of September 20th, 1961. They later made a movie of this, as it was based off the book. Of course, the book will have way more detail.

Betty & Barney Hill were very credible people, which added believability to the story. Barney didn't want to believe this event even happened, nor did he want publicity. This story has the classic abduction events such as missing time, amnesia, medical examinations, etc. Under hypnosis, they revealed their missing time, which was approximately two lost hours. I once wrote about that subject, here: "Quantum Hypnotic Regression Therapy & Hypnosis for Alien Abductions."

#5 - Onboard UFO Encounters - authored by Preston Dennett - Some may disagree with this book making the list for good starter / beginner books for this subject, but it compliments many of the alien abduction stories that already exist out there. The main reason I put it on this list, is that it exercises your rational mind and helps gather common denominators, details, etc., when it comes to UFOs and Aliens. It helps you build a basis for what could be real and what is most likely a made-up story.

I currently only own two of Preston Dennett's books, but he has published many more than that. It seems that there isn't much of a filter in the two books I have of his, as it appears that anybody with a story can get published in them. The other one I have is over 500 pages long and it is called "The Healing Powers of UFOs - 300 true accounts of people healed by extraterrestrials." I really doubt if those two books are 100% true accounts, which is another reason I like them. They are quite entertaining. It sort of leaves it to the reader to try and separate fact from fiction. Which is ultimately why they are included here because that is an excellent way to dabble into these subjects, especially if you are a beginner. Sometimes it's good to get hit from all directions to find out which way to go. Ha!

As for more elaborate and advanced reading, well, it depends on which direction you favor or which area you get stuck at. Dr. Michael Salla has an excellent Secret Space Programs Series. I've currently been glancing at book three from that series, "Antarctica's Hidden History." You may prefer more advanced reading about Zero Point Energy. Moray B. King writes really well about that (ZPE) subject, and he has a book called "Quest for Zero Point Energy." Paul A. LaViolette, PhD, has an extremely detailed book called "Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion." If you are more into military documents and government top secrets concerning this subject, Steven M. Greer has a really big book called "Disclosure." 

After reading so much about UFOs and the advanced mind-power of aliens, telepathy, etc., you may end up branching off from this subject altogether and start studying mental aspects and possible advancements of the mind. I haven't read it yet, even though I bought a copy, but David Morehouse, PhD., has a highly recommended book about Remote Viewing - "The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing." On another 'power of the mind' subject, Robert Peterson has a book called "Hacking the Out of Body Experience."

To end this post, if you want to just sum everything up into one crazy book without studying or learning anything, I suggest that you read the book called, "44 - An Ex-Soldier's True Story - Lifelong encounters involving alien abduction, men in black, a serial killer, and persecution by the Freemasons." Ha! I actually read that book this summer, since I finally had some free time. Holy crap! There weren't many dull moments in that insane book, let me tell ya! Of course, it didn't specialize in anything either nor will you learn very much, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.

Image Credit: My own photo.

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Nazi Bell Project - Time Travel Experiments

Side Note: This is an old blog entry that I relocated here from a website of mine that I deleted. The original date of this post was: November 12th, 2012.

I have read many things and even watched a few videos about this mysterious project, and I'm yet to get any conclusive proof that the Nazi Bell Project was successful or what its exact purpose was.  Some people think it never even happened, label it as a myth, and may even tell you to put on a tinfoil hat, etc.

Anyway, I do find the whole concept to be very interesting.  When it comes to time travel experiments, there are loads of rumors.  Many of which, give hype to the Montauk Project.  The Montauk Project has been purported to be a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island. It is often listed as just another conspiracy theory, but it's also claimed by many people to be a well-kept secret and highly guarded project by the government.  This particular project was supposedly designed for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel.

...Many of these types of rumors often end up relating and/or coming back to the famous "Philadelphia Experiment."  

Although many people label this experiment as a hoax, the "Philadelphia Experiment" is a naval military experiment alleged to have been carried out at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA sometime around October 28, 1943. It is alleged that the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible ("cloaked") to enemy devices.

The experiment is also referred to as Project Rainbow...  The experiment was allegedly based on an aspect of the unified field theory, a term coined by Albert Einstein. The Unified Field Theory aims to describe mathematically and physically the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity, in other words uniting the fields of electromagnetism and gravity into one field. Consequently, if light was bent, then space-time would be bent, effectively creating an invisible time machine, at least in theory.

There is a lot of gray area here, concerning this particular project.  One could always try to read and watch videos about this topic, all while sorting through the loads of baloney.  If you're interested in hearing more about the Philadelphia Experiment, Wikipedia has a fair amount of information, here:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment

Before we go any further, you may want to freshen up on some of the concepts of time travel.  I've never had a problem with concepts that relate to travelling into the future, but for any humanoid to have the ability to travel into the past, well, just doesn't seem possible due to there being too many things that can go wrong, to put it bluntly.  Dimensional travel is another subject entirely, but we won't go there today...  I have written a blog post in the past, that covered some of these topics, here:

"4th & 5th Dimensions, Time Travel & Parallel Universes"

Of course, if you'd like an elaborate version that speaks about several of the aspects involving time machines and time travel, you will definitely have to research further.

Now, what about this Nazi Bell Project?  First off, when researching this subject, remember that many folks refer to it as "Die Glocke," which is German for "the bell." This was allegedly an experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS in a German facility known as Der Riese ("The Giant") near the Wenceslaus mine and close to the Czech border, Die Glocke is described as being a device "made out of a hard, heavy metal" approximately 9 feet wide and 12 to 15 feet high having a shape similar to that of a large bell. 

According to Cook, this device ostensibly contained two counter-rotating cylinders which would be "filled with a mercury-like substance, violet in color. This metallic liquid was code-named "Xerum 525" and was otherwise cautiously stored in a tall thin thermos flask a meter high encased in lead."  

Additional substances said to be employed in the experiments, referred to as Leichtmetall (light metal), "included thorium and beryllium peroxides." Cook describes Die Glocke as emitting strong radiation when activated, an effect that supposedly led to the death of several unnamed scientists and various plant and animal test subjects. Based upon certain external indications, Witkowski states that "the ruins of a metal framework in the vicinity of the Wenceslas mine (aesthetically dubbed "The Henge") may have once served as test rig for an experiment in "anti-gravity propulsion" generated with Die Glocke; others, however, dismiss the derelict structure as simply being a conventional industrial cooling tower."

When I mentioned "the henge," I'm talking about a structure that was supposedly used to hang this bell when doing experiments in time and/or anti-matter/anti-gravity propulsion tests or whatever.  The more I read about it, I don't know if it was a bomb, a flying craft or a dang time machine!  Maybe it was all three, I don't know...  At any rate, before I continue, I'll provide an image of the henge that was possibly used (at least it's what some people think its purpose was) for these experiments in time or for whatever else during the Nazi Bell Project, below:

Another good source for reading about many of the lost technologies the Germans may have possessed, is the book entitled "Hitler's Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology."  That book is packed full of tidbits about German Technology and leaves one to re-think the possibility that they were helped with alien technology.  That book inspired me to write a couple other articles:  "German Scientists, Hitler, Aliens, Secret Weapons & Lost Technology" and "Lake Vostok - Mystery at Antarctica."

Anyway, from the book I mentioned prior, Chapter 35, Experiments in Time, provides a few interesting pages about the Nazi Bell Project.  To add to the mystery, without talking about all the potential underground facilities used to conduct many of these exotic experiments, it has also been said that many people believe that the Germans also experimented with what they called "interdimensional trips," during that certain time frame of massive advancements.  Wow!  Who really knows?

Oh, I did find a fairly resourceful and elaborate page about the Nazi Bell Project that wasn't a Wikipedia article, here:  https://sites.google.com/site/naziabomb/home/nazi-bell-project-background [Link is no longer active.]

Moving right along, and trying to be as short as possible while providing useful resource links, what about the UFO with an acorn and/or bell-like shape that crashed-landed several years ago?  I'm speaking about the Kecksburg UFO - 1965, Kecksburg, PA, USA; residents observed a fiery object streak through the sky and fall to earth.  Military investigated the quarantined area, while officers secretly removed the object from the earth.  It was said to be 9 feet long, bronze colored and shaped like an acorn with unusual symbols on it.  If you're curious about this subject, not only can you find some written material about it, Unsolved Mysteries aired a show about this, several years ago.  Surely there is a YouTube video about it, as well.  

When concerning the Kecksburg UFO, was that the missing Bell from the Nazi Bell Project or was it a completely separate alien craft or perhaps a manned or non-manned drone craft?  So many questions...  Well, I hope this page has got your imagination cranked up, and good luck trying to find the truth of the matters along with trying to piece some of this crap together. Cheers!

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Lake Vostok - Mystery at Antarctica

Side Note: I relocated this blog entry from an old website of mine that I previously deleted. The original date of this post was: March 3rd, 2013

Many of you have heard about strange occurrences and natural phenomenon existing in Antarctica along with wild rumors of a portal that leads to an inner world, Hitler’s underground base, etc. To make things even more interesting, many Ufologists have mentioned UFOs originating from this area among other bizarre things that relate to this region…

Anyway, I first stumbled upon the mystery Lake Vostok on chapter 31, "What is happening in Antarctica?" from the book Hitler’s Suppressed and Still-Secret Weapons, Science and Technology.

A few years ago, an anonymous letter was written to Scientific America describing something that was somewhat strange. The report came out of Australia’s Casey Station in Antarctica. To make it short, two women were trying to ski across Antarctica when they were stopped in their tracks. A U.S. Navy Special Forces team, working out of American Samoa, abducted the women, against their will, and under protest from the crew at the Australian Casey Station. The two adventurous women were then held in seclusion for reasons never given! The source for that report: “The Secret of Lake Vostok,” William P. Eigles, Atlantis Rising (magazine), number 29, page 60.

To add even more mystery to the area, many folks, for a multitude of reasons, actually believe that the lost city of Atlantis is buried deep beneath the ice in certain areas of Antarctica. Did the Germans locate their base in this area because evidence was found for a lost civilization? Many theorize that this is where the Germans had contact with extraterrestrials, which helped them with the advancement in their science, technology and weaponry, etc.

There could be all kinds of stuff going on in this particular region, as the geothermal action is in abundance, hot water ponds, geothermal vents, and so on. But outside of these prior topics, what about the mystery lake known as Lake Vostok?

Well, the more I read about Lake Vostok, the stranger things seem to be… This is not an ordinary lake, by any means. It is hidden from view, due to being buried under the Continental Ice Sheet, with a roof of ice up to 2+ miles thick, in some areas. This mystery lake is about 2,000 feet deep and due to geothermal activity, although it is just 300 miles from the South Pole, it has a water temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit on average and, in some areas, it is up to 65 degrees – going by some of the resources I gathered that was written a few years ago.

Now, lets go back to thinking of a lake with a dome-like roof of massively thick ice. During the summer months, can you imagine this twilight world as the opaque dome allows just enough sunlight to pass through, to provide an eerie, early morning style of light? Can you say, uh, “a lost world?”

This same concept applies to the theory that there could possibly be life on other frozen planets and moons, if there is enough bottom-heating going on via geothermal energy/heat. Sort of like what many folks suspect to be happening on one of Jupiter’s moons, for example.

Without going into detail about all the research done in this area and involvement from certain “people” that would probably deny it or say that all research has been terminated, one may ask: What does this have to do with Atlantis or a possible underground city or lost civilization?

Well, due to a huge magnetic anomaly covering this area in Antarctica along with prior attempts from scientists to debunk such notions, the best reason one can give to try and explain the origin of this vast magnetic disturbance from this area, is to say it is due to the presence of a massive amount of metal, like a buried city, for example.

Was there an underground city built by the Germans or was it already there? Is this another one to blame on extraterrestrials? Is it an alien base?

Outside the mystery of Lake Vostok at Antarctica, we have yet another mystery going on here: The Antarctic seismographs are also very abnormal, which a lot of strange things have been noted by way of geological research from some very qualified researchers. Without all the science talk, in a thumbnail, some of the graphs show enormous long-wave energy, which is not natural, as if energy is being produced and/or fabricated from down below. If you need to research further, two of the researchers in this field were named Christian Saal and Kawi Schneider.

So whether or not Christian Saal’s or other researchers’ assumptions & explanations of this bizarre seismological activity is accurate or not, the data is still there and it shows something really odd going on in this area, one that remains “unexplained” by the authorities…

Well, after reading this, I’m sure many of you would like to start doing your own research about this mystery lake that is within Antarctica. Remember now, it isn’t just Lake Vostok that seems strange, but a whole host of other potential possibilities stem from this frigid continent. I’ll list a few links below, from search results, to get started…

Cancel that… After writing the rough draft for this blog post, I just wasted a lot of time reading from different websites and articles about this subject, only to find a lot of regurgitated drivel. I went back and changed what I had originally listed for the height of the ice roof over Lake Vostok, since today they have it being slightly thicker than what was once believed. Of course, like most subjects that relate to mystery or the unknown, you are not going to get a straight answer and, unless something “leaks,” it will be hard to find out if this area could possibly have an underground city near it, and so on.

Oh, I did find one interesting link, entitled “What’s Under Lake Vostok?” http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2011/02/whats-under-lake-vostok/ [Unfortunately, the link is no longer valid…]

After clicking on that link, you’ll see that things get more interesting when you get to the “Now for the real story, from 2003…” part, as it is pretty obvious how a lot of information can easily be altered, to say the least. The opening quote under that section: “Recently there have been several media reports about an anomaly discovered in the Antarctic region near Lake Vostok. Apparently, the site has been sealed off to the media and other scientists due to “environmental concerns.” The fact that the NSA has assumed jurisdiction over an environmentally hazardous site is raising eyebrows about what may be happening there.”

Update (11-16-2024): If you'd like to have some excellent reading material about numerous subjects involving this mysterious southern region of Earth, I'd suggest the book entitled "Antarctica's Hidden History" - Coporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs - by Dr. Michael Salla. To give you an idea of some of the subjects within that book, I'll list the table of contents, below:

1) The Enigmatic Thule Society: Antigravity, Hitler & the German Navy, 2) Role of U.S. Corporations in Nazi Germany, 3)German Companies Begin Operations in Antarctica, 4) The Nazi Retreat to Antarctica & South America, 5) The Secret Agreement: U.S. Military-Industrial Complex Collaboration in Antarctica, 6) Slave Labor in Antarctica, 7) German Secret Space Program & the Space Brothers, 8) Kennedy's Confrontation with the Fourth Reich, 9) Siemens Implicated in Tracking Forced Labor & Slaves in Space, 10) The Antarctic Treaty & Keeping the German Space Program Secret, 11)Lake Vostok Mystery & Ancient Ruins in Antartica, 12) Corey Goode's Covert Reconnaissance Missions to Antarctica, 13) Antarctica's Secret History as an Extraterrestrial Refugee Colony, 14) Antarctica, Demigods & the Book of Enoch, 15) Illegal R & D in Antarctica, 16) Antarctica's Suppressed History & Full Disclosure.

That particular 400+ page book would keep a person busy for a while, if one were to delve into all of those subjects. I've only skipped through various parts of the book, at the moment, but it looks interesting, nonetheless. ---End of Update

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The Book of Ezekiel - Modern Spaceships - Ancient Aliens?

Side Note: I re-posted this article from another website of mine that I deleted a while back. The original date of this post was sometime during the year 2012. This is a shortened version of that page, along with a few edits, etc.

 Let's say that many years from now, the Homo sapiens (today's version of man on planet Earth) has the ability to travel to other distant solar systems and once there, we find planets inhabited by alien, primitive beings (not the advanced ones that visit this planet). If this happens, there is a good chance the primitive native will see our people as "angels" with incredible supernatural powers, deem us as "the gods," and so on.  

Actually, the whole idea of ancient aliens getting falsely identified as angels, gods or even demons is not that far-fetched of a notion. I've wondered before, if that isn't sort of how a lot of those Greek Gods came into Mythology.  Hmm, I don't know.  At any otherworldly rate, it is very interesting to think about nonetheless...

However, I must note: Even if there were alien beings flying around in UFOs during the past (they most likely were), it doesn't necessarily mean that they were messengers from God, either. On another note, were the descriptions like what is found in the Book of Ezekiel, simply some guy's creative imagination and savvy story-telling abilities using symbolic speak and prophetic gestures?

This particular page's topic is mostly about what was briefly described in the Book of Ezekiel, verses 1:4-28. Those particular verses have many ancient astronaut theorists all riled up, as it adds to the possibility that there may be proof in the Bible that there were aliens, spaceships (whether they describe modern craft and/or advanced UFOs, it is all the same considering the time period we're talking about here) visiting Earth, long ago, etc.

I think that if you read those English translated (or in raw form) Bible quotes with an open mind, it would be hard not to notice that Ezekiel described to the best of his ability and limited knowledge, some type of spaceships that came down from outer space. Some aspects of his descriptions sound more like modern aircrafts, while other details definitely sound like advanced technology from ancient aliens via sophisticated UFOs, etc.

Honestly, to think that aliens from another planet intentionally created the various religions on Earth, is hard for me to believe. I don't doubt that they have made it into the ancient texts and whatnot, and perhaps had some influence on today's various types of religions, but I wouldn't go much beyond that simple notion.

I have trouble reading a lot of the Old Testament, anyway.  I'm not a Bible scholar by no means, and I'm yet to read the whole book, although I need to, so I can have a more complete opinion on biblical subjects, beliefs, certain types of dogma, etc.

The Book of Ezekiel seemed to me, yet again, another violent, angry entry in the Old Testament that proclaims the wrath that God brings.  

For example, one violent verse out of the many (Ezekiel 7: 8-9) says:  "Very soon now you will feel all the force of my anger.  I am judging you for what you have done, and I will pay you back for all your disgusting conduct.  I will not spare you or show you any mercy.  I am going to punish you for all the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know I am the Lord, and I am the one who punishes you." Wow! That would explain what happened at Sodom & Gomorrah. Ha!

That book is filled with starvation, disease, murders, and brutality from "the Lord."

How can God be so angry in the Old Testament and so soft, warm, loving and forgiving in the New Testament?  What, is this symbolic for Bi-Polar disorder or maybe I just haven't read enough, and I need to read the whole entire Holy Bible from cover to cover?

Anyway, outside of the promotions of violence and jealousies from the Book of Ezekiel, it does start off with some very interesting descriptions of what very well may have been modern spaceships like we are familiar with today.  We could also take this a step inward and say that perhaps there was an advanced, secret society living on some isolated, uninhabited area on or inside the Earth during those ancient times from a previously defunct civilization (that survived an ancient war and was exploring the planet). 

Either way, there is a chance that Ezekiel may have been trying to tell what he saw and mislabeled some ancient aliens (or ancient humans) as God-like beings.  I assume the leader or commander of the spaceships was the one he was calling the Lord. Any further ideas about this subject are always welcome in the 'comment field' below...

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Half Man / Part Wolf Hybrid Beast from Kentucky & Tennessee

 

Well, it looks like we got another Legend from the books of Cryptozoology to deal with.  This one is normally addressed as the "Beast of the Land between the Lakes." It's supposedly some sort of a hybrid creature, as this type of subject has somewhat been mentioned on this blog in the past, here: Satyrs & Centaurs - Mythical Hybrids

Anyway, this legendary beast resides mostly in the state of Kentucky but part of this land between the lakes dips into Tennessee, as well.  The image used in this post is an aerial view of Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. As for the origins of these big bodies of water, Barkley Lake was created by a dam on the Cumberland River and the Kentucky Lake was created by a dam on the Tennessee River. Now, between these 2 lakes lies the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. Yeah, let's go visit; ha! But seriously, if you'd like to visit this place, outside of the tales about the half man, part wolf, hybrid beast that dwells there, it sounds like a really scenic place.  Their website boasts about the 170,000-acre recreation area in Western Kentucky and Tennessee with lots of shorelines and miles and miles of hiking trails, etc. You can find it online by typing "www.landbetweenthelakes.us" into your browser. They offer brochures, driving directions, passes and discounts, permits and reservations, etc. You can also sign up for alerts from the area, which keeps you informed about trail closures, event cancellations, and so on.

Wow! We are getting sidetracked here with all this vacationing talk. What was the subject of this post again? Oh, yeah... At any mythical rate, the creature feature today is starring a hybrid lifeform that is part wolf and half man. It supposed to be a rather large creature that walks upright, like us humans, and also has hands that are structurally similar to ours except for the animalistic part of the hand that features deadly claws. This creature would make for an exceptional NBA center as it is usually reported at being over 7 feet tall. I've heard some descriptions of it being more around 6 feet tall but, like humans, size varies from individual to individual. Yes, if they do exist, there has to surely be more than one of them; yikes! Other characteristics include robust, bone-crunching jaws, sharp-looking teeth, pointed ears, extremely hairy (like an animal), and demonic, glowing eyes. Some people report that it smells really foul (like the Yeti monster?) and releases deafening howls and screams. Yep, it sounds like an overall nice guy... Ha!

I've also heard it called the "Kentucky Wolfman" along with "Dogman." Then you have a lot of folks that believe it is simply a werewolf. How simple are they again? Anyway, I've read several stories about these angry animals thus far, and it almost seems to be like a super hybrid that gets traits from the Devil Monkey, Bigfoot, Jersey Devil and a Werewolf all combined. To top it off, some people think you should forget the part wolf / half man crap, as they believe it's a shape-shifting Native American shaman. Holy crap! Shamans are out killing people now? So much for cryptozoology; ha!

There are loads of stories online about this hybrid beast, but it seems that the most popular one involves an entire family that was found dead in the 1980s that was in the Land between the Lakes area.  They were found halfway consumed inside their motorhome in what appeared to be a monstrous attack by a huge animal. I never hear such bad things about a Bigfoot (don't they supposed to be vegetarians?), so that rules them out. Speaking of that, there are also reports of slaughtered and half-eaten elk and bison in that area, as well.  If you'd like to read more about the legend of this crazed hybrid that dwells in a region in Kentucky and part of Tennessee, visit: https://weirddarkness.com/archives/7266 [Link is no longer active.]

Now, since the stories can go on forever, let's dive more into the possible origins of this beast.  Of course, nobody seems to know the absolute truth, but some people think (assuming it's not a bunch of shape-shifting Shamans) that during the 1800s, a man that lived in this area claimed he had an illness he got via the blood (animal bite?) where he would become enraged and violent at night (sort of like a werewolf with Full Moon Madness?), and many stories spawned from that family for decades to come. I mean, does that mean his descendants kept passing the gene until one or more of them became full-fledged werewolves? Did they start out with Extreme Hypertrichosis, as well?

Another story of origin for this part man, half wolf thing is an old legend that involves a witch casting her wrath on a person and turning them into an unsightly beast. Is that Black Magic? To keep the creature's lineage alive, its curse would get passed on to anybody that survived an attack from it. Okay, I have two questions about that: Why would a witch turn somebody into an ultimate killing machine that could easily bring them to their demise as soon as they drop the spell book? If survivors turn into this creature, does that apply to animals as well?  I mean, going by that logic, this thing could bite a cow on the leg and then the cow would turn into???  Oh, never mind. That would be one hell of a bovine hybrid, though.

Well, I need to wrap this up.  I must say, however, that even though Tennessee is included in the title, it does seem that most of the scary tales come from the Kentucky region of the Land between the Lakes. As for Tennessee, that state is more known for its infamous Bell Witch. Either way, I know I didn't cover any scary stories on this post, but I did provide a good resource link that had several of them on their page. I just thought I'd do a blog post about this subject in case anybody knows more about this area and has some cool stories to share in the comment field.  At any rate, if you are a hunter or like to take camping trips at random places, you might want to always research the area before strutting around in the woods or else you may get your ass handed to you. Uh, literally? Ha-ha!

Image Credit: It is in the Public Domain and is not under Copyright.

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Legend of Hoia Baciu Forest - Haunted?

 

It's been a while since I've updated this blog, so I thought that this post about a forest that is supposedly haunted would be a good start since it seems to combine a bit of legend and myths to the folklore; ha! But seriously, this Hoia Baciu place seems to be really interesting in a spooky sort of way. I've even heard that many of the trees in that area are twisted and deformed in very strange ways, which would definitely help add to the haunted effect. Before anybody gets any ideas, the two photos that I'm using for this blog post did not come from Hoia Baciu. They came from my backyard and the woods behind my backyard, so they are my personal photos, with one I obviously edited in my MS Paint program (at the bottom of this article) and the one at the start of this post involved me taking a picture of a tree after I blew smoke in front of the camera.  It's a really cool effect, eh? Anyway...  

This demented area originally got named after a shepherd. Legend has it, that the shepherd disappeared while having 200 sheep out in the forest.  Since then, there have been reports of other people coming up missing along with experiencing "time gaps" of existence.  

The 'missing in time' thing is well documented in alien abduction reports across the globe. I'm not saying that is happening there, but I've definitely heard about those stories many times down through the years. It is like they get transported into a hovering craft, totally (sometimes temporary) lose all recollection of their existence, then find their self fully functioning cognitively and wide awake with no idea what just happened, only to find out that an x-number of hours has passed, etc. 

As for the Hoia Baciu Haunted Forest, I've heard of a legend that talked about how a girl, that was only 5 years old at the time, went into this wooded area, disappeared, and nobody seen her return from the forest until five years later. What makes that even more spooky, was that she was supposedly wearing the same clothes she had on the day she came up missing when she returned. Well, I have questions about that...  I mean, did she not age any during that time? Did her clothes still fit? Did she still appear to be 5 years old, or did she come back as a 10-year-old? I'm assuming, if true, that she had a "time gap" and somehow the space-time continuum got distorted when they (aliens from UFOs, of course) returned her and accidentally sent her into the future for 5 years? I mean, if you create artificial wormholes to speed up your space travel, things can happen. I don't know, you tell me...

Good grief, I forgot to even say where this place is located... Okay, this particular boogey-boogie forest is located west of the city of Cluj-Napoca, near the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania. Yeah, move over Dracula; Transylvania has bigger fish to fry than your blood-sucking self. Okay, enough inane drivel.  Let's get back to the subject at hand...

Of course, many people that go into this wicked place often feel like someone is watching them. However, I must say, basic paranoia will accomplish that - especially if you think a place is haunted and whatnot. Speaking of that, there is plenty room to get the crap scared out of you when visiting this place, as it is about 1.16 square miles in size. The Hoia Forest is commonly known as being sort of like the land-based version of the Bermuda Triangle that is riddled with paranormal phenomena. Many urban legends and ghost stories have fueled its growing popularity over the years and has become quite the tourist attraction, to say the least.

Speaking of the paranormal, stories from this wooded area often include ghost sightings, photographic phenomena (you know, like when you take a picture and some weird entity shows up in the picture, etc.), UFOs, strange lights, glowing orbs, floating spirit heads, loud voices appearing out of thin air, eerie giggling from afar (sounds like the Bell Witch), etc. I know that those are typical phenomena for a lot of places (which is why they sell so many of those Ghost Meters / EMF Sensors), well, except for maybe the floating ghost-like heads, but that's not really the strangest part, to me.  The frequent reports about people that visit the Hoia Baciu coming back scared out of their wits, many of which complain about unexplained burns, scratches, and rashes, really gets my attention along with numerous stories of time gaps... But even the ones with "missing time" of only a couple of hours is still bizarre, when you think about it. For example, some folks claim to just go walk by a weird tree at 10 A.M., then the next thing they know it is 12 o'clock. Uh..., ya drunk much? Ha! Just kidding... 

But back to the point, if loads of people are complaining about unexplained scratches, rashes and burns from this haunted forest, you'd think somebody would quit talking about it just being a legend and go get some video proof or doctor reports, etc.  Seriously, that would be physical proof of at least something. I mean, poison oak and poisonous sumac can cause rashes; running through a forest can cause scratches, but what about the burns? What in the hell burned you?  Did you not feel it when it happened? To me, that is really strange, if true... Then again, people may be out there smoking crack trying to catch a cheap thrill (is crack cheap?) and just get burned while freebasing random drugs for all I know.

However, things are about to get even more weird... I have recently heard about more poltergeist activity at this haunted forest that involved an investigator getting thrown to the ground after being scratched by an invisible force.  The area he was at was considered the "dead zone" of the forest, which is a circular clearing where nothing seems to grow.  Hmm... I've heard stories years ago where a supposed UFO was spotted hovering at a certain place, and the ground was radiated to the point where everything died, and nothing would grow back. BUT what makes this really weird is that, if true, soil samples have been taken by specialists from this dead zone before and nothing has turned up. They claim that the soil is totally normal. Well, did they check for radiation? I'm not sure but, going by what I've read, researchers from around the world have checked this place out. Unless people are out there constantly keeping the ground dead by walking in a circle. Dang, that reminds me of when people would make artificial crop circles albeit it did distract from the possible real ones. 

On a side note, since this place supposed to have some wicked tree and plant growth within its spiritually possessed forest, it reminds me of another post I did on a Nature Blog of mine: "Eyeball Plant - Doll's Eyes"... Now that eerie plant would fit right in at that place!

Well, to end this subject, I must say that this specific area even being located close to Transylvania is enough to raise eyebrows, to say the least. Personally, whenever I do get the chance and/or free time to leisurely take a hike in the woods, I do not fantasize about a place like Hoia Baciu. Even if somebody offered me a free trip to this freakish haunted forest, I would most likely steer clear from this nefarious place. I like adventure and all of that, but screw that! Ha!

Image Credits: These are my own photos. If you would like to use them, feel free, but make sure you provide a link back to this blog for the photo credit and so on. Thanks!

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Haunted Bell Witch Cave

Original Post Date: October 5, 2013

I have known about the Bell Witch legend for quite a long time, but until today, I've never heard of the Haunted Bell Witch Cave. Actually, I don't know how I missed that one, but I just read about it a few minutes ago, nonetheless. The legend of the Bell Witch goes way back. Most of the events supposedly took place from 1817 to 1821. Even Andrew Jackson, the President of the United States (not long after that time period), was quoted saying: "I would rather face the whole British army, than face the Bell Witch again!" One of the witch's famous quotes is: "I am a Spirit from everywhere, Heaven, Hell the Earth; am in the air, in houses, any place at any time, have been created millions of years; that is all I will tell you." Of course, that last quote was assuming that this spirit existed and actually said that. By that ghostly comment, it sounds like she called Earth, uh, Hell, so maybe she is onto something. LOL!

You can find a description of the Bell Witch Cave on pages 394-396 from the 1961 book "Caves of Tennessee" - by Thomas C. Barr, Jr. You can always search online for more information. This cave is located in the city of Adams, Tennessee. It is on Keysburg Road. If you would like to read an elaborate page about this subject, go here: www.haunted-places-to-go.com/bell-witch.html

It is a very interesting story, regardless if there is any truth to it or not. I own the movie entitled "The Bell Witch Haunting," which is suppose to be based on a true story. It is a low-budget film, which is another reason why I liked it. The movie didn't have all of these special effects and it wasn't trying to do anything fancy other than just letting the plot roll out according to the legend. If you are interested, you'll just have to search online for this film; ha! I think the movie was made around 2004 or thereabouts.

The bottom line is that this cave sounds cool. Have any of y'all ever been to this haunted cave?

Image Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch_Cave

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Red-haired Giants of Lovelock Cave

This is such an interesting subject. How many of y'all believe that there were giant humanoid creatures roaming around the Earth thousands of years ago? I've heard many tales and legends that have spoke about races involving 8 to 12 feet tall people, and so on, but how much of that is true? Well, there has supposedly been some evidence unearthed before, even though it is rarely talked about and often classified as ancient myths, etc. Personally, it is hard to imagine that there hasn't been several races of giants throughout Earth's existence. Life has started and ended way too many times on this planet for me to rule it out. Now, were big ape men riding on the back of dinosaurs back then? LOL! Well, I didn't say that, but the notion of pre-historic giant people is entertaining to think about. But let's not go that far back into history right now...

Instead of searching for all of the extra tidbits and various stories ranging from old legends to New-Age beliefs, I just did a quick search on one of the more popular races of extremely large bipedal creatures: the Red-haired Giants of Lovelock Cave. Many Native American tribes have similar stories about the red-haired giants and how they had their fair share of battles with them, etc. I've read before that their initial encounter with them occurred somewhere around 15,000 years ago. This same type of giant has also been mentioned by the Aztecs along with the Mayans. The burial sites of these crazed beasts have been claimed on almost every continent. Just who were these red-haired freaks that were supposedly unearthed in Nevada, Arizona, New York State, Tennessee, and Virginia?

If you'd like to read a fairly elaborate page about this subject, including the current evidence for them, go here: suite101.com/a/nevadas-myterious-red-haired-giants-of-lovelock-cave-a387847 [URL no longer exists]
Side Note: I still don't know why she hasn't fixed the glaring typo in her title, though. Maybe she will fix it and spell 'mysterious' correctly in due time; ha!

Image Credit: This work is not under copyright protection and it's in the public domain in the U.S. Source = en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelock_Cave

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Aquatic Ape Theory - Mermaids Gone Wild

I've been hearing a lot more about mermaids the last year and a half or so, especially since the Animal Planet first aired the show "Mermaids: The Body Found." I actually missed that show, but I heard all about it. Well, tonight the Animal Planet had a show that sort of acted as a sequel to that, called "Mermaids: New Evidence" or something like that. I'm not a big fan of television nowadays, so I might not be totally accurate on my TV titles, etc. Anyway, it was interesting to watch, nonetheless. They are trying to merge the lame "aquatic ape theory" (in actuality, it is a hypothesis) with their mermaids gone wild flicks. This theory/hypothesis involves human evolution, which deals with certain ancestors of modern humans that spent a great deal of time adapting to a semi-aquatic lifestyle. During the show, they used weak aspects like saying humans are the only mammals that can hold their breath for a long time like dolphins and how we still have traces of webbed hands. I find that odd, for me anyway, because my large hands are far from being webbed; I can't hold my breath for several minutes and when I get in water, I act as a sinker, and I also suck at swimming. Then again, I'm a so-called extraterrestrial so I guess I don't count, blah! LOL!

Anyway, back to this Mermaids Gone Wild thingy... They did have some interesting video footage (not the computer-generated crap). One of the coolest videos was shot not too far off the coast of Greenland. There was another coast guard flick, and another involving a cell phone video camera. I don't know how many of y'all seen that show tonight, but I like how toward the end of the show, they quickly ran a bunch of flashing credits talking about fictional characters, disclaimers, etc. Dang, who can tell what is real anymore? There is always the possible motives for better TV ratings, money and so on, involved. Concerning this subject, I can't rule out the possibility that there is some semi-humanoid swimming around with webbed hands and a wicked tail, especially since the ocean is so vast and we do discover new species of life all the time. Plus, there are so many myths & legends involving mermaids, it does make you wonder. However, they need to just drop that aquatic ape theory and just concentrate more on the live video footage and camera shots, even though they can be faked, as well.

After thinking about this, I guess a mermaid would have to jump up in a boat with a fisherman and have a conversation with him, for this to be proven. If they do exist, though, I doubt if they are pretty like they are often described in mythical tales. Plus, there would be wild mermen, as well. That's all we need when going boating or fishing, is some crazed merman that is mad at his mermaid while having ego issues and drinking like a fish; ha-ha!

Image Credit: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/mermaid-the-body-found-animal-planet_n_1544087.html (link is no longer active)

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