5 Strangest Ghost Stories – Weird Worm

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5 Strangest Ghost Stories

No one is completely sure when mankind started believing in the existence of ghosts. It appears that many of concepts like the burials and funerals were early attempts to appease the spirits of the dead so they wouldn’t disturb the living.

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This first known recorded true life accounts of ghosts were also two of the strangest. Plutarch in the 1st century AD and Pliny in 50 AD detailed a couple of haunting spirits complete with chains, groans, and accusations of murder. Plutarch told of a home in one community that so plagued the neighbors they shut up the dwelling, but Pliny had a longer tale. He described a young scholar who agreed to take up residence in a home where a ghost was rumored to haunt.

The young man was a stalwart fellow who refused to be intimated by the dead. He followed the chain rattling ghost about until he got the story of its murder out of it. He dug under the floor where the ghost routinely ended its nightly ruminations and found a bony skeleton wrapped in chains proof of the story told by the ghostly presence. Many people have remarked how similar Pliny’s paranormal account is to modern day stories.

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2. The Poor Sad Ghost of Catherine Howard

Some ghost stories are strange because they speak of a tragedy that never ends. Some dead never find peace it seems and are doomed to experience their feelings of betrayal and terror in an endless loop forever. The end for Catherine Howard really started right at the moment she seemed to be on the path to a bright new beginning. Her uncle found her a place at Henry’s court as the lady-waiting to the King’s wife Queen Anne of Cleves.

Katherine was a beautiful, but poorly educated and not very bright a potential lethal combination at any court of that time. She had already been molested by one of her few teachers and been the consort of an older man. The best thing that could have happened to the young woman would have been to have been discovered by an up and coming young man looking for wife. Unfortunately for Catherine it was the King’s eye she caught instead.

Anne of Cleves was Henry’s fourth and least favored wife. The marriage was never consummate as the German born Anne was not attractive to the King. The feeling was apparently mutual as Anne was terrified of provoking Henry’s wrath and earning the same fate as Anne Boleyn. Her family had the phrase “God send me well to keep” engraved around her wedding ring, and perhaps this worked for when the pretty Katherine arrived as her lady-in-waiting Anne was off the hook.

The writing was practically on the wall for Katherine as she was in fact the second cousin of Anne Boleyn the wife the King had behead for adultery among other charges, but the Boleyn family was happy to be back in the King’s good graces once again as the romance heated up.

Anne of Cleves was offered an annulment which she took with good grace in public and no doubt with a sigh of relief in private. This paved the way for the King’s marriage to Katherine, but the situation was far different for this young woman than for her cousin. While by all accounts Ann Boleyn and Henry had a passionate affair much time had passed since that union. The King now was well passed stout and working on portly. He had an ulcerated wound on his thigh that never completely healed and which often reeked.

It’s possible that the annulment between Anne of Cleves and the King happened so quickly because Henry hoped Katherine was pregnant with his child, but that was never to be. Repulsed by the King and without the smarts of predecessor Katherine not realizing her danger began an affair with Henry’s favorite male courtier Thomas Culpeper. She should have known better especially consider their meetings were arranged by Lady Rochford who was the widow of Anne Boleyn’s brother George.

Blackmail started up against Katherine as the affair became known to many and she found herself having to find positions to appoint anyone to who might feel talkative. It wasn’t enough.

Catherine was accused, and while she felt the King’s love for her and her youth would be enough to protect her she was very wrong. Catherine was charged with treason and ordered to keep to her rooms. She escaped the guards momentarily and fled down the hallway to the chapel where she knew the King was hearing Mass. She screamed and cried for her husband so pitifully that almost everyone who heard her was moved to pity. Almost all with the notable exception of the King, and the girl was stripped of her title and in the winter of 1541 both she and her lover were beheaded. Their heads were placed on spikes atop the London Bridge and that should have been the end of it. But the story doesn’t end there.

Catherine’s ghost has been seen repeatedly not at the sight of her execution, or hanging around the London Bridge looking for her lost head, but making that run for her life over and over. She is seen as a young woman with long flowing hair still beautiful despite her obvious terror. She runs screaming to the chapel and pleads with the King for forgiveness and mercy. Just as he did all those generations ago Henry the Eighth remains unmoved by her plight.

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3. The house that haunted on command

Built in 1863 in the English village of Borley it seems to have been almost destined to be a haunted spot. It was built on the site of a former monastery and such spots often hold surprising dark secrets. The first sign of ghost trouble didn’t show up until around 1900 or so thorough and seemed to focus on more modern times.

The public found out about the Rectory from Harry Price and his Society for Psychical Research after they were called in to investigate. For Price who was interested in getting the public interested in the scientific study of ghosts found a seemly endless number of stories to explore within the old Rectory.

According to legend when the spot had been a monastery a monk and a nun fell in love. The young couple tried to elope, but they were caught. The monk was hanged, but a worse fate was waiting for the nun. She was bricked up alive and left to starve. Her ghost was seen often and her spirit is the one Price believed was attempting to make contact.

According to accounts by Henry Price in his notes and later book on the subject she was the one who wailed, walked and wrote on the wall. The Smith family who were living in the home at the time complained of smashed windows, furniture being moved, and the sound of bells ringing. Eventually the strange goings on drove them from the rectory. When the family of the Reverend Lionel Foyster moved in the weirdness continued and a flock of ghost hunters showed up to discover its secrets.

There were many séances through the years many featuring the spirit of a young woman who claimed to be the ghost of the nun. Stranger still was yet to come when on one night in 1938 the ghost predicted the rectory would burn that very night. It didn’t, but the building was destroyed by fire just over a year later.

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4. Ghosts get snapped

It makes sense that with the all the weirdness of ghostly goings on and with all the cameras folks have been lugging around for the past few generations that at least one person would get a convincing shot. And someone did.

In the English town of Shropshire the Town Hall burned to the ground. It wasn’t the first time such a tragedy occurred in the area. Long ago in 1677 fire had destroyed the wooden homes and buildings in the area when according to local legend a young girl named Jane Churm set fire to a thatched roof with a candle by accident. Her ghost has been seen on many occasions in the area.

The Town Hall had been built in 1905, so on that day in November of 1995 spectators watched in sadness as fire consumed the historic old building. A local resident named Tony O’Rhailly snapped photos of the event and was surprised to find in one of the pictures a strange sight. Framed in doorway of the burning building the figure of a little girl is plainly visible.

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5. Get your own

If you want your own ghost then according to many internet, television, and movie accounts the fastest way to get your own weird haunting is to get an Ouija Board. Also known as a spirit board or talking board this is your very own gateway to scaring yourself silly. The board was invented as a game by and sold by Parker Brothers, but thousands of people have claimed that whatever they called up using the device…decided to stay.

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10 Bizarre Phenomena – Weird Worm

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This bizarre electrical phenomenon usually occurs during thunderstorms and lasts for up to thirty seconds. Balls of lightening are said to behave in strange ways, hovering, rolling, hissing and sometimes passing through walls, in a way that seems completely unnatural. As a result, ball lightening has long been associated with aliens and ghosts, and the kind of pseudo-psychic head-cases who believe they can communicate with the other side. Thousands of people throughout history have reported seeing ball lightening, including Benjamin Franklin and my grandmother, but until recently their claims were largely ignored. However, with an increasing amount of photographic and video evidence available, scientists have now begun to take ball lightening seriously and are now attempting to recreate this entirely natural phenomenon within the confines of a laboratory.

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Described by scientists as a plasma phenomenon, St Elmo’s fire is caused by ionization in the atmosphere. Named for the patron saint of sailors, the phenomenon was historically witnessed emanating from the lightning conductors atop tall ships, however it can occur almost anywhere, particularly during thunderstorms. Whilst the phenomenon may appear to be flame-like when a lightening rod is it’s source, it has been more accurately described as a blue-green glow.

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Goat suckers, or Chupacabras, are the hypothetical creatures blamed for a recent series of cattle mutilations in South America. In the past decade hundreds of cattle have been found mutilated across Brazil alone. Often the cattle are found to have had huge amounts of blood drained from their bodies but other signs include the removal of the jaw, tongue or anus in startling similarity to cattle mutilations in the US.

The goat sucker myth began in Puerto Rico where a series of sightings during the 1970s first made headlines. At first it seemed that goats and sheep were the only item on the menu but this soon changed when the creatures were reported in Mexico two decades later and began attacking cattle. There are a number of theories explaining the sudden appearance of this critter in South America. Perhaps the most logical explanation is that their species is native to the Amazon and that deforestation has forced them to leave the rain-forest for the first time in search of food. Another popular, if somewhat unlikely explanation is that the goatsuckers are of extraterrestrial origin, owing to the fact that goat sucker attacks often coincide with UFO sightings.

Descriptions of goat suckers vary hugely and whether they actually exist is a matter of huge debate. Many say that predatory animals could be behind the rise of livestock mutilations or blame covert government experimentation, but the truth remains a mystery.

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Spontaneous Human Combustion

This phenomenon is extremely rare and no plausible, scientific theory has yet been offered to explain how a person can suddenly burst into flames, but it would appear that some few unfortunate people have done exactly that.

Most deaths thought to be caused by spontaneous human combustion can be attributed to the “wick effect”, whereby a person’s body fat acts like candle wax, causing a person to burn in an intensely hot but extremely well contained fireball. Strangely, all that is left in most cases is the lower part of the victims legs, which contain little fat, and their feet, which are usually found to be still wearing slippers. This would seem to explain how homes are sometimes left undamaged after a victim’s body has been burned to cinders along with their favorite armchair. However, whilst the “wick effect” explains the way in which a human body might burn it offers no explanation for the cause of the fire.

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Whilst UFO sightings vary so widely in description that would seem to defy logic entirely, the amazing commonality between individual alien abduction stories would seem to suggest that more is at work here than a few over active imaginations. Psychologists have linked abduction stories to a deep routed fear of pregnancy in both men and women, explaining why so many self-proclaimed abductees claim to have been implanted with alien fetuses. Another well established theory behind alien abduction is that strong electromagnetic fields, perhaps occurring naturally, could cause a person to suffer an epileptic fit whilst simultaneously causing nearby electrical equipment (such as car radios) to malfunction. The person would subsequently see flashing lights before blacking out. Waking up from such an experience, the word “aliens”, would surely be the first on your lips.

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5 Haunted Amusement Parks – Weird Worm

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5 Haunted Amusement Parks

Theme parks are known to put on haunted shows around the Halloween season. Every theme park will put on some kind of spectacular horror show to scare their patrons that want to be scared. But, I actuality some of these parks that put on the scary shows are really haunted. So, if you are interested in seeing some real ghosts, then my recommendation would be to visit some of these haunted amusement parks for the scare of a lifetime.

Dorney Park is located in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania. This park dates back to 1860, when Solomon Dorney bought a large piece of land and built a trout hatchery and summer resort on it. In 1870, he decided that it should be opened to the public and added some attractions for the people to see. By 1880, there were rides and a petting zoo. Throughout the years, the various owners of park have updated the rides and kept the park going. It is said that there is a ghost the haunts a part of the park. Near, what is called the Dominator is an old building that houses an arcade, a few small shops and eateries. Connecting two of the eateries is a corridor that leads to an old mine shaft. There have been reports of a man seen by the door that appears and disappears just as quickly. There have also been reports of strange noises and occurrences throughout the building.

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This Sandusky, Ohio amusement park is 364 acres. It is so large that it currently has the world record for the most roller coasters. In the 1860s, there were boat rides to the peninsula, where the amusement park is currently located, and it was a place for the confederates to use for housing. In 1870, a beer garden opened and a fairy ride was available for just 25 cents. Bathhouses were erected in 1878, but there were no boat rides available to get there. By the mid 1890s, the first candy shop opened up and 1892 the first rollercoaster was built. Ever since then, it has been growing with each new owner. According to the stories, there is a carousel that was built by William H. Dentzal. He was building it for his unborn daughter and affixing a white horse to lead the pact of horses. When his wife and daughter both died in childbirth, he changed the white horse to a black military horse. The reports are that at night, when the park closes down, the carousel will turn itself on and you can see the wife or daughter riding the horse around.

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Coney Island is located in the southern peninsula of Brooklyn, New York City. In the 1860s, there were streetcars that lined the area and by 1881 there was a steamboat that would bring people to the peninsula. By this time, the beginnings of hotels, horse racing and the amusement park was taking place. The first carousel was built in 1876. By 1961, Coney Island was in full swing and the first annual hotdog eating contest was held. There was always controversy about the development of Coney Island, but the owners have kept it up and it is still going strong today. With public and private beaches, a boardwalk filled with shops and eateries, games and arcades and rides, it has had its problems, but continues to do well. According to the legend, there is a rollercoaster with a tower, which is known to be haunted by L.A. Thompson. He was famous for building many rollercoasters, but not this particular one; no one knows why he haunts this particular ride.

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Located in Mason, Ohio, this 364 acre amusement park is the partner park to Cedar Point. It first opened its doors in 1972, after breaking ground in 1970. It was erected to serve as a replacement park for Ohio’s version of Coney Island. In 1984, Kings Island was sold and it was sold again in 1987. It continued to change hands until 2006. It has its own mall and sits on a plot of land that is 775 acres. There is plenty of room for expansion and it will happen in the future. There are actually five different ghosts that haunt this amusement park. There is a ghost called “Tommy Tower.” Tommy was at a graduation party and got a little too drunk; when he thought it would be a good idea to climb the tower, ultimately falling to his death. There is a little boy or girl that will walk along the Racer behind all the games. There is a fountain where people have reported seeing a glowing set of eyes. There have been reports of figure walking around the International Restaurant, which is located above the entrance. There is also a deceased security guard that haunts the place and a park attendee that was drunk and fell to her death on the Flight Commander Ride. She fought with the ride operators and undid her restraints, she thought it would be a good idea to stand up and wave to her friends.

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This amusement park is a part of the Walt Disney faction. It opened in 1971 and is one of the most visited parks in the world. It is built over a series of tunnels. This gives the park an elevation of 107 feet. Located on the Magic Kingdom grounds are Main Street, Adventure Land, Frontier Land, Liberty Square, Fantasy Land, Tomorrow Land and Mickey’s Toontown Fair. This park was a big part of Walt Disney’s vision, but was incomplete at the time of his death. As the legend has it, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is the portion that is haunted. Every morning when the workers come in they have to say good morning to the ghost or the ride does not work that day. When they attempt to run the ride without acknowledging the apparition it will breakdown.

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Sneaking Into Hashima, Japan’s “Battleship Island” Ghost Town – Weird Worm

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Sneaking Into Hashima, Japan’s “Battleship Island” Ghost Town

In 2009, a friend and I were living in Japan. That year, we learned that it was possible to get to Hashima, commonly called “Battleship Island”, albeit highly illegal.

We did it anyways.

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We had heard of Battleship Island (in Japanese, Gunkanjima) before ever coming to Nagasaki, but had never considered sneaking onto the ghost island. It had been closed since the 1970’s, and now sat off the coast of Nagasaki City, quiet and haunting. Going there is supposedly punishable by a one month stay in a Japanese prison as well as deportation. We have never considered the possibility, though there was something romantic and adventurous about the notion. This changed one week, when in a conversation with others in the area we learned that some people had gone and gotten away with it. It wasn’t even difficult, they told us. Suddenly, the forbidden fruit of the Ghost Island seemed just within grasp, and we knew we wanted to try.

The easiest way to sneak into Hashima, we were told, is to go to the closest neighboring island, Takashima. From Takashima, you pay someone with a boat to ferry you over and look the other way. We decided to go for it.

We left from Nagasaki City early in the morning on a ferry bound for Takashima, and sipped coffees leisurely during the hour-long boat ride. Takashima itself is largely unremarkable (especially in comparison to its neighbor), but its story in many ways mirrors that of Hashima:

Like Hashima, Takashima’s history is defined by coal mining. For centuries, Takashima’s inhabitants were said to have gathered coal from exposed rock beds along the shore, and in the eighteenth century began exporting it. Over time, Takashima’s mining system became an enormous success, and the island settlement grew. At the height of its production, the island’s inhabitants numbered around 20,000. The population of Takashima has now dropped to about 600, the majority of whom live in one large apartment complex on the center of the island. A scattered constellation of old houses surrounds it, and beyond that are the vestigial remains of what was once a vibrant community – a tennis court with no nets, the pavement cracked and stained, a basketball goal bent by wind and time, decaying picnic tables. There are overgrown forested areas as well, home to indigenous wild hemp, we learned from a sign near the port.

We were greeted by a particularly suspicious police officer as soon as we stepped off the boat. He asked to see our Foreigner Registration Cards, and then took down our information. When he asked why we’d come to the island, we told him we were interested in taking pictures. He told us it took approximately an hour to walk around the island, and that he’d wait for us at the docks. He clearly didn’t believe we’d traveled so far out of the way just to kill an afternoon looking at an island not very different from any of the others in Nagasaki. His suspicions were not unreasonable. After all, Takashima is extremely close to Hashima, and it is also an abundant source of naturally growing marijuana. There isn’t much reason to visit Takashima if you’re not interested in either of things, both of which are illegal. Still, we were undeterred, and after some pleasantries made our way to the far side of the island to seek out a fisherman to bribe.

We soon found a boat owner who would take us to Hashima in exchange for a little cash and a cooler of cheap beer. We happily accepted the deal, and after a brief run to the island’s only convenience store, a six-pack in tow, we ran back to the pier.

The water was calm and blue, and surrounding Battleship Island were several fishing boats. Occasionally, flying fish broke the surface of the water, gliding along the waves. Hashima is surrounded by a large concrete sea wall to protect the buildings from rising tides and large waves, and even from Takashima we could see people sitting atop it, casting their fishing line into the sea. Our boat driver told us that fisherman are allowed to go to the island, but they’re only allowed to sit on the wall to fish; going deeper into the maze of forgotten buildings was deemed too dangerous to allow. Furthermore, he didn’t want to take us on shore. We offered a compromise: we’d say we were there to fish. The problem with this was that we didn’t have fishing licenses. Once again, we tried to sidestep this inconvenience, asking if we could get fishing permits for the day, intending to slip off of the wall and disappear on our own. He made a phone call, but the port authority wasn’t interested in giving us permits for the day. We circled the island for a while, taking pictures from the boat, and after a lengthy discussion about the history of the island he decided to drop us there after all.

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Top 10 Amazing Ufo Sightings – Weird Worm

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Top 10 Amazing Ufo Sightings

“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s… Actually I don’t know what that is. That’s really weird.” That was private pilot Kenneth Arnold’s reaction when he saw a fleet of unidentifiable objects flying at high speed close to Mount Rainer, Washington State back in 1947. Arnold later told members of the press that the objects were flying in close formation and were crescent shaped, however his description of how they moved – ‘like a saucer would if you were to skip it across a pond’ – would prove to be the most enduring. The media was quick to call the objects ‘flying saucers’ – a term that would live on in infamy (although some believe that the term originates from descriptions of ‘flying sources of light’). Arnold’s description of the objects as being ‘flat – like a pie dish’ would also become famous, sparking an endless chain of hoax photographs in which model UFOs would appear to be made out of just that – pie dishes. While the Kenneth Arnold sighting is by no means the most spectacular UFO encounter on record it did set the bar as the first high profile UFO flap of the modern era.

It is now over sixty years since Kenneth Arnold’s encounter and while we are no closer to discovering the truth about what he saw that day the evidence is mounting. It would prove to be just the beginning of what is now a worldwide phenomenon and one of the most enduring and captivating mysteries in human history. Countless pilots have now attested to having encounters similar to that of Kenneth Arnold and aerial encounters have almost become commonplace. But many more, often much stranger close encounters have been added to the annals of UFO history.

With so many amazing UFO encounters having been recorded, how can we decide which are the best? UFOlogists (those that study UFOs and related phenomenon) often judge the credibility of UFO sightings and encounters based on the following three factors:

1) Number of witnesses – The majority of UFOs are seen by just one man and his dog, making them hard to verify. However, when several people witness the same event it becomes much more believable, especially if those people are strangers to one another.

2) Quality of witnesses – The testimony of some witnesses is deemed to be more believable than others. Pilots and aeronautical engineers make good witnesses because they have expert knowledge. Professionals such as doctors and teachers are also thought to be reliable because of their standing in society, but by far the most credible witnesses are police officers.

3) Physical evidence – It is very rare but aliens do occasionally leave physical evidence behind, often in the form of scorch marks on the ground or residual radiation.

At Weirdworm we think this is makes a great deal of sense but we prefer to judge UFO encounters on how awesome they are. So, using Weirdworm’s patented Awesome-o-meter, we’ve generated a list of the ten most amazing UFO sightings.

The Roswell Incident is possibly the most overstated UFO story but it deserves to make the list simply because of its scale and the role it played – and continues to play – in sparking popular interest in UFOs.

While many people mistakenly believe that the Roswell Incident offers the only real evidence for alien visitation and government cover-up it only one of a surprising number of similar stories. Unlike other supposed alien crashes, however, this one has been reasonably explained.

The U.S government has revealed that the crashed object found near Roswell in 1947 was the wreckage of an experimental, top-secret spy balloon. Not quite a weather balloon but close. The balloon was part of ‘Project Mogul’ and was launched from Alamogordo, 60 miles to the west. Project Mogul balloons were designed to detect nuclear explosions from high altitudes.

Personnel at Roswell Army Air Field certainly cannot be accused of a cover-up as it was they who issued the press release stating that they had captured a flying disk (they would have only recently read about Kenneth Arnold’s encounter earlier that year). This claim was thought of as little more than an embarrassment for the next thirty years. The alien connection was largely forgotten until 1978, when Major Jesse Marcel (who was involved in the recovery of the debris) made public his beliefs that the discovery of an alien spacecraft had been covered up.

Details of the wreckage – reportedly comprised of strange materials with unusual physical properties and marked with alien hieroglyphs – do sound rather odd but are not unexplainable. In fact, the strange nature of the materials would seem to prove that the Roswell UFO was indeed a Project Mogul balloon. Mac Brazel, who discovered the crash site, said that some of the material was marked with images of flowers. Project Mogul engineer Charles B. Moore has stated that the balloons were somewhat jerry-rigged. Scotch tape used in its construction was bought from a toy manufacturer and bore images of flowers. Material that Major Marcel described as being ‘like balsa wood and about the same weight’ probably was just that – balsa wood!

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If you think that UFOs are harmless, think again. In December 1980, Betty Cash, Vicky Landrum and her young grandson were driving home when they encountered a huge diamond shaped UFO. When they stepped out of the car to take a closer look they were caught in an intense blast of heat that made them break into an instant sweat. The diamond gave a few cheeky bleeping sounds and then disappeared. But the ordeal was not over; during the next few days Cash and Landrum suffered severe radiation burns, nausea and diarrhoea. The most persistent symptom of this mystery illness was the painful headaches they suffered, these continued for several weeks and came back at the same time every year.

In April 2000, northern Chile was ripe with paranormal activity. Strange howls were heard and at least thirty animals (including pigs, ducks and dogs) were found completely drained of blood. There could be only one explanation; they were the victims of the legendary ‘Chupacabre’ or ‘Goatsucker’. These attacks coincided with an increase in UFO activity. A police drug squad helicopter chased one set of strange lights believing them to be signals from a secret landing strip. All they found was a large triangular burn mark on the ground. A similar triangle was also found outside Jose Ignacio Prieto’s home near Concepcion following a close encounter.

The Kecksburg UFO incident

In 1965 Kecksburg, Pennsylvania was the site of a spectacular UFO crash and subsequent cover-up. The events of that year were similar to those of the Roswell Incident but were witnessed by many more people and have never been reasonably explained. That Kecksburg is not as internationally famous as Roswell is both surprising and unfortunate.

On December 9th a brilliant fireball was seen streaking across the sky over Michigan and northern Ohio. Sonic booms were heard over western Pennsylvania where the object supposedly dropped hot debris and started grass fires. Eyewitnesses in Kecksburg reported seeing the object crash down in the woods nearby, prompting the local volunteer fire department to search the area. What they found has been described as an acorn-shaped object about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and reportedly had what looked like Egyptian hieroglyphics around its midsection.

Not surprisingly, it wasn’t long before the U.S Army rolled into town. They cordoned off the area and began a thorough search effort. Officially they found absolutely nothing but some townsfolk insisted that they saw the Army removing the object on a flatbed truck. Local news reporter John Murphy claimed to have taken photographs of the crash site (he also recorded interviews with many witnesses in the town) but that the Army had confiscated them along with all materials pertaining to his investigation.

The Rendlesham Forest Incident

The 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident is Britain’s claim to fame in UFOlogy circles, although rather typically it did involve U.S Air Force personnel. R.A.F Woodbridge, which borders the forest, had been loaned to the U.S, as had nearby RAF Brentwaters.

At 3:00 a.m on a cold December morning, servicemen were sent into the woods to investigate reports of a downed aircraft. There they encountered strange lights moving through the trees and heard what sounded like a woman screaming. They also reported that the animals on a nearby farm had been in a state of panic, although in reality this was an arable farm and had no animals. The servicemen then came across a small alien spacecraft parked in a clearing. They said that it was triangular, stood on three legs and glowed brightly. One of them later claimed to have seen non-human shapes moving inside the craft, although this account came from an anonymous witness and cannot be verified. Of course, when the men returned during daylight hours the craft had gone. There were, however, scorch marks and three depressions in the ground where the alien craft had stood. Trace amounts of radiation were also detected. Strange lights were also seen in the area on the second night.

Members of a second investigative team, which left R.A.F Woodbridge through the east gate, have reported even stranger occurrences including an incredible display of exploding coloured lights. Airmen Larry Warren has also published claims that he witnessed a secret meeting between the base commander and a group of alien visitors.

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The 4 Strangest Cryptids – Weird Worm

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While you might be wondering what exactly a cryptid is, it’s likely that you have heard of a Cryptid before: Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, Crab People and so forth. Cryptids are any sort of animal or creature that has not been proven to be real. Some have been seemingly found in the wild, while others are nothing more than myths. We have all heard of the great Yeti and various others, but there are plenty of far weirder and stranger legends out there.

The Mongolian Death Worm

Nightmare Fuel.

According to the locals, the Mongolian Death Worm is a 5 foot long, red worm that lives deep in the sands of the vast Gobi Desert. To add to the terror factor, the Death Worm supposedly shoots sulphuric acid at its prey to kill and incapacitate it. The acid is reportedly so powerful that it will corrode a human being to the point of death. It is also said to kill prey at long range by using a powerful electric discharge. So, yeah, most terrifying thing ever basically.

The Mongolian Death Worm exists in tales of travellers and the local Mongolians who have been telling the story of the creature for generations. While there have been dozens of unofficial sightings, there has never been any scientific recording of the creature (which certainly helps one sleep at night). Some scientists believe that the Death Worm could perhaps be an eel that used to live in the sea when the Gobi Desert used to have water, and over the years adapted to live in the arid desert. Others believe it could perhaps be a legless lizard (isn’t that just a snake?). Many believe it is simply a case of folklore and myth, a tale told to the children to keep them from wandering too far into the desert.

Many modern expeditions have been made to track down and find this creature, yet all have come up empty handed. Some however, do not rule out its existence due to the fact that the Gobi is a ridiculous huge desert, and the Death Worm is said to live deep below the surface, inside the cool sand. As for us, we are perfectly content with it remaining an unconfirmed cryptid, because once someone finds one of these creatures, it’ll be shipped off to a zoo in your hometown where it will haunt your dreams for all of eternity.

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The Monkey Man of Delhi

Pair him with a sarcastic salamander and you’ve got a hit cartoon on your hands.

Believe it or not, that little guy has been responsible for two deaths in New Delhi, the Indian capital. The Monkey Man was apparently sighted in a large building and in the panic; some people decided the best escape was by jumping off the building, resulting in the deaths. Strangest of all is that this is not some urban legend that happened to a friend of a friend – the people’s deaths were documented, and sightings of this creature only started in 2001.

The Image above is a police sketch of the Monkey Man: a short, hairy, monkey-like creature that some believe to be a miniature bigfoot, a form of the Hindu god Hanuman, or just a really hairy midget. The Monkey Man had allegedly attacked over 15 people in one sighting, causing many scratches and lacerations. Since then, alleged sightings of the Monkey Man has led to panics. In 2001, a Hindu Sadhu (similar to a wandering holy man) was beaten up by a mob, because the four-foot-tall fellow was mistaken for the monkey man. Days later, a van driver was severely assaulted after being mistaken for the Monkey Man. While pretty terrible, it’s also hard not to laugh. How unkempt do you have to be that people think that you are a foul, hairy monster? I mean, we’ve all had days where we haven’t had time for a shower and a shave, but boy, those dudes must have been pretty nasty to be mistaken as the Monkey Man.

Source: The 4 Strangest Cryptids – Weird Worm

Alien Abduction – Partially Explained – Weird Worm

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Alien Abduction – Partially Explained

When somebody tells us that they have seen a UFO, we tend to believe that they are telling the truth. Oh, they might not have seen an actual alien craft – it was more likely a police helicopter, a Chinese lantern or the moonlight reflecting off swamp gasses and illuminating a squadron of geese – but they believe that it was something from another world and we accept that without giving them too much of a hard time about it. We certainly don’t accuse them of being crazy just because they’ve seen something they can’t explain. After all, thousands of people across the globe have seen UFOs and that doesn’t necessarily mean they are all fruit-loops.

When somebody tells us that they have been beamed aboard an alien spaceship for a quick gynaecology exam and a ménage-a-trios with a three breasted Venusian beauty and her spindly, bug-eyed boyfriend, however, it’s a different matter. Seeing a UFO is cool. Being inappropriately interfered with in the back of one is not. This might explain why the number of people claiming to have been abducted has been in sharp decline since the 1960s – they just can’t bare the shame.

Yes, alien abduction has been given a bad name over the past few decades. While there was much interest in the phenomenon back in what UFOlogists call the ‘contactee era’, we now see it as a sign of insanity. Even UFOlogists tend to discount the testimony of abductees, branding them as nut-jobs and pointing out the many holes in their stories. In fact, some UFOlogists now think of alien abduction as an interesting psychological conundrum rather than evidence of alien visitation and as being separate to UFO phenomena.

The leading scientific theory explains the phenomenon as a kind of epileptic fit. The fact that abductees commonly see bright or flashing lights and hear a buzzing sound before the experience begins would seem to support this. Abductees have also reported being paralysed, as when one suffers a stroke.

Another common element of the abduction scenario is the failure of electrical equipment in the vicinity. In some cases this is described as flickering lights and static (buzzing) on the radio, and so may be indistinct from the symptoms of the seizure. However, it is possible that a localized electromagnetic disturbance causes both the electrical malfunctions and the victim’s seizure. Afterwards, abductees often report a memory loss, perhaps even that several hours have gone by without them noticing. Does this mean that they have had their memories erased or simply that they have fallen unconscious? Only later (often during hypnotic regression) do they recall being molested by aliens.

What could cause these seizures? It is possible that UFOs, whatever they may be (perhaps some kind of electrical phenomenon like orb lightening), could be the cause? Or are the flashing lights of UFOs just another symptom of the seizure?

It’s a good theory; it makes a lot of sense, but it does overlook one very important aspect of alien abduction – the recalled memories of the abduction experience. How can we account for the similar experiences of almost all abductees? Why is it that over ninety percent of all abductees later recall that they were experimented on? Why is it that artificial insemination, gynaecological examinations and even assault are featured so often in these scenarios?

Many abductees often claim to have been implanted with alien foetuses. Some even claim to have been abducted a second time to give birth to their alien offspring. Take Kelly Cahill of Australia, for example: after being abducted near Melbourne she suffered a surprise miscarriage. She did not even know that she was pregnant until it happened but did find a scar across her abdomen on the morning after the abduction. Could this be evidence of a large-scale experiment or alien breeding program at work?

The fact that these memories are often regained by means of hypnotic regression makes them dubious to say the least. Hypnotism may have been in vogue during the ‘contactee era’ but we now know that it is an incredibly unreliable means of obtaining information. If a person already believes that they have been abducted, for example, their subconscious mind might cobble together a scenario using images and perceptions gained from the media – being strapped to a table, bug-eyed aliens using strange medical implements, and so forth.

Media trends have also been responsible for the changing image of the alien, beginning as perfectly human-like Venusians in the 1950s and 60s and becoming the now widely recognized Roswell Grey. Psychologists have also noted that recalled memories of alleged abductions may be indicative of a deeply routed fear of childbirth, which is apparently very common in both women and men. The appearance of the Grey also supports this theory, being similar in appearance to a human foetus.

Greys are very commonly associated with alien abduction and first entered the public consciousness following a description given under hypnotic regression during a study of the ‘Betty and Barney Hill abduction case’ – the most famous abduction case in UFOlogical history. Betty and Barney Hill encountered a UFO while driving through the US state of New Hampshire in 1961. Like many abductees, they heard buzzing sounds and seemed to have a period of time missing from their memories. While Barney Hill did not believe that they had been abducted, his wife Betty had vivid dreams about the experience, in which she underwent a painful examination described to her by her captor as a ‘pregnancy test’. In these dreams, which occurred before she underwent hypnotic regression, Betty described the men as being short, hairless and with bulbous foreheads. While there is a similarity to the image of the ‘grey’ aliens she later described while hypnotised, the men in her dreams were clearly men rather than aliens. They even wore what would seem to be Air Force uniforms, spoke English and were said to be rather polite. Their appearance would seem to have been exaggerated during hypnosis, her mental image of them having becoming more frightening over time.

This would seem to offer another, if somewhat unlikely explanation, of the abduction phenomenon; that abductions are not carried out by aliens but by the US government (or perhaps a secret world government). If this were so, what could their purpose possibly be? Why abduct countless people just to take a look at their sexual organs?

With alien abduction now far less common than it was during the ‘contactee era’ of the 1950 – 60s, it is likely that we will never know the truth behind them. But whether this phenomenon is real or imagined, terrestrial or extra-terrestrial, one thing is certain; it has become part of Earth’s shared culture, spawning countless films, books, documentaries and inspiring fiction. It gave us the ‘Greys’, a universally recognizable image of extra-terrestrial life seen on T-shirts worldwide and stars of countless TV shows, films and computer games.

Those who eagerly await humanity’s official first contact with an alien intelligence anticipate that it will unite the world by showing us how insignificant our differences are, but here’s a thought – the Greys are already doing that, whether they exist or not. But if alien life forms do eventually land on the lawn of the Whitehouse or Buckingham Palace ready to shake hands with our world-leaders, lets hope that we don’t start things off by accusing them of these kidnappings. The fate of the world could be at stake.

Written by Mark Ball – Copyrighted © www.weirdworm.com Image Sources

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3 Bizarre Tales of Alien Abduction – Weird Worm

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3 Bizarre Tales of Alien Abduction

It all began in the early 1960s, when Betty and Barney Hill claimed to have been kidnapped by extraterrestrials and subjected to bizarre medical procedures. Ever since, the idea of alien abduction has been a lingering presence in pop culture, showing up in everything from The X-Files to South Park. The general narrative of such experiences is more or less consistent throughout most accounts: an individual suffers from extremely frightening nightmares and, after seeking the assistance of a medical professional and undergoing hypnotic regression, recalls being taken aboard a spacecraft by small beings with dark eyes, barely present noses, and small slits for mouths.

Odd as these stories are, the fact that they all follow them same formula so closely that they may was well be interchangeable allows believers to accept them more readily. However, every now and then, a person steps forward with an alien abduction story so bizarre, one is torn between two conflicting impulses. Should the tale be dismissed immediately because of its ridiculous nature, or should it be taken seriously, simply because no one could concoct such an elaborate narrative?

Predating the more well-known Hill incident by four years, the experience of Antonio Villas Boas is one of the first abduction cases of the modern era. A Brazilian farmer, Villas Boas was working in his fields late one evening when he noticed what appeared to be a remarkably bright star in the sky above him. It possessed a unique red color, and seemed to be growing in size. It soon became apparent to the young man that whatever he was looking at was certainly not a star, but some sort of object that was rapidly approaching him. As it landed, fear replaced awe and Villas Boas began to run away from the scene. Before he could escape, he was apprehended by a five-foot tall being who attempted to communicate with the terrified farmer in a bizarre language that didn’t even vaguely resemble a human voice. With the aid of three other humanoids, the being carried the prisoner into the spacecraft.

Onboard the ship, the beings removed the clothes of Villas Boas and covered him from head to toe in an unrecognizable liquid. After being left alone in a room for some time, a visitor finally arrived: a “beautiful” woman with white hair and long, slanted blue eyes. In what may be the first recorded case of an interstellar booty call, the two of them proceeded to have sexual intercourse; despite knowing that he should have been horrified, Villas Boas recalled feeling an extreme degree of attraction towards the woman. After they were done, the creatures who had originally brought him onto the ship took Villas Boas on what seemed to be a tour of their craft, before returning him to the field from which they had originally taken him.

To add to the overall strangeness of the encounter, Villas Boas, unlike nearly every other individual who has claimed to have been abducted by aliens, was able to immediately recall every detail of his experience. Since it first gained major publicity, the story has been a matter of constant debate among UFO enthusiasts. While some believe that the account merits serious consideration, others, alarmed by the strange sexual element, refuse to consider it worthy of their time.

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A typical 1960’s housewife, not prone to telling tall tales or indulging in supernatural interests, Betty Andreasson never seemed like the kind of person from whom one would hear claims of alien kidnap. And, although the abduction story she told begins like most, her experiences would later take on a unique, religious tone that distinguishes them from many others.

Andreasson was in her kitchen one evening, going about her usual business, when she was disrupted by an unexpected power outage. This was followed soon after by the appearance of a bright, red light with no identifiable source that filtered in through her windows. This strange experience swiftly became terrifying, as a group of small intruders entered her home like ghosts, moving through a solid wall as if it were nothing but a fog.

The creatures fit the general description of “grey aliens”: about four feet tall, dark eyes, expressionless faces, wearing blue overalls. The only being in the group that stood out was one who was taller than the others, closer to five feet; Andreasson naturally assumed that this one was some sort of leader. It stayed with her, while the others moved throughout the house, placing the various members of her family in a state resembling suspended animation.

After the beings had finished their work in the house, they escorted Andreasson to a ship that was waiting outside, where she was subjected to various general medical procedures. Once these were complete, the element that would come to define this particular abduction experience introduced itself. The aliens, who, as in most abduction cases, communicated with Andreasson via some form of telepathy, explained that they, like her, were devoted to Jesus Christ, and that His return to Earth was not far away. They proceeded to display to her the image of a Phoenix rising from the ashes, before allowing her to meet another being who communicated to her a message which she was never able to recall.

Years later, with the aid of hypnotherapy, Andreasson was able to recall these details. Given the nature of her memories, she assumed that the aliens wished to share a spiritual message of peace, and that perhaps she had been chosen as a medium between the people of Earth and these visitors from the stars.

Source: 3 Bizarre Tales of Alien Abduction – Weird Worm

5 Types of Japanese Ghosts – Weird Worm

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5 Types of Japanese Ghosts

Traditional Japanese beliefs state that every human being has a soul called reikon. After death, the reikon exits the body and enters a state of purgatory, where it awaits the body’s funeral and final rites. If completed properly, the reikon becomes satisfied and meets peace and becomes a protector of the family from which it came.

However, if a person dies an unnatural death or the final rites aren’t properly conducted, the reikon becomes a yurei, or dim spirit. The yurei anguishes in purgatory wondering why someone just can’t bury the damn body already. If the yurei develops strong enough emotional attachments to the physical world, it returns as a ghost.

In Japanese mythology there are many types of such spirits. These five are not only common in Japanese folklore but also closely resemble Western ideas of what a restless spirit is.

Onryo are spirits that have returned to the physical world to seek vengeance against those who treated them poorly while they were living. Almost always depicted as women, onryo were often mistreated by their would-be lovers during their lifetimes. However, their gender rendered them powerless to stop mistreatment. By becoming spirits they find their strength.

Sisters are doing it for themselves.

The Japanese spirit world is structured with the spirit world itself and the physical world on opposite ends of a spectrum, with a middle-ground purgatory creating a gap between them. The purgatory is essentially a place of reflection where spirits linger until they accept their fate and move on to the spirit world. However, those with strong emotional attachments to the living can cross the gap and return the physical world. In the case of onryo, the emotions are hatred or sorrow, and they only return to rest when they have their revenge, which is always justified.

Stories of onryo often involve cheating husbands being haunted but indirectly harmed; usually the spirit will wreak havoc on the village where their lover lives or kill their new lover to right themselves. These ghost stories used as cautionary tales against bad husbands, though given the number of these stories they probably weren’t effective at deterring any on-the-side-boning.

Ubume can be translated to mean “childbirth woman.” These spirits are those of mothers who died during childbirth or before they could properly take care of their child. Given their grim origins, the stories revolving around these spirits are more sorrowful than those of onryo and focus on the mother’s quest to ensure her child’s safety after her own death. They cross purgatory through both their love and fear.

Could you be any more depressing, Japan?

Generally there are two types of Ubume stories. The first involves the spirit directly interacting with her child after death, serving as a sort of guardian angel. There’s no haunting to be had in these stories. However, in her providing for the child, the mother inadvertently leaves clues to her deceased nature behind. The most common are coins left for their child which turn into dead leaves after they’ve been exchanged.

This is why we’re in a recession, people.

The second type of the story sees the mother’s spirit attempt to find a stranger and guide it to her baby so it can be raised up in society by someone who isn’t ethereal and creepy. Stories of ubume carry the moral that a mother’s love never ceases, nor is her job ever truly done.

In medieval Japan, it was a common belief that one’s social status carried over with them into the spirit world. The more powerful someone was, the more likely it would make them a ghost capable of great destruction, so continuing to respect the dead was very important. Of course, if some douche-hat assassinated you for political gain, it didn’t really matter if a shrine was built in your honor because you were going to be pretty pissed off regardless.

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Goryo are “honorable spirits” of the aristocratic classes who had been wronged during their lives, making them a vengeance ghost similar to onryo. Unlike onryo, these ghosts weren’t powerless house wives but powerful lords, courtiers and other political figures whose powers as spirits translated into natural disasters and catastrophes, capable of causing floods or flash fires and killing hundreds of people at a time, innocent or not. However, the rampage of a goryo didn’t necessarily end with the death of those who wronged them. Only the supernaturally powered yamabushis could put these spirits to rest.

Source: 5 Types of Japanese Ghosts – Weird Worm

The History of 3 Bizarre Images – Weird Worm

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The History of 3 Bizarre Images

Despite being more than a century old, the art of photography never ceases to yield results which spark the curiosity of thousands. Whether it’s the creepy photo of a ghost, or a Facebook profile picture that inexplicably makes a girl look far hotter than she actually is in real life, there are countless photos that continue to baffle and intrigue mankind. Let’s take a look at some of the more noteworthy examples…

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

This picture, taken in 1936, is one of the earliest examples of spirit photography, and in an age where avid Ghost Hunters fans get all hot and bothered whenever they run across a blurry snapshot of some “orbs” (aka dust) floating around a cemetery, it remains one of the more convincing examples.

It is said to capture the ghost of “The Brown Lady” (so called because of the color of her dress) which reputedly haunts Raynham Hall, a house in Norfolk, England. As the story goes, in the early 18th century, Lord Townshend, who occupied the house at the time, took a wife named Dorothy. After approximately a decade of marriage, Dorothy passed away. However, there were some who believed that her burial had been staged, and that, in fact, Lord Townshend locked her in one of the rooms of the house, where she wasted away to death.

In the passing years, visitors to the house reported seeing the apparition of a lady, one which very much resembled Lord Townshend’s late wife, wandering the halls of the house and descending the staircase at night. Those who only got a brief glimpse of her assumed that she was another guest. Others, who were able to study her characteristics more closely, remarked that her skin seemed to glow. One reputable gentleman even claimed that she appeared to have had her eyes gouged out.

Things went on like this for two centuries, until, in 1936, two photographers on assignment for a magazine visited the estate overnight, hoping to capture the spirit on film. They worked into the late hours, and saw very little, until one of the photographers noticed some movement on the staircase and quickly snapped a photo. When it was developed, the infamous image of the Brown Lady was revealed.

Since it was first made widely available to the public, the legitimacy of the photograph has been debated. Paranormal enthusiasts champion it as definitive evidence for the existence of ghosts. Skeptics, on the other hand, argue that the photograph is a fake and was perhaps achieved by superimposing two images together, a process which could potentially generate such an image.

Although no one is certain as to whether or not the photo is actually the image of a ghost, or simply a very convincing fake, it is important to mention one odd fact: ever since the photograph was taken, sightings of the Brown Lady have decreased remarkably.

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When this famous image from Viking 1 orbiter was released in 1976, UFO buffs rejoiced, celebrating the fact that David Bowie’s immortal question, “Is there life on Mars?,” was finally going to be answered once and for all. Not only was there life on Mars, but it wasn’t just microorganisms or decaying plant matter, the kind of life that is exciting only to NASA scientists and journalists who don’t mind coming up with misleading headlines. No, this was intelligent life, the kind of life that spent years erecting monuments which looked like massive, ugly human faces. On top of that, several of the hills in the area surrounding the face appeared to be in the shape of ancient pyramids that had acquired layers of dust and rocks over the years.

We had, it appeared, found the Martian equivalent of ancient Egypt.

Well, not quite. Those killjoys known as scientists were fairly dismissive of the photograph, arguing that it depicted nothing more than a run of the mill feature of the Martin surface that, due to the angle of the photograph and the light striking the hill, appeared to resemble a human face. When NASA returned to the region years later, higher resolution pictures of the same hill showed that it no longer bore such a strong resemblance to human features. Although many who saw the later photos still insisted that it looked like a person, one can’t help but wonder if they would have made such claims had the original photo not been so striking.

Either way, there are those who still believe that this particular region of Mars is, in fact, the remains of an ancient city from a Martian civilization. The area, now known as the Cydonia region, has become the subject of even more outlandish theorizing on the part of fringe scholars who claim that the apparent pyramids and monuments of the area correspond geographically to parts of the Earth’s surface. Although no one is precisely sure what the significance of that would be, it certainly makes for a great story anyway. Somewhere, a dedicated sci-fi fan is writing a novel about it for sure.

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While we’re on the topic of creepy pictures of faces, we might as well cover the faces of Belmez, which first appeared in Spain in 1971. A woman was in her home one evening, when she looked down at her cement floor and saw that what appeared to be the image of a human face had formed on the floor. She noticed that the face almost looked as though the person was experiencing some form of pain or suffering.

She recruited her son and husband to get rid of the disturbing image. They took a pickaxe to the cement, removed the face, and poured new cement over the hole. However, after doing so, the face eventually reappeared, and went on to be accompanied by more faces throughout the house. Word spread, and the house became an area of great interest for paranormal enthusiasts and skeptics alike. Many regarded the phenomena as among the most bizarre and substantial cases of paranormal activity ever recorded (after all, so many visitors flocked to the house that the faces ended up being seen by countless people). Skeptics, on the other hand, were fairly certain that some form of trickery must have been involved.

Samples of the cement were taken, and over the years, they have been subjected to various studies. Although no obvious evidence of trickery has ever been found, studies have indicated that some slight traces of chemical elements which may show that the faces were somehow painted onto the cement were found. Although many skeptics took this revelation as proof that the images had been faked, it should be noted that the process of creating them would still be intricate and, apparently, involve a strong knowledge of chemical compounds. The family that resided in the home did not seem to possess such knowledge.

What is even more notable about this particular case is that, over the years, faces have continued to appear in the home. Of all the images mentioned in this article, this one remains the most baffling.

Have some more light to shed on the subject? Post a comment below!

Written by Joseph Oliveto – Copyrighted © www.weirdworm.com Image Sources

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– The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall: http://www.prairieghosts.com/brown_lady.jpg
– The Face on Mars: http://www.scibuff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/aliens-on-mars-2.jpg
– The Belmez Faces: http://www.occult-underground.com/img/belmez2.jpg

Source: The History of 3 Bizarre Images – Weird Worm