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- WE ARE WHAT WE EAT DEPARTMENT -

U.S. Mad Cow Coverup Alleged

American records not credible, former packing plant vet says.

Edmonton - A former American government packing plant veterinarian says the United States government is hiding cases of mad cow disease.

Dr. Lester Friedlander said Wednesday that colleagues with the United States Department of Agriculture have told him of cases that the USDA has chosen not to announce.

Friedlander, who has been invited to speak to Parliament's agriculture committee next week on proposed changes to Canadian inspection legislation, refused to give details. He said the USDA employees are close to retirement and risk losing their pensions.

He has previously spoken out, however, about a Texas cow that had mad cow symptoms and went untested to a rendering plant after a USDA veterinarian condemned it at a packing plant in San Angelo.

There have been U.S. news reports that just three cows processed by the plant were tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy over two years. The plant, Lone Star Beef, processes older dairy cows considered at higher risk of carrying BSE.

Friedlander said it's not credible that the USDA has found just one BSE case and only in a cow that entered the United States from Alberta rather than being raised in the U.S.

"You've found four cases (including a cow from Alberta discovered in Washington state with the disease) out of 12 million cattle and the United States has found none out of 120 million," Friedlander said in an interview during a speaking visit to Edmonton.

He said production practices in the two countries are similar enough that the USDA should be finding more BSE cases.

Friedlander was in charge of meat inspectors at the largest U.S. culled-cow packing plant, in Pennsylvania, until 1995. He lost his job for, in his words, "doing too good a job."

He has since become a public speaker on food and animal safety issues. He was in Edmonton as a guest of the Edmonton Friends of the North Environmental Society.

The USDA's record looks worse than the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's but Canada needs a new "consumer" agency to oversee packing plant inspections, he added. He said the USDA and CFIA both suffer from having too much influence from politicians eager to please the food industry. His proposed consumer agency would be a government body but would have more safeguards against political influence.

Marc Richard, speaking from Ottawa for the CFIA, said the agency enforces rules set by Parliament and does its job well.

He said it reports to Agriculture Minister Andrew Mitchell and a replacement government agency would have to do the same.

Friedlander also warned against intensive livestock operations, such as cattle feedlots and large hog operations. He said they are ideal breeding grounds for bacteria and disease, and authorities have tended to react slowly when there's an outbreak.

Delayed reaction to avian flu last year at a British Columbia poultry operation led to a large and costly outbreak, he said.

John Feddes, an agricultural engineer at the University of Alberta, said the province's confined feeding operations are generally run well, under stringent rules. Large hog operations, Feddes said, are clean.

"Just because they're large doesn't mean they're going to be out of control."

Dr. Gerald Ollis, Alberta Agriculture's chief veterinarian, said confined feeding ops tend to have well-educated people in charge and are big enough that they can have vets visit more often than at smaller farms.

Ollis added that his experience of CFIA inspections is that they are done well.

He was not aware of reports of limited BSE testing at the Texas packing plant, but said the USDA is concentrating its tests at high-throughput

Source: The Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html
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- HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED DEPARTMENT -

Pandemic-Causing 'Asian flu' Accidentally Released

The virus that caused the 1957 ???Asian flu??? pandemic has been accidentally released by a lab in the US, and sent all over the world in test kits which scientists are now scrambling to destroy.

There are fears the virus could escape the labs, as the mistake was discovered after the virus escaped from a kit at a high-containment lab in Canada. Such an escape could spread worldwide, as demonstrated in Russia in the 1970s.

The flu testing kits were sent to some 3700 labs between October 2004 and February 2005 by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), a professional body which helps pathology laboratories improve their accuracy, by sending them unidentified samples of various germs to identify.

The CAP kits - prepared by private contractor Meridian Bioscience in Cincinnati, US - were to contain a particular strain of influenza A - the viral family that causes most flu worldwide. But instead of choosing a strain from the hundreds of recently circulating influenza A viruses, the firm chose the 1957 pandemic strain.

This is a problem because of the way pandemic flu strains edge each other out of circulation. The most lethal flu pandemic on record, in 1918, was caused by an influenza A of the H1 type, named for the haemagglutinin, a surface protein, it carries. After 1918, H1 flu evolved into an ???ordinary??? flu, and continued to circulate.

The 1957 pandemic started in China before spreading worldwide, killing an estimated two million or more people. It was triggered by the hybridisation of human H1 flu with flu viruses from birds which carried another surface protein, H2. It was more lethal than the then-circulating H1 strains because no human had ever encountered the H2 protein before, and so lacked any immunity to the new strain.

Immediately after 1957, all traces of H1 flu in humans disappeared, to be replaced by H2 strains. A similar process occurred again in 1968, when another hybrid virus emerged - again in China - carrying another haemagglutinin, H3. This caused the ???Hong Kong flu??? pandemic, which killed an estimated one million people worldwide.

But after 1968, H2 flu disappeared - so anyone born after that year will have no immunity to H2 flu and any escape of the virus in the test kits could be as lethal to them as the Asian flu of 1957.

A similar event happened in 1977, with the sudden reappearance of an H1 flu identical to one that had been isolated in 1950. It is believed that the virus escaped from a faulty batch of live flu vaccine prepared in Russia. But fortunately that strain had evolved into a much tamer creature than its 1918 predecessor. Unfortunately, the 1957 H2 virus is the most lethal variant of its kind.

A few of the CAP kits were sent to labs in Asia, the Middle East and South America, as well as Europe and North America. The kits??™ originators had to know what they contained, in order to evaluate the test results. However, when Canada??™s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg identified the strain on 26 March, it alerted the US Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. Worryingly, it initially found the potentially deadly virus in a sample unrelated to the test kit - meaning it had already escaped within the lab.

Test kits for flu are not handled at a high level of biological containment as it is generally assumed they do not carry unusually dangerous viruses. But its escape in the Winnipeg lab is worrying, as the lab contains facilities with the highest level of containment and its staff is expected to maintain high levels of lab hygiene. Its most probable route of escape into the outside world would be if a lab worker catches the Asian flu, then passes it on.

But there has been no sign of the virus infecting humans yet, says Klaus Stöhr, chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization in Geneva. But as the usual northern flu season is just ending it is not clear if any cases would have been noticed.

???If this incident doesn't cause a major reassessment of the safety of flu research, a lab-sponsored pandemic may well be the only thing that induces sobriety,??? comments Ed Hammond of the Sunshine Project, a biosafety pressure group.

Source: New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7261

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- WATCH WHERE YOU STEP DEPARTMENT -

Group Plans Expedition to Find Death Worm
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In a little under three weeks, the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) will be in Mongolia hunting the illusive Mongolian Death Worm. So what??™s the plan, how do we intend to find and prove its existence?

Our intended itinerary should consist of the below (but not necessarily in this order). During the trip we hope to meet local Death Worm researchers who will update us with the latest sightings and help explain the myth that surrounds these mysterious creatures. As with all expeditions, things can and I expect will go wrong and probably take longer to travel from A to B! But hopefully we will spend the maximum 22 days on the edge of the Gobi in the Noyon area

    * 6 days and 1425 kms taking 4WD minibus.
    * 22 days exploring (hunting) Death Worm in Gobi (Noyon area).
    * 2 days interest museums, monasteries and shopping in Ulaanbaatar.
    * 25 nights in tents.
    * 2 nights in gers (yurts).
    * 3 nights in hotel in Ulaanbaatar.
    * Total trip time, 30 days.

While camping in the Noyon area we intend to distribute leaflets among the local villages (written in Mongolian, and stating that we will pay for specimens dead or alive). We intend on damming some of the small streams to create little localised floods in the hope of bringing the Death Worms to the surface. We will be also be laying bucket traps in the hope of catching a Death Worm.

Using jeeps, we will split up into two teems during the day enabling us to cover as wide an area as possible. The Noyon area is several square miles in size and would be impossible to explore on foot.

Death Worm info:
The desolate Gobi Desert is said to be the home of a mysterious, deadly creature called Allghoi khorkhoi, also known as the Mongolian death worm. It is described as a fat, bright red snakelike animal measuring two to four feet in length, which is vividly likened to a cow's intestine. In fact, the name Allghoi khorkhoi means "intestine worm." The death worm is so feared among the people of Mongolia that many consider the mere mention of its name bad luck, and it is attributed with the dramatic ability to kill people and animals instantly at a range of several feet. It is believed that the worm sprays an immensely lethal poison, or that it somehow transmits high electrical charges into its victims.

The foremost investigator of the Mongolian death worm is Czech author Ivan Mackerle, who first learned about the creature from a female student from Mongolia. After Mackerle told her about a diving expedition he had made in search of the Loch Ness Monster, she told him in a conspiratorial whisper, "We, too, have a horrible creature living in Mongolia. We call it the Allghoi khorkhoi monster, and it lives buried in the Gobi Desert sand dunes. It can kill a man, a horse, even a camel."

Intrigued, Mackerle set out to learn more about this Mongolian monster, but information on the topic was very hard to come by. As he would soon learn, this was primarily because most Mongolians were afraid to discuss the death worm. In addition, the Communist government of Mongolia had kept the nation isolated, and outlawed the search for Allghoi khorkhoi, which the government considered a "fairy tale." Communism collapsed in Mongolia in 1990, and the new political climate provided Mackerle the freedom to mount an expedition to the country's desert wastes to hunt for the worm.

Mackerle and his colleagues befriended some Mongolian nomads who were willing to discuss the death worm, after a couple of bottles of Mongolian vodka loosened their tongues. They said that the worm squirts an acidic liquid that immediately makes anything it touches turn yellow and corroded. The nomads also said that the color yellow attracts the Allghoi khorkhoi. They told a story of a young boy who was playing outside with a yellow toy box, a death worm crawled inside. When the boy touched the worm, he was killed instantly. The boy's parents found his body and a wavy trail leading away in the sand. They knew what had happened and followed the trail to kill the worm, but it killed them instead.

Mackerle's group also encountered an old woman named Puret who reluctantly agreed to discuss the worm. "I have never personally seen the Allghoi khorkhoi," she said, "but I have heard much about it. It is said to move about under the sand, and when it wants to kill someone, it moves half its length out of the sand. It starts to inflate. The bubble on its body keeps getting larger, and, in the end, the poison squirts out from it."

If the Mongolian death worm is real, it might not actually be a worm. Annelids and similar invertebrates are unable to survive in a brutally hot and dry climate like the Gobi desert, because their bodies cannot retain moisture and they would rapidly die of dessication. It has been suggested that Allghoi khorkhoi might be a worm that has adapted some sort of cuticle membrane to hold in moisture, but a more reasonable candidate would be a snake or other reptile.

Mackerle has posited that the creature might be a skink, a strange variety of lizard whose nondescript head is hard to distinguish from its tail. Skinks also live buried under desert sands. But they have four stubby legs and scales, unlike the reportedly smooth-bodied death worm. Mackerle has also suggested that it could be a type of lizard called the worm lizard, although that species is not poisonous. Among lizards, only the Mexican beaded lizard and the gila monster possess poisonous venom, but they do not squirt it, and their venom definitely is not instantly lethal on contact.

Another possibility is that the death worm is a member of the cobra family called the death adder. This species has an appearance similar to the descriptions of the Allghoi khorkhoi, and it does spray its venom. But although the death adder could conceivably survive in the Gobi environment, they are found only in Australia and New Guinea.

Then there is the matter of the death worm's reputed ability to kill its victims from a far distance, without even shooting venom. Some have proposed that this might be performed with an electrical shock of some sort. This hypothesis might have arisen from an association with the electric eel, but the eel and all similar electricity-discharging animals are fishes, and none of them could have the ability to live on land, much less in a desert.

CFZ Project/Expedition Background:
We intend to build on the information gathered by explorer Adam Davies during his trip in 2003. He has garnered enough information on the animal to give us hope that if we are to secure the right equipment and the right export permits we may be able to catch a number of these remarkable animals bring them back alive to Britain. Our working hypothesis is that the legendary Mongolian Deathworm is actually a legless lizard or snake, shaped somewhat like a maggot and emitting a deadly poison. It appears to live underground for most of the year and has been only seen during high summer. Bearing in mind Richard Freeman??™s has been a head reptile keeper at a British zoo, we feel confident that this project will be a success. However, a large amount of equipment will need to be purchased and the sheer logistics of a manning such an expedition will be very expensive. As on our other projects we would be perfectly prepared to take volunteers from underprivileged backgrounds with us.

Source: CRYPTOWORLD
http://cryptoworld.co.uk/

- BALL LIGHTNING OR BUST DEPARTMENT -

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Giant explosions and blinding flashes of lights have been blighting the lives of people living in Peterborough for centuries. Now an expert has claimed that the city could be a hotspot for a mysterious phenomenon that is baffling scientists all over the globe.

Peter van Doorn, an expert carrying out research into some of the most dangerous elements that can strike earth literally like a bolt from the blue, believes a house in Stanground could have been hit by something deadlier than lightning ??“ a fireball.

Mr van Doorn, director of the Ball Lightning Research Division of TORRO (Tornado and Storm Research Organisation) at Oxford Brookes University, was intrigued by The Evening Telegraph report into a strike on the home of Kirsty and Michael Dawson, in Barham Close, Stanground.

After reading how the bungalow was blasted during a sudden thunderstorm, leaving a hole ripped through the roof, and heavy electrical appliances moved, Mr van Doorn was fascinated and felt it had all the hallmarks of "a fireball event."

The expert decided to carry out some fast research work, and now believes that Peterborough could be a hotspot for such bombshells from the sky.

Mr van Doorn, who scans the media for evidence of strikes and read the report on our website, said: "A fireball is very different from a bolt of lightning.

"They fall down from the sky, and have been seen to enter houses before exploding. They have ripped holes in walls and in roofs, and have caused all sorts of strange occurrences.

"They have been seen during thunderstorms and, even, when the weather has been fine.

"Witnesses have described hearing a massive explosion followed by a brilliant flash of light. They are formed in the atmosphere and fall to earth. They can be deadly. They could kill, there's no doubt about that.

"They are a very genuine phenomenon and are becoming more and more important."

Mr van Doorn said the form of ball lightning could vary in size from as small as a golf ball to as large as a kilometre in diameter.

And he said they could hang in the air for several minutes as they fell to earth.

He said: "You can't predict what it's going to do. It's almost like a nuclear reactor. Fireballs or ball lightning are a compact ball containing a reservoir of energy which explodes on contact with the earth. They're most extraordinary things.

"Even after the ball has exploded there can be other events for some time afterwards. There have been reports of areas of pressure hanging around in houses and people have complained of getting headaches after the strike.

"Peterborough does seem to be a hotspot for strikes and these fireballs, but we just don't know why. It may be the flatlands, intervening hills and the influence of the Fens, or it may be a connection to the North Sea, but it's a new subject and we are still breaking ground.

"But if it's happened once it can happen again."

Cold comfort for Peterborough people who fear ordinary lightning ??“ never mind fireballs.

Fireballs may have created shock, fear, and disaster in the Peterborough throughout history.

Researcher Peter van Doorn pointed to the work of renowned 19th century poet John Clare, who lived at Helpston, near Peterborough, as containing potential evidence of fireball events.

He said: "In his poetry John Clare was haunted by mysterious lights above Peterborough. Maybe the lights he was referring to in his poetry were more examples of fireballs."

And there are more cases that Mr van Doorn claims backs up his claims.

??? July 11, 1806: During a thunderstorm over Peterborough, a fireball fell and exploded in the marketplace causing considerable alarm.

??? July 28, 1806: A fireball was recorded as falling at Elton, near Peterborough.

Barbara Mastrullo was at home with her family in Peterborough when a bolt of lightning hit the roof of their house.

She said: "It came over really black, like we were going to have a storm, then there was one flash and a bang and that was it. There wasn't a storm just a flash which hit our house."

The bolt, in July 2003, hit the top of the roof and the TV aerial.

The electricity surge wrecked the television and video.

Mrs Mastrullo, who lives with her husband Tony and three children, Lisa, Gemma and Craig, in Woodcote Close, Dogsthorpe, added: "We ran outside and had a look at where it hit. There were no other flashes we must have just been very unlucky."

George McCann (70) and his wife Margaret (69) had a lucky escape when their home was rocked by an explosion during a thunderstorm in October 2003.

They were at a friend's house when a huge surge of energy wrecked their property in Davids Close, Werrington, Peterborough at about 4pm.

Mr McCann said: "It hit the tree first, then blew up two sheds and the greenhouse before it came into the house.

The surge then moved into the catering kitchen and blew the windows out at the back of the house.

"We were very lucky. It was unbelievable how powerful it was."

The force of the explosion wrecked the television, DVD player and fuse box inside the home and affected televisions and appliances in homes several streets away.

Mr McCann said he believed the strike which caused the damage to his home, could have been a fireball.

He said: "A friend of mine saw it come over my house. She said that everything went pitch black but the lightning didn't drop down out of the sky. She heard a big bang and saw the light going down to my tree. I don't know where it came from."

Source: Peterborough Today
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=
845&ArticleID=998702

- WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE DEPARTMENT -

Messages of Water

How much do we know about water? A Japanese scientist claims that water has consciousness and that the love and respect we show toward water will determine our future existence

As in many ancient civilisations, water has served as an integral part of Thai culture and is part of almost all rituals and festivities, from births and weddings, to commencing business and performing funeral rites.

It is believed that water in those rituals will bring blessings to us for prosperity and good health, or to carry our merit to the spirits in the world beyond.

Many, however, believe this to be merely tradition and superstition.

But Japanese researcher and alternative medicine advocate Dr Masaru Emoto says that perhaps our ancestors knew about the power of water far better than modern day people do.

Based on extensive experiments with water, Dr Emoto claims to have discovered that water, more than a billion years old, and a basic component of many lifeforms on this planet, has consciousness and can perceive, remember, and communicate with its environment like any other living organism.

"We know very little about water. Unless we become aware of its significance and learn the wrongs we have done [in regard to water] we won't be able to live in healthy harmony with it," said Dr Emoto, who recently visited Chulalongkorn University to give a talk on his findings, which served as the basis for his book, entitled Messages from Water.

He said it was utterly important to learn about water. We are living on a water planet; two-thirds of its surface area is covered by water. Most importantly, our body is made up of over 70 percent water. In short, "we are basically water," he said.

As an alternative medical doctor who incorporates water into his practice, Dr Emoto believes that water has healing power, and he committed himself to unravelling the mysteries of that power. In 1994, he began research using Magnetic Resonance Analyser (MRA) technology to measure the properties of water. MRA has been used worldwide in alternative medicine to measure the ability of the human body to resonate, or vibrate, at certain frequencies, as well as to test natural healing substances.

This may be considered un-scientific to many as it takes a completely different turn from conventional scientific instruments. However, the doctor believes that to uncover the consciousness of water, a paradigm shift of thought and approach was required.

Together with his team and a wide pool of volunteers, Dr Emoto collected numerous water samples from many parts of Japan and around the world. His daily observations of water were done in a freezer room. To capture the secrets of water on film, he had to take a photograph at the moment when the frozen ice crystals started to liquefy.

He placed each sample of water on a series of 100 petri dishes, putting them in a freezer at minus 5C for two hours. When ready for photographing, he would take out the samples, then frozen into crystals, and put them under a microscope to be photographed at magnifications of 200 to 500 times. When the temperature rose to about 0C, a split moment before the frozen flakes became liquid, they would show certain crystal structures.

"It is impossible to obtain identical crystal pictures even from one type of water ... but there is a certain tendency in all of the samples to form a crystal grid," he wrote in his book.

Over a period of four and a half years, his team made about 10,000 pictures of water crystals.

After observing the crystallisation process a few thousand times, Dr Emoto said each crystal seemed to be trying hard to become beautiful. "It's trying to purify itself," he wrote.

"Healthy water will show a complete hexagonal crystal structure while the chipping away and/or collapsing of crystal structures are not good signs," he explained. It may indicate some impediments are obstructing the process.

This might explain why a number of water samples from urban settings do not show fine crystal structures, while water from remote rural areas seems to have better crystal structures.

Dr Emoto explained that water contains Hado, an intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter, the smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness. And the vibration of water can be observed in the form of crystal structures.

"Water is the most receptive of the four elements. It responds," he said.

To prove this, Dr Emoto played music for water samples. One by one, he put a bottle of distilled water between two amplifiers and played different kinds of music. Water, hearing music by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, seemed to boast clear and beautiful crystal structures, whereas water hearing pop and heavy metal music was not able to produce well-structured crystals, he claimed.

Further, Dr Emoto tested what effect the chanting of monks would have on water. The result? All water samples that were offered prayers showed clear and spectacular crystal structures.

"Water is capable of memorising sound vibrations, which results in crystallisation," he said. "Musical vibrations contain positive and negative energies, depending on the information inscribed into them. Water reflects what it perceives," he said.

Dr Emoto also tried to show that water can perceive energy from pictures and words. "Letters and pictures contain vibrations, too. Our consciousness, values and feelings are imprinted on such objects."

To us, the word "devil" carries a negative meaning. When Dr Emoto attached a piece of paper with the word "devil' on it to a bottle of water, he claimed that after 24 hours the result was a deformed, blackish structure, with no crystallisation at all. On the contrary, when he used the word "angel" in the same type of experiment, beautiful hexagonal crystals formed.

Electrical appliances can affect water too, according to experiments done by Dr Emoto. Though he placed a glass of water in front of a running computer monitor for four hours, no crystals were produced. However, when he attached a piece of paper to a sample bearing a positive word like "love", crystals developed. Dr Emoto also placed a bottle of water near a television playing a movie with a positive storyline. The water formed beautiful crystals.

"Water absorbs and is influenced by its surroundings. The medium is not as important as the energy it conveys. If you have a happy and positive conversation on a mobile phone, the water will form good crystals too.

"Positive information results in beautiful hexagonal crystals, while negative information shows otherwise," he said. "If we are aware of this and communicate good feelings and messages, the quality of crystals will be beautiful, and hence the quality of the water will be good too," he said.

He suggested that we take care of the water that is within ourselves. "As we are mainly composed of water, we should vibrate good energy to the water in our bodies."

Positive thinking and emotions, for example, can readily affect the quality of water in our body, hence affecting the condition of our health. Stress, a cause of many illnesses, is a result of the bad energy we carry in our body's water.

He added that we should also be kind to other water-based beings, which, in fact, includes all living things on Earth. He said we could create positive energy flows between ourselves and other creatures.

Sadly, water around the world today has become highly polluted and contaminated as a result of our un-gratefulness and ignorance. However, Dr Emoto argued that we have the power to improve the quality of contaminated water by becoming more grateful for it.

A picture of the crystal structure of the rainwater in Tokorozawa city, taken in June 1998, showed no crystallisation. But once the citizens became aware of their city's environmental problems, pictures of water samples taken in February 1999 began to show beautiful crystal shapes.

"By changing the vibration, we can change the substance. So we can alter the environment," he said.

To many scientists, Dr Emoto's findings may be less than scientific. However, Dr Emoto hopes they will raise awareness among people of the importance of water, and change their outlook and treatment of it, the origin and essence of our being.

To learn more about Dr Emoto's work and pictures of crystals, see www.hado.net

Source: Bangkok Post
http://www.bangkokpost.com/en/Outlook/13Apr2005_out10.php

- SUPERNATURAL DEATH STALKS THE CELLS DEPARTMENT -

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COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao, Philippines -- Fear continues to grip some 50 prisoners of the City Reformatory Center with the death of an inmate due to "cardiac arrest" on Wednesday, the fourth in less than a month.

Medical findings showed they died of heart failure but prison officials expressed doubts after tales of horror by inmates, who claimed to have witnessed and experienced the presence, in various occasions, of ghosts, a white lady, children playing, a giant creature and other eerie sights, cropped up, said city jail warden Insp. Panga Arab.

Arab said Rikki Mohammad Talilisan, 25, died while being rushed to the Cotabato Regional Medical Center.

Arab earlier sought the intervention of Islam and Catholic clerics following the death of the first three inmates prior to the observance of Holy Week.

Confirmed dead due to the so-called "cardiac pulmonary arrest" were Moki Sinsuat (March 14), Sherwin Tanghal (March 16), and Jaime Cardines (March 19), all in their early 20s.

"Before their death, they've been talking about seeing supernatural beings. Could it be that these inmates had been victims of witchcraft?" Arab asked.
Despite religious rituals aimed at driving out evil spirits, the reformatory center accounted for another puzzling death of a young inmate, jail guards commented.

Arab and the guards said they believed the presence of a huge balete tree at the jail compound could be the source of the horror stories.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://news.inq7.net/regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=33228

- HIGH STRANGENESS AROUND THE GREAT LAKES DEPARTMENT -

???Michigan Triangle??™ May be to Blame for Weird Occurrences

Almost 18 percent of the earth??™s supply of surface fresh water is contained in the Great Lakes.

Water is essential to life, but great expanses of water can also be a hostile environment. Searching for a lost object just a few hundred feet under water can be a daunting task, requiring special equipment and training. The cold dark depths of any great body are also mysterious, and in some ways frightening, because they conceal the unknown.

Many stories have been written of weird and unexplained happenings in an area off Florida known as the Bermuda Triangle.

It is said that in this area, boats and planes have disappeared in good weather with no evidence ever found as to why they vanished. UFO sightings are supposedly frequent in the area. Many boats have also reported compass failures and unexplained trouble inside the triangle.

But did you know that almost at our very doorstep, another ???mysterious triangle??? exists? The triangle I am speaking of is known as the Michigan Triangle. The boundaries are said to be from Ludington, Mich., to Benton Harbor, Mich., and then across the lake to Manitowoc and back to Ludington.

Numerous stories have been told of unexplained disappearances, weird happenings, periods when time seems to slow down or speed up and the appearance of strange creatures.

A well-documented case is the disappearance of Capt. George R. Donner of the lake freighter O.M. McFarland from his cabin while the ship was under way on April 28, 1937. The McFarland had picked up 9,800 tons of coal in Erie, Penn., and then headed west through the lakes bound for Port Washington.

Because it was early in the season, the lakes and the locks in the upper part of the Great Lakes were still choked with ice, which slowed the McFarland??™s progress.

Capt. Donner had remained on the bridge many hours guiding his ship through the treacherous ice floes. When at last the ship turned into Lake Michigan, the exhausted captain retired to his cabin, with the instructions that he be called when the ship neared Port Washington.

Some three hours later as the McFarland neared her destination, the second mate went to the captain??™s cabin to awaken him as instructed, but the captain was not there. Thinking that Donner had gone to the galley for a late-night snack, the second mate checked the galley and learned that the captain had not been there.

The mate and other sailors began an exhaustive search of the vessel, but to no avail ??” the captain had disappeared. No clue as to what happened to Donner was ever found.

When Captain Donner vanished from his cabin on the McFarland, it was said that his cabin door was locked from the inside.

Ironically, the day Donner disappeared was his 58th birthday. The captain??™s disappearance is as much a mystery today as it ever was.

Believers in the Lake Michigan Triangle point out that the O.M. McFarland was in the triangle when Donner vanished.

A more recent event took place on June 23, 1950, when Northwestern Airlines flight 2501 took off from New York with a crew of 3 and 55 passengers bound for Minneapolis.

Later that night at 11:37 p.m., the large, four-engine DC-4 reported that it was at 3,500 feet over Battle Creek, Mich. Due to bad weather near Chicago, the plane changed its course to a northwesterly direction over Lake Michigan, with an estimated time of arrival over Milwaukee of 11:51 p.m.

From there, the plane simply vanished ??” nothing of the plane or its 58 occupants was ever seen again.

A massive Coast Guard search turned up only a blanket bearing the airline??™s logo. Triangle believers again point out that the tragic loss of flight 2501occurred near the center of the Lake Michigan Triangle.

For hundreds of years, sightings of a strange creature have been reported in Loch Ness in Scotland.

In our Pacific Northwest a land animal that has become known as ???Bigfoot??? or ???Sasquatch??? has been sighted by many reputable people. In the Himalayan mountains this same animal is known as ???Yeti??? or the ???abominable snowman??? after the terrible odor he is said to emit. In 1987 a lighthearted movie called ???Harry and the Hendersons??? was made about an ???abominable snowman.???

But were you aware that just 30 miles north of Sheboygan just such a sighting occurred?

Back in the late 1930s it was reported that about dusk one warm summer evening, two young boys were walking along a railroad right-of-way when they stated they heard a fearsome roar or scream quite unlike anything they had ever heard before. Just a short time later they saw what they described as a large hair-covered man-like creature in the brush nearby.

The boys said the ???thing??? was light colored but very dirty and walked upright. Not wishing to get to know the frightful oddity any better, the boys rapidly departed the scene.

As for large sea monster type animals, there have been reports of strange creatures seen in Lake Michigan as far back as the early 1800s. The Indians also had many stories in their folk lore of what they referred to as sprit creatures, which they claimed to have sighted in many small lakes around Wisconsin.

One of these strange sighting occurred right here in Sheboygan County; in fact, it was said to have happened at Elkhart Lake in the early 1900s.

As the story goes, a local fisherman put out a set line, which is a long fish line with many hooks which is anchored to the bottom and fastened to a post or tree on shore. In this case the fisherman had fastened his set line to a post that was part of a small pier jutting out into the lake.

After setting his fish line, the fisherman returned home with the intention of returning the next day to pull up the line and retrieve any fish he may have caught.

Early the next morning, the fisherman returned to his set line and as he tried to pull it in, he apparently had caught a very large fish, as he found it very difficult to pull in the line. After great effort was expended he finally was about to pull whatever was on the line close to the dock.

Suddenly the unknown creature gave tremendous pull in the opposite direction. Catching the fisherman off-balance, it flung him head over heels into the lake.

Spitting and sputtering, the astonished angler managed to get his head above water only to be looking straight at a large head rising above the water. The frightened man said the animal had large jaws, which were wide open, and flashing eyes. Somehow the panic-stricken man was able to gain shore and run for his life.

When recounting the story the fisherman often claimed that he barely escaped with his life. As the story got around, it was noted that for that particular summer there was a definite lack of swimmers in the water. It might be further noted that the ???sea monster,??? or what ever it was, was never seen again.

In the late 1890s several commercial fisherman were setting their nets in Lake Michigan just off Jones Island in the Milwaukee area. Suddenly they stated they saw the head of a large ferocious-looking beast rise above the water.

The fishermen said they were not far away and got a good look at the creature before it submerged. Not long after, several young boys sailing in Milwaukee harbor saw what they at first thought was a large cluster of debris floating in the water. But as they drew closer, they saw what they later described as a large serpent-like animal floating on top of the water. The boys then fled the area, having no desire to investigate the creature at closer quarters.

There have been many reports of monster like fish or serpents in Lake Michigan over the years; the creatures have been given several names, among them, Michie and Mickey.

Do they really exist? Those who have claimed to have seen them swear that they do.

Next time you take a walk along the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan, keep your eyes on the water.

Today??™s Tidbit: A young college student sunning herself on a pier on Lake Monona, some 20 or more years ago, felt something tickling her foot. When she looked down, she saw what she described as a sea serpent licking her foot.

Source: The Sheboygan Press
http://www.wisinfo.com/sheboyganpress/news/archive/local_20494839.shtml

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