According to a recent statement by Father Gabriele Amorth, chief exorcist at the Vatican, “The Devil resides in the Vatican and you can see the consequences.” Using his powers of evil to shape shift, disappear, speak in different foreign languages, “or even appear to be sympathetic,” Father Amorth says the Prince of Darkness works constantly to undermine his holy efforts, but still claims to be “a man who is happy in his work.”

An interview the priest gave to news source La Repubblica was recently picked up by European news sources like The Telegraph, in which Amorth describes William Peter Blaty’s 1973 film The Exorcist as a “substantially exact” representation of demonic possession, though a few circumstances pertaining to exorcisms he has performed in the past may actually be more startling than those witnessed on film.

Revised in January 1998, Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications is a document of the Catholic Church that details the age-old rite of exorcism. The following is an excerpt from an early version of this document, revised in 1614:

I command you, unclean spirit, whoever you are, along with all your minions now attacking this servant of God, by the mysteries of the incarnation, passion, resurrection and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the descent of the Holy Spirit, by the coming of our Lord for judgment, that you tell me by some sign your name, and the day and hour of your departure. I command you, moreover, to obey me to the letter, I who am a minister of God despite my unworthiness; nor shall you be emboldened to harm in any way this creature of God, or the bystanders, or any of their possessions.

Serving under circumstances similar to these himself, arguably one of the stranger facets of possession Amorth cites details how victims vomit various strange things during the rite of exorcism, including rose petals, shards of glass and “pieces of iron as long as a finger.” Amorth, who is eighty five years old, claims to have performed 70,000 exorcisms in his lifetime. Nonetheless, the Catholic Church today more often will only condone exorcisms in extreme circumstances and after special investigation into the matter, since more often it is assumed that the victim suffers from some manifestation of psychosis or other mental disorder.

Amorth holds true to his creed regardless, certain that evil forces act on us in this world. “The exorcist has one principal duty,” he cryptically states. “To free human beings from the fear of the Devil.”

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Occasionally amidst reports of mystery beasts and strange critters seen the world over, Australia’s loveable leaper, the kangaroo, appears in various distant locales under the rather Fortean label of “out-of-place-animals.”

Kangaroos have, from time to time, been kept as pets in parts of America and the UK, and escapees do sometimes result in what might be classified as “anomalous” sightings of the creatures.

Journalist Chris Cunnyrigham notes that “These animals have a propensity for showing up in areas outside their native Australia,” citing colonies that have appeared in Europe, for example under various circumstances. “These… were engendered by human agency (escaped pets and menageries of animal enthusiasts) and still don’t account for the phenomenon known as Phantom Kangaroos.” Indeed, there are many reports of kangaroos turning up in what are simply the oddest places imaginable–with no apparent human intervention of any kind–begging the question “how did the ever manage to get there?”

One recent string of reports involves the appearance of phantom marsupials north of Tokyo, Japan. Below is a short statement detailing the activity, as reported by ABC News:

The descriptions given by the apparent eyewitnesses seem close enough. For years they have spoken of a beige animal with large ears, one to 1.5 metres tall, that stands by the roadside and then hops away.

The sightings were all reported in the Mayama mountain district of Osaki city in Miyagi prefecture, a community of 441 households, located about 350 kilometres north of Tokyo.

Reports such as these are, for the most part, fairly mundane. However, in my own article “Screaming Kangaroos: Large Anomalous Marsupials in the USA?” I noted a few strange encounters with what have been described as “kangaroo-like” animals, some of which were violent, even resulting in death:

In the United States, reports of what have been called “phantom kangaroos” have been chronicled for decades, namely by researchers like Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman. In the state of Tennessee going back as far back as 1934, an “atypical kangaroo” was reportedly killing and partially devouring several animals, including German shepherd dogs in mid to late January. One witness, Reverend W. J. Hancock, described the animal as “looking like a large kangaroo, running and leaping across a field.” Another witness, Frank Cobb, claimed to have found a dismembered Alsatian, which he believed had been killed by the phantom marsupial. According to legend, a search party was formed, which followed the kangaroo’s prints to a nearby cave, where the trail ran out. The alleged “killer kangaroo” was never apprehended.

In addition to raising many eyebrows, this report raises a variety of questions; kangaroos, known to be strict herbivores, wouldn’t be killing and devouring small animals, let alone German shepherds. Additionally, the only reliably documented case of a kangaroo attack resulting in a human death occurred in New South Wales, in 1936, where a hunter was killed after trying to rescue his two dogs from a fight that had ensued with a kangaroo.

As often as they are reported, where do these “Phantom Kangaroos” come from? Aside from their obvious point of origin in the Land Down Under, what abilities do they mask that might allow them such curious abilities to travel great distances… or are they merely getting a little help from time to time, courtesy of folks who might fancy them as pets?

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This week we interview Clairvoyant Elizabeth Lucy and Aaron has a reading with some intriguing results.

We take a look at the definitive “proof” that UFOs exist, uncover some bizarre horse phenomena and Aaron jumps for joy with the development of hangover-free alcohol.

The winners of our best FAKE Whistleblowers contest are announced at the end of the show.

Show notes, music and video after the jump.

Elizabeth Lucy

Elizabeth Lucy Clairvoyant

“Proof” UFOs Exist

Ghost Auction

The Water Bull

The PNG Pterosaur

The Cryptoterrestrials

Autumn Williams Bigfoot Researcher Revelations

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Humanoid / Cryptid Encounters 10

Shadow People Strike Again

Straight from the Horse’s Mane

Personal Memory Device

Raining… dolls, blood and eggs?

Hangover-Free Alcohol

Trouble in The Vatican

Contest Winners: Congrats to Jeremiah and Zack (Zack, please email us as we don’t have your phone number!)

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Music

Ultravid – Clan Of Wow (Kingdom Remix) via FUNKISM

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“Distant” (mp3)
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Mujava – Mugwanti / Sgwejegweje (Schlachthofbronx Remix) via Fried My Little Brain

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Waxolutionists – Flashlight feat. Hygher Baby via undomondo

Kaidi Tatham – I’m High via undomondo

Persuader – Bottle Up via undomondo

Kris Menace & Fred Falke – Enamoured via Tracasseur

Final Track – Free Show

Auxiliary tha Masterfader – Disco Bitch (Shook Remix) via Tracasseur

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Si*Sé – This Love via undomondo

Final Track

Electroid 2000 – Moogsters Revenge via motel de moka

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Typically, having a run-in with a UFO is a chance encounter, having more to do with being at the right place at the right time rather than knowing where to look.

However, occasionally reports of alleged UFOs appearing consistently in a region, and even hovering in plain site, do occur. No greater instance of this in recent times exists than the sudden dramatic appearances of strange airborne objects over China in the last few weeks.

Researcher Michael Cohen recently detailed one such UFO “mega event” at his popular All News Web UFO site:

“A UFO event involving hundreds of witnesses took place In the city of Huaian in China on 27 February at 8pm. The event is currently being discussed vigorously by China’s hundreds of thousands of UFO enthusiasts, eagerly searching for that conclusive event or sighting that will prove for once and for all that we here on Earth are indeed being visited by aliens.”

Although area meteorologists offered the explanation that the “object” was actually a spotlight being reflected off a cloud bank, witnesses described the UFO as a “classically shaped flying saucer,” witnessed by hundreds.

Now, evoking images of a similar object some claim appeared over the Kremlin in Russia only weeks ago, a video filmed in China and subsequently uploaded to YouTube purports to show what Cohen calls “the clearest UFO ever filmed in China.” Below is the video in question… is this a computer manipulation, a “kite” as some have suggested, or something truly out of this world?

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After suspicions arise on the possibility of our studio being haunted, we take a look at several amazing Puerto Rican encounters, and body containers seen by abductees.

We also have more on Mermen, Ley Lines, and the Top 10 disturbing sleep disorders.

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Last week on MU311, Ben and Aaron reported the Royal Astronomer’s observation that ET may be within spitting distance, although he didn’t use those exact words. What he said was “I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”

Hmmm? When he references the intelligence of “chimpanzees” is  he really talking  about untutored types (like ourselves) who believe there are flying saucers from outer space visiting Earth? I’m guessing he thinks we’ll never be as wise as he is, but I suggest that he is dead wrong about our chances to best the chimps.  In fact, allow me to posit that we are learning more about ET and UFOs than the Royal Stargazer could even  imagine.

After listening to Ben and Aaron’s debate on the nature of the UFO phenomena, I began canvassing the paranormal blogs to get a snapshot of prevailing opinions on the subject. The inescapable truth is that UFOs are raining down from the heavens like Australian spangled perch.

On any given Google search you’ll find UFOs low , silver, and smokey morphing in the morning and glowing by night.

While one deadly serious group calls for yet another press conference ,  this time on the danger of UFO incursions at U.S. nuclear weapons sites over the past six decades, others contend that the aliens are not only among us, they rule us (coincidentally, by using the same institutions humans do to rule). Or, they’re not among us but above us, watching with angelic superiority but refusing to engage in our pathetic groveling . Or relying  on “experts” to prove UFOs are real and then inexplicably offering  “testimony” that proves nothing of the sort:

Like this from Stephen Hawking:

“Of course it is possible that UFO’s really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the Government is hushing it up.”

Or this from the Director of the Vatican Observatory, The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes:

“The vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.”

Nonetheless, the internet compendium of inconclusive photographic evidence, uncorroborated eye-witness accounts, conspiracy theorizing and wide-ranging speculation is confusing, overwhelming and confounding. Yet one can’t help but come away with the idea that we’re on to something even if we don’t know exactly what it is we know.

Not long ago the NPR radio show “This American Life” ran a story about storage-locker auctions. They are places where people store their excess stuff, businesses cache their inventory, and where people hide the evidence of their secret lives.

When folks fail to pay their rent because they’re broke, or dead or decide the stuff they’ve stored is worth less then the back rent, the property is auctioned off.

The people who frequent these auctions know the drill: the auctioneer opens the shed door and allows a glimpse of what’s inside. The bidders can’t enter the unit, or touch the contents much less move things around. However, after a few auctions they become adept at sizing up the value of what’s inside on the basis of this brief examination. For instance, if the boxes are sturdy, taped securely and stacked neatly it means the owner valued the contents; ergo, it’s worth a bigger bid. If the stuff was tossed in garbage bags, well, it’s most likely garbage inside with little resale potential.

That’s not to say that the regular bidders don’t get taken in by their own greed (”I’ll bet there’s room for a car behind all this junk.”) or miss a treasure because they couldn’t see past their own prejudice, but the bottom line is that given enough experience they can glean a lot of valuable knowledge from very little information.

Astrophysicist  and UFO icon Jacques Vallee speculates that antiquated views of how information works may be key in understanding UFOs and similar phenomena. In Messengers of Deception, UFO Contacts and Cults, Vallee writes:

“Time and space may be convenient notions for plotting the progress of a locomotive, but they are completely useless for locating information….Modern computers retrieve information associatively. You ‘evoke’ the desired records by using keywords, word of power: You request the intersection of microwave and headche and you find twenty articles you never suspected existed. …If we live in the associative universe of the software scientist rather than the sequential universe of the space time physicist, then miracles are no longer irrational events. The philosophy we could devrive would be closer to Islamic ‘Occasionalism’ than to the Catesian or Newtonian universe. And a new theory of information would have to be built. Such a theory might have interesting things to say bout communication with the denizens of othe physical realities.”

Of course, people who receive information in this unorthodox are rarely given credit for their insights. Intellect-wise, critics might even equate them with our ape ancestors.

For example, you’ll remember in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (in which Jacques Vallee himself was “evoked” by “Lacombe” the French-scientist character ), Richard Dryfuss’ character digs up his front lawn and deposits it inside his living room where he proceeds to create a holy mess of dirt and debris. His family flees for fear he’s gone ape.

It turns out that although his methods may have been somewhat destructive and entirely unconventional, the map he molded out of that mud pie took him exactly where he needed to go. And maybe that’s where we UFO watchers are right now, stuck in the mud. We’re bogged down in random data that makes no sense from a linear perspective, but byte by byte, I think the meaning will begin to emerge from our collective molding of the data will finally we’ll figure out what we been getting at all these years.

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A good friend of mine, Javier Ortega, recently featured an article at his website Ghost Theory that discusses fakery going on in the world of televised paranormal reality dramas.

The show in question in Javier’s article, Paranormal State, has come under scrutiny based on a letter from a former client of the team featured on the program, who asserts that one individual “play acted at being psychic” on camera. “He was given every bit of information regarding our case,” the letter reads, “and the identity of the ghost of the past-previous owner of our home who died 28 years before we bought our Gold Beach, Oregon home.”

I have heard a variety of stories along these lines that allege fakery on the set of such television programs, but this certainly doesn’t mean that all shows dealing with supernatural themes are bogus. But how is one expected to know the difference?

Just earlier this week, my colleagues with the L.E.M.U.R. team and I were featured on a new National Geographic program called Paranatural which, I’m proud to say, was by far one of the best presentations we’ve been a part of in the eight years I’ve worked with them. The name National Geographic, both in the television industry and elsewhere, is recognized for being associated with a high quality product that strives never to be overtly credulous. That said, I can attest to the professionalism exhibited by the film crew I worked with; the most we were ever given so far as instruction from our producers (who were genuinely interested in the subject matter, and have maintained contact with us since the initial shoot) was “make it look good for the camera.” I don’t feel in any way that this led to any false impressions being construed to the viewing audience, and overall, I was very happy with the shoot.

So one must ask, why would one program adhere to a stricter regiment of accuracy and honest integrity, while others may not? I think the answer is pretty simple: television, no matter what the content, is always meant to be entertainment.

I know from being involved in regular, very involved research of the supernatural for the last decade that seldom, if ever, do first hand encounters and experiences with unseen forces or otherwise strange phenomena occur. Still, I’ve been lucky enough to have brushes in my life with things I’d deem strange, but my relative lack of interaction with strange phenomena has instilled in me a far more skeptical approach to studying the natural world. This, however, is not a bad thing, in my opinion.

If anything, taking a more skeptical approach to my pursuit of the unexplained has allowed me to rationalize the oddities of this world enough that I feel more justified when I do encounter something truly inexplicable. One might even say that by keeping my hopes down, so to speak, I’m all the more amazed when something credible pops up!

However, those who I call “pseudo skeptics” (i.e. the James Randis of the world) will use things like the recent admission featured in Javier Ortega’s article as fodder for lambasting all research of the unexplained, citing it as evidence of charlatanism which, no doubt, might be traced all the way back to the nineteenth century spiritualists (and earlier). It’s very easy to create a peripheral argument like this, citing one moment of weakness occurring on a television program intended to entertain as “almighty proof” that nothing exists beyond our five senses worthy of wasting time and money on. This is sad, of course, because the most revolutionary research that strives to unravel the mysteries of the universe around us gets prime-time television spots far less often than the rank sensationalism that, in many cases, has less truth and integrity behind it.

Therefore, I simply say, if it’s on TV, take it with a grain of salt and be done with it! Credible news sources around the world provide commentary and insight into strange happenings and fringe science every day, and to be honest, I’d rather read twelve of those for ever one television show you could force me to watch, no matter what the content may be.

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This week, before getting to falling fish and Chupacabra DNA, we again look at Moon conspiracy with NASA’s new Clementine Moon Data changes and the resulting claims of airbrushing.

We also discuss a brilliant write up from the Daily Grail on Cities of Transparent Gold often seen from NDE experiencers, along with new King Arthur evidence, and the resurrection of the Flat Earth Society.

Read on for show notes, video, and music.

Amateur astronomer reports bright red lights in triangle formation

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Costa Rica: UFO Over the Turrialba Volcano

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CLEMENTINE MOON DATA CHANGES

Fish Fall At Lajamanu

10 Year Chupacabras Study: DNA Unknown

Gigantic Rattlesnake Caught in Florida?

Humanoid / Cryptid Encounter Reports 9

Cities of Transparent Gold

Clue to King Arthur discovered

The Earth is flat? What planet is he on?

Personal jet packs to go on sale

Glow in the dark toilet roll developed

Taken!

The 68th Anniversary of The Battle of Los Angeles: An Eye Witness Account of The Huge UFO Being Fired Upon By West Coast Defenses

Reader: Is Bigfoot An Extraterrestrial Being?

Music

Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) via Asian Dan

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Drop Logik
“Out of Headspace” (mp3)
from “Hot Box Studies”
(Black Bridge)

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Andreya Triana – Lost Where I Belong (Flying Lotus Edit) via blahblahblahscience

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Phylum Sinter
“Before The Sun Blinds Us (feat. Tamara Finlay)” (mp3)
from “Detroit Nocturnes”
(MMR – Middle Management Recordings)

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Panacea
“Starlite” (mp3)
from “Ink Is My Drink (Deluxe Edition)”
(Glow In The Dark Records)

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Final Track Free Show

Toro Y Moi – Thanks Vision via Super45

Ernest Gonzales – Self Awakening via Analog Giant

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Turbotito
“Michi” (mp3)
from “Reinterpretations – Inspired By The Works Of Kitaro”
(Kanpai Records)

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Final Track

Bonobo – Eyesdown ft. Andreya Triana (preview edit) via Dancefloor Mayhem

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To kick of this weekend’s installment we look at the recent comments from the Royal astronomer, Alien tracking tricks, and a classic abduction account with chilling regression audio.

(My favorite by far though is the tale of the Idaho Dinosaur!)

Aaron also reveals his plans for self experimentation, this time with mood altering audio.

Links and music after the jump.

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Occasionally we see strange things in the sky that defy logic, and inspire the imagination to wonder whether odd facets of our existence are actually acting on us in our daily lives in ways we can’t comprehend. For the most part, these occurrences are completely random happenings; a mere matter of being “at the right place at the right time.” But what happens when you have locations around the world where anomalous activity not only occurs repeatedly, but predictably?

One such area is the Lineville Gorge, nestled in the Black Mountain Range in Western North Carolina. Although the Southeastern United States is home to a variety of strange phenomenon that captivates the area locals (and researchers abroad), near the vicinity of Brown Mountain, a long, looming ridge in the heart of the Gorge, a spectacular display of “ghost lights” can be seen on a frequent basis which continue to defy rational explanation.

Dubbed “The Brown Mountain Lights” by the locals, the lights are actually seen all throughout the Lineville Gorge, and are variously described as bright, glowing orbs of colored light that manifest and drift slowly upward, sometimes behaving so strangely that witnesses have been led to wonder whether they might somehow be “controlled” by external forces.

During a recent television shoot I participated in with the National Geographic Channel, my associates in the North Carolina-based L.E.M.U.R. Paranormal Investigations group and I managed to capture a spectacular display of odd illuminations while cameras were rolling. Below is a sneak preview of the new program, called Paranatural, which will be airing soon and appearing on the web to view:

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