The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

[Tiki Tom]

It’s enough to drive a guy to the bottle.
You know I don’t buy The Bigfoot legend. There’s simply no way a breeding population could remain hidden, etc., etc.
Then comes along this amazing footage on TikTok.
Must be fake, right?

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/alleged-bigfoot-sighting-video-goes-viral/

Right?

 

[Tiki Tom]

We have a date. Wooly Mammoth returns in 2028.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13920229/plan-bring-woolly-mammoth-2028.html

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I don’t buy The Bigfoot legend. There’s simply no way a breeding population could remain hidden

I question the numbers necessary for a scattered breeding population too. But from time to time unidentified evidence other than footprints does turn up.

For example, what primate or other small animal has an opposable thumb that would make it capable of stripping the fresh meat from between the rib bones of a fish, other than a chimp or a raccoon? And whatever it is is doing it up on the bank & not taking the meat back to water like a raccoon needs to.

 

[Tiki Tom]

My brother lives in small town far-northern California. The size of the wilderness and forests around them is pretty far reaching. He says people in his town kinda chuckle nervously when asked about Sasquatch . Few people are ready to out and out dismiss the sightings and footprints. Most retreat to a safe “who knows?” My bro has a Bigfoot “I want to believe” tshirt that he often wears. He does see a lot of black bear and elk around his property, but no BF so far.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Halloween is approaching (post #1 in the run up to Halloween.)

A whopping 44% of 1,600 Brits interviewed said they’ve seen faeries. 68% of the folks who have seen faeries are women. Sightings are often fleeting and the faeries are often seen peripherally. That notwithstanding, some encounters are more meaty and detailed. The level of belief is perhaps surprising… but maybe not.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/women-believe-fairies-real-study/

Any Brits care to weigh-in ?

As Halloween approaches, have you had any unexplainable experiences? Do you have any connections with ancient Celts and their belief in Samhain, the end of the year when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest. (Samhain was later christianized to All Hallows Eve, or Halloween.)

It is time to shake your boo thang! What stories or interests have you got?

 

[Tiki Tom]

I was always intrigued by the old yarn about Noah's Ark being found on Mount Ararat, in modern-day Turkey.

Here we go! Time to grab your fedora and hop a DC3 to Istanbul.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ancient-structure-emerges-mount-ararat-090000958.html

Of course, this story pops up periodically. But you know what they say: where there is smoke, there’s fire. Perhaps there is something to it.

On another topic:

Mysterious doorway spotted in Antarctica on Google Maps. Is it the Entrance to that long rumored Nazi Base?




F.L.A.S.K. Field Teams are gonna be busy this week. If you are up for a little adventure, post your availability and gather your gear…

 

[Tiki Tom]

Gunung Padang is in the news again. You know that pyramid in Indonesia that is claimed to be 25,000 years old and man made.

https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/worlds-oldest-pyramid-gunung-padang-2669448879

My inclination is to agree that more international research is needed. But not by people with preset agendas. This Flint Dibble character is building a brand as a professional debunker. That is just as unscientific as the misty-eyed believers who are completely uncritical. Dig away! The evidence will Provide itself. Or not.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Run up to Halloween post #2

My wife grew up in Hawaii and —in part to take care of her Almost 90 year old mother— we moved to Hawaii when I retired. One of the things I like about Hawaii is its wealth of ghost stories. Many of the stories have deep roots in the Native Hawaiian culture and are respected, even in this scientific age.

One story that you will certainly hear is about “the Night Marchers”. On certain nights it is said that you might witness a string of torches coming down from the mountains. Soon you will hear drums. A parade of ghostly ancient Hawaiian warriors will march by as they escort a high ranking chief to the sea. Do not look at them! If you do you will perish. Instead you are instructed to lay flat on the ground and close your eyes until they are gone. This ghost story still lives! One path of the night marchers is said to cross the campus of Kamehameha School. Another comes down from Kualoa Valley. Heart attacks and Midnight car crashes are sometimes attributed to the tale.

Another one: Madame Pele (the Volcano goddess) is still occasionally seen at night hitchhiking on the road that separates windward from leeward Oahu. She appears as an old woman in a long flowing gown. Typically, when you pick her up, she will vanish into thin air.

I personally have met a man who claims he saw Kamapua’a one dark night when he was cutting across a golf course. Kamapua’a is a demigod said to be half man, half wild boar. The old guy also said he’s seen the mythical (I think) wreck of a WWII bomber that supposedly exists in the rugged mountains of Oahu. And, of course, there are ancient (true) burial caves up there that are Kapu (Taboo).

These stories add a little color and depth to living In Hawaii. They are treated respectfully.

Are there any ghost stories unique to where you live? Happy Halloween!

 

[Tiki Tom]

Run up to Halloween post #3.

So you don’t believe in ghosts…

https://www.today.com/life/holidays/ghost-stories-rcna41307

Happy Halloween !

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Are there any ghost stories unique to where you live? Happy Halloween!

I’ve rewritten this several times now. A few miles outside town was a group of geologic mounds on property owned by the state. For teenagers it was used as a lovers lane if you had a girlfriend, & a place to drink if you didn’t. Orbs & lights would be seen with regularity. The common explanations in printed newspaper reports of sightings was teutonic plate shift. The area is rich in minerals deposited by glaciers during the ice age, & veins of coal are common. What was not as easily explained were the multiple sighting reports of creatures & ghosts. The County Sheriffs Dept was often dispatched to the site when the hysteria became too much. Today the area is in a State Conservation Area & closes at dark.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Great story, HJ. Somebody should get special permission to go in there at night with cameras, etc, to set up a paranormal stakeout!

Speaking of such things, this is pretty wild. Watch as a bicyclist disappears before your eyes, as if beamed-up by the starship Enterprise. Caught on CC TV. Many fatal traffic accidents have happened on this stretch of road. The footage was captured on All Souls Day. Could it have been a ghost?

 

[Zombie_61]

Great story, HJ. Somebody should get special permission to go in there at night with cameras, etc, to set up a paranormal stakeout!

Speaking of such things, this is pretty wild. Watch as a bicyclist disappears before your eyes, as if beamed-up by the starship Enterprise. Caught on CC TV. Many fatal traffic accidents have happened on this stretch of road. The footage was captured on All Souls Day. Could it have been a ghost?

Really? Why would The Federation possibly want that guy?

 

[Tiki Tom]

Super Volcanoes!
Just when you thought there was nothing else to worry about.
Here is a headline: “Supervolcano shows signs of waking up, which would plunge the world into chaos.”

https://www.earth.com/news/supervol...r-phlegraean-fields-shows-signs-of-waking-up/

The volcano in question is near Naples (remember Vesuvius?). I’ve been seeing articles for years about how the volcanoes near Naples are rumbling and how the Italian government has been thinking about, maybe, starting to ponder how they would evacuate a million people if an emergency suddenly arose.

Besides Vesuvius there’s another super volcano in California that periodically rumbles, and one at Yellowstone too.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

https://www.newsweek.com/yellowstones-supervolcano-due-eruption-experts-have-answer-1981537

I tend to shrug about these things and mumble “probably not in my lifetime.” Still. Who knows? I live in Hawaii, where —for decades— the common wisdom has been that all the volcanoes are extinct except on the Big Island. Now it turns out that, as recently as the 1950s, there have been undersea eruptions north and west of Honolulu, which means the whole chain is probably dormant, not extinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Hawaiian_submarine_eruption#:~:text=The 1955 Hawaiian submarine eruption,pumice raft was also witnessed.

I know, I know, WWIII is probably a bigger threat right now. But WWIII falls loosely under the heading of “politics”, which we are not allowed to discuss. So, Super Volcanoes it is. Will the world end in fire or in ice?