Great Smokey Mountains Disappearance, Oct 8th, 1976

Trenny Lynn Gibson 

Missing Since: October 8, 1976 from The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee 
Classification: Lost/Injured Missing 
Date Of Birth: August 17, 1960 
Age: 16 years old 
Height and Weight: 5'3, 115 pounds 
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. 
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A blue blouse, a blue and white striped sweater, a borrowed brown plaid heavy jacket, blue jeans, blueAdidas shoes and a diamond and star sapphire ring. 

Details of Disappearance

Gibson accompanied 40 of her classmates from Knoxville, Tennessee on a field trip to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park on October 8, 1976. The students were hiking to Andrews Bald on the trip and separated into small groups when they arrived at the trails. Gibson apparently hiked with several different sections of her classmates at different paces during the day. She was last seen at approximately 3:00 p.m. near Clingman's Dome, walking on a moderately steep trail with sharp dropoffs and dense undergrowth on both sides. 

Extensive searches of the park continued until the end of October 1976, but Gibson has never been located. She was a sophomore at Bearden High School at the time of her disappearance. Her case remains unsolved. 

Investigating Agency 
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: 
Tennessee Bureau Of Investigation 

615-744-4000

Charley Project

Via WebSleuths Disappearance's in the Great Smokey Mountains forum

McDonald's Worker Saves Police Officer

"A McDonald's employee in Florida rescued a police officer on Tuesday after she became unconscious at the restaurant's drive-thru window, according to a local ABC News affiliate report.

Surveillance footage provided to Miami-based station WPLG showed the fast-acting employee, Pedro Viloria, jumping out of the Doral store’s drive-thru window after a customer very slowly pulled away and ran into a median.

Viloria said the customer -- an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer who had her two children in the backseat -- was suffering from a medical emergency." Reports ABC News.

The Officer was helped by a 2nd McDonald's employee, and was rushed to a hospital where she was stabilized and is expected to be OK. 

World Trade Center Secret Report - Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the clamor a year ago to release 28 still-secret pages of a congressional inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks, the government quietly declassified a little-known report listing more than three dozen people who piqued the interest of investigators probing possible Saudi connections to the hijackers.

The document, known as "File 17," offers clues to what might be in the missing pages of the bipartisan report about 9/11.

"Much of the information upon which File 17 was written was based on what's in the 28 pages," said former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, co-chairman of the congressional inquiry. He believes the hijackers had an extensive Saudi support system while they were in the United States.

"File 17 said, 'Here are some additional unanswered questions and here is how we think the 9/11 Commission, the FBI and the CIA should go about finding the answers,'" Graham said.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir denies any allegations of Saudi complicity, telling reporters in Washington earlier this month that there is "no there there."

Former President George W. Bush classified the 28-page chapter to protect intelligence sources and methods, although he also probably did not want to upset U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. ally. Two years ago, under pressure from the families of those killed or injured on Sept. 11, and others, President Barack Obama ordered a declassification review of the 28 pages. It's unclear when all or some may be released.

The report by the two researchers, one of several commission documents the National Archives has reviewed and released, lists possible leads the commission could follow, the names of people who could be interviewed and documents the commission might want to request in looking deeper into the attacks.

File 17, first disclosed by 28pages.org, an advocacy website, names people the hijackers were in contact with in the United States before the attacks. Some were Saudi diplomats, raising questions about whether Saudi officials knew about the plot.

The 9/11 Commission's final report stated that it found "no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded" al-Qaida. "This conclusion does not exclude the likelihood that charities with significant Saudi government sponsorship diverted funds to al-Qaida," the report said.

Releasing the 28 pages might answer some questions, but the disclosure also could lead to more speculation about the key Saudi figures investigated by the U.S. after the attacks. A look at some of those named in the declassified report and what the 9/11 Commission concluded:

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FAHAD AL-THUMAIRY

An imam at the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, California, al-Thumairy was suspected of helping two of the hijackers after they arrived in Los Angeles. He was an accredited diplomat at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Los Angeles from 1996 to 2003.

The 9/11 Commission said al-Thumairy reportedly led an extremist faction at the mosque. He has denied promoting jihad and told U.S. investigators that he never helped the hijackers.

The commission said al-Thumairy met at the consulate with Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national, in February 2000 just before al-Bayoumi met the two hijackers at a restaurant. Al-Thumairy denied knowing al-Bayoumi even though the two talked on the phone numerous times as early as 1998, including more than 11 calls between Dec. 3-20, 2000. Al-Bayoumi told investigators those conversations were about religious matters.

The 9/11 Commission said that despite the circumstantial evidence, "We have not found evidence that al-Thumairy provided assistance to the two operatives."

A CIA document dated March 19, 2004, said Khallad bin Attash, an al-Qaida operative and suspected planner of the USS Cole bombing in Yemen in October 2000, was in Los Angeles for two weeks in June 2000 and was seen in the company of "Los Angeles-based Sunni extremists (redacted section) Fahad al-Thumairy."

On May 6, 2003, al-Thumairy tried to return to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia, but was refused entry on suspicion he might be connected with terrorist activity.

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OMAR AL-BAYOUMI

A Saudi national who helped the two hijackers in California. Al-Bayoumi told investigators that he and another man drove to Los Angeles from San Diego so that he could address a visa issue and collect papers at the Saudi consulate. Afterward they went to the restaurant in Culver City where he heard the two hijackers speaking in what he recognized to be Gulf Arabic and struck up a conversation with them.

The hijackers told him they didn't like Los Angeles, and al-Bayoumi invited them to move to San Diego. He helped them find and lease an apartment.

The congressional researchers' report said: "Al-Bayoumi has extensive ties to the Saudi government and many in the local Muslim community in San Diego believed that he was a Saudi intelligence officer."

The 9/11 Commission said al-Bayoumi was officially employed by Ercan, a subsidiary of a contractor for the Saudi Civil Aviation Administration. The commission also said that a fellow employee described al-Bayoumi as a "ghost employee," noting that he was one of many Saudis on the payroll who was not required to work.

He left the United States in August 2001, weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks.

The 9/11 Commission said it did not "know whether the lunch encounter occurred by chance or by design." The commission said its investigators who spoke with him and studied his background found him to be an "unlikely candidate for clandestine involvement" with Islamic extremists.

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OSAMA BASSNAN

A close associate of al-Bayoumi who was in frequent contact with the hijackers and lived in an apartment complex across the street from them in San Diego. Bassnan vocally supported Osama bin Laden.

The staffers' found that Bassnan, a former employee of the Saudi government's educational mission in Washington, received considerable funding from Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, former intelligence chief in Saudi Arabia and the kingdom's U.S. ambassador from 1983 to 2005. The money was supposedly for Bassnan's wife's medical treatments, and the 9/11 Commission said there was no evidence the money was redirected toward terrorism.

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MOHDHAR ABDULLAH

The staffers' report said Abdullah translated for the two hijackers and helped them open bank accounts and contact flight schools. Interviewed many times by the FBI, Abdullah said he knew of the two hijackers' extremist views but said he did not know what they were planning.

The 9/11 Commission said: "During a post 9/11 search of his possessions, the FBI found a notebook (belonging to someone else) with references to planes falling from the sky, mass killing and hijacking. Further, when detained as a material witness following the 9/11 attacks, Abdullah expressed hatred for the U.S. government and stated that the U.S. brought 'this' on themselves."

The commission also learned of reports that Abdullah bragged to other inmates at a California prison in the fall of 2003 that he knew the hijackers were planning an attack — reports the commission nor the FBI were not able to verify.

He was deported to Yemen in May 2004 after the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California declined to prosecute him on charges arriving out alleged comments made in prison.

Future of Human Evolution: Terrifying!!!

From best selling author and Zoologist, Douglas Dixon (Man After Man, etc), this is his view of how Humans will look in millions of years from now.


He has 3-4 books, all with dozens of 4-5 star reviews. I consider him a futurist.

RARE WHITE GIRAFFE SPOTTED
"The Rothschild giraffe, which has lost pigmentation in its hide because of a rare condition, was spotted roaming. Its herd seemed completely oblivious to her unusual colouring, according to photographer Jamie Manuel.
 Mr Manuel said he is one of the only people to have captured images of the white giraffe since rumours of its existence emerged in February this year.
 The animal has leucism, a condition where there is a partial loss of pigmentation resulting in white, pale or patchy colouration of skin or hair. Unlike albinism it is caused by a reduction in multiple types of pigment, not just melanin.
 'Word was sent out that we were on the trail of the white giraffe and slowly herders sent word back of the general area it had last been seen in. He said that on the second day of searching he found a 20-strong herd in a clearing in the forest - and that the white giraffe was among them." Via whitewolfpack (or pac).com

Mortality in the Wilderness

See here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1304948/

Jaryd Atardero - Missing 411

Taken from CanAm: "After Jaryd was reported missing and SAR started their work. Allyn’s twin brother, Arlyn came out from California to support his brother. Their mom and friends also rallied around the family and tried to continue to keep spirits upbeat. At one point the family asked the SAR team and sheriffs if they could go up the trail and view the place where Jaryd vanished? This is a reasonable and normal request. Remember, the singles group was the last people to see Jaryd. Allyn was at his resort when the group took Jaryd to the trail. Arlyn was in California. There was no way that Arlyn or Allyn were suspects and the sheriffs were telling the family there was no evidence that Jaryd had been abducted. When the family asked to go down the trail, there was a curt response, “No.” When the family subtly pushed and inquired about the rationale, they were threatened with arrest if they stepped on the trail. Allyn said he and the family never understood the stiff response. I’ve never heard of a SAR team or sheriffs member making a statement like that."


I suspect not any physical threats but trampling of evidence/evidence tampering is why authorities said no. CSI takes time, esp
in outdoor settings.


I often wonder if certain rituals take place wherein children are harmed, die then are
buried.


I am talking about baptisms' resulting in death.


If Jaryd was last seen in a group without his parents I wonder if said group a) had background checks done on them b) participated in any rituals including baptizing children and c) how well did his parents know these people he was hiking with? I wonder.

Mothman on Silver Bridge Photo

Dennis Martin 1969 Case Solved?

"Some visitors come for the wildlife, while others are drawn to the grist mills, barns, log houses and churches scattered along the 11-mile loop road.


Last week, Keith Langdon came for the sinkholes.


A retired biologist for the Smokies, Langdon was in the right place ? the cove's limestone bedrock makes it a hot spot for sinkholes and caves ? and to aid his search, he had a special map, one that depicted Cades Cove as lunar landscape.


Maps of the Smokies have come a long way since the mid-1800s when Swiss geographer Arnold Guyot measured the high peaks along the Tennessee-North Carolina divide by calculating the altitude with a barometer.
Langdon's map is based on a remote sensing technology called Light Detection and Ranging that uses laser pulses transmitted from an airplane and reflected off the ground to create highly detailed, three-dimensional images of the terrain.


To further enhance the map's realism, a computer-generated effect called "hill shading" casts shadows upon the sinkholes and hills, as if light is illuminating the landscape from the northwest.


Accompanying Langdon that day in Cades Cove was Tom Colson, the park's geographic information systems specialist, and Chris Rehak, a GIS intern for the park.


The map indicated a depression in the ground not far from the loop road. After a 20-minute walk, they located a tear-drop-shaped sinkhole in the woods. At the downslope end of the sink beneath the fallen leaves was a small hole in the ground that indicated a cave."

Dennis Martin Mystery, 1969, Missing 411

Dennis Martin, missing since June 14th, 1969, 4:30pm, last seen: Spence Field, near Great Smokey Mountains


published: December 10 2008


Writer’s note: Dennis Martin was my cousin. My grandmother was on the mountain the day he went missing. My family searched for weeks, even months. I grew up hearing the story of “little Dennis Martin” and his heartbreaking disappearance. It deeply affected my family and the surrounding community.


Next June will mark the 40th anniversary of the longest and most intensive search for a lost person ever in the Great Smoky Mountains. No trace of the missing boy was ever found.
Dennis Martin disappeared June 14, 1969, while on a camping trip with his family at Spence Field in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Dennis disappeared just six days before his seventh birthday. The whole community was shaken.


“This family tragedy has forever changed the way the Martin family views the mountains,” Dennis’s first cousin, Fred Martin, said.


Dennis was playing with his older brother and two other boys that they had met on the mountain. Around 4 p.m., the boys decided to sneak up on their parents and scare them. All of the boys, except Dennis, snuck around behind the parents. But Dennis was told to sneak up another way because he had a bright red shirt on that could have been easily spotted. After the other boys scared the parents and Dennis did not appear, William Martin, Dennis’ father, began to call his name. Family members began to search for him just three-to-five minutes after he disappeared.
Dennis’ grandfather, Clyde Martin, hiked down the mountain to get help. He arrived at Cades Cove at 8:30 p.m. and told a park ranger, who immediately called for help and hiked back up the mountain with the grandfather.


Darkness began to set in with still no sign of Dennis. Thunderstorms rolled in and the temperature began to drop during the first hours of the search. Rangers and family searched all night through the rain, but not a clue was found. “I looked until I was absolutely worn out… then came a thunderstorm that was one of the worst I have ever been in. All we could do was just sit there and pray, it was a terrible night,” Nita Martin, who was at Spence Field when Dennis was lost, said.


Dennis went missing on a Saturday and, by Monday, the Dennis Martin case was on national news. On Tuesday the search party included family, rangers, military units, civilian groups, dog handlers and TVA personnel – some 365 searchers. By the fifth day there was a greater sense of urgency as the search force grew to 690. Dennis Martin needed to be found quickly. Searchers were instructed to call out Dennis’ name because he was a quiet boy who would probably not call out for help but would answer to his name.


Media coverage was extensive, and “sightseers” became a serious hindrance to the search. The FBI was contacted because of suspicions that he was possibly kidnapped. By IP sixth day of the search, a day plagued by thunderstorms, 780 dedicated searchers continued on and over 56 square miles had been covered up to that point. On Saturday, the seventh day, 1,400 people braved the elements and searched for him with no luck. During the second week hundreds of people still searched for him. Robert Martin, Dennis’ great uncle , stayed on the mountain for two straight weeks before coming home.


On June 29, more than two weeks after his disappearance, the park called for a limited search. The limited search consisted of three experienced rangers searching full-time. They searched for two-and-a-half months, but never found a trace of him. “Nothing was ever found. Not a speck of clothing, not a shoe, nothing, not a sign,” Nita Martin said. “It is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever been through, it was the worst night I have ever lived through,” she added. Dennis’ grandfather stayed on the mountain for months as well.
“Old Man Clyde searched for months…he just refused to let go of it,” former park service employee and author of Lost!: A Ranger’s Journal of Search and Rescue Dwight McCarter said. No trace of Dennis Martin has ever been found.


The Martin case changed the way Great Smoky Mountain National Park performs search efforts. In 1969 rangers performed the search a lot like they would fight forest fires, with lots of people and equipment. Now there are specific procedures set up if a person is missing.
The Martin search parties had “limited resources and used a lot of local rescue folks…Everybody probably needed a lot of training,” McCarter said. “They really did their best. It is just a mystery I wonder if we will ever solve.”
“The Martin family are absolutely the greatest people,” he added. “I have the utmost respect for the family and I really wished it had turned out better.”

Mythical River Discovered In Peruvian Amazon

Mythical boiling river discovered in the Peruvian Amazon


 A mythical boiling river that stretches for four miles has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. The river, at Mayantuyacu, was discovered by geoscientist Andrés Ruzo after being told tales about its existence by his grandfather.


 Ruzo said Spanish conquistadors exploring the Amazon after killing the last Inca emperor came across extreme dangers – including man-eating snakes and a river that boiled from below, as if lit by a fire. But the Amazon basin is nowhere near any active volcanoes, and the geothermal heat needed would be so tremendous the very idea of the boiling river's existence was dubbed ludicrous by Ruzo's university lecturers and colleagues.


A report on his find by Gizmodo tells how Ruzo asked his aunt who had visited the river about its whereabouts. Deep in the rainforest, at the geothermal healing site of Mayantuyacu, he found it. The river is 80ft wide, 20ft deep and is extremely hot for about a four-mile stretch. One part even boils.

Mysterious Oregon Sounds Solution?

Wave guide tunneling caused by air layer density.

Mysterious Sounds In Lake Forest, Oregon

A mysterious shrieking sound has left the residents of one Oregon neighborhood seriously perplexed.


Dave Nemeyer, fire marshal of the Forest Grove Fire and Rescue in Forest Grove, Oregon, told ABC News that he first learned of the strange noise after a local resident recorded and shared a video of it on the city's Facebook page.


"It's definitely a horrendous noise," Nemeyer said. "I have no idea what the noise is. [The resident] described to us that it was coming from the middle of the street. To me, it sounds like the sound of train tracks, that metal screeching sound, but there are no train tracks near her home ... so that's obviously ruled out.".. ABC News


The Police Dept has received hundreds of tips and theories worldwide. An expert sound analysis yielded no results other then the fact it does sound like air escaping through a valve.


If this is not a government test nor hoax, I suspect either a new insect species, biomechanical source underground, something as of yet unrecognized in our sewers (such as new types of organisms making this sound or a type of disturbance that happens underground in or around sewers) and it may possibly be residual haunting sounds, electronic interference or an atmospheric/geophysical type event.

Music on the Moon?

In the audio recordings from the Apollo 10 mission (which you can hear in this video from Space.com), astronaut Gene Cernan(who was piloting the lunar module) asks John Young (who was piloting the command module) if he hears "that whistling sound?" It is Cernan who calls it "music" and says it "even sounds outer-spacey." Later, the two men ask Tom Stafford (who is in the lunar module with Cernan) if he hears it, too. They agree that it's "really weird," and Young says, "We're going to have to find out about that. Nobody will believe us." [Lunar Legacy: 45 Apollo Moon Mission Photos]

Apollo 10, launched in May of 1969, paved the way for Apollo 11, launched in July of that same year, to put two humans on the lunar surface. The Apollo 10 astronauts flew to the moon in a command module, and two of the crewmembers also took a ride in the lunar module, dropping down to less than ten miles above the moon's surface. The whistling sound, it turned out, was nothing more than interference between the VHF radios on the two different vehicles.


Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins wrote in his book, "Carrying the Fire," that NASA technicians warned him about the whistling. Multiple publications have pulled the key passage from the book, in which Collins even says, "Had I not been warned about it, it would have scared the hell out of me." Collins' book was published in 1974.

- See more at: http://www.space.com/32007-alien-moon-music-apollo-10-explained.html#sthash.jkDAIcrp.dpuf

9/11 Truthers Need To Rethink...

"Seconds after the final warning signal blared Sunday afternoon at a downtown redevelopment site in Oklahoma City, precisely placed explosive charges dropped a 28-story building almost in its tracks. When it fell, the 245-ft-high structure became the tallest steel-frame building to be demolished with explosives.




Built in 1932 of heavy beams and beefed-up steel columns, the Biltmore Hotel stood in the way of a $39-million urban renewal plan to construct a cultural and recreational complex. Some structures on the site have been removed while others await demolition.


But none presented the problems that the Biltmore did. "It’ s the heaviest steel we’ve ever worked on," says Mark Loizeaux, of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI), Towson, Md., which dropped the brick-clad structure for contractor Wells Excavating Co., Inc., Oklahoma City.




"Because of the thickness of the steel, a single charge wouldn't penetrate completely through," he says. “We had to attack a single 3-in.-thick stem plate from both sides." Each 16-in. steel column with built-up flanges totals 2.5 to 3 tons per floor.




To blast in this fashion, says Loizeaux, it is imperative that the charges on opposing sides go off simultaneously. If one goes off too soon, it will dislodge the other before it can cut through the steel.




CDI placed 991 separate charges, about 800 lbs. of explosives in all, on seven floors from the basement to the 14th floor and detonated them over a five-second interval. CDI’s detonation sequence aimed to drop the building in a southerly direction in what is called a controlled progressive collapse in order to lay out the demolished structure to ease removal of debris.


Besides concern over the size of the steel frame members, CDI took a hard look at the type of steel, which Loizeaux describes as malleable. He says such steel doesn't break readily and "can get real testy." But the building fell, as planned, and CDI walked away with its share of the $207,000 demolition general contract.




In 1975 CDI demolished a 32-story reinforced concrete building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the only building taller than the Biltmore to be dropped with explosives (ENR 11/27/75 p. 11). That building stood 361 ft high.




Engineering News Record
McGraw-Hill's Construction Weekly
October 20, 1977




Note: It took 991 explosives to level a 28 story building.




Also noteworthy is that controlled demolitions bring buildings down usually from bottom to top.