Advice for any paranormal researcher/ghost hunter/parapsychologist

Advice for any paranormal researcher/ghost hunter/parapsychologist and anyone else into related topics (e.g. Cryptozoology, UFO's, etc.) would be to:

1. Always investigate and evaluate all claims, story's and eyewitness testimony

2. Use investigative techniques that police/detectives use if applicable

3. Be familiar with what constitutes as evidence and how to treat and examine it, also be familiar with any equipment you use, how use it properly and repair it

4. Having at least a general education helps greatly esp.in the fields of basic science/related fields, zoology, aircraft, old building hazards and building construction, geology, weather/meteorology, CSI techniques, psychology, medical conditions, interviewing techniques, doing research, taking evidence and notes, how to tell when someone is lying by eye movement/body language, logical fallacies, critical thinking, knowing first aid, local history of area you are investigating, etc.

5. Conducting basic/general research, asking questions, doing interviews, taking notes on paper/tape recorder, writing computer reports, etc.

Historians Claim to Have Tracked Down Remains of Vlad the Impaler, ‘Dracula’ -The Epoch Times

"A team of Estonian scholars believe they have finally discovered the long-lost location of Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century Prince upon which Bram Stoker based his 1897 gothic novel ‘Dracula’.  According to the report in Hurriyet Daily News, his remains are in the Piazza Santa Maria la Nova graveyard in Naples, and not the Romanian Transylvanian Alps as first thought.

Vlad III, the Prince of Wallachia, was born sometime between 1428 and 1431, probably in Sighişaora, Transylvania. His patronymic, ‘Dracul’, means Dragon, derived from the membership of his father, Vlad II Dracul, in the Order of the Dragon, an order of chivalry for the defence of Christianity in Eastern Europe against the Ottomans, so the young Vlad became known as Dracula, or “son of Dragon”.

Although Vlad was infamous throughout Europe for his cruelty, it was his favourite method of execution that ensured his place in history and gave him the name Vlad Tepes (‘Vlad the Impaler’).  It is said that as Vlad retreated from a battle against the Ottomans in 1462, he impaled and put on display some 20,000 people outside the city of Targoviste as a deterrent to the pursuing Ottoman forces. This psychological attack worked, as it is claimed that the sight was so repulsive that the Ottomans, after seeing the scale of Vlad’s carnage and the thousands of decaying bodies being picked apart by crows, turned back and retreated to Constantinople."

For more on this story see here:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/736964-historians-claim-to-have-tracked-down-remains-of-vlad-the-impaler-dracula/    

Mystery solved: This is the monster that ate that great white shark - Gizmodo

"It wasn't the Kraken. It wasn't Godzilla. And it wasn't even a rabid killer whale. The mysterious animal that had killed and eaten the 9-foot great white shark and had stumped scientists turned out to be a super predator feared by even apex predators like the great white shark. So what was it?

According to the researchers who investigated the puzzling case, it was a "colossal cannibal great white shark."

We found that the original YouTube video we posted this morning belongs to the documentary The Search for the Ocean's Super Predator, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It seems that the Smithsonian Channel repackaged it into another documentary called Hunt for the Super Predator.

 The documentary narrates the scientific effort to catalogue Australia's great whites and the search for the killer of this 9-foot great white that initially had bewildered the scientists. It was only after further studying the bigger migrating great whites that came into the area where the 9-footer was killed when they finally guessed the identity of the killer."

Cont. on link:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/mystery-solved-heres-the-animal-that-ate-the-9-foot-gr-1587429691

Missing Flight 370: Al Qaeda link explored as 11 terror suspects arrested

True theory or from a conspiracy nut? You decide! v

"As I have been saying for weeks and predicting they will not find the plane because the authorities deliberately blew it up as soon as it illegally turned from north to west. The reason why they did it was because its two Muslim pilots were on a suicide run. Learning from the actions of the four Muslim pilots in the 911 attacks, the authorities look for the actions of pilots which indicate a suicide run:

1. They cut off all voice communications
2. They disabled all electronics and tracking systems
3. They illegally changed course

The older pilot was angry at his Muslim government because his best friend, a politician, was put in jail for sodomy and the younger pilot was a religious nut who prayed in the mosque everyday. Once the plane changed course the authorities had 20 minutes before it would crash into downtown Kuala Lumpur and its giant Petronas Twin Towers. So the decision was made to destroy the pane then have it crash into the towers. The wreckage was quickly collected and all the search planes and ships were sent thousands of miles away on a wild goose chase.

Recently a pilot from Ethiopia hijacked a plane to Switzerland. Although the plane was followed by fighter jets, it was not shot down because the pilot maintained voice communications and did not disable the electronics. It also remained on course. If he did any of the tricks the pilots on the Malaysian flight, I am sure it would been blasted out of the sky.." -Mike215
arrested

Missing Flight 370: Al Qaeda link explored as 11 terror suspects arrested

http://www.examiner.com/article/missing-flight-370-al-qaeda-link-explored-as-11-terror-suspects-arrested

Flight MH370 Crashed/Went Missing To Unite World Government's?

Flight MH370 crashed/went missing in order to unite most of the world's major governments,
someone told me recently.

Like in Alan Moore's comic book series, graphic novel and movie "Watchmen".

But weren't these government's already friendly towards each other in the first place?

I know the USA and Malaysia are and that the U.S. does business with China, it also
has good relationships with Australia, India, etc. same for many other country's.

Even without the USA e.g. China and Malaysia, Australia and Malaysia, China
and Australia, etc.

Still, something interesting to think about, I guess...... -Rob

BREAKING NEWS: Loch Ness Monster Found? -Animal Planet

Satellite imagery accessed using Apple's satellite map app has Nessie fans all over the world buzzing. It appears to show a mammoth underwater monster swimming below the surface of Loch Ness.

The Official Loch Ness Monster fan club has been studying the image for about six months. Various explanations have been ruled out and hundreds if not thousands of Nessie connoisseurs around the world are
now convinced that this is definitive evidence of the Loch Ness Monster's existence.

What do you think? Is this just a case of misaken identity or could it be the real thing? Sound off in the comments!

Our own Jeremy Wade, host of River Monsters set out on a journey to unlock the mysteries of Loch Ness. Watch the video below to see what he uncovered.

Read more of the story here:

BREAKING NEWS: Loch Ness Monster Found? -Animals Planet/Discovery Channel

http://blogs.discovery.com/bites-animal-planet/2014/04/breaking-news-loch-ness-monster-found-.html#mkcpgn=fbapl1

New Device Enables Scientists To Converse With Dolphins - Animal Planet

A baby Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and mother swim together in the seas near Curacao, Netherlands Antilles (Photo by Horizons/UIG via Getty Images)

Humans are one step closer to communicating with dolphins, after scientists successfully interacted with dolphins using an underwater audio device, according to news outlets.

Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry, or Chat, enables scientists to emit audio that resembles the sounds dolphins make in the water. While the microphones do not translate the dolphin sounds into human language, it allows scientists to “speak” in clicks and high-pitched whistles that can be used to teach dolphins new commands and vocabulary, according to The Independent.

Read more of the story here:

New Device Enables Scientists To Converse With Dolphins - Animal Planet/Discovery Channel

http://blogs.discovery.com/bites-animal-planet/2014/04/new-device-enables-scientists-to-converse-with-dolphins.html

Someone's Handing Out Leaflets in Eastern Ukraine Telling Jews to 'Register' - Yahoo News

For my 401 post I wanted to post something important via yahoo news:

In a disturbing reminder of an era that's supposed to be bygone, an image has been circulating of what appears to be a leaflet asking all Jews over the age of 16 in Donetsk, Ukraine, to "register" with separatist militants. The leaflet, reported by Ynet and picked up by USA Today, bears the signature of the head of Donetsk's temporary pro-Russia "government" Denis Pushilin. However, the Ukranians attempting to bring the region under Russian control have denied any involvement with the flyer.

Secretary of State John Kerry declined to assign blame for the leaflets in a Thursday statement. However, he condemned them as "'intolerable" and "grotesque." 

According to Ynet's English report, the leaflet, written in Russian, reads:

""Dear Ukraine citizens of Jewish nationality. Due to the fact that the leaders of the Jewish community of Ukraine supported Bendery Junta," a reference to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement which fought for Ukrainian independence at the end of World War II, "and oppose the pro-Slavic People's Republic of Donetsk, (the interim government) has decided that all citizens of Jewish descent, over 16 years of age and residing within the republic's territory are required to report to the Commissioner for Nationalities in the Donetsk Regional Administration building and register."

The flyer continues to instruct its Jewish readers that an "ID and passport are required to register your Jewish religion," and that they should bring "religious documents of family members, as well as documents establishing the rights to all real estate property that belongs to you, including vehicles." Members of Donetsk's Jewish population say they were handed the flyers by three masked men on their way out of the region's synagogue last week. The flyer notes that registration will cost $50, and that anyone who doesn't comply will be, basically, deported.

http://news.yahoo.com/someones-handing-leaflets-eastern-ukraine-telling-jews-register-173828220.html

Note:

I posted about this yesterday on yahoo comments on another story regarding Russia/Ukraine. WWII ended a long time ago, and so did The Holocaust but antisemitism is still alive and well. Jews over there should ignore this leaflet but be ever vigilant, aware and careful. The world is watching, including the USA, Israel, U.N. and other Allies, ready to take action against any pogroms. History will hopefully not repeat itself again and if it ever does, Homosexuals would be next, followed by politicals, religious people and others. -Rob

Car accident killed SD girls missing since 1971 -Yahoo News

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office shows a Studebaker with skeletal remains found in Brule Creek near Elk Point, S.D. Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson were last seen May 29, 1971, driving a 1960 Studebaker Lark on their way to a party. The attorney general, sheriffs from Union and Clay counties, and the Union County state's attorney scheduled a news conference Tuesday, April 15, 2014, in Elk Point where they plan plan to release test results and update the investigation into the 1971 disappearance of the two girls near Alcester. (AP Photo/South Dakota Attorney General’s Office, File)

ELK POINT, S.D. (AP) — Two South Dakota girls on their way to an end-of-school-year party at a gravel pit in May 1971 drove off a country road and into a creek where their remains lay hidden until last fall when a drought brought their car into view, authorities said Tuesday.

State and local officials held a news conference Tuesday afternoon confirming that the 1960 Studebaker unearthed in September included the remains of Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, both 17-year-olds who attended Vermillion High School.

The investigators showed dozens of photographs of well-preserved clothing, Miller's purse and even her driver's license complete with a smiling photograph. Those personal items and DNA were used to identify the girls, said Attorney General Marty Jackley. Jackson didn't have her purse along.

Read More of the Story here:

Car accident killed SD girls missing since 1971

http://news.yahoo.com/car-accident-killed-sd-girls-missing-since-1971-194013896.htm

Note:

Glad this mystery is finally solved, albeit a bit too late. This brings to mind many more mysteries of missing people, vehicles and planes from not only here but around the world. Imagine if everyone of us was a detective/PI/investigator btw, almost every mystery might be solved, but then again bad people could use that knowledge to cover up other mysteries, their own too.

Also:

Also sad to hear the father passed away only 5 days before his daughter was found, the wreckage was right under everyone's noses hiding in plain sight almost, I hope this teaches police, detectives, amateur searchers and SAR in general, plus others an important lesson. I hope these girls did not drown btw, but their is no telling if they did, and if someone possibly bumped them off the road like a drunk teenager. -Rob

Flight MH370 mechanical problems/fire/zombie plane theory?

Flight MH370 mechanical problems/fire/zombie plane theory?

"Caught fire. The pilots, thinking it was an electrical fire, turned off all electrical systems they could. (Worry about fire is one reason they CAN turn off everything, including the radios.) Then they turned west toward the nearest major airfield, to try to make an emergency landing.

Unable to put out the fire, they climbed to extreme altitude because the low oxygen content of thin air (there is as much oxygen, percentage-wise, but less air in total, so less oxygen) reduces the intensity of fire and would help put it out. The problem is that to do this they climbed higher than the plane was normally meant to fly, and when you get that high the air is so thin that the stall speed (the speed below which there isn't enough airflow over the wings to keep flying) starts to get dangerously close to your regular speed. So it's very easy to stall the airplane-- it stops flying and starts falling.

Any pilot is trained to recover from a simple stall. In fact all you have to do is put the nose down to gain speed, or in this case drop to a lower altitude where the air is thicker. The plane climbed to 45,000 feet then suddenly dropped to 25,000- looks like a stall and recovery to me.

It is possible they depressurized the airplane at high altitude to try to put out the fire, and then discovered their emergency oxygen masks didn't work. (Multiple failures at once are rare, but when a plane is lost it is often because of several things that went wrong at the worst possible time-- which is one reason such accidents are so rare.) If so everyone on board would probably be unconscious from this point on, and the plane just flying on automatic pilot.

"Personally, I think that is the most likely scenario. While 45,000 feet is above an airliner's usual cruising altitude, 25,000 is below it. I am just guessing here, but I would think an airliner that had stalled and was falling out of the sky from 45,000 should be able to recover before it had fallen that far. But if the pilots had set the autopilot just to keep the plane flying straight and level the autopilot, being dumb, might just keep trying to do that as the plane stays in its stall and keeps falling. This would continue until the mere thicker air at lower altitude allowed the plane to fly out of the stall on its own.

If the pilots weren't incapacitated when the plane went to its highest altitude, the plane stalled, forcing them to lower altitude again. There the fire flared up again, and the pilots were overcome by the smoke.

In any case the pilots were incapacitated, and the plane flew on from there on autopilot, going wherever it happened to be pointed.

It is likely everyone else on board was also incapacitated or dead by the time this happened. We can hope so because if not they were on the wrong side of a heavily armored security door designed to make it impossible for passengers to break into the cockpit-- and they were along for the ride to nowhere with nothing they could do.

Certainly anyone aboard would have tried to use their cell phone, but the range of a cell phone out to sea is three or four miles maybe, and they were hundreds of miles out." -Bill via Amazon Discussions

What do you think happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/forum/cd/discussion.html/ref=cm_cd_et_up_redir?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx20DX5GEB7TUX8&cdPage=28&cdThread=Tx3QEAPS0DF6CT&newContentID=MxXKZ317MDE7FO&newContentNum=708#Mx144I8WEJAO36A

More Thoughts on Missing Malaysian Flight MH370:

Yahoo user Frank responds to Torrent (see previous post on this blog, below this one) with these comments regarding missing Flight MH370 via yahoo news comments (see link to article below, also I commented as yahoo user Robert):

"Great post - here's some thoughts-

So - Let's rule some stuff out.

1. Agreed - Suicide is out. The pilot would have to disable some control systems but within his capabilities. But the flew on for 7 hours - he would have had to kill all onboard too - doing that without just crashing the plane is too weird..
2. Kinda - Terrorism is out. It could have been a lone wolf type of thing - like Boston.
3. Agreed - Theft of the plane is out - this is a theory that I believe oringniated on yahoo comment boards and is about as idiotic as even the worst theories.
4. Kinda - Theft of the plane for technology is out, although terrorist would love to have a 777 to learn how to fly on - it's a difficult thing to pull off - the "radar" thing would have watched the plane land anywhere (except Diego Garcia - but the ACARS data does support the plane flying in that direction).
5. Agreed - Military seizure is a very difficult solution to a problem where so many much simpler solutions exist.
6. Out - Communicable diseases theory is straight out of Hollywood - right now there is some producer that is calling Harrison Ford about this movie right now.
7. Out - Theft of the plane to pack it full of nukes - This just couldn't happen for so many, so many, so many, so many, so many reasons - here's a short list - tracking of nukes, tracking of current flights and current squawks, the huge number of civilians that would act as part of all of these systems make a cover up in possible, RADAR - it sees planes flying around, missile defense systems, fighters ready to scramble at a moments notice, ACARS, etc.

Thought on the List of oddities:

1. Complete radio and telephone silence - last words heard: goodnight tower (no stress or concern in voice). Technological know-how and ability to disable communication systems is extreme - and the pilots should have been able to communicate using alternate forms of communication as systems began failing.
2. Disappearance from all area national radars
3. Disappearance occurred on a calm night.
4. All passengers and crew are cleared of terrorist suspicion
5. Pilots are cleared of suicidal tendencies

Conclusions: Need a single thing that can fit into all of the oddities - Rapid Cabin Depressurization - at altitude could kill everyone on board in minutes - O2 system could last 15 minutes as best (and likely on for the pilots at that time). Pilots could have still descended quickly to an altitude with enough O2. BUT, what if a spark in the O2 system cause the explosion - this would eliminate the O2 from the masks, killing everyone on board within 2 minutes. The plane would continuing flying on George - even executing the preprogrammed turnaround towards the nearest airport (common practice) but with dead pilots, the plane would keep flying til flame out."

My own thoughts are that it was either...

1. Poison gas (including, but not limited to Co2 - Carbon Monoxide).
2. Electrical fire that had deadly smoke, fire eventually burned out though.
3. Cabin Depressurization like Frank mentioned above.
4. Terrorist/Lone Wolf Bombings/Other act, also as Frank Mentioned above.
5. A fast paced deadly virus would be possible like Torrent said, possibly, killing all onboard.
6. Pilot Suicide is always possible.
7. Pilot or Hijackers crashed plane into ocean as a political act, religious one, or other. 
8. Something else.

-Rob

Mini-sub to dive again after aborting first MH370 search - Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/mini-sub-tries-again-first-search-mh370-aborted-015845573.html

Missing Malaysian Flight MH370 oddities...

Regarding missing Malaysian airliner Flight MH 370:

"OK - So - Let's rule some stuff out.

1. Suicide is out. The pilot could just ditch the plane - with no need to disable anything.
2. Terrorism is out. No one has come forward to take credit for the lost plane. And, if you wanted to destroy the plane, you just crash it.
3. Theft of the plane for money is out. If money were that important to you, you could extort hundreds of times more than the value of the plane by holding the passengers hostage.
4. Theft of the plane for technology is out. You can just buy one.
5. Military seizure of the plane to arrest political criminals is out. After the targets were acquired and in custody, the rest of the passengers would be sent home.
6. Communicable diseases: Perhaps there was an outbreak of some airborne and deadly virus on the flight. The pilots turned the plane around and headed for the most remote areas of the Earth to keep the disease from spreading. But this does not explain radio silence.
7. Theft of the plane to pack it full of nukes to fly into a major city under the guise of a different plane. U.S. satellites have the ability to track and recognize radiation signatures of nukes. The plane would be shot out of the sky before it reached U.S. airspace. This theory does not explain why no passenger used satellite phone technology to call someone and blow the whistle.
What more should be on this list of Rule-Outs?

List of oddities:

1. Complete radio and telephone silence - last words heard: goodnight tower (no stress or concern in voice). Technological know-how and ability to disable communication systems is extreme - and the pilots should have been able to communicate using alternate forms of communication as systems began failing.
2. Disappearance from all area national radars
3. Disappearance occurred on a calm night.
4. All passengers and crew are cleared of terrorist suspicion
5. Pilots are cleared of suicidal tendencies
What other Oddities need to be included?

I have to admit - this has me stumped".-Via yahoo news commentator Torrent

Great list btw. Very interesting. -Rob

Mini-sub to dive again after aborting first MH370 search - Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/mini-sub-tries-again-first-search-mh370-aborted-015845573.html

Report: Ship detects "pulse" signal in search for jet airliner MH370 - CBS News

PERTH, Australia -- "A Chinese ship involved in the hunt for the missing Malaysian jetliner reported hearing a "pulse signal" Saturday in Indian Ocean waters with the same frequency emitted by the plane's data recorders.

China's official Xinhua News Agency said a black box detector deployed by the ship, Haixun 01, picked up a signal at 37.5 kilohertz (cycles per second). However, Xinhua said it had not yet been determined whether the signal was related to the missing plane, citing the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center.

Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, confirmed that the frequency emitted by Flight 370's black boxes was 37.5 kilohertz.

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center -- the Australian government agency coordinating the search -- said Saturday the Haixun's report of electronic pulse signals could not be verified at this time. U.S. officials from the NTSB and FAA were not able to confirm the report, either.

Houston also said the report of a number of white objects on the water's surface about 90 kilometers from the signal detection area could not be confirmed to be related to the missing plane.

The deployment of Royal Australian Air Force assets to the area where the Chinese ship detected the sounds is being considered, Houston said."

Read more here:

CBS News - Flight MH370 Located?

Of Prehistoric Eels and Lake Monsters - Cryptomundo

Of Prehistoric Eels and Lake Monsters

"When the paleontology community has pooh-poohed the idea of relict plesiosaurs being responsible for the identity of various sea and lake “monsters” in different places around the world, some researchers have embraced the simpler theory that these hypothetical animals may be giant eels. The giant eel theory goes as far back as famed early American naturalist Constantine Rafinesque in 1817, who proposed it for the Lake Erie monster. The theory was further fueled by a 6 foot larval eel captured off the coast of South Africa in 1930. Based on ratios of the size of the larval stages of known eel species to the adults, it was theorized this 6 foot larvae might produce a 60 foot adult.

In 1970, ichthyologist D.G. Smith produced evidence to suggest that this 6 foot larvae was probably not a true eel but a Notocanthiform fish (related to the true eels). The Notocanths have large larvae that do not have the same disparity in size with the adults, so this was taken as a defeat to the sea serpent idea for the1930 larval fish. This has been disputed by some, however."

Read more here: Cryptomundo - Prehistoric Eels And Lake Monsters

Mountain Monsters: Kentucky Hellhound of Pike County - Cryptomundo

"Decades of folklore and eyewitness encounters collide as AIMS travels to Pike County to investigate the Kentucky Hellhound. First spotted in 1939 in the western heart of Hatfield and McCoy territory, and originally written off as the delusion of backwoods moonshiners, this enormous 500-pound canine predator is in fact alive and well, menacing the local farming community. AIMS must act fast to capture the creature in a huge bamboo cage trap before the cornstalks are harvested and the Hellhound migrates for the winter season."

Read more here:

http://cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/mountain-monsters-kentucky-hellhound-of-pike-county/