Maria went into a strange trance and spoke with the voices of dead people known to students and those present. Near the end of the session came a voice that no one recognized, a voice that pleaded with them to listen.

It said: “I was born Rosa Manichelli. When I died, I was Rosa Spadoni, but my husband has died since then, too. We are both in the Cemetery at Castel-Raimondo a few miles from Camerino. I am asking only that you help others, because the same thing can happen to them. Two days after the death certificate was signed, I was taken to the cemetery in a deep coma and buried alive!”

Dr Stoppolini later discovered that infact there had been a Rosa Spadoni who died in the Civil Hospital in Camerino on September 4, 1939. She was buried at Castel-Raimondo.

Later it was decided that the body would be exhumed, there were no living relatives to protest.

On September 13, 1950 a group gathered by Rosa’s grave, including Dr Stoppolini, pathologists, Italian Officials and a photographer.

What they discovered was shocking and it was the professor himself who opened the coffin.

The skeleton lay on it’s back, the skull turned to the left. The hand was bent upwards with the finger bones in the mouth cavity. The knees were bent as in a effort to force open the lid, there were also parallel scratches where Rosa had tried to claw her way out of the casket.

In a puplic statement pathologists said: “How Dr Stoppolini came by this knowledge is irrelevant. We must agree with him that Rosa Spadoni was buried in a coma when vital signs were undetectable and that she awakened in her coffin beyond human help!”

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November 2, 1968, he says he was awakened during the middle of the night by his crying baby boy, and hobbled into the kitchen to get him a drink of water. He saw bright lights outside and ventured outside on to the terrace to investigate.

He claims to have seen two objects he could not explain hovering in the sky, the two merged into one as they descended towards the house. A beam of light shone on him, and the UFO vanished just as abruptly in the blink of an eye.

When he rushed to tell his wife what he had just seen, he realized that he was running, the wound which had shown no improvement during his many months in the hospital, was suddenly healed.

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Blackburn lived in nearby Waynesboro at the time and had a job during the day at the Archery club. He was at his work when he spotted two objects in the sky. The smaller of the two came down to the ground and landed mere yards away from him.

Three beings emerged from the craft, all clad in material similar to what the hull of the craft was made of, all of them standing approximately three feet tall. One of them supposedly had a longer finger then the others yet all had the same piercing eyes which according to Blackburn seemed to look right through you.

William says he remembers freezing as the beings approached him despite having a hefty double-edged ax in his hands.

“They uttered some unintelligible sounds, then turned and went back to the ship, going in through a door which seemed to mould itself into the ship’s shape,” Blackburn said. “Then the ship flew up and disappeared.”

According to William Blackburn he did report the incident to a government agency and had been interrogated and warned not to mention what he had seen to anyone. He refuses to say which one though when asked by UFO investigators.

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In 1891 a fierce storm hit Willisham, ripping slates from the roofs and tearing limbs from trees. One huge oak succumbed to the weather and toppled, it’s roots torn from the very ground where it once rested.

People who later stopped by the tree were horrified as human remains where revealed beneath the gnarled roots of the fallen tree.

Police constable Klug was the only officer in the village arrived at the scene and ordered the body to be taken from it’s strange grave. One hand was separated from the body and on one finger was the bloodstone ring.

On a hunch the constable brought the ring to a woman called Ellen Grey, who was the sister of a girl who mysteriously disappeared eighteen years before.

“It’s Mary’s” She sobbed. “The bloodstone ring was my wedding gift. She was born in March, and it was her birthstone.”

When Mary was eighteen she had married Basil Osborne. Prior to her marriage however she had a childhood sweetheart, John Bodneys. She wrote him a letter begging his forgiveness.

A mere hour before her husband was to take her away on her honeymoon, Mary told her sister she wanted to spend a little time in the room upstairs they used to share. Later when Osborne arrived she still had not come down. Frightened they broke down the door but found no trace of Mary, she had disappeared.

The abandoned groom passed away a mere month later. From a broken heart, the villagers often said.

Mary’s sister Ellen refused to give up her sisters hand when it was finally discovered and claimed it had been brought to her for a purpose, a purpose that must be fulfilled.

When Ellen died she made a strange will which left her estate to her housekeeper Maggie Williams, with the claim that she displays the hand in some public place.

“Where it may someday confront the murderer” She said.

Maggie turned the estate into the finest pub in Willisham and portrayed the hand in a place of honor on one of the walls, where it was displayed inside a glass box against black velvet.

One dismal night in 1895 our stranger enters this Pub, a brooding man with a ravaged face. He listens to this story and moments later he was screaming and blood dripped from his fingers. He was recognized as Mary’s old childhood sweetheart, John Bodneys.

When constable Klug was called the man confessed his crimes and admitted to have found the bride alone in her room. He muffled her cries in a frenzy of jealousy and carried her from the house.

He claims that he did not mean to kill her, that in a desperate struggle against the oak tree he snapped her neck. He hid her body underneith the oak and fled Williamshad forever. He felt no peace after the deed and eventually he was forced to return.

John Bodney was locked up in the local jail where he later died of unknown causes before he was ever tried for the murder.

Mary’s hand was buried with the rest of her remains, and hopefully today she has her peace at last.

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Battlefield earth is one of those movies that so many of us love to hate, or in some cases hate to love. Matter of fact, this movie is bad! So bad in fact that it has come a full circle and is good again. Battlefield earth is one of those rare films that are so bad that they are in fact entertaining to watch just to see the shear badness of it all.

This film was originally the lovechild of actor and director John Travolta, Battlefield earth had been a long time dream for him. Travolta, a known member of the church of scientology was unable to get funding from any major Hollywood studio due to concerns about the movies prospects and ties to scientology.

The movie eventually found home with the independent production company: Franchise Pictures, which ironically enough specializes in rescuing stars pet projects. John himself was signed on as a co producer and contributed much of his own money. Franchise Pictures were later bankrupt after the making of this movie.

When it was finally released on may 12 of the year 2000, it did not achieve much at the box office and proved to be a commercial failure.

Critics did not like the movie and were not gentle in their handling, the film receiving one bad review after the other, movie goers where similarly harsh. Travolta was criticized for bad acting, the script was poor and camera work below par.

The movie is true to the first half of the novel and Travolta had envisioned in the beginning to make sequels to the film where he wanted to do the rest of the story.

The Psychlos are a race of giants, they do resemble us humans somewhat, yet their brutality is unmatched. For thousand years the psychlos have enslaved humanity and as our story begins in the year 3000 a boy called Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, played by Barry Pepper, lives in a primitive village that is outside of the area controlled by the monsters.

He ventures outside of his village with a fellow hunter and they have a faithful encounter with the psychlos, where they endure slavery and the possible extinction of their own race.

Scene from Battlefield Earth

Fact and Fiction:

• John Travolta converted to scientology in 1975 and today is one of their stronger supporters.
• Quentin Tarantino was initially approached to direct, he declined.
• Rumors state that the film contains subliminal messages promoting scientology.

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Or so the rumors say after the domain gremlins3.com was renewed by studio giant Warner Bros.

Be that as it may there has been speculation around the different production methods that will surely be used this time around or the age old question of puppetry vs. new cg methods. Some think the Gremlins won’t be captured properly through new age methods.
Some say that the script is being written right now while others claim that the remake might never see the light of day.

Warner Bros or anyone involved with the film have not confirmed any of this rumor so for now we are just going to have to wait and see.

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Here is what Joe Dante, the original director had to say:

I’m constantly asked ‘why the hold up on Gremlins 3? And that’s because those films were such products of the technology at the time. The movie was more limited and created by technology. They were puppets. The storylines, then, were based around what we could do with the Gremlins. Now, of course, anything is possible but it becomes a little more difficult to hone it on what your storyline would be. First of all, I won’t be asked. Second of all, I wouldn’t bring back the original cast because it’s been too long – the kids now would be familiar with the title, and familiar with Gizmo and Stripe, but as far as the actual [live-action] characters and story, they don’t know them.. it.

Whether Dante is correct or not many of us will be holding our breaths to see what happens and it is easy to say that Gremlins would be one of those remakes interesting to see.

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Once upon a time a young farmer lived east of Eyjafjollum (Eyja Mountains). He was diligent and hardworking. Where he was, sheep were aplenty and he had many of them.

He had just married as this tale is told. His wife was young but lazy and weak. She never wanted to do anything and had little to do with every day running of the farm. The farmer was not pleased by this but could do little.

One fall he brought her a good amount of wool and asked her to work it during the winter, she did not approve much of that. Then winter came and she did nothing, but told the farmer she was going to.

An Older woman, rather big boned and large, approached his wife and asked her for help. „Can you work for me in return? “ The wife said. „That could be „The old woman said, „But what should I do? “ „Work wool „The wife replied. „Then give it to me „ The old woman said.

The wife then took a very large bag of wool and handed it to her. The old woman took the bag on her back and said: „I will bring it back on the first day of summer.“ „What would you like in return? “ Said the wife. „Not much „The old woman replied; „Tell me my name on the third guess, and then we shall be even.“ The wife agreed, and the old woman departed.

The winter raged on, and the farmer frequently asked, where the wool was. She told him not to worry, that he should have it on the first day of summer. The farmer thought no more of it, and then the winter months were almost over. Then the wife started to think about the old woman’s name, but found no way to know it. She started to become worried and the farmer saw that she was startled, and asked her to tell him what was wrong. She told him the whole story. The farmer became frightened and said, that now she had done a wicked thing, for this must have been a troll, that would be back to claim her.

Later the farmer walked up into the mountain, and came upon a large rock hill. He was thinking about his troubles and was not minding where he was going. Then he heard a sound in the hill. He followed the sound and comes to a crack in the wall. Then he saw a rather large woman, working a web of wool. She had the wool between her legs and worked it well.

She sang to herself: „Hey hey and ho ho. Lady of the house, does not know my name, hey hey and ho ho, Gilitrutt is my name, ho, ho. Gilitrutt is my name, Hey hey and ho ho.“ This she sang again and again as she diligently worked the wool. The farmer was pleased as he recognized the woman as the one his wife had described.

He went back to his home and wrote down on a note, the name Gilitrutt. He did not tell his wife yet and time passed until it was finally the last day of winter. By then his wife was very worried and did not even dress that day. Then the farmer came to visit and asked her if she knew the name. She told him no and that she was preparing for her death. The farmer told her that would not be the case, gave her the note and told her the whole story. She took the note and shivered with fear for she worried that the name might be wrong. She asked the farmer to stay with her when the old woman came. He says: „No, it was you who gave her this task, and it will be you who pays her back.“ Then he left.

The first day of summer finally arrives, and the wife lies alone in her bed, no one else was home that day at the farm. Then she heard sounds like thunder, as the old woman arrived and she did not look friendly at all. She hauled on the floor all the wool and says: „Now what is my name, what is my name?“

The wife was terrified and replied: „Signý“? „That is not my name, not my name, guess again, lady“The troll said. „Ása?“ She replied. „That is not my name, not my name, guess again, lady! “ „I don‘t suppose your name is Gilitrutt?“ The wife replies. The troll was so startled that it fell to the floor with a loud thump. Then it got up and left, never to be seen again.

The wife was so pleased that she has escaped such a monster that she changed her ways. She became diligent and assertive from that day forward and always worked her own wool.

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Thus the flying dutchman is described in chapter VI in a book called A Voyage to Botany Bay from 1795, what is considered the first refrence in writing about the infamous haunted ship.

We did an article not so long ago about ghosts and hauntings of all kind, where we mentioned how objects can be haunted as people can. The flying dutchman is perhaps the most famous example of this.

The legend of the flying dutchman is believed to have originated in the 17 century, a fanciful story that begins with a man called Hendrik Van Der Decken. The story says that Hendrik was a unscrupolous and greedy man who made a pact with the devil.

Hendrik Van Der Decken was the captain of the Flying Dutchman and planned to make his fortunes in the East Indies. He set of from Amsterdam on a voyage that would prove uneventful until he tried to round the Cape of Good Hope, when a terrible storm formed. The flying dutchman was battered with winds and the sails torn to pieces.

According to the legend this went on for days and finally the devil appeared to the impatient captain and asked him if he was willing to challenge god’s will and head straight into the storm. Hendrik agreed and thus was cursed by god to wander the seas forever until judgment day in his haunted ship, which we know as The Flying Dutchman.

Blackwood Edinburgh Magazine released a story about the Dutcman in may 1821 where the name Van der Decken is first introduced:

She was an Amsterdam vessel and sailed from port seventy years ago. Her master’s name was Van der Decken. He was a staunch seaman, and would have his own way in spite of the devil. For all that, never a sailor under him had reason to complain; though how it is on board with them nobody knows. The story is this: that in doubling the Cape they were a long day trying to weather the Table Bay. However, the wind headed them, and went against them more and more, and Van der Decken walked the deck, swearing at the wind. Just after sunset a vessel spoke him, asking him if he did not mean to go into the bay that night. Van der Decken replied: ‘May I be eternally damned if I do, though I should beat about here till the day of judgment. And to be sure, he never did go into that bay, for it is believed that he continues to beat about in these seas still, and will do so long enough. This vessel is never seen but with foul weather along with her.

Many people have reported seeing the Flying Dutchman, all over the world. Perhaps the most infamous and respected of them all would be the 16 year old Prince George, a royal midshipman who later would be crowned King George the V. In 1881, 11 july he made the following log aboard the HMS Inconstant of the coast of Australia:

King George V

At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars, and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her, as did the quarterdeck midshipman, who was sent forward at once to the forecastle; but on arriving there was no vestige nor any sign whatever of any material ship was to be seen either near or right away to the horizon, the night being clear and the sea calm. Thirteen persons altogether saw her … At 10.45 a.m. the ordinary seaman who had this morning reported the Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms.

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“His name was Arkady Apraksin. He was flying a jet fighter when he encountered a cigar shaped UFO. Radar had also spotted it, and he was ordered to force it to land, or open fire.”.

“Apraxin began his approach, but the mystery craft fired a fan shaped beam which momentarily blinded him and killed his controls and the engine. He had to glide into a landing.”

On June 14, 1980, another soviet flier reported a UFO above Moscow that played cat and mouse with him.

“It’s maneuvers where too weird for our jet to duplicate.”
Said professor Zigel.

The pilot described the craft as circular and almost 900 ft. wide.

Captain Vladimir Dubstov claims to have seen a similar craft flying below him as he flew patrol over the Arctic Ocean, he changed course to circle it.

“He told me it was truly immense.” Said professor Zigel. “A cone of light protruded down from it and gave it an eerie appearance, but it showed no signs of life. Then Dubstovs instruments went haywire and he lost altitude. The UFO took of vertically and soared past him, leaving behind a greenish-blue Cloud. Dubstov nursed his crippled jet home and reported the incident

Source: The Worlds Greatest Mystery, Intrigue and Suspense

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Whichever version of the beast we have come to know, there is much to discover of both types and the difference between the two legendary creatures.

In the history of man there have been two versions of a similar or perhaps even the same myth, the two myths are believed to have evolved separately but there is speculation as to how much each of them influenced the other. One derives from the Dark ages of the Europeans and can trace its history all the way back to Greek and middle eastern mythology and the other is from the far east, believed to have its origins in Ancient China and from there to have traveled over to Japan, Korea and other parts of eastern Asia.

The European dragon has most often been described as a lizard like creature with legs and bat like wings, more like a crocodile then a snake. Though in ancient days they were seen more like long serpent like creatures. These monsters were often believed to live in rivers or underground lairs and were thought to be malevolent and most wicked, although there are exceptions to that rule.
Eastern dragons on the other hand were more serpent like or snake like in appearance, often with lion like mane and long flowing whiskers. They were often seen as beneficial protectors and are thought to be the greatest in the rank of animals and is often associated with the emperor and thus power and influence. They are revered and likened to the forces of nature, religion and the universe.

Dragon on Longshan Temple

Dragons are widespread throughout the world and some experts have even theorized that the origin of the beast, at least the European one might be derived from Nile Crocodiles who were in ancient times found much further north then they are today, having crossed the Mediterranean. Some say that people might have discovered fossilized dinosaurs and believed their bones to be of dragons.

Although believe in dragons today is limited and almost extinct, people continue to be fascinated by the myth. Some examples of this might be found in the many fantasy novels of modern times, for example older works JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit and lord of the rings and newer works like the Song of Ice and fire by author George R Martin, which has now been made into a popular HBO TV series.

Dragons can also be seen in TV and Movies, for example DragonHeart with Sean Connery and Reign of Fire made back in 2002. Those are just two examples of many! That’s not all, you can also find them in computer games and board games and so on. In short you can find them just about everywhere!

Fact and Fiction:

• The lumbering beasts with scales and breath of fire, flying through the air on bat like wings is actually not the truth according to history. Most accounts of dragons do not describe them as being capable of flight!
• Japanese dragons are thought to be derived from the Chinese ones and are seen as a water entities, often associated with lakes and rivers and in some cases with rain. For some reason Japanese dragons almost always have three claws.

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