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Robotics: A Mini Sub Made From Cheap Parts Could Change Underwater Exploration

June 15, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from The New York Times – Bits

By BRIAN LAM

| May 28, 2012, 5:00 pm

This month, NASA engineer Eric Stackpole hiked to a spot in Trinity County, east of California’s rough Bigfoot country. Nestled at the base of a hill of loose rock, peppered by red and purple wildflowers, is Hall City Cave. For part of the winter the cave is infested with large spiders, but is mostly flooded year-round. Locals whisper the cave’s deep pools hold a cache of stolen gold, but Mr. Stackpole isn’t here to look for treasure.

He had, under his arm, what might appear to be a clunky toy blue submarine about the size of a lunchbox. The machine is the latest prototype of the OpenROV–an open-source, remotely operated vehicle that could map the cave in 3D using software from Autodesk and collect water in places too tight for a diver to go.

It could change the future of ocean exploration.

For now, it is exploring caves because it can only go down 100 meters. But it holds promise because it is cheap, links to a laptop, and is available to a large number of researchers for experimentation. . . . Read Complete Report

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Animal Planet TV crew capture audio they believe proves existence of yowies

June 2, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

Photo: Wooden Yowie statue in Kilcoy, Queensland, Australia. Source (Public Domain)

from The Telegraph (AU)

By Geoff Shearer

The Courier-Mail

May 27, 2012 12:47AM

A US television crew has recorded what it believes is compelling audio evidence of the existence of yowies.

The four-member team from Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot series were on an expedition through remote forests spanning the Queensland and NSW border when they made the recordings.

Bigfoot Field Research Organization member James “Bobo” Fay said that of the more than 20 expeditions conducted around the world by the TV team, this was “maybe the best one as far as audio recordings”.

While he was reluctant to give details ahead of presenting their evidence on the still-to-be-completed third season of the US show, Fay said that in two different locations they had activity that they had attributed to a yowie – the fabled ape-like creature of the Aussie bush.

 “We got some really compelling audio,” he said.

“It is not a known species, I can tell you that. One of the details (convinces us) there is nothing else it could have been.” . . . Read Complete Report

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DNA to shed light on yeti claims

May 22, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from BBC News

22 May 2012 Last updated at 11:57 ET

A UK-Swiss team will use DNA testing to investigate the origins of remains claimed to be from yeti and bigfoot.

The project will examine hair, bone and other material from a collection amassed by a Swiss biologist – and will invite submissions from elsewhere.

Many cultures relate legends of hairy, humanoid creatures that lurk in the wilds, rarely seen.

But material claimed to be from such creatures have never been subjected to modern scientific techniques.

“It’s an area that any serious academic ventures into with a deal of trepidation… It’s full of eccentric and downright misleading reports,” said Prof Bryan Sykes, from Oxford University.

The researchers will apply a systematic approach and employ the latest advances in genetic testing, aiming to publish in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

“There have been DNA tests done on alleged yetis and other such things but since then the testing techniques, particularly on hair, have improved a lot due to advances in forensic science,” the Oxford geneticist told Reuters news agency.

Modern testing could get valid results from a fragment of a shaft of hair, added Prof Sykes, who is leading the project with Michel Sartori, director of the Lausanne Museum of Zoology.

‘Eyewitness reports’ . . . Read Complete Report

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Navajo Task Force investigates the paranormal

March 4, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

submitted by long time Insider Norio Hayakawa

site:Civilian Intelligence Network

from CBS5AZ.com

Posted: Feb 29, 2012 11:33 PM EST Updated: Mar 01, 2012 1:01 PM EST

By Scott Davis – email
WINDOWROCK, AZ (CBS5) -With this story, keep in mind that we really do tell it like it is — even when it is hard to believe. There is a law enforcement agency in Arizona that actually welcomes claims of the paranormal — ghosts, witchcraft, UFOs and even Bigfoot. CBS 5 News obtained dozens of photos and case files from strange scenes and sightings in northeastern Arizona. Most police won’t take reports like this. But about 10 years ago, officials on the Navajo Reservation decided to stop the snickering, to treat these witnesses with respect and thoroughly investigate. Only one agency — the Navajo Nation Rangers — stepped up to the plate. For the first time ever, they are sharing their documents exclusively with CBS 5 News. Retired Lt. John Dover explains that Navajo Nation Rangers are a federal law enforcement resource. They manage national parks, archaeological sites, fish and wildlife services and more as officers of the law. Dover spent 31 years in police work — the last 10 included claims of the paranormal. “Haunted locations and things going bump in the night,” he said. “Objects appearing out of the air and dropping onto the floors, objects flying across rooms, ceramic vessels exploding and then we got involved in UFO investigations.” . . . Read Complete Report

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Retro: The Elusive ‘Mel’s Hole’ (video) plus original Art Bell interviews w/Mel himself (audio)

February 9, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments
We have been on the trail of the elusive ‘Mel’s Hole since we first heard the report on Art Bell in 1997. Thanks’ to our at-large correspondent Tim Cridland here’s a new report.  No new info, but at least the quest is being kept alive by reports like these from time to time. . . EDITOR
Eastern Washington hole is shrouded in mystery
By Denise Whitaker
Published: Feb 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM PST
Last Updated: Feb 8, 2012 at 12:19 PM PST
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — From Bigfoot to the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, the Pacific Northwest is full of mysteries. Another mystery burred deep in the hills of eastern Washington keeps resurfacing.

Ellensburg and its surrounding valleys and Manastash Ridge are beautiful in any season.

Some believe what lies beneath is a deep, dark hole with supernatural powers.

A man named Red Elk is one of the only people alive known to have ever seen the mysterious hole.

A Native American Shaman, or medicine man, Red Elk said his dad first showed him the hole in 1961.

“He said ‘This is an endless hole,'” Red Elk said.

Red Elk’s been back many times and said strange things happen every time he goes near it.

“People get it confused with what I call the devil’s hole,” he said.

Many locals claim to know about the hole, but it didn’t become phenomena until 1997, when Mel Waters went on the Coast to Coast radio show with Art Bell.. . . Read complete Report

 

BONUS: Original Art Bell interview with Mel and the “Screams from Hell” hoax recording.

UPDATE: 2?15?12: Thanks to Tim Cridland again.

a song Inspired by Mel’s Hole

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L.A. Times: Odd accounts and strange tales orbit around Shasta

January 24, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments
from the L.A. Times
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles TimesJanuary 23, 2012, 10:31 p.m.

Mt. Shasta, the Cascade peak that mesmerized John Muir, has long attracted mystics, metaphysicians and spiritualists. Now a researcher is seeking ‘stories and information’ for a book on Bigfoot and UFO sightings.

 

Reporting from Mount Shasta, Calif.—

Locals didn’t find the ads, posted at the laundromat or running in the SuperSaver, to be strange at all.

A number of people, in fact, reached out to Brian Wallenstein the “researcher looking to gather stories and information” for a book on Bigfoot and UFO sightings.

A woman named Rudi emailed to report that she’d seen a bright disc hovering above Mt. Shasta. She attached a photo from a ski resort snow cam that showed a luminous speck. (Credible, Wallenstein thought.)

A man named Larry recounted his own research — including telepathic communication with “them” — conducted in preparation for the day extraterrestrials would reveal themselves to earthlings. (Too out there, Wallenstein decided.)

People pulled him aside to share anecdotes of mystery lights and star gates, or to whisper the names of neighbors and brothers with tales to tell. . . . Continue Report

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