Month: June 2015

Virgil Runnels, aka “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes — WWE Hall of Famer, three-time NWA Champion and one of the most captivating and charismatic figures in sports entertainment history — passed away today at the age of 69..

He lived longer than many wrestling starts who preceeded him in death..

Rhodes was a fixture in wrestling for decades.. his prime time came with the WWE, THEN WWF..

Lately I have been listening to a number of wrestling podcasts including the Ric Flair WoooNation  show.  Getting nostalgic with each one more and more.
This death also showcases the changing era as the old guard passes away..

ADDITIONAL AFFILATES WELCOME BELL

The momentum continues ..More stations are lining up for MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT with Art Bell..

With the state of Virginia proudly represented in the newest set, they are…

KOAN 1080 AM Anchorage, AK
WIQO 100.9 FM Lynchburg, VA
WBZS 102.5 FM Roanoke, VA
WMNA 106.3 FM Danville, VA

The official page has instructions for affilates who want to join..

The newest friends of MIDNIGHT also join an ever-growing list..

The scary side of Art Bell revealed in new fan trailer

The message board BELLGAB has been alive and well with creativity for years, but lately a few users have also been the source of some amazing trailers for the upcoming MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT on July 20th.. And put this trailer from the BellGab user JAZMUNDA from the land down under:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q-DsXUMK-U&feature=youtu.be

The scenes are frightening, stock footage prepped to scare.. the Bell clips which accompany it are equally unnerving, and a reminder of what is to come for those who will tune in on July on their smartphone, shortwave radio, or AM station choosing to broadcast the show..

The thunder will strike again.
And will shows like this..
Take cover.

THE GOLDEN GIRLS TIME SLIP

The HORROR REPORT has reported in depth over recent years about the potential for time slips, alternate dimensions somehow riding on top of each other, and Nelson Mandela dying more than once.. You can read the full list of stories here and the Mandela effect articles here.

Tonight it would seem that a whole new time warp has developed. For the third time in five years, news trended on Twitter that Rue McClanahan was dead. She was the famed actress best known for her role as BLANCHE in the GOLDEN GIRLS.

Despite the fact she died June 2010, her death news went wild June 2014. And now again June 2015..Today.

While a time warp or slip may be a fun explanation, it would more appear that famous people suddenly took an old CBS tweet about her death and retweeted it to thousands of people. Thus began the domino effect..

Tonight my wife yelled across the house to me that ‘Blanche is dead!’ I told I know.. I knew for years.
And then suddenly I saw the news articles, such as this CBS report, speaking about how this is the third time people lamented her passing..

So there are logical explanations for the viral conditions of the news.
But they are not as fun.
I’d rather the MANDELLA EFFECT to be replaced with the Blanche Slip.
I blame CERN. They opened the portal.

Hackers stole the data of every federal employee. Period

As expected the the hacking was much larger than originally said..
And as the AP reports in this dispatch, much worse:

Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged

There also appears to be the strong likelihood that the information on that just about eveything concerning military veterans has been compromised as well…

Secrets are out, courtesy of the ‘Chinese’ as Harry Reid said.

Is this an attack? Or a warning…

Dusty Rhodes dead at 69

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Virgil Runnels, aka “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes — WWE Hall of Famer, three-time NWA Champion and one of the most captivating and charismatic figures in sports entertainment history — passed away today at the age of 69..

He lived longer than many wrestling starts who preceeded him in death..

Rhodes was a fixture in wrestling for decades.. his prime time came with the WWE, THEN WWF..

Lately I have been listening to a number of wrestling podcasts including the Ric Flair WoooNation  show.  Getting nostalgic with each one more and more.
This death also showcases the changing era as the old guard passes away..

ICON DEAD: SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE LEAVES THE WORLD AT 93

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A famed actor who began his career in old school horror as Dracula before becoming a James Bond villain, and most recent to the newest generation of entertainment consumers, Saruman in Lord of the Rings, is dead at 93..

According to a London Borough official today, the famed actor passed away..

Lee appeared in hundreds of movies and video games.  He appeared in notable flicks such as LORD OF THE RINGS, STAR WARS, THE HOBBIT, THE WICKER MAN, and was original Dracula..

The UK TELEGRAPH was the source of the report initially about the dead. Lee passed away on June 7 after suffering respiratory problems at a hospital..

 

CHARLIE ISN’T DEAD: THE CHALLENGE BACK WITH ‘MASS HYSTERIA’ IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

The CHARLIE CHARLIE challenge set the world on fire over Memorial Day weekend this year, when an untold number of pre-teens, and teens—along with Clyde Lewis on the radio—decided to balance two pencils together and request the presence of Charlie, a supposed Mexican demonic entity..

While the whole pop cultural phenomenon seemingly has waned, the Dominican Republic just had quite the CHARLIE CHARLIE issue while it was taking place. According to reports now being filed in the UK DAILY MAIL and other sources,  four Colombian high school students were brought to the emergency room two weeks ago screaming and babbling.. there were no physical abnormalities or issues. Reporter Alasdair Baverstock writes this in the MAIL:

But parents at the Juan Pablo Duarte Primary School in the town of Hato Mayor in the Dominican Republic, where the original video came from, say their children were ‘possessed by Satan’ after playing the playground game.

‘Three students were absent from class because their parents believed they were possessed by the devil,’ deputy headmistress Jovita Jimenez told MailOnline. 

Ms Jimenez’s school is one of various throughout the Hato Mayor region of eastern Dominican Republic, a country where voodoo black magic is common, that has been subjected to what she describes as the ‘satanic craze’.

The entire allure of Charlie Charlie has some interesting causes in my opinion.. the game and myth has been confined to Latin America and Mexico. Cultural experts say that men in those areas are more likely to play the game than women.. But the fact that Twitter and Facebook exploded with it also showcases the changing cultural dynamic of the United States . During the early 1900s, the US of A was greeted with countless immigrants who brought with them the lure and paranormal tales of their home countries, typically in Europe. At that time, Christmas was a time for ghost stories, something that dates back to the Victorian Age.

In 2015, CHARLIE CHARLIE shows that a whole new immigrant impact is occurring. The increasing number of Latin Americans and Mexicans in the United States is having an effect even on the paranormal world and horror establishment.  And with it, new people are being introduced to the friend people South of the border had for a long time: Charlie.

 

 

THE WORLD’S NEWEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY: MH370 CASE WILL NEVER BE SOLVED

Something mighty historic just occurred.. the generation that lived through Amelia Earhart’s vanishing act would never had known the amount of a cultural impact with staying power that incident would have.
Today’s mystery began March 2014 when the Malaysian flight MH370 vanished. Somewhere..
And now, in 2015, the hope for answers dashed..the mystery solidified.. And the search is being abandoned.

According to the airline it’s been a wild goose chase. A chase now coming to an end game.

NBC NEWS reports,

The underwater hunt for missing MH370 is a “goose chase” that will soon be abandoned, according to the boss of one of the world’s largest airlines.

Tim Clark, president of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, likened the search of the southern Indian Ocean to the decades-old unsolved mystery surrounding the disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart.

“I think it is only a question of time before the search is abandoned,” he told theSydney Morning Herald on the sidelines of an industry conference in Miami on Tuesday. His remarks were confirmed to NBC News by an airline spokesman.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

“Do we have solutions? Do we have explanations? Cause? Reasons? No,” said Clark, whose airline is the world’s biggest operator of Boeing 777s — the same type that vanished in March 2014. “It has sent us down a goose chase. It will be an Amelia Earhart repetition.”

So there you have it.
WE have just lived through history. A passenger jet vanishing from radar. Never being found in water.. wreckage never surfacing. Weird stories of phones still working after the event … all of the intrigue and mystery, rumor and sensation.

All in history..
And paranormal and mysterious lure to come.

The families will never be the same. Remember seeing their grieving yet hopeful faces on CNN saying that there was more to the story, that the plane had been stolen? Remember all of that?
I do..

And our children, when they grow up, may ask us about this event. This historic event of a passenger plane going missing without a trace.

You can tell them, as I may tell my own son, that the plane is still flying. Somewhere in a realm or alternate reality.. and every now and then if you listen really really hard, you’ll be able to hear the Malaysian jet still circling the world looking for a place to land.

Hopefully my son will never see the TWILIGHT ZONE that I stole that idea from..