The eerie image has baffled security bosses at the site on Sherborne Street since it was captured in the early hours of Tuesday, August 18. The vision was picked up by CCTV in the dead of night – but when security performed a full patrol of the area just minutes later they found it all clear. The woman appears to be wearing a dress and carrying an object as she walks past building materials at the site, near Broad Street. Security staff were alerted after a motion sensor camera picked up movement and snapped the sinister image.
BIRMINGHAM LIVE
Adam Lees from Limitless Security
The manager for Limitless Security was quoted in various British sources saying,
We provide security for the building site on Sherborne Street, in Birmingham city centre. In the early hours of Tuesday we had an alert to say a motion-sensored camera had picked up movement on the site. The images come through to my laptop, so I checked and saw that picture. I notified security on site straightaway who did a full patrol but found nothing. It’s incredibly strange. I have no idea what it could have been but I didn’t sleep the rest of the night.”
Adam Lees from Limitless Security
There are people online who want to see the actual footage instead of just a screen shot of when the supposed apparition made itself known..
Others are claiming that when you blow the photo up to a higher resolution. You can see pixelation around the figure of the woman, leading some to believe it was added to the image.
Sheppton PA: The location was one of the first rescues of trapped miners accomplished by raising them through holes bored through solid rock, an event that gripped the world’s attention during August 1963..
At press time, that was 57 years ago this month.
The headlines initially were dire.. The idea that the entire world was paying attention to every dispatch and detail from Schuylkill County PA is amazing to consider..
THE ACCIDENT
This was the HAZLETON STANDARD SPEAKER’S front page the day after the incident:
The roof of the Sheppton anthracite coal mine collapsed on August 13 and three miners were trapped 300 feet below ground. A small borehole was drilled from the surface in an attempt to contact the miners.
After several days a borehole successfully reached a mine, and revealed that two of the miners, Henry Throne and David Fellin, had survived in a small, narrow chamber! A miracle amid the tragedy.
Rescuers dropped provisions to the miners through boreholes with the assistance of the likes of billionaire Howard Hughes..
Thone and Fellin were successfully raised to the surface on August 27.
Attempts to contact the third miner, Louis Bova, were unsuccessful..
But the story did not end there. Both relayed strange stories, apparitions, and tales of the other world.. the Pope at the time even became an audience .. to this day, their tales live on in ghost and coal mine lure…
THE HEADLINES
On August 14, the STANDARD SPEAKER went into depth into the background of the minors:
The STANDARD SPEAKER reported this about the rescue on August 23:
By the rescue on August 27m the SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH reported that the miners were dancing a ‘jig’ during the rescue:
Furek spoke for about 45 minutes on Sunday about how the miraculous, supernatural, technological and bizarre differences make the Sheppton Mine in Schuylkill County different from other mines around the world. In August 1963, three “regular guys” who happened to be miners went to work at the Oneida No. 2 slope, not knowing they would become trapped. The mine collapsed and buried the trio more than 300 feet below, Furek explained. David Fellin and Henry Throne were pulled out alive. The third miner, Louis Bova, was never found. Some argue the hit song “Timothy” by local recording artists The Boys was based on the the rumor Bova was eaten by Fellin and Throne.
The news reported that Fellin sang as he was rescued..
More from the 2017 report,
The rescue, Furek said, was the hardest part. The two men came out of a 17-inch opening in a harness because there was a concern the capsule, which was originally the rescue device, would break since the hole wasn’t straight down to the men. Throne was first and, when he saw the light of day, he passed out. Fellin, on the other hand, was talking and singing, Furek said. During a post-rescue interview, Fellin signed an affidavit that said he prayed to Pope Saint John XXIII daily and the Pope, who died months prior to the accident, was with the trapped miners. “I believe they had a flight of the soul, out-of-body experience,” Furek said.
THE PARANORMAL AND SUPERNATURAL
Back on the 21st anniversary of the Sheppton Mine Disaster, the HAZLETON STANDARD SPEAKER reported about the weirder and paranormal aspect of the incident:
Dave Fellin and Hank Throne told their story to medical survival experts: Claims of supernatural involvement—prompted by the remarkable visions the trapped men had witnessed.
They recollected the humanoids who were dressed in space suits with lights on their helmets. Revealingly, the two miners felt strangely wonderful and seemed to be in a dream state, like traveling through a hall of mirrors.
Throne yelled to one figure, “Show me some light over here! Over here!”
Fellin saw him too, he said, “but the shape of the man got smaller and smaller as we crawled toward him and then he was gone altogether”
Taken together, the different bits of evidence demonstrate that the men’s visionary experiences were, understandably, almost certainly hallucinations, delusions, and imaginings, shared through suggestion so that eventually they became more or less standardized between the two trapped miners. This probability is both plausible and corroborated by evidence, whereas the alternate explanation—that the described visions were actual supernatural occurrences—loses out to the principle of Occam’s razor, the scientific rule of thumb that suggests the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is to be preferred. (Positing the supernatural requires assumptions not founded in science.)
This is not an unscholarly “debunking” attitude but rather an investigative one. I remain confident that an investigation leading to explanation is the best approach. If something can be effectively explained, any needed debunking will take care of itself.
But the ghost stories lives to today.. These old tales of the Pope and humanoids in a mine during utter chaos and collapse continue cause debate.
THE POPE?
HALLUCINATIONS?
History!
All in August of 1963.. Before THAT world changed when JFK went to Dallas in November…
The headlines initially were dire.. The idea that the entire world was paying attention to every dispatch and detail from Schuylkill County PA is amazing to consider..
THE ACCIDENT
This was the HAZLETON STANDARD SPEAKER’S front page the day after the incident:
The roof of the Sheppton anthracite coal mine collapsed on August 13 and three miners were trapped 300 feet below ground. A small borehole was drilled from the surface in an attempt to contact the miners.
After several days a borehole successfully reached a mine, and revealed that two of the miners, Henry Throne and David Fellin, had survived in a small, narrow chamber! A miracle amid the tragedy.
Rescuers dropped provisions to the miners through boreholes with the assistance of the likes of billionaire Howard Hughes..
Thone and Fellin were successfully raised to the surface on August 27.
Attempts to contact the third miner, Louis Bova, were unsuccessful..
But the story did not end there. Both relayed strange stories, apparitions, and tales of the other world.. the Pope at the time even became an audience .. to this day, their tales live on in ghost and coal mine lure…
THE HEADLINES
On August 14, the STANDARD SPEAKER went into depth into the background of the minors:
The STANDARD SPEAKER reported this about the rescue on August 23:
By the rescue on August 27m the SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH reported that the miners were dancing a ‘jig’ during the rescue:
Furek spoke for about 45 minutes on Sunday about how the miraculous, supernatural, technological and bizarre differences make the Sheppton Mine in Schuylkill County different from other mines around the world. In August 1963, three “regular guys” who happened to be miners went to work at the Oneida No. 2 slope, not knowing they would become trapped. The mine collapsed and buried the trio more than 300 feet below, Furek explained. David Fellin and Henry Throne were pulled out alive. The third miner, Louis Bova, was never found. Some argue the hit song “Timothy” by local recording artists The Boys was based on the the rumor Bova was eaten by Fellin and Throne.
The news reported that Fellin sang as he was rescued..
More from the 2017 report,
The rescue, Furek said, was the hardest part. The two men came out of a 17-inch opening in a harness because there was a concern the capsule, which was originally the rescue device, would break since the hole wasn’t straight down to the men. Throne was first and, when he saw the light of day, he passed out. Fellin, on the other hand, was talking and singing, Furek said. During a post-rescue interview, Fellin signed an affidavit that said he prayed to Pope Saint John XXIII daily and the Pope, who died months prior to the accident, was with the trapped miners. “I believe they had a flight of the soul, out-of-body experience,” Furek said.
THE PARANORMAL AND SUPERNATURAL
Back on the 21st anniversary of the Sheppton Mine Disaster, the HAZLETON STANDARD SPEAKER reported about the weirder and paranormal aspect of the incident:
Dave Fellin and Hank Throne told their story to medical survival experts: Claims of supernatural involvement—prompted by the remarkable visions the trapped men had witnessed.
They recollected the humanoids who were dressed in space suits with lights on their helmets. Revealingly, the two miners felt strangely wonderful and seemed to be in a dream state, like traveling through a hall of mirrors.
Throne yelled to one figure, “Show me some light over here! Over here!”
Fellin saw him too, he said, “but the shape of the man got smaller and smaller as we crawled toward him and then he was gone altogether”
Taken together, the different bits of evidence demonstrate that the men’s visionary experiences were, understandably, almost certainly hallucinations, delusions, and imaginings, shared through suggestion so that eventually they became more or less standardized between the two trapped miners. This probability is both plausible and corroborated by evidence, whereas the alternate explanation—that the described visions were actual supernatural occurrences—loses out to the principle of Occam’s razor, the scientific rule of thumb that suggests the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is to be preferred. (Positing the supernatural requires assumptions not founded in science.)
This is not an unscholarly “debunking” attitude but rather an investigative one. I remain confident that an investigation leading to explanation is the best approach. If something can be effectively explained, any needed debunking will take care of itself.
But the ghost stories lives to today.. These old tales of the Pope and humanoids in a mine during utter chaos and collapse continue cause debate.
THE POPE?
HALLUCINATIONS?
History!
All in August of 1963.. Before THAT world changed when JFK went to Dallas in November…
Two tropical systems are on a path toward the Gulf of Mexico and could possibly make landfall around the same time in the U.S. early next week.The latest forecast from the National Hurricane Center depicts two hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday.
This is very rare–the most recent example of a double impact like this was 1933. MOST RECENT. 1933..
At the time this is written: Tropical Depression 13 is in the Atlantic near the northeastern Caribbean Islands and Tropical Depression 14 is in the western Caribbean near Honduras Friday morning.
Netflix issued an apology Thursday after thousands signed a petition demanding the immediate removal of the controversial French film “Cuties” from the streaming platform.
The movie, about an 11-year-old who rebels against her family and joins a “free-spirited dance crew,” is accused in the online campaign of sexualizing young girls “for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles.” Originally titled “Mignonnes,” the project premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won a jury award for directing.
Netflix said
We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for Mignonnes/Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description.
The film is about the over sexualization if girls in dance .. a conversation that man say needs to be had but not with a hyper sexualized cover depicting girls in a sultry setting..
This is how one Twitter user pointed out the differences of the original cover into what Netflix decided to do:
K-pop group BTS just released their highly-anticipated music video for their newest track, ‘Dynamite’.
It has overpassed 10 million views and 1 million likes in just 20 minutes of its debut…
BTS obliterated the YouTube Premiere record, previously held by BLACKPINK‘s ‘How You Like That’ music video which drew 1.65 million concurrent viewers.
Theaters are beginning to slowly roll out reopening plans.
AMC is among those offering dirt price films for people brave enough to re-enter the old world..
During its opening-day promotion, AMC will show catalog films, including “Ghostbusters,” “Black Panther,” “Back to the Future” and “Grease.” Those older films will continue to play afterward for $5.
AMC, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, confirmed that Disney’s much-delayed “New Mutants” will debut in theaters Aug. 28, with Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” to follow Sept. 3.
Theaters will have reduced capacity along with social distancing standards.
“Please remember to social distance before, during and after the movie. Directional signs and reminders will be posted throughout the theater for guidance,” AMC’s website reads.
As schools, nursing facilities, and the public itself is getting mentally braced for what experts say could be ‘wave 2’ of COVID-19, one Pennsylvania nursing home is tragically dealing with wave 1..
To date, the Milton Nursing home in Milton PA was coronavirus clear.. No deaths occurred even during the most trying weeks in the late winter and early spring of this year.
But just within the past day, this information has been released:
Milton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Northumberland County (as of 08/18/20):
93 total residents. 73 residents have been infected with COVID-19 36 staff members have been infected with COVID-19 13 residents have died from COVID-19
There were just 0 deaths from COVID days ago.
The virus seemingly has rampaging through the home with a thunderous and deadly zeal.
An asteroid the size of an SUV passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above Earth, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said Tuesday.
If it had been on a collision course with Earth, the asteroid — named 2020 QG — would likely not have caused any damage, instead disintegrating in the atmosphere, creating a fireball in the sky, or a meteor, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a statement.
Democrats began this year’s hot political season with a dull pre-taped snooze fest on the first night of their DNC convention. They will do this for the rest of the week. Republicans will join them next week.
People are responding with……..snooze.
Neilson states that 5.7 million people tuned in to the first night of the Democratic National Convention on the major broadcast networks, cutting the viewership of four years ago in half as the virtual event proved a tougher sell than the traditional live gathering.
From 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. New York time, Monday’s convention debut drew 2.1 million viewers on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, 1.9 million on Comcast Corp.’s NBC and 1.7 million on ViacomCBS Inc.’s CBS, according to Nielsen’s fast affiliate data. About 11.6 million people watched the first night of the event on those networks four years ago between 10 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., the website TV by the Numbers reported at the time.
