Tag: paranormal

Horns on the hologram

I wrote a bit about this on my personal blog, but didn’t post on the HORROR REPORT as I should have..

When President Obama addressed the nation on September 10 about Syria, he looked odd. I thought it was too much makeup, as highlighted by this post on my other site sort of mocking the Commander in Chief’s appearance. But things took a weirder turn from there.

Conspiracy sites I follow immediately began posting similar photos wondering what’s up with the President. Then message board users began asking if the President was a hologram, with some saying they thought his hand suddenly went missing at one point and that his ear vanished while he was walking away.

I felt like I was in the midst of some weird obsession that borderlined on lunacy. A hologram? Fake? Come on..

Until Clyde Lewis asked on air if the President may have been in front of a green screen and actually was located in a safe place just in case a 9/11 anniversary attack happened—Interestingly enough Lewis was in the midst of dedicating his entire show last night to the hologram theory when he was suddenly rushed to the hospital with chest pains during an on the air crisis.

The ABOVE TOP SECRET BOARD lit up with theories.. some blamed the lightning, others say that President Obama was in front of a fake screen on a set..

A YouTube feed of the speech has been making the rounds too. In the first five seconds, it would seem that a digital mistake occurs and that the President suddenly appears. I have seen different versions of this same entrance and don’t recall network coverage showing the strange frequency. Reportedly, the YouTube user who posted the video claims to have made no edits on the footage.

But then came Drudge.. Yesterday he further lit up the Internet when he posted the image of the President from the speech where it appeared curtains behind him were forming horns of satan over his head.

It would appear that the lightning in front of Obama was extra bright, as evidenced by this photo.

However the whole thing still looked odd.
While it may be completely ridiculous to assume that the President’s address to the nation from the White House really didn’t happen from that location, I ask you: Is it? After all, holograms are much easier to do now when compared to years past. Michael Jackson can appear on stage.. Elvis can look like he’s alive in a commercial.. Anyone can be brought into your living room with ease.. you can experience it as though it’s perfectly assimilated with the real world.

President Obama at the least looked like he was in front of a false background. The edges of his suit looked too defined. His mannerisms were bizarre and strange.. He just looked … well.. “off” in some way.

Maybe that’s just because the world is sort of “off” right now in general. And America, fatigued from 13 anniversaries of thousands of deaths and 13 years of war, may just be a little confused by what we’re seeing.

The President and John Kerry say we will battle ISIL, IS, or ISIS (pick your favorite name I guess) in Syria, making way for the ‘real’ rebels to fight Assad. Meanwhile, we will do it with air strikes. No boots on the ground, except for those boots on the ground we are quietly sending and those already there. Oh and since this war isn’t a war no declaration of war is needed. We’re told.

No wonder we think the President is in front of a green screen with horns on his head.. smoke and mirrors are prevailing these days.. Smoke from the wide open gates of hell.

September 12, 2014
The exorcism of weeknight TV

Get ready television watchers. If you still tune into the TEE VEE screen for your nightly entertainment, a new show may soon grace your safe living space: An NBC exorcism program..

The DOME must be dull.. crime shows are saturating the market.. And as for comedy, nothing is funny anymore.

Cue the doom and get the gloom: The exorcist is knocking.

Here are what trade publications are telling us about this new venture into the paranormal and religious: NBC is going to explore demonic possession in a new program. The network handed out a script called THE POSSESSION OF MAGGIE GILL that follows the Gills, an American middle class family who experience frequent paranormal activity within their Eugene, Oregon home.

The program is being produced by Amblin Television–the same that gave us UNDER THE DOME and EXTANT, among others..

Lately, it would seem, evil is selling on the small screen. ROSEMARY had her baby and the gates of hell opened in the Middle East.

Yes, there may be no connection.. it’s all entertainment, baby. But which comes first? The reality or the making of? The chicken or the egg? Which influences which? You can the judge, jury, and exorciser on that.

In the mean time, the power of Christ is compelling our entertainers to give us more of what we want. Apparently we want monsters, demons, and exorcisms. And lots of them.

September 4, 2014
Behind the scenes.. and deep in the mind

Remember, during that horror movie you’re watching, it is all just make believe.

If you still don’t believe it, consider this: Behind the scenes photographs of horror flicks ..Hannibal Lector eating not flesh, but a french fry.. Michael Myers enjoying a Dr. Pepper.. And yes, even the gang ‘chillin’ with Freddy K..

A lot of the behind the scenes images are fun and frivolous, but one stood out to me as a little more painful, a little deeper: Heath Ledger, alone, walking with the JOKER mask in hand.

A little interesting side note on that Joker mask used. In the 1960s, Ceser Romero starred in one of the BATMAN shows, called THE JOKER IS WILD. During a scene in the program, Romero is wearing that same clown mask before it is taken off and his true identity is revealed to the viewing television audience. The homage by the use of that mask was to Romero’s version of the villain..

The BUZZFEED list is a great way to pass the time, have a few chuckles, and see some irony. There’s even an image of Linda Blair next to her robot double—the one whose head turned around while green vomit spewed.

But sorry to be the buzzkill on the fun BUZZFEED lst, but the image of Hedger is a true reminder of the ‘behind the scenes’ hell that often takes place in the mind of an actor.

As a matter of fact, in 2013, we saw how immersed Ledger became in the Joker behind the scenes when his haunting private diary was revealed. And yes, some even hinted as“satanic influences of the JOKER” as the blame for Ledger’s death, and others spoke of a“DARK KNIGHT curse” that probably isn’t true, but certainly is thought provoking to consider.

Nonetheless, there’s lot of behind the scenes images we don’t see. Wish we could.

But until then.. who’s that Joker?

August 31, 2014
UFOs over Harrisburg PA

Harrisburg Woman and Police Say They Saw a UFO »

The Pennsylvania woman who captured an unidentified flying object on her cell phone camera says she is, “scared to death now.”

It surely does look a bit odd.. Especially when military facilities nearby say no flight activity would have been taking place on that night..

The city of Harrisburg also say this object—more than just the woman being profiled by ABC NEWS and GOOD MORNING AMERICA..

Eyewitnesses to the event say the object was not moving and was changing colors .. 911 calls were made, police saw it when they arrived on scene… The National Guard said it wasn’t them..

I believe that this is a UFO—by definition any ‘unidentified flying object’ is a UFO.. But the fact that people are seeing this more than one night, and nights in a row in certain instances, tells me that we have two possibilities: A drone. Or … something ‘out there’..

August 28, 2014
Weird tales of snakes and curses

More weird news making real headlines

I have written recently about my fascination with stories that ultimately are of the ‘paranormal’ making headlines in mainstream publications.. Today shows us another example of the increasing paranormal-ification of the daily news: Roberto Calderoli, a Senator from Italy, put a request in to the Pope: He wants an exorcism..

Tom Kington in Rome, reporting for the The LONDON TELEGRAPH writes, this:

At a ceremony last year attended by Miss Kyenge’s father, Clement Kikoko Kyenge, in his home village, a prayer was said in which God was asked to free Mr Calderoli from evil thoughts. A photo of Mr Calderoli was then placed before an altar dedicated to the ancestors of the village, and the same request made.

But this month Mr Calderoli said a series of misfortunes he has incurred since then – including six hospital operations, the death of his mother, two broken fingers and two broken veterbrae – proved he had actually been cursed by Mr Kyenge.

And more:

To cap his year of bad luck, Mr Calderoli this month tweeted a photo of himself holding a six foot long snake he said he had found and killed at his home in Italy.

Maybe St. Patrick freed the snakes from Ireland and they all moved to Italy..?

Before getting to overdone in religious fervor to support Mr. Calderoli, consider a few things hidden in plain view about his past dealings with the supposed possessor.A defamation of character case was opened against Calderoli in 2013.. Before he claimed possession at the hands of Kyenge, he first compared to an orangutan—said sorry, but still said it wasn’t racist. The incident led to the Italian Prime Minister calling for an end to the racist insults..

With that all said, some faithful may believe that given his possession and racist sentiments, it’s high time for an exorcism. Others may just see things for what things are…

But regardless.. what about this snake!

August 27, 2014
The Satanic Black Mass is a go in Oklahoma City

This story had my attention for several weeks now.. the ongoing battle between the satanic group at the Catholic Church has been heated.

An Oklahoma-based satanic group called Dakhma of Angra Mainyu has leased space in the Civic Center Music Hall, which is owned and operated by the city, for a black mass on Septetember the 21st 2014.. The Catholic Church and a number of other Christian organizations attempted to stop it..

Just today we found out this: The archbishop of Oklahoma City has dropped his lawsuit trying to stop the group from hosting their mass. Apparently they returned consecrated communion hosts back to the Church.. They were planning on desecrating the hosts during their service..

This from Christine Rousselle of TOWN HALL:

While Archbishop Coakley is glad that the group no longer plans to desecrate the Eucharist, he is still urging the city to cancel the event as it is greatly offensive to the quarter of a million Catholics who reside in Oklahoma.

The website WORLD NET DAILY has been following the black mass for some time—say what you will about the website, but they are presenting some key information concerning the legal battle and public outcry concerning the mass..

I offer no stance on whether Oklahoma City should allow the satanic mass or whether the Catholic Church is right to stop it, but I will offer this: This is some proof that the ‘news’ of the mainstream has been amazingly paranormal over the past few months.. Black masses, stories of houses getting possessed, people possessed.. All of this on front pages..

If you’re an atheist, none of this matters at all and each stance is comical.. If you believe a spiritual war is taking place, you’re most likely picking a side..

August 26, 2014
The Jinn and mental disorders

Supernatural ‘Jinn’ Seen as Cause of Mental Illness Among Muslims »

This could be a symptom of a culture widely believing in paranormal phenomenon.. Muslims, it’s reported in this study, believe that the supernatural Jinn are attributing to their mental illnesses when they have them. Scientists and astute psychologists obviously say that the Jinn, since they aren’t real, cannot be doing this and culturally Muslims have simply been conditioned by their religious backgrounds to perceive the Jinn as being the reason for their problems.

Of course, if the Jinn were real, that would throw off the findings..

Nonetheless, here’s a money quote and conclusion of why certain cultures are haunted by certain entities:

Across societies, beliefs in the supernatural as well as other aspects of culture may influence how mental disorders manifest, the study said. Previous research has found that people with schizophrenia may experience different delusions depending on their cultures. For example, fears about technology and surveillance play a large part in the delusions of people with schizophrenia in the United States. Meanwhile, in Japan, which has an honor-oriented culture, patients’ delusions more commonly involve fears about public humiliation.

In a recent study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, U.S. patients with schizophrenia reported hallucinations that involved hearing voices with a negative tone, whereas in Ghana and India, patients reported voices with a generally positive tone.

However, culture is not the only factor that influences psychiatric patients. Blom and his colleagues previously treated a young Muslim patient who had schizophrenia, and who, contrary to the doctors’ expectations, didn’t attribute his hallucinations to jinn. Instead, the patient had searched the Internet for cases similar to his experience, and had concluded that he was a werewolf.

“He could not be persuaded to accept any other explanation,” Blom wrote in an article describing the case that was published in March in the journal History of Psychiatry.

All in the mind..
The Jinn aren’t real. Just keep telling yourself that..

August 20, 2014
Hoax or Axe?

An image printed by the UK METRO has gained popularity in paranormal circles.. some see evidence of a ghostly figure, while others say it’s a major hoax and can be dismissed as that.

The story, as printed by the less than always reliable tabloid across the pond:

A man clutching an axe inside an old military frigate doesn’t make for your typical ghost story, nor does it make typical fodder for an internet hoax.

But a photograph showing a ghostly figure with an axe in his hand aboard a decommissioned military vessel on a dry dock has gained a lot of traction on social media sites.

Stevgoldhound, who posted the picture on Imgur yesterday, claims it was taken by a colleague of his called John who works as a dock foreman.

John apparently took the picture while snapping work areas and navigating deep within the ship with a torch. He didn’t see anyone while taking the images.

Another user of the site cleaned up the image and came up with this. Creepy huh?

It is creepy, if real.. Even if not real, the image is genuinely jumpy.

The METRO story goes on to say that this person, only with one name of Stevgoldhound *I assume a user name from somewhere online?* is a skeptic.. Even more, supposedly, a search was conducted and there were no people aboard the ship. Matey. And finally, the one-named onliner also said his friend ‘John’ could simply be blowing smoke up his ass. Maybe. And all of the internet world, too..

At this point: I am placing this one in the fun but fake category. No evidence to showcase any thing real.. nothing which proves the user names are true, and certainly no real information that offers any credibility to the story.

But it is a creepy image.

August 7, 2014
Fat bottomed Slenders make the horror world go round

Is this the BEST ABC news could do?

In a recent story posted on the ABC NEWS website about the two girls who used Slenderman as an excuse in the stabbing and near-murder of their friend, they opted to use this photo, pictured with this post, of ‘one of the many internet depictions of the fictional character Slender Man.’

The choice of this image is bizarre to me.. First off, while it may an internet depiction, it actually ends up looking much more like a Monty Python skit than a Slender Man example? I have seen a tremendous abundance of Slender Man images all over since this tragic case took place, but this is the first time I have seen the giant big-bellied version of Slender Man..I even Google searched images for “Slender Man costumes” and I found no evidence of this ABC news ‘internet depiction’ .. this really is more like the Big Boned Slender Man.. or even The Fat Bottomed Slender Man.. Perhaps Slender had a few too many buffet trips..

While the image has next to nothing to do with the story, nor the fact that one of the accused girls talks to unicorns and Voldemort,, I just found its use to be peculiar..

Fat Bottom Slenders make the rockin’ world go round.

August 5, 2014
The Hanover happening

There is a lot of national attention on hauntings lately.. the latest comes from York, Pennsylvania..

The HORROR REPORT linked information about this story earlier this week.. The haunting, at least as it’s being described by those in paranormal circles, revolves around a home owned by a woman in Hanover, Pennsylvania.. she says that her humble abode is filled with evil spirits. Two photojournalists, we’re told, were skeptical of the claims. Until they experienced something strange themselves..

Here is the story from FOX 43:

http://launch.newsinc.com/?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=wpmt_localnews&videoId=26456744

At one point, the owner of the home tells the spirit to shut a door.. on camera, the door shuts. Another moment was captured where one of the reporters felt a scratch on his arm..

Another moment captures what reporters say is a demon’s hand..

Finally, the homeowner describes a 7-foot-tall shadowman who prowls the property..

The Travel Channel showcased the home on the program THE DEAD FILES..

Discernment .. you be the judge. But none of us, unless you’re a homeowner with a haunting, is in this situation. It’s tough to judge something you have not gone through..

Skepticism is healthy.. but not so much that you end up with scratches on your skin..

July 31, 2014