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Clapham Wood Mystery
Clapham Wood, unfortunately, is directly linked to four human deaths:
- In June 1972 police officer Peter Goldsmith vanished and his body was discovered 6 months later.
- In August 1975 Leon Foster’s body was discovered after a three weeks search.
- Clapham vicar Reverend Harry Neil Snelling vanished in 1978. Three years later his body was found in the wood.
- Finally, in September 1981 the homeless schizophrenic Jillian Matthews vanished and her body was found 6 weeks later in Clapham Wood.
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The Curse of Chief Cornstalk
In the early 1770s, Chief Cornstalk became the leader of a confederacy of Indian tribes living in Ohio. On Oct. 10, 1774, he led a large war against troops from Virginia. The battle took place at Point Pleasant in West Virginia. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and Chief Cornstalk later signed a peace treaty.During the American Revolution the British tried to build a coalition of Indians to fight against the colonists. Chief Cornstalk alone refused to join, although many members of his tribe opposed him. Chief Cornstalk had come to believe that his people's survival depended on their friendly relations with the Virginians. In the spring of 1777, he visited the garrison at Point Pleasant with a small contingent of Indians, and he informed the colonials of the coalition that was forming. While the Virginians waited for reinforcements, the Indians were held as hostages. Following the killing of a white man outside the fort by other Indians, Chief Cornstalk and his men were murdered by the soldiers.
The stories say that he looked upon his assassins and spoke to them: “I was the border man’s friend. Many times I have saved him and his people from harm. I never warred with you, but only to protect our wigwams and lands. I refused to join your paleface enemies with the red coats. I came to the fort as your friend and you murdered me. You have murdered by my side, my young son.... For this, may the curse of the Great Spirit rest upon this land. May it be blighted by nature. May it even be blighted in its hopes. May the strength of its peoples be paralyzed by the stain of our blood.”Many tragedies and disasters were blamed on the curse:
- 1907: The worst coal mine disaster in American history took place in Monongah, West Virginia on December 6, when 310 miners were killed.
- 1944: In June of this year, 150 people were killed when a tornado ripped through the tri-state triangular area.
- 1967: The devastating Silver Bridge disaster (detailed in our section about the Mothman) sent 46 people hurtling to their death in the Ohio River on December 15. Many have also connected this tragedy to the eerie sightings of the Mothman, strange lights in the sky and odd paranormal happenings.
- 1968: A Piedmont Airlines plane crashed in August near the Kanawha Airport, killing 35 people on board.
- 1970: On November 14, a Southern Airways DC-10 crashed into a mountain near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75 people on board.
- 1976: In March of that year, the town of Point Pleasant was rocked in the middle of the night be an explosion at the Mason County Jail. Housed in the jail was a woman named Harriet Sisk, who had been arrested for the murder of her infant daughter. On March 2, her husband came to the jail with a suitcase full of explosives to kill himself and his wife and to destroy the building. Both of the Sisk’s were killed, along with three law enforcement officers.
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Paranormal Case: The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel
Between 1973 and 1975 she was committed to a psychiatric
hospital where drugs did nothing to help her condition. Finally, her parents
gave up on hospital care, seeking only the help of Catholic exorcists Father Arnold
Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt.
Over a 10 month period, Annelise had gone through 67
exorcisms, as the exorcists tried to cast out the demons possessed her. When
asked, Annelise claimed that she was possessed by Hitler, Nero, Cain, Judas
Iscariot, and even Lucifer.
Anneliese at this time was refusing medical care, refusing
to eat, and talking about her death being a form of atonement for other
people’s sins.
On 1 July 1976, Anneliese died in her sleep. The autopsy report stated her cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed. She weighed 30.91 kilograms.
The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel
Angel Hair Phenomenon
Explanations related to UFO include:
- Ionized air may be sleeting off the electromagnetic field that surrounds a UFO.
- Excess energy converted into matter.
- The usage by UFOs of a G-field would cause heavy atoms in ordinary air to react among themselves and produce a kind of precipitate that falls to the ground and disappears as the ionization decreases.