issue 71

This may be an overdose of tabloid news for some, but the true Fortean excludes nothing. After gleaning through 4 months of World Wide News we found a spread on alien sex refering to the article in Fortean Times. Mpossibilities scooped them both in our March issue! (But then alien sex isn't really new, is it?)

Dr. Vittorio Pacedini, Rome, found 130 babies due next year with nonmammalian DNA, that Fr. Paulo Gargino calls not children of Adam (the products of alien

neutrino pulse Jan. 2000 energizing bottomless Pacific pit, and claims crop circles are the aliens' request for titanium and carbon 12, while Dr. Gary Winderham claims a 150-mhz message from Sirius B at 2 am Feb. 11, 1997 has been decoded

after 2 years, but he didn't say what it said. Both stories seem to be unrelated to the one forecasting the largest solar activity peak since 1755 also in Jan. 2000.

Nevertheless Dr. Parker Creaston in The Apocalypse: Why Worry? calls it "yet another Mideast war, just a bigger one than usual", and pooh-poohs the Y2K hysteria. "Certainly there will be some disruptions -- annoying traffic jams, shortages of some food items in the supermarket and other inconveniences -- but nothing to panic about." We agree with "Don't Panic", but note that the 144,000 he refers to are not from the whole world's population, but virgin males in Jerusalem (a much more select group!) and they aren't said to disappear but teach Jews about the Messiah, and the wonder drugs that he expects to continue to cure on "leprosy,

smallpox, or other diseases" already don't, Still, as he says, "Let's focus on the good news, Jesus Christ is coming back to Earth."

Universe letterwriter Dr. Tomislav Zivkovic identifies the object seen in space photos from last summer as an dead alien spaceman and promised more info by late May. "The New Immigrants" in the film written and directed by Lex Parnish are played by shapeshifting alien actors, who drink kerosene and latex paint and eat adobe bricks and lead pipe. This too was said to be released in May. Has anyone heard any more about either of these?

An article by Mike Foster reports that Clinton fondled a "bulbous-headed", "red-faced" female alien during interplanetary negotiations -- a plausible story, if the alien were humanoid. Dr. Harold Masiton however says: "A cursory scan of planets ... reveals that not one of them has an environment capable of supporting anything

In a related article Mike Foster asks: "Is mysterious new solar system heaven?" The answers easy on this one: "No! There's only one solar system; it's a star system, he's refering to and one quite different from Sol's. The upsilon Andromedae

system's biozone, the distance from the star at which water would be liquid, would be at 1.5 A.U. vs. the Solar system's 1 A. U. because its star's an hotter F7 not a G2 type star. Its three planets so far "discovered" are at: .058, .81 and 2.3 A. U., all

far from that Earth-like 1.5 A.U. distance. Their respective energy levels would be: 60,000%, 300% and 38%, corresponding (we calculate) to temperatures of

1800 degrees C, 270 degrees C and -260 degrees C. Their masses and periods are also very earthly (and unheavenly) -- 24,000%, 64,000%, 127,000% and 0.013, 640, 1270 years. Spirits might live there, but even reptilians and insectoids would

Demons too were a frequent topic of articles, some equating them with the aliens. In his pamphlet Pius Godwin writes that the Nephilims [sic, Nephilim's already a plural; the singular's Nephil] built the civilization of Atlantis (now Bermuda triangle). The Nephil-like "Cardiff giant was not a human, new DNA test shows" according to an article by Mike Foster. Although Dr. Othniel C. Marsh long ago called it a "complete fake", Dr. Tienkersley now claims it was: "once living

tissue", and that the "blood is same rare type recovered previously from only one other source -- the Holy Shroud of Turin" and yet also -- like Fr. Paulo's children not of Adam with inhuman DNA.

From Oxford comes the statistic that 60% of mediums are fakes, and are 4% have been possessed by the spirits they summon. They didn't determine apparently how many are obsessed -- probably 36%

The Fatima Prophesies by Thomas W. Petrisko refers to the Marian apparition in 1846 to Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giruad and the "Secret of La Salette". It

Ex-Br. Antomio DeMarko, Rome, tells of the NDE (near death experience) he had in 1993 wherein he learned of an attempted rebellion against Satan by Asmodeus.


	Fortean Mysteries SIG recent history issue 71 Newsletter of the Fortean Mysteries SIG of American Mensa only 200,000 millicents per 3 issues Published irregularly since Undecember 1658 AC "All things are possible ..." (Mt 19:26) ALIENS This may be an overdose of tabloid news for some, but the true Fortean excludes nothing. After gleaning through 4 months of World Wide News we found a spread on alien sex refering to the article in Fortean Times. Mpossibilities scooped them both in our March issue! (But then alien sex isn't really new, is it?) Other stories on aliens have been: Dr. Vittorio Pacedini, Rome, found 130 babies due next year with nonmammalian DNA, that Fr. Paulo Gargino calls not children of Adam (the products of alien sex?). Daniel Robert Siedelmann, author of The Theory of Elementary Patterns, predicts neutrino pulse Jan. 2000 energizing bottomless Pacific pit, and claims crop circles are the aliens' request for titanium and carbon 12, while Dr. Gary Winderham claims a 150-mhz message from Sirius B at 2 am Feb. 11, 1997 has been decoded after 2 years, but he didn't say what it said. Both stories seem to be unrelated to the one forecasting the largest solar activity peak since 1755 also in Jan. 2000. Us First president Peter Tikers expects mass landing of the aliens called The Masters on Jan. 6, 2000. Nevertheless Dr. Parker Creaston in The Apocalypse: Why Worry? calls it "yet another Mideast war, just a bigger one than usual", and pooh-poohs the Y2K hysteria. "Certainly there will be some disruptions -- annoying traffic jams, shortages of some food items in the supermarket and other inconveniences -- but nothing to panic about." We agree with "Don't Panic", but note that the 144,000 he refers to are not from the whole world's population, but virgin males in Jerusalem (a much more select group!) and they aren't said to disappear but teach Jews about the Messiah, and the wonder drugs that he expects to continue to cure on "leprosy, smallpox, or other diseases" already don't, Still, as he says, "Let's focus on the good news, Jesus Christ is coming back to Earth." Universe letterwriter Dr. Tomislav Zivkovic identifies the object seen in space photos from last summer as an dead alien spaceman and promised more info by late May. "The New Immigrants" in the film written and directed by Lex Parnish are played by shapeshifting alien actors, who drink kerosene and latex paint and eat adobe bricks and lead pipe. This too was said to be released in May. Has anyone heard any more about either of these? An article by Mike Foster reports that Clinton fondled a "bulbous-headed", "red-faced" female alien during interplanetary negotiations -- a plausible story, if the alien were humanoid. Dr. Harold Masiton however says: "A cursory scan of planets ... reveals that not one of them has an environment capable of supporting anything close to human life." Aliens would be "more like reptiles or insects than like humans." In a related article Mike Foster asks: "Is mysterious new solar system heaven?" The answers easy on this one: "No! There's only one solar system; it's a star system, he's refering to and one quite different from Sol's. The upsilon Andromedae system's biozone, the distance from the star at which water would be liquid, would be at 1.5 A.U. vs. the Solar system's 1 A. U. because its star's an hotter F7 not a G2 type star. Its three planets so far "discovered" are at: .058, .81 and 2.3 A. U., all far from that Earth-like 1.5 A.U. distance. Their respective energy levels would be: 60,000%, 300% and 38%, corresponding (we calculate) to temperatures of 1800 degrees C, 270 degrees C and -260 degrees C. Their masses and periods are also very earthly (and unheavenly) -- 24,000%, 64,000%, 127,000% and 0.013, 640, 1270 years. Spirits might live there, but even reptilians and insectoids would be unlikely. DEMONS Demons too were a frequent topic of articles, some equating them with the aliens. In his pamphlet Pius Godwin writes that the Nephilims [sic, Nephilim's already a plural; the singular's Nephil] built the civilization of Atlantis (now Bermuda triangle). The Nephil-like "Cardiff giant was not a human, new DNA test shows" according to an article by Mike Foster. Although Dr. Othniel C. Marsh long ago called it a "complete fake", Dr. Tienkersley now claims it was: "once living tissue", and that the "blood is same rare type recovered previously from only one other source -- the Holy Shroud of Turin" and yet also -- like Fr. Paulo's children not of Adam with inhuman DNA. From Oxford comes the statistic that 60% of mediums are fakes, and are 4% have been possessed by the spirits they summon. They didn't determine apparently how many are obsessed -- probably 36% The Fatima Prophesies by Thomas W. Petrisko refers to the Marian apparition in 1846 to Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giruad and the "Secret of La Salette". It prophesied divisions in every church and family and loosed demons. Ex-Br. Antomio DeMarko, Rome, tells of the NDE (near death experience) he had in 1993 wherein he learned of an attempted rebellion against Satan by Asmodeus. Among other things Dr. Andrew Scharzen in his book, 2000: The Eve of Destruction, refers to Mother Seton's predictions of a stench from hell in D.C., battle against demons in the Bermuda Triangle, 144,000 vanishing on Easter, demons raping women in New York on Halloween. The God Who Walk Among Us by Thomas Horn and Donald C. Jones claims that the Pagan gods are demons, just as Paul of Tarsus wrote: "Gentiles sacrifice to demons and not to God." (1 Cor. 10:20) They associate "modern" ideas with ancient "gods" -- abortions (Baal), alcoholism (Dionysus), animal rights extremism (Artemis), body piercing (Eros), crystals (Hecate), evolutionism (Amun-Ra), feminism (Athena), holistic medicine (Asclepius), homosexuality (Artemis, Seth), masturbation (Amun-Ra), psychoanalysis (Dionysus), transsexualism (Zeus), witchcraft (Aphrodite, Hecate, Isis) BIGFOOT The most significant news of all, if confirmed, would be the capture near Deer Lodge, Mont., last Mar. 27, by Dr. Leonard Owens and three others, of a 7-foot, 560-pound Bigfoot now said to be held in Helena. A documentary is promised by late summer or early fall. (A documentary like the so-called "Alien Autopsy"?) INSECTS AND VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES, O MY! There are many other creatures within the pages of WWN besides aliens, demons and bigfoots (bigfeets?). In "World's Largest Bug" by Jason Moreland, the 3-foot long, 60-pound crickets called pukiloms are described. They've been studied by Luis Gulliam for 20 years. One's sold for $800. $22,000 is said to have bought 8 and that were shipped to France. More plausible (and implausibly also more like "Them") is the story that "giant" ants (3 times normal) found at Alamogordo, NM. WWN's also reported that 30 long-toothed, blood-drinkers still survive in Brazil, a resistant type that can endure sunlight for up to 3 hours, is unaffected by sacred objects, and can survive an unpoisoned stake in the heart. [Look out, Buffy!] But then if vampires are demon-possessed corpses, and merely blood-drinking perverts, they're already dead; the stake's just to pin them down. Stravros Vacoroiu, member of a blood-drinking cult in Constanta, Romania, was more easily stopped with number 2 pencil through the aorta by Nicholae Lanescu. The 400-member Daughters of Darkness, Berlin, Germ., founded in 1814, has changed their name to the International Association of Lesbian Vampires, for better PR presumably. From Paris, France, a 10-year, $2,000,000 study found no evidence vampires exist or ever existed. "Werewolves Anonymous" by Kevin Creed, tells about the organization now with 257 members, that was started in early 1993 for victims of OCL (Organically Caused Lycanthropy) or testosterone poisoning, patients of Dr. Mason Grumler, Baton Rouge, LA. Peter G. admits to killing 27, but quit in 1994. "I was suffering from a disease." he says. Laura L. says she had a "slip" and ripped 3 people's throats out. In the very same issue was the two articles reporting from Berlin, Germany, [again] that a 6-year government-funded study "found" werewolves have been extinct at least since the 1800s while from Krakow, Pol., the Institute for the Study of Lycanthropy reported clocking werewolves at 60 mph. How does one get some of that easy French or German grant money?! Prof. Elliot Gordonson Jr. warns of a increasing number of "Born-again Satanists" practicing human sacrifice. While Dr. James Rauschlund, Sante Fe, NM, forecasts murder-suicide virus and Middle Eastern nations unleasing germ warfare. MIRACLES Not all the articles were so morbid though, for example, "Face of Christ Appears on Bottom of Priest's Shoe!" by Tanya Broder, tells of the shoe of Fr. Alejandro Cesio, who had begun doubting the Faith after teaching at Holy Name Seminary, Salto, Uruguay, in 1996, but says "My faith is unshakable now." Physical healings have also been associated with his shoe (or is it Fr. Alejandro's prayers?). In Phenomena Dr. Khin Lwin reported on Maung Htin, 7, of Punakha, Bhutan, who heals by taking on symptoms of healed. It reminds one of "X-Files" or "Psi Factor", doesn't it? "Mystery Tot Raised by Ants" by Mike Foster tells of Pedro the Ant Boy, who apparently survived a plane crash in 1997, by being fed by ants. Fr. Ramon Castillo declares: "God in His infinite mercy, used the smallest and most lowly of His creatures to save this innocent child from certain death in the wilderness." A photo alledgedly of huge protective hands around earth taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in Oct. 1998 had been smuggled to Dr. Fred Maltinis by Apr. 11. [This seems to us possibly be an reasonable description the radiation-blocking Van Allen belts.] MISCELLANEOUS Then there are other articles that are rather unclassifiable. Robert Vandelain, noted for recording plants, allegedly extracted a conversation from Khufu pyramid 2680 BC in Hamito-Semitic last Dec. 29. The article, "Astronauts brought giant egg back from the moon -- in 1972" by Alex Morgan, reports it was 2«x3 ft and weighed a few pounds. Dr. Annabelle Crocker, Perth, Australia, has proposed a Bonking theory of dinosaur extinction -- they smashed each other's skulls in! "Mystery ice sculptures found in Antarctica!" by Sandy Arbogast, 60 to 150-foot lion and cub iceberg seen since summer 1997, tracked in Feb. by Jarle Pettersen, also flying fish, swans Doris Frusdale, 26, Brunswick, Ga., is what can best be described as a mermaid -- born with polysyngamatosis -- dry, thick, discolored, fused legs, a condition reportedly only found once in 15,000,000. That'd be 700 "merfolk" worldwide. MYSTERIES NEEDING EXPLANATIONS For the last 20 years at San Bernardo, Columbia, graveyard's bodies have mummified. Dr. Miguel Antonio Alvarez says he's "astounded and amazed". And the weirdest --- "Rebecca in Arizona" wrote in to say her Barbies are alive! They shrunk her Beatles poster! And they watch the shopping channel at night! ANALOGIES Another publication that we've been reading recently seems to note mention, Match Wits with Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book. The authors are given as "Marvin Grosswirth, Dr. Abbie F. Salny, Alan Stillson, and the members of American Mensa, Ltd." If, as they write, "Analogies ... measures your ability to see relationships." They do, but the book only gives one answer misleadingly giving the impression that it is the answer, even though they do quote Mensan E. W. Paulson: "I have a better view or grasp of the concept when I have tried several approaches." We'd like to do that here. Polythinking, you might call it, unlimited doublethinking. By way of example, the first warm-up analogy is: "6 is related to 36 as 4 is related to: a) 8 b) 16 c) 24 d) 44 e) 34". [We'll abbreviate that to: 6:36::4:?] They give b as "the" answer, applying the relationship 6:36::n:n2 to 4 to get 42 = 16. But the mystery to us is why choose b when the relationships for a, c, d and e are just as, or nearly as, obvious? Why choose 6:36::n:n2 when 6:36::n:30+n (e) or 6:36::n:6n (c) are both simpler mathematics? So are 6:36::n:14n-48 (a) and 6:36::n:60-4n (d) for that matter. It can't be the simplicity of the expression itself irrespective of the mathematics either. 60-4n and n+30 require 5 bits, n+30 and n2 4 bits and 6n just 3. By two swipes of Occam's Razor "the" answer is either c or e, but not b. An even simpler answer not listed would be the 2-bit constant 36. Maybe a non-mathematical analogy wouldn't be so ambiguous, you think? The second one's: "Stalactites are to stalagmites as ceiling is to: a) roof b) floor c) windows d) cave. They give b from the definitions, but someone (even possibly a Mensan) ignorant of the definitions might logically choose c because of word length or d because of initial letter or alphabetical ordering. A possibilities that immediately come to mind that're not even listed would be the letter substitutions: geiling [c = g, middle t = m], geilinc [c = g, g = c, middle t = m], gmeiling [c = gm, middle t eliminated]. WORDLES Another mind-expanding book, Eating Problems for Breakfast by Tim Hansel, not only gives problems for solving (and a few insoluable one) but all this to "Gonzo Christianity: The Ultimate Purpose of Problem Solving". The term Gonzo Christianity, he acknowledges, comes from an analogy with Hunter Thompson's Gonzo Journalism, the participatory, risk-taking, wholehearted kind. One inspiration while reading the book was wordle (word droodle) creation. See how many you can puzzle out. accordingHoyle, ace sleeve, acting, age beauty, agreedisagree, Alex R, akillt, albanecktross, (all things)(all men), anyeard year, APPLE, armedteeth, arrest/you're, armups, arshotm, axgrind, az, ba ba, back(drawing board), back(salt mines), back(square 1), backwall, badworse, balweighedance, ban ana, bargained5, barktreee, baseggsket, be it ... me, bare 4 work, beatpunch, bebushat, beggeer, begdiffer, belbatsfry, belt/hit, BEN, black blew, black/coat, bloodwater, blorunsod, blowsmithereens, blueoncemoon, bodysoul, bofeelnes, bonepick, bonnbet, bornpurple, Bosbandton, bradoubless, br name, br nu, bred circus circus, BROTHER, brow, buckdropet, buckleword, bull horn horn, bunipped, busines, c red, cafeatherp, calm storm, cardevilnate, cat/(hot tin roof), cawithhoots, ccc, chaeveryking, chair, cheek jowl, CHEESE, chetongueek, chilledbone, chinabullshop, chip/shoulder, Chiteana, ci2i, circtalkles, cleverver, cloheaduds, clolivever, closkeletonset, coalsnewcastle, coloutd, come/(like gangbusters), comegrief, cradlegrave, crow gull stone, cry/(slipped milk), cup slip ... slip lip, cycle cycle, d&der, dawned/me, day's all work, deadrights, deem/rum, defingerx, devil c deep blue, digiveran, disblessingguise, doneturn, don't/doit, don't/x10d, dothepe, dressedkill, dressed999, dshotark, dudownmps, ear ear wet, ecnalg, egg/face, endend, estim8awoman/never, every chicken pot, everythingme, evil EVIL, ez/iii, fairmiddling, fall4, fall/(deaf ears), fall/(stony ground), fall wayside, falu10, (feet feet)/ground, fericomplexority, fifatre, filledbrim, fi2manyironsre, FOOT, 5, 4twinks, 4warned = 4armed, 4grabs, GALOOT, gasp, Gilbalmead, gloh&ve, gnibbur, go off coc, good4 0, gopot, gotown, go4it, goats ... sheep, golw8d, gr&slam, grafootve, gr&st play, grasnakess, greekme, grindhalt, gussied, Gwetrustod, h&ed, h&/fist, h&mouth, h&writing/wall, ha ir ha ir, haff «, hanbirdd = bu2sh, hapennd, hat, haul/coals, hayneedlestack, he ad ac he, he art, head/heels, head/water, headtoe, header header, heartheart, heavensbetsy, heaholed, heckpay, heamarriagemadeven, herocksad, hesnowballck, high/hog, hill battle, hitnail/head, hoacele, honestgoodness, horse, i4i, in arms, in/head, injury + insult, iwritei, jack, janumolassesary, jinks, jhonestun, keep jones jones, jump jump sheriff, kick fuss, kick heels, kdi, (knee)grasshopper, knuckle, kriket, l&lubber, l/d/bridge, las lack, ... long, late nevver, ... laugh, laugh sleeve, lay law, lay/mcduff, leg tail leg, le vel, l eg, ... legs, li/'sshare, liflynnle, live(1 + let), lo ose, loall'sve wafairr, lohead/heelsve, looked nose, (low man)/(totem pole), mandogger, man/board, me quit, men ... boys, microscope telescope, milchancelion, millneckstone, mind/matter, modownuth, mofootuth, moheartuth, (more power)u, mouth laugh out of, much 0 ado, muck e muck, mustickd, my own heart a person, nafish nafish, needlesssay, nefriended = defriended, nepainck, night fly, 9day1der, NONIA, noon, nosec, nose/face, nosegrindstone, not/(your life), npoasye, nushellt, oearne , oholene, ointflyment, (one way)(skin a cat)+1, out/limb, ownstewjuice, pantsants, par(t + cel), pearls swine, ½4 thought, ½wise #foolish, perestace, perk ear ear, phernalia phernalia, pilck, pillarpost, pipe, play/words, play play, plowshares swords plowshares, popigke, pushshove, put/airs, put/hold, put/ice, put/dog, putft, quick/draw, quiet storm, ragsriches, rake/coals, ralflagly, \|reading\|, ... resort, rest/laurels, returnfold, rhating, roadruin, rock hard place, rodiamondugh, romwhene, r...o...who, rubugg, runearth, runseed, safe sory, sameallboat, sbuttky, share(1 + alike), shkickins, shoe/(other ft), SHOT, s...h...o...t, shotheck, shoulderwheel, sime/pure, site sight, sithornde, skate/(thin ice), slowanger, smellsheaven, snapit, SPENDER, spiky, st&pat, st&/i, stanyportorm, startfinish, s10torian, step/it, stich groound, stickguns, sticklast, stickribs, stool fall stool, ... straw, stungquick, s...u...i...t, sun/(0 nu), suplacen, tail it, takecleaners, takeit/yourself, tbaghe, tdoghousehe, teeth/edge, 10SNE1, terbangro, tetempestapot, tes42dtinal, tgroovehe, thehangre, thoughtan, thhere, thinkthink, time/h&s, time tim ing, time time, timstitche