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Post by Muramasa on Jun 20, 2008 10:41:47 GMT -8
On that subject, I always to explore a ghost town some time in my life.
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Post by Captain Galaxy on Jul 20, 2008 23:58:48 GMT -8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXeatSu9NDIwww.liveleak.com/view?i=15e_1216505857Okay now, I do believe I told some of you guys this story about a UFO that I saw around a year ago, but even if I did or didn't here it is again briefly: I can't exactly remember when it was but it was probably around June or July, because the friend I was with said that he had recently seen Transformers and Die Hard, and those two movies came out around that time. Anyway, we had gone to the Spectrum to eat at the FishMarket, I believe that is what it is called, and left at around 9 pm and headed for his car. When we got to the parking lot I looked up and noticed a strange ring of individual lights in the sky, which I then brought to the attention of my friend. It moved pretty much like a typical UFO, moving in one direction, rotating, moving in another, all SILENTLY. After that I can't remember how we lost sight of it, we just did, which is the weird part. I'm not saying its extraterrestrial, but I am saying its a UFO and these two links will lead you to videos that people have recorded recently of the exact same object, not in the "it's the exact same one" sense, but more in the line of products sense. Who knows, it might HAVE been the same one.
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Post by Captain Galaxy on Jul 26, 2008 10:22:49 GMT -8
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on Jul 26, 2008 11:02:44 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Galaxy on May 26, 2009 21:42:31 GMT -8
This is known as the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter.
On the evening of August 21, 1955, members of the Taylor family from Philadelphia were visiting friends, the Sutton family of Kentucky. The Sutton family home was a rural farmhouse located near the towns of Kelly and Hopkinsville, in Christian County, Kentucky (the farmhouse still stands today although the Sutton family moved soon after the incident). There were a total of seven people in the house that night, including the children of the two families. The Suttons had no running water in the farmhouse, and due to it being a warm evening Billy Ray Taylor, the patriarch of the Taylor family, went to an outside water pump for a drink. It was about 7.00 p.m. Taylor said he observed strange lights in the sky to the west, which he believed to be an unusual craft. He excitedly told the others about his "flying saucer" sighting, but no one believed him, instead thinking that he had become overly excited after seeing a vivid "shooting star".[1]
At about 8.00 p.m., the families began hearing strange and unexplained noises outside. The Sutton family dog which was on guard outside began barking loudly and then hid under the house, where it remained until the next day. Going outside a few minutes later with their guns, Billy Ray Taylor and Elmer "Lucky" Sutton then asserted that they saw a strange creature emerge from the nearby trees. Jerome Clark describes the creature as:
a luminous, three-and-a-half-foot-tall being with an oversized head, big, floppy, pointed ears, glowing eyes, and hands with talons at their ends. The figure, either made of or simply dressed in silvery metal, had its hands raised.[2]
Disquieted by the creature's bizarre appearance, the pair were further unnerved when it began rushing towards the house, holding its hands up in the air raised, which the men took it as threatening behaviour. When the creature approached to within about 20 feet, the two men became scared of a home invasion and began shooting at it, one using a shotgun, the other man using a .22 rifle. There was a noise "sounding like bullets being rattled about in a metal drum", and the creature, they said, then flipped over and fled into the darkness and shadows. Sure that they had wounded the creature, Lucky and Billy Ray went out to look for it. Hendry writes that as the men were stepping from the porch, "a taloned hand reached down from above and began grasping at their hair."[1] They shot at the creature -- it was perched on an awning over the porch -- and it was knocked from the roof. Again they heard the rattling noise, although the creature was apparantly unharmed.
Lucky and Billy Ray returned to the house in a disturbed state. Within minutes, Lucky's brother J.C. Sutton said that he saw the same creature (or at least a similar creature) peer into a window in the home; J.C. and Billy Ray shot at it, breaking the window, whereupon it too flipped over and fled. For the next few hours, the witnesses would assert that the creatures repeatedly approached the home, either popping up at the doorway or at windows in an almost playful manner, only to be shot at each time they did. The witnesses were unsure as to how many of the creatures that there were; at least two, as two were seen at once, but there may have been as many as fifteen. At one point the witnesses shot one of the beings nearly point blank, and again would insist that the sound resembled bullets striking a metal bucket. The floating creatures' legs seemed to be atrophied and nearly useless, and they appeared to propel themselves with a curious hip-swaying motion, steering with their arms. Clark writes that "f the creatures were in a tree or on the roof when hit [by gunfire], they would float, not fall, to the ground."[2]
There might have been partial corroboration of the Taylor-Sutton tale: at about 11 p.m., a state highway trooper near Kelly independently reported some unusual "meteor-like objects" flying overhead, "with a sound like artillery fire coming directly from them."[2]
Hendry writes that Sutton family matriarch "Mrs. Lankford … counseled an end to the hostilities," noting that the creatures had never seemed to try harming anyone nor had they actually entered the house.[1] Between appearances from the creatures, the family tried to temper the children's growing hysteria. At about 11.00 p.m., the Taylor-Sutton crew decided to flee the farmhouse in their automobiles and after about 30 minutes they arrived at the Hopkinsville police station. Police Chief Russell Greenwell judged the witnesses to have been frightened by something "beyond reason, not ordinary." He also opined "[t]hese were not the sort of people who normally ran to the police … something frightened them, something beyond their comprehension." A police officer with medical training determined that Billy Ray's pulse rate was more than twice normal.
Twenty police officers accompanied the Taylor-Suttons back to the farmhouse, and several entered it to assess the damage. According to Daniels et al., "[t]he official response was prompt and thorough."[3] In 1998, Karal Ayn Barnett wrote, "By all accounts, the witnesses were deemed sane, not under the influence [of drugs or alcohol], and in such a state of terror, no one involved doubted that they had seen something beyond far their ken."[4] Police and photographers who visited the home saw many bullet holes and spent shells, and further discovered what Clark describes as "an odd luminous patch along a fence where one of the beings had been shot, and, in the woods beyond, a green light whose source could not be determined."[2] Though the investigation was inconclusive, Daniels et al. writes, "Investigators did conclude, however, that these people were sincere and sane and that they had no interest in exploiting the case for publicity. The patch sample, although photographed, was never collected and had mysteriously disappeared by the noon the next day. "[3]
Police left at about 2:15 a.m., and not long afterwards, the witnesses claimed that the creatures returned. Billy Ray fired at them once more, ruining yet another window. The last of the creatures was allegedly sighted just before dawn, at about 4:45 a.m. on August 22.
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Post by Muramasa on May 28, 2009 14:53:21 GMT -8
Lepperchauns
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on May 28, 2009 23:17:45 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Galaxy on May 29, 2009 3:40:05 GMT -8
Hey, at least someone read it. Thanks.  |
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Post by Captain Galaxy on May 29, 2009 3:40:28 GMT -8
I was wondering what that was doing here. It's scary sounds! Ohh! |
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Post by Muramasa on May 30, 2009 18:26:21 GMT -8
I'm going to try to listen to it at work. |
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Post by Captain Galaxy on May 30, 2009 18:38:21 GMT -8
heh heh heh. "Try"
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Post by Muramasa on May 30, 2009 20:00:46 GMT -8
What do you mean by that, exactly?
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Post by You probably can't touch this. on May 31, 2009 15:32:22 GMT -8
Do or do not, there is no try... ?
I guess it is a bit of a difficult attempt for people who don't like anything at all associated to harsh noise (which Prurient does with their other releases) but this particular record is more subtle, though haunting. Even in this album, you can hear Fernow (who is Prurient) screaming but its far more mixed down and the ambient noise is a lot more subtle than his other stuff.
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Post by Muramasa on Jun 1, 2009 0:06:40 GMT -8
Well, I've already heard it. I just want to listen to it while at work. I already freaked a coworker out listening to Mitch Hedberg's stand-up comedy (she thought I was watching a TV). So, I want to mix things up a bit.
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Post by Muramasa on Jun 8, 2009 2:40:32 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Galaxy on Jun 8, 2009 2:54:34 GMT -8
Ah yes the infamous bloop. I believe I already posted this somewhere on the boards. I think maybe in the cloverfield thread. Either way, always classic stuff.
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Post by Muramasa on Jun 8, 2009 3:03:11 GMT -8
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Post by Captain Galaxy on Jun 8, 2009 3:12:16 GMT -8
DAMN! The name itself man. Where are you finding all this great stuff man? I thought I knew everything Fortean!
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Post by Muramasa on Jun 8, 2009 3:37:44 GMT -8
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Post by Inaaca on Jun 8, 2009 7:52:38 GMT -8
Odd choice of name considering they're trying to convince patients that it's harmless. |
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