Mysteries of the Amazon:

This is new to me.
"...author David Grann discussed his journey deep into the jungle to trace the path of British explorer Percy Fawcett and his search for the mythical "Lost City of Z." Fawcett, who inspired Conan Doyle's The Lost World, embarked on his daring expedition in 1925, trying to find El Dorado, a so-called "lost city of gold" that was hidden in the Amazonian jungle. After sending out dispatches of his journey that were followed around the world for five months, he and his group vanished, Grann recounted.

While a number of missions over the years set out to find Fawcett, he and his party were never located. Some speculated that he'd found a mystical portal to another dimension and entered it. Working from Fawcett's diaries kept by his granddaughter, Grann went to the Amazon to follow Fawcett's route and learn what became of him. He spoke with indigenous tribespeople whose oral history included stories of Fawcett. They said Fawcett ignored their warning of traveling in the direction of "fierce Indians," and Grann concluded that Fawcett and his group were killed, rather than dying of starvation or disease. Regarding the lost city, he noted that recent aerial footage shows enormous geometric shapes diagrammed into the earth, and this may have been home to a large, ancient civilization."
http://www.davidgrann.com

The Mystery Of "The Devil's Footprints

Today in history "On the night of February 8, 1855, the mysterious " Devil's Footprints" appeared in Devon, England. The hoof-like tracks, which have never been adequately explained, were said to stretch for over a hundred miles and went through solid walls and haystacks, as if there was no barrier."
Full article http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/devon/other-mysteries/the-devils-footprints.html

"...On the night of the 8th of February 1855, heavy snowfall blanketed the countryside and small villages of Southern Devon. The last snow is thought to have fallen around midnight, and between this time and around 6.00am the following morning, something (or some things) left a myriad of tracks in the snow, stretching for a hundred miles or more, from the River Exe, to Totnes on the River Dart.

The early risers were the first to find them, strange hoof-shaped prints in straight lines, passing over rooftops, through walls and covering huge areas of land. A set of the prints were even supposed to have bridged a two mile span of the river Exe, continuing on the other side as if the creature had walked over the water. a feeling of unease had spread through some of the population, who watched carefully to see if the strange footprints would return...

...It soon became clear that the phenomenon was widespread, and some of the more scientifically minded examined the prints in detail. One naturalist sketched some of the marks, and measured the distance between them, it was found to be eight and a half inches. This spacing seemed to be consistant wherever the tracks were measured. It was also noted that the way in which they were set out, one in front of the other, suggested a biped rather than a creature walking on four legs.

Some clergymen suggested that the prints belonged to the Devil, who was roaming the countryside in search of sinners (a great ploy to fill the churches), while others rejected the idea as superstition..."

Top Of The Most Mysterious & Horrible Spots

World's top ten most mysterious and horrible spots


1. American Museum of Philadelphia,


"When it was first established, the museum was used for medical students to do research in human anatomy and deformity of the local people. Now it has become a museum displaying many gruesome things; various diseased, injured, and deformed cases, as well as the ancient medical equipment and biological development in the exhibition hall.

There are more than 20,000 exhibits, including photos of war victims, Siamese human remains, dwarf skeleton as well as a colon and other human parts. There are also some unique collections, such as a female body that resembles soap, with a childs two headed skull. In such a gloomy environment, the audience can not help but be horrified."

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6750305.html

Want to visit?

Mysterious Locations & Creatures:

Recently on Coast to coast AM there was an interesting program on Mysterious Locations,artifacts etc.

"Author, researcher, and archaeologist David Hatcher Childress spoke about a variety of mysterious and sometimes ancient places and creatures. There is evidence of ancient visitors to the New World, who may have come here by boat as far back as 1,000 to 2,000 BC, he said. He cited a report in the Phoenix Gazette in 1909, about an expedition to the Grand Canyon in which artifacts such as a Buddha-like statue were found, as well as the case of the Elephant Stone of Aztec, New Mexico in which elephants and hieroglyphics were carved into ancient slabs.
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/nov2/gazette.htm

Other points discussed:
* Huge vulture-like birds resembling teratorns, thought to be long extinct, have been sighted in South America, New Guinea and Africa.
* The strange Marfa Lights phenomenon in Texas, which can be readily observed from a vantage between Alpine and Marfa, may be due to piezoelectric pressures on the Earth.
* Victorio Peak in a mountain in New Mexico was reported by an explorer to contain a vast treasure of gold. The area eventually became part of a military range, and an iron door was placed at the entrance, sealing it off.
* Another lost treasure was said to exist in catacombs under the Death Valley, including giant mummies buried there, claimed a man nicknamed 'Death Valley Scotty.' A villa known as Scotty's Castle was built at the site.
* Giant skulls were found in the Aleutians, collected by the Smithsonian, and never seen again.
*
Obelisks on the moon, such as the Blair Cuspids, could relate to ancient monolithic towers found in Egypt and other locations, and might function as power stations similar to what Tesla conceived."

The picture is of one of his books about Central America.

One Of Life.s Mysteries

Tree Of Life pictured
Did Psychics Foreshadow New Revelation about King Assassination?
' Stuart Hendin '
April 15, 2009

I found this interesting.

"Most recently, a close associate of Dr. King revealed a startling new piece of history that eerily echoed the findings of renowned psychic
detectives who investigated King´s assassination.

"The last two significant investigations of the assassination reached opposite conclusions: On December 8, 1999, a Memphis jury found that there was a conspiracy. On June 10, 2000, the Justice Department completed a limited reinvestigation of the assassination, concluding that there had been no conspiracy, and recommending that there be no further investigation.

Yet for those among us seeking truth and closure, new pieces of the puzzle have surfaced over the years as alleged key players broke their silence. Loyd Jowers, owner of Jim´s Grill across from the Lorraine Motel, acknowledged his role before being convicted by the Memphis jury in 1999; Frank Liberto, crime boss Carlos Marcello´s Memphis representative, confessed shortly before his death in 1978 his role directing Jowers; gangster Myron Billet divulged on his deathbed how Marcello accepted a contract on King´s life; and Jules "Ricco" Kimbel, a government covert operative and organized crime figure, described obtaining aliases for James Earl Ray in Canada, his role setting up Ray as a patsy, and the role played by Liberto.

Attorney William F. Pepper played a groundbreaking role assembling these developments and other newly uncovered information in his 1995 book Orders to Kill, building on the earlier efforts of researchers Harold Weisberg, Philip H. Melanson, and others.

The Church Committee hearings of the 1970s exposed the assassinations of foreign leaders and attempts on the lives of others by an outlaw wing of the intelligence community. Some researchers question whether their targets might have included domestic as well as foreign leaders.

More than four decades after one of America´s most searing traumas, one is left wondering how much of the truth is destined to be lost to history; how much more, if any, of the story will be revealed by participants and researchers at this late date; and whether psychic investigators can play a useful role uncovering our hidden history, in the same way they have been enlisted by police departments to investigate crimes and by the federal government as intelligence-gathering "remote viewers."




From http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/98557Did Psychics Foreshadow New Revelation about King Assassination?

What do you think?

A Legend Of King Arthur And Stonehedge

Is the story of King Arthur A Legend or reality? Among the many myths and legends surrounding Stonehedge and it's origin,there is an interesting one of Merlin,King Arthur and the the megalithic structure.
This and other infoemation may be found here http://www.aboutstonehenge.info/index.php?pg=stonehenge-legend


Geoffrey of Monmouth in his "Histories of the Kings of Brition" brings up King Arthur and Stonehenge for the first time. Geoffrey talks of Vortigern, Earl of the "Gewissi" (in the time of King Constantine) who was planning to steal the crown from Constantine's son, Constans. When Constans became King, Vortigern engaged some men attack Constans while he was asleep and cut off his head. Vortigern then became King and ruled until the Saxon's, lead by Hengist and Horsa invaded England in the 5th century. Vortigen married Hengist's daughter Rown in hopes to quell the invasion but Hengist still planned to take over Briton.

One faitful day near Salisbury, Hengist called a meeting of Britons and Saxons. During the meeting the Saxons attacked the Princes of Briton and "cut the throats of about four hundred and sixty." This act lead to the battle of the Britons and Saxons at "Mount Badon" in the 6th century where King Arthur is mentioned for the first time.

Ambrosius Aurelianus, according to Geoffrey was Uther Pendragon's (Arthur's magical father) brother and ruled with the help of the wizard Merlin.
One day the King came to Salisbury "where the Earls and Princes lay buried whom the accursed Hengist had betrayed" and was brought to tears. He wondered how best to make the place memorable. Merlin said,

"If thou be fain to grace the burial-place of these men with a work that shall endure forever, send for the Dance of the Giants that is in Killaraus, a mountain in Ireland. For a structure of stones is there that none of this age could raise save his wit were strong enough to carry his art. For the stones be big, noris there stone anywhere of more virtue, and, so they be set up round this plot in a circle, even as they be now there set up, here shall they stand for ever."

The Kind decreed that Uther Pendragon and fifteen thousand men would go to retrieve the stones. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the stones of the Giant's Ring were originally brought from Africa to Ireland by giants. The stones located on "Mount Killaraus" were used as a site for performing rituals and for healing. Led by King Uther and Merlin, the expedition set off for Ireland. The Irish heard of the expedition and King Gilloman raised his own army vowing that the Britons should not "carry off from us the very smallest stone of the Dance." In the end, Uther and his men prevailed in their battle with King Gilloman and proceeded to Mount Killaraus.

The Britons were unsuccessful in their attempts to move the great stones. At this point, Merlin realized that only his magic arts would turn the trick. So, they were dismantled and shipped back to Britain where they were set up as they had been before, in a great circle, around the mass grave of the murdered noblemen. Geoffrey also adds that Uther Pendragon, and King Constantine were also buried at Stonehenge.

Mystical And Mysterious Cats

Perhaps it is the haughty graceful movement or the frequent disregard for human contact that give cats the independent regal manner for which they are known.None the less throughout history cats have been considered special.

Ancient Egyptians refused to kill cats.They believed a cat captured the glow from the setting sun in their eyes and kept it safe until the sun rose again in the morning. When Egypt was attacked by Persia, the enemy tied cats to their shields. The Egyptians couldn't fight the invaders because they didn't want to risk injuring or killing the cats.

An old English folktale involves a maiden who had to spin 10,000 skeins of linen to save her lover from a sorcerer's curse. Her three kittens helped her by spinning it all. So a cat's purring is reminiscent of the hum of the spinning wheel.

Men of the sea have superstitions about cats. Many sailors believed that if a cat fell over the side of the ship into the sea, it would seek revenge by calling up a storm to sink the ship. Some fishermen will toss a little piece of fish back into the ocean "for the cat." This particular cat was really a witch who went to sea with her fisherman lover. When it was discovered that the lady was a witch, the other fishermen wanted to drown her. She changed back into a cat and caused a storm that destroyed the entire fishing fleet,

People in the Netherlands, don't discuss private family affairs in front of the family cat. The little gossip will tell everyone in town what's going on!

In Japan, it is thought a black spot on a kitty means that the feline is carrying the soul of a departed ancestor.
In Indonesia, the gray Korat cat, which is the color of a rain cloud, is sprinkled with water in a ceremony meant to bring rain for the farmers.

Blue cats bring good luck in Russia, but in China, old, ugly cats are thought to bring good luck.
Buddhists believe that dark-colored cats attract gold, while light-colored ones bring silver.
http://felinesophy.blogspot.com/2008/04/mystical-cat-superstitions-and-legends.html

http://www.sniksnak.com/lore.html

The sources above tell these and some superstitions about cats.The most well known of course is that a black cat crossing your path brings bad luck.There is the debate of whether a black cat represents evil.What do you think, cat lovers? Does your cat bring a touch of magic to your lifr?

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