Fake News: Operation: Black & Blue - The #BLM Bundy Conspiracy

Charlottesville Murder Hoax

The Bundy Conspiracy features so many players, they wouldn't fit in the title -- or even this post!  The #BLM Conspiracy is a wide-ranging, ongoing Human Terrain operation meant to secure largely suburban areas in order to seize land and holdings, as well as identify and neutralize counterinsurgents.

Please forgive the rambling, as this is a sprawling conspiracy requiring a lot of back-and-forth between threads.  The #BLM Conspiracy actually comprises several conspiracies that lead to it, and developed from it.  Plus, the cover stories keep changing, and it's hard to cover them all in their entirety while maintaining the story at the core of the conspiracy.  Remember that rabbits live in burrows, not mere holes.

In 2014, the US Federal government conspired to seize land in Nevada rightfully settled by the Bundy family for use in Black Ops involving space-capable, nuclear-powered craft, as well as the mining of precious metals such as Uranium.  The US Federal government claims to own the mineral rights to all land in the nation, and can use Eminent Domain to seize any and all lands it determines worthwhile to its continued insurgency.  

Bear in mind that the District of Columbia is an autonomous entity not directly in the United States, and not directly affiliated with America (excepting Texas) -- technically distinguishing it as a foreign entity (FARA).  At the time of this writing, DC has continually refused to register as a foreign entity, choosing instead to shutdown and restructure several times over.

I guess they're hoping we forget it and move on?

FOX News, run by the Mafia-connected Murdoch family of Australia, colluded to discredit the elder Cliven Bundy in the original dust-up, by luring him into taboo (in America) discussions on race -- specifically, black Americans -- after armed militias showed up to lend their support and were terrorized by armed government agents in those black helicopters tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists talk about.  But the ragtag militia refused to leave.

In 2016, some of Bundy's supporters stormed the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.  Federal agents opened fire on the dissenters, murdering one in cold blood.  Four separate trials found all participants Innocent and charges against them were dismissed in 2017.  The Federal agent was never charged for murder, but the DOJ allegedly opened an investigation into Federal prosecutors for withholding evidence and other questionable practices.

In response, the Bureau of Land Management organized "competing" cultural elements known collectively as #BLM (an acronym for the Federally-backed syndicate so they can later claim to have legally "disclosed" their identity) to create an Hegelian Dialectic along racial lines:

On one side was the Black Lives Matter "movement," run by the Black Mafia Family (or BMF, for short) under the auspices of the lighter-than-light-skinneded Shaun King; on the other was the Blue Lives Matter "movement," run by the whiter-than-white Richard Spencer, a high-powered lobbyist for the Washington State Police.

Again, both of these "competing" terrorist organizations were founded, organized, funded, and run by the Bureau of Land Management -- or #BLM -- and both collected sensitive, personal information and donations from civilians and citizens under false pretenses.  They also received huge donations from the Anti-Defamation League (JDL), AIPAC/OPEC, and innumerable NGOs and Super-PACs associated with the same.  Those terrorist organizations received the majority of their funding for Operation: Black and Blue from major tech companies claiming to fight racism while simultaneously silencing (American, Canadian, and now Venezuelan) "Left"-leaning news outlets, and accounts run by those opposing war and violence.

The rest of the money that should have been legally declared was laundered through megachurches in Texas, primarily in the Houston and Austin areas, as well as universities in Texas (Austin) and California (Berkley) -- as most of the Human Terrain were recruited from college campuses.  The mob elements are recruited from gangs, and informants with pending "deals."

Like ISIS before them, these military operatives' terrorist activity also extended to social media, where they began a heated and violent campaign against all-comers under the flag, #BLM.  They established "troll farms" with the help of the US military -- specifically, the Air Force (USAF) out of Florida, Virginia, and South Carolina [District 7] -- and terrorized, intimidated, harassed, and silenced everyone who dared dissent.  They also infiltrated oppositional forums, websites, and organizations -- usually by Felonious Access and Identity Theft (hacking accounts and posing as someone these organizations trusted).

Both syndicates terrorized the nation with pre-planned riots that fell squarely on the historical dates of actual protests by actual African-Americans.  Black gangbangers, mostly associated with the Latin Kings, and South Carolina military operatives -- mostly recruiters -- under the auspices of Senator Lindsay Graham and others, burned historic black churches and "tagged" historical monuments with racist graffiti in false flag attacks meant to inflame and incite.

And incite it did:

Richard Spencer's "Blue Lives Matter" movement, working in tandem with the US media conglomerate, used prisoners on release programs -- as well as embedded agents from the DHS, FBI, and DoD -- to throw a White Supremacy Party (or some such nonsense) in Charlottesville, VA, just a few miles from the Commonwealth Barracks if... if you can believe that.

Their online antics had stirred-up a frenzy on both sides, so they expected a decent turn-out.  The actual purposes of this Jerry Springer Show Gone Wild display were to

1) Attract and arrest suspected gangmembers and criminals with outstanding warrants,

2) ID members of the counterinsurgency movements on both sides of the political aisle, and
3) Press the best and the brightest (well, strongest and meanest) into military service as an option to serving time.

While there, a woman who had once been arrested, Heather Heyer, was allegedly killed.  Interestingly, she is the spitting image of alleged NSA "informant," "Reality Winner," from Shaun King's The Intercept "news" site -- a CoIntelPro operation openly engaged in Sedition.  The Intercept is better known for its "counterinsurgency" efforts in locating "whistleblowers" -- such as Heather Heyer "Reality Winner."

"Reality Winner," of course, never existed... or "Heather Heyer" never died.  We're not sure which, as there is also a strong possibility that the two are twins.  The theory is that Heyer was arrested as an activist (or any other reason), then given the option of jail time or working for the Feds, and chose the latter.  She may also have been sent to psych in lieu of jail.  This is only a theory, but those pictures side-by-side are damn convincing.

It was later proven that those who organized the rally were, in fact, military recruiters, and one Jason Kessler who had something to do with Occupy Wall Street (under Barack Obama) a mere two years earlier.  Also, Richard Spencer was selling weapons to the black Streetgangs involved in the myriad protests and "counter-protests" around the nation.  The Big Six media failed to mention that the counter-protestors brought projectiles that included human waste, and began attacking the allegedly White Nationalist... pride fest?  Something about a statue, I don't know -- their story kept changing.  Somewhere along the way, #CutTheCheck started trending on Black Twitter, and Shaun King lost his shit.

Again, it's an awful lot of activity from the same people leading-up to the event, then they all more or less disappeared from the spotlight.  But, on with the conspiracies (there are, as mentioned above, a lot of them here -- Inciting this theater of hate was a big set-piece in their "Every White Person is a Racist Sexist Homophobe Who Works for Russia" narrative, then they all wanted to distance themselves from all the Murders):

One of the #BLM leaders was murdered while riding on a bike in New Orleans; another committed suicide on the courthouse steps; and still another's corpse was found in a burned-out car.  Officials in Louisiana, long a hotbed of corruption, immediately responded by declaring policemen a separate race, protected under new ordinances that are redundant and un-Constitutional.  In so doing, New Orleans officials and police officers -- many of whom are directly connected to streetgangs, themselves -- tacitly admitted their collusion... and made themselves Persons of Interest in all those pesky Murders.

As an aside, let me just note:  Which is easier to believe here?  That all of this is "tinfoil hat black helicopter conspiracy theorist" nonsense, or that policemen are a separate race?  Because they are criminalizing "conspiracy theories," and legally designating policemen a race separate from human.  ANYwho...

On December 20^th, 2017, a judge ruled that the Federal government had withheld evidence in the third Bundy case, and declared a mistrial.  

In retaliation, the next day, the BLM illegally removed Confederate statues from the Black Mafia-controlled Memphis, TN (where I'm from, originally), and had them destroyed.  Others were removed from display around the city, but allegedly placed somewhere safe.  The same has been done around the country in order to save the war memorials from vandals working for, or with, the US Federal government and its military under direction of the Bureau of Land Management -- most notably at the University of Texas Austin.

In fact, at the time of this editing ¹, Kessler and sundry Fake Right/ANTIFA terrorist military operatives "activists" are planning to recreate their carnage in a commemorative mockery on August 12^th, 2018.  Several Conservative organizations and outlets have distanced themselves from the planned event, only to find themselves silenced by Twitter.  Welcome to the club!

It appears a False Flag event is in-play.

If anyone shows up, they will mostly be out-of-towners -- way out of town, as evidenced by their European accents -- arriving in "party" bang tour buses that ship these crisis actors and professional mercenaries around the country.  Some literally bear the name "Storm" on the side.  They are protected by the Mafia (FBI/DHS and also the Police Union -- specifically the aforementioned, Florida, Las Vegas/Carson City, and LAPD) to which they are subservient, and will remain so until "murdered" and whisked-off into the Federal Witness Protection Program... never to be seen again (except on CNN and in the Philippines).

We have posts scheduled that delve into what Human Terrain is, as well as a lot more involving the #BLM and associated conspiracies, but we're expecting to be yanked any day now.  If you can't view it here for any reason, there is an excellent, and comprehensive, award-winning documentary from 2010 which explains the weaponization of culture (Human Terrain Systems) in depth.  Search "Human Terrain Mapping" if you really want to scare yourself.

The same disparate players -- I'll mention Lindsey Graham again -- then murdered some 55 people in Las Vegas (Operation: Credible Threat) on OCT 1, 2017.  And several more eyewitnesses to the event later.  We have already covered O.C.T., but we're still investigating for later reports.

(Should Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg be concerned?  Eric Schmidt isn't.)

This is one of them big 'uns.

¹ All links have been removed prior to posting... twice. - Jan. 17, 2018  (But we still have some of them.)
And again - Feb. 6, 2018.
Again - 03-21-18
Originally scheduled for posting on April 17, 2018.
The website's passwords and accounts -- including the registrar's and host's -- were breached during the second week in August, following the rescheduling of this expose.  Outgoing e-mail has been terminated, and spam activity detected on all the associated e-mail accounts.  Trackback to UofA (Texas Austin) through Chaseville, New York, spoofed out of or through the Ukraine.  Salisbury plant exploded, along with some of the evidence of poison manufacturing used on Skripals, others.

© The Weirding, 2018

Amala and Kamala, the Feral Children of Madnipore

Kamala, Feral Child of Madnipore

While controversy surrounds the authenticity of the account of Amala and Kamala, two feral girls allegedly found in India in the early 20^th-Century, they remain one of the most famous cases of feral children.

In 1926, Reverend Joseph Amrito Lal Singh published the account of Amala and Kamala, two "wolfish," feral children he claimed to have raised after their wolf mother was shot and killed.  Some stories say the girls were spotted in the district of Madnipore around 1920 and rescued from a wolf's den, while others say Rev. Singh received the girls from someone who had kept them in a cage.  Either way, Rev. Singh claimed he and his wife cared for the girls who ate raw meat from a bowl, and refused to wear clothes.

There are dozens of accounts of feral children throughout history, going at least as far back as the 17^th-Century.  Daniel, the Andes Goat Boy, was found in the Peruvian Andes in 1990.  It is said that he had been raised by goats for four years, and walked on all fours.  "Djumba" was discovered in 1962 by Russian oil explorers, and was still crawling on all fours and biting when angered in 1991.  Russians once again discovered a feral "Mowgli" boy in 2007.

Amala, rescued at 18 months, died at age three.  Kamala was reported to have developed a growing vocabulary of about 50 words at the time of her unexpected death in 1929.  Later investigators labeled the account a hoax, saying pictures of girls acting as feral children had been staged, and Rev. Singh's "diary" forged after Amala and Kamala's deaths.  But accounts state the girls had elongated jaws and canines, and their eyes shone in the dark like those of cats.

Others have posited that the feral children of Madnipore, Amala and Kamala, may have been autistic.

© The Weirding, 2018

Happy Holidays 2017

Happy Holidays

The holiday season goes by many names depending largely on one's faith and knowledge of history, but it is a celebration of the Winter Solstice during which charity and kindness toward one's fellow man is central.

Instead of delving into the controversial history of the Christmas season, we decided to share some heartwarming stories we hope will lift your spirits this holiday.

Enjoy!

Alan Bresloff: Jewish faith spurs his volunteerism — as Santa Claus

Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas—but they are cousins.

Saturnalia: Celebration, Sacrifice, and its Influence on Christmas

Mince Pie and a Chat for the Lonely

Festivus Web - Official Site

Experts believe they have found tomb of Santa in Turkey

Have a safe and happy holiday season!

© The Weirding, 2017

The Hollow Earth Theory, or Symmes' Hole

Symmes' Concentric Circles of Hollow Earth

After several posts debating the merits of such theories being connected to Admiral Byrd, I stumbled upon the modern origin of the Hollow Earth Theory or, as it was once called, Symmes' Hole:

John Cleves Symmes, Jr. was a military provisioner and veteran of the War of 1812 who latched onto a popular notion of the era regarding concentric circles and an inner earth.  It appears that these ideas, both in the theoretical and literal, existed prior to Symmes -- Johannes Kepler in 1618, Edmund Halley in 1692, and even Cotton Mather referenced an Inner Earth of concentric circles -- but he somehow came upon the concept independently, perhaps during the War, as Symmes was not a classically educated man likely to have read the likes of Kepler and Halley.

Symmes' Circular Number 1, published on April 10, 1818, begins, "I declare that the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of concentric spheres, one within the other..."  He goes on to give rather precise coordinates to the entrance of this fantastical world before requesting funding for an expedition to validate his claims.  He went on to write many more circulars before taking his theory on the road, speaking to any audience that would have him.

Symmes' Hollow Earth Theory inspired many of his contemporaries, including Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne -- both of whom wrote stories regarding a Hollow Earth -- as well as Edgar Rice Burroughs, and others.  In fact, the public became so intrigued that Congress was forced to vote on the matter in 1822.  James McBride, a supporter, published Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres in 1826, bringing the Hollow Earth Theory even more mainstream notice.  Though the expedition was turned down -- many times, actually -- John Symmes' Hole Theory deeply impacted popular culture, resulting in countless sci-fi/fantasy classics of both the 19^th and 20^th -Century.

© The Weirding, 2017

The "Lost" Thunderbird Photo

The "Lost" Thunderbird Photo

Thunderbirds -- and "living dinosaurs," in general -- are a difficult topic to discuss, due to religious Fundamentalists, moneyed "experts" who receive backing from shady organizations and are known to falsify research, and a general lack of evidence that has been made public.

Many photos, video documentation, even alleged specimen, regarding a great number of topics we discuss exist in private collections that are not accessible to the public.  Some can be found in reputable books (where they were licensed for publication), others in privately-owned museums (where no photography is allowed), and elsewhere -- just not online.  Uploading them can result in termination of accounts (though the images are usually just reported/removed), and has -- as they are protected by Copyright and similar restrictions.

Stories of Thunderbirds go back centuries, but appear to be specific to North America.  While tales of winged, sky-faring, man-eating beasts appear in cultures worldwide, the very term is taken from Native American accounts.  Early settlers' accounts repeatedly mention the fear American Indians had of these creatures, and record tales of their attacks on people -- mostly children.  These scant details bear the hallmarks of Legend, but the story goes deeper.

Accounts of posses being amassed, and hunts organized, for Thunderbirds also exist in historical record.  In several cases, these hunts were carried-out by otherwise serious-minded, "common" people of Anglo-Saxon descent who may have been swept-up by hysterical tales of recent attacks, or sightings in the area.  Others were expeditions carried-out by wealthy trophy hunters -- even more important, as it proves that belief in these tales was strong enough to entice men of a higher status (and assumptively better education) into paying top-dollar, and traveling the world to brave unchartered territory, just for the chance to nab one!

There are a handful of similar photos, all of which appear to be fakes based on the fabled accounts of "The Lost Thunderbird picture" -- none of which mention Vicksburg or the Civil War, by the way.  Most Thunderbird accounts of that period came from the American Southwest -- Arizona and the immediate area, to be precise.  Some of these tales were likely cases of mistaken identity coupled with fear -- the product of conditioning from hearing tales of such fearsome, loathsome beasts since childhood -- others, however, are not as easily dismissed.

And, though some modern researchers have conducted studies that seemingly "prove" modern people untrained in Zoology often misidentify known creatures -- not something serious researchers question in the first place -- their apocryphal data proves nothing regarding the knowledge of ancient tribal peoples whose entire lives were spent living and working in tandem with their natural surroundings.  This is especially true of American Indian culture, which revered nature and the animal kingdom.  On a separate note, the very hypothesis smacks of racial bias, as it seems to "confirm" the era's prevailing, racist views toward Amer-Indians more than anything.

This alleged picture of a Thunderbird hunt may well be the "Lost Thunderbird Photo" of paranormal lore.  While many have attempted to debunk it, no conclusive evidence proving its fraudulence has come to light.  Proffering that it may have been a hoax of its day -- a staged photo in front of a theatrical prop or taxidermic creation -- is a sound approach toward establishing reasonable doubt; resorting to claims of digital manipulation is lazy at best, and not at all convincing.  As always, I am not claiming this is an authentic photograph; I remain hopefully skeptical that it is, and so far unswayed by attempts to debunk it.

Especially since I am not sure how this picture made it online, because I think it belongs to a private collection.  Most of the photos from said private collection are unavailable online (although many are available in print), so I am not entirely sure how this particular photo of an alleged Thunderbird hunt around the turn of the 19^th-Century persevered.

Though I, too, may be mistaken.

© The Weirding, 2017

PHOTO: Hollow Earth - The North Pole

Hollow Earth - North Pole?

An alleged Russian satellite photograph shows the alleged entrance to the North Pole.  Admiral Richard E. Byrd and a convoy allegedly disappeared in the 1950s on an expedition, following his release of information regarding the discovery of an "Inner Earth."  He was not the first to have speculated on a Hollow Earth Theory.

© The Weirding, 2017

UPDATE:  This is most likely a hoax, though I can confirm nothing, and share this only for discussion.  Admiral Byrd was not associated with the Hollow Earth Theory, and did not die during an expedition -- this may not even be a photo of Earth!  Please see the recent post on Symme's Hole for more information on The Hollow Earth Theory. - 2018

The Book Test

Gladys Osborne Leonard

Invented by famed English medium, Gladys Osborne Leonard (and her spirit guide, Feda), The Book Test was popular around the time of The Great War (WWI).  A dead "communicator" would send a message to the living by way of a medium, who would direct the listener to a book in a location to which the medium had never been.  The dead spirit's message would be found in the text on a page number specified by the medium.  Like many fads of the American Spiritualist Movement at the turn of the 20^th-Century, the practice was inauthentic and short-lived.

A 1921 analysis of The Book Test found no merit to the practice, though a handful of cases proved inexplicable.  Of 532 tests, 17% were successful, 18% were partially successful, but 38% were total failures.  It was dismissed as providing any proof of life after death.

Russian medium Nina Kulagina presented a unique twist on The Book Test phenomenon, by naming the first letter of each paragraph on given pages of randomly-chosen books.

© The Weirding, 2016

Admiral Byrd: The Last Explorer

Admiral Byrd

After seeing the documentary regarding the Hollow Earth Theory, and having many of the same questions I think others do regarding the subject, I decided to delve deeper.  Not surprisingly, my local library had books on neither subject, but they are part of the interlibrary book-lending program, so I was able to find a handful of books on Byrd.  I requested two of them and picked one of them up the other day.

Admiral Byrd: The Last Explorer by Edwin P. Hoyt is a dauntingly large biography based only on the public records regarding Admiral Byrd.  At the time of its writing, the family refused to release his private information, much of his Naval record remained classified, and he was too well-regarded to find former associates who would say anything bad about him.  Although this is only from the Preface and sounds like possible excuses for a poorly-researched biography, it was written less than 20 years after Byrd's alleged mysterious disappearance.

I'll be discussing more about both Admiral Byrd and the Hollow Earth Theory in coming posts.

© The Weirding, 2015

Provo Canyon Bigfoot Video?

© C Harris Lynn, 2012

Strange Creature Found in Namibia?

This post was originally published on 11-20-2012 (9:09am) but had to be republished in 2020 due to a security issue.

© C Harris Lynn, 2012

Woolly Mammoth in Siberia

© C Harris Lynn, 2012

Creature Filmed in Brazilian Rainforest

UPDATE 2019


This has no audio but I don't recall if the video originally posted had audio.  I couldn't find the original video but I'm fairly certain it was this one.


Bear in mind that I have no way of knowing where, when, or even why this video was filmed nor anything else about it.  The "alien" looks like a severely malnourished child with an extreme case of hydrocephalis.  It's entirely possible the child could have been abandoned or banished and the whole clip is taken out of context.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

Camping: End of the World Coming Friday

Harold Camping's first handful of apocalyptic warnings having passed, the controversial Evangelical minister has made a new end-of-the-world prediction... for this Friday.  Camping claims the date was determined using numerous factors from The Holy Bible.

Experts say these Doomsday predictions have increased in recent years, though none have proven true.  Often, when such predictions fail to pass, those who issued them claim they actually did happen, the rest of the world just failed to notice their results -- as is the case with Camping, whose earthquake predictions for January 21^st were changed to say that God had "shaken the world with fear."

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

Ivan Marx - Bigfoot and the Mothman

Ivan Marx was a controversial figure in the search for Bigfoot.  He made a movie or two and claimed to have caught the monster on film, but the film was later deemed a hoax.  He made several more movies based on his supposed encounters and attempts to track the beast, but serious investigators dismiss his claims.

Marx was central to the Bossburg, Washington, "Cripple Foot" track findings, in which one of the footprints appeared to show a creature affected by a condition similar to "club-foot."  These tracks were later debunked, though doubt as to their authenticity remains.

Here is just over seven minutes of footage Marx shot in which he claims to have captured images of Bigfoot.  One of the creatures was later redubbed a Mothman sighting, as it appears to show a headless torso.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

The Silent City - Prince Luigi

A decade after the New York Times reported that there was no proof to support the claims that The Silent City exists, Prince Luigi Amedeo claimed to have seen it while climbing Mt. Saint Elias. On the morning of July 7^th, 1897, Prince Luigi and the members of his expedition claim the Silent City was "mirrored in the clear atmosphere."

One wrote, "It was so distinct... that it required... strong faith to believe that it was not in reality a city." The expedition claimed the image lasted some 30 minutes before dissipating.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

The Silent City - L.B. French

Despite having reported that a San Franciscan reporter had identified the cityscape in Prof. Dick Willoughby's Silent City photograph as Bristol, England, the New York Times ran an account from a Mr. L.B. French, who claimed to have seen the Silent City for himself.

French told the newspaper he saw a misty cloud around 5am sometime in early July from which the Silent City emerged. He described it in luscious detail, noting that it did not appear as a modern city, as Willoughby had said, but an ancient one. He described trees, rooftops, and ancient mosques or cathedrals.

French said the Eskimo guides accompanying the expedition fled as he and a companion struggled to setup their camera equipment. By the time they were prepared to shoot, the mirage had receded. L.B. French estimated the Silent City was visible for some 25 minutes.

It should be noted the article was published on Halloween, 1889. Also, all of the features French (who appears to have disappeared from history) describes are visible in Willoughby's faked photograph of the Silent City.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

Photographic Evidence: The Silent City of Alaska

The Silent City of Alaska is one of the most celebrated hoaxes in American history, but its legend is not the open and shut case many skeptics would have you believe. 

Mirages are known to be inexplicably realistic according to eyewitnesses, and the one Prof. Dick Willoughby claimed to have seen was just that. Replete with well-defined rooftops, trees, and streets, Willoughby claimed the modern-era cityscape that arose from a misty haze on the Muir Glacier's horizon lasted only a few minutes before dissipating, but he managed to snap the accompanying photograph, "proving" he had seen something in Alaska in 1889.

America bought the state of Alaska from Russia just 20 years earlier, and few Americans had any idea of what to expect from the area, except cold. When San Francisco papers picked-up the story in 1889, it exploded throughout the popular culture, and papers as far away as New York and Ottawa carried the story and picture.

The article is overly flattering of Prof. Willoughby, establishing his expertise in mining and "Arctic" History, as well as his elevated status amongst natives throughout the territory. Willoughby was the first American to discover gold in Alaska and claimed to have seen numerous, bizarre mirages during his expeditions -- particularly, the Silent City, which he said appeared every year from June 21^st to July 10^th on the Muir Glacier.

According to some sources, Willoughby sold the negative he sent to the San Francisco Chronicle for about $500, and by all sources, Willoughby sold copies of the photograph for 75¢ in gift shops throughout Juneau. He even chaperoned paid tours of the area where he claimed to have photographed the mirage, which some said was the reflection of either a French or German city thousands of miles away. Others suggested Montreal, which quickly became the forerunner even though Montreal experts and officials refuted it. Eventually, it was determined to be the reflection a Russian city thousands of miles away.

Others labeled the photograph a fake from the start, including a photographer quoted in the original San Francisco Chronicle article, who said it was the result of a badly exposed plate. "I regard it as a trick,"  he is quoted as having stated.

He also discounted it as a mirage, noting that all of the mirages he'd seen were of islands and landscapes, not cities -- and absolutely none of them featured people. The idea had captured the public's mind, becoming a media sensation.

The dating of the photograph remains in question. Some sources indicate the picture was taken in 1885, though it was later asserted that Willoughby sent to San Francisco for photography equipment in 1888. Willoughby was no photographer, though some accounts regard him as an "amateur;" he had no prior experience and never photographed anything else. When a San Francisco Chronicle reporter asked to see the negative, Willoughby could not produce it, and claimed the chemicals and process he used to develop the picture were "secret."

On October 11^th of the same year, The San Francisco Chronicle published an article that identified the Silent City in the photograph as Bristol, England. Soon, the story emerged that Willoughby had either received an overexposed plate of the city when he purchased a box from a store or paid a down-on-his-luck English photographer for the plate some years before. In short, it was determined that Willoughby had faked the photograph. 

Sources say the Professor died a mere two years later, but I could not confirm this. What I can confirm is that there is a Willoughby Ave. in Juneau, AK.

But the story of Alaska's Silent City does not end there.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

Mexican Druglord Thanks American Officials for Keeping Drugs Illegal

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, the alleged head of the Snialoa drug cartel in Mexico, publicly thanked American officials for keeping drugs illegal, supposedly noting to a confidant, "I couldn't have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama." Mexico's President Calderon is conversely condemning the same officials for not legalizing drugs, as "Prohibition [creates] gangsters." President Calderon told a confidant.

Notice that this is literally "information;" this was reported by sources claiming to be close to the primary source. This is from an article in The Huffington Post. While the sentiment is correct, the piece may be a plant. Or it may be the level of "journalism" we can expect online.

© C Harris Lynn, 2011

PA Psychic Goes Gangster

Authorities say a fortune-telling couple fears for their life after being threatened by a rival psychic with a gun -- and this is not the first time such charges have been brought against the guy!

Stephen Mitchell of Pennsylvania is said to have become enraged when George and Shirley Thompson started advertising their psychic business near Mitchell's own fortune-telling establishment. He then reportedly confronted Mrs. Thompson with a gun and threatened her and her children.

Though an unconfirmed source claiming to be Stephen Mitchell's wife said the accusations were false, but Mitchell is facing similar allegations elsewhere. Police also doubt the veracity of the claims, but are investigating.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

The Lake Worth Monster - Texas' Bigfoot

Though reports of a large creature in the Fort Worth, TX area had been coming in for nearly two months, police dismissed them as pranks until July 10^th, 1969, when six eyewitnesses with an 18" scratch on their car flooded their office one night to report a large, hairy and scaly "monster" which fell from the trees to attack them.

Though they investigated, they found nothing, but the local paper picked-up on the story and ran a feature on the "goat-man" of Fort Worth, Texas. Some described it as nearing 7' in height, and weighing some 300-lbs. The Lake Worth Monster was covered in whitish-grey hair, beneath which most reported scales or scaly skin.

The next day, some 30+ people were gathered to get a glimpse of the Lake Worth Monster, and it did not disappoint. A mass sighting resulted in sheriff's deputies being called to the scene. When some onlookers attempted to approach the creature, it is said it threw a tire at them -- with the rim still inside it!

A famous picture was taken which resembles little more than a cottonball-blob, and at which the photographer now scoffs. The last sighting occurred some two months after the first and police later blamed pranksters, but others are not entirely convinced and no suspects were ever arrested or even accused.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010