The Two Unexplained Child Disappearances That Shocked Spain

During the 80s there were two child disappearences that shocked Spain and that, to this day, haven't been solved.

The first one took place on June 25, 1986. That day, Juan Pedro Martínez Gómez was travelling with his parents in his father's tank truck, when the truck had a terrible accident. Juan Pedro's parents died that day, but inexplicable, Juan Pedro was never found, dead or alive. The first hypothesis of the police was that the body of the boy had been dissolved in the acid that filled the broken tank of the trunk. But this explanation was proven impossible. Where was the kid then?

The accident had been caused by the excessive speed of the truck, suicidal in the way down, reaching even 140 km/h. But even more strange, the analysis of the tacograph revealed that, on the way up, the truck had stopped 12 stops in less than 20 km, several of only 1 or 2 seconds, and the longest of half a minute.

Approximately one year later, in a new search in the truck remains, the police found illegal drugs. That brought up the most plausible hypothesis: the truck was carrying the drugs from the origin or from some point in the middle of the trip. The former possibility, that it was in the truck from the origin, is more likely, as the drug was found in a hidden space surrounded by acid. The 12 stops could be explained by an other vehicle (some witnesses stated that after the accident, a white van stopped and the passangers approached the truck), stopping them. One of the longest stops could be explained by the drug dealers stopping the truck to didnap the kid, as a "warranty".

Less than one year after the disappearence of Juan Pedro, David Guerrero Guevara, known as the "painter child", disappeared in Málaga, tenía 13 años cuando, el 6 de abril de 1987, never to be seen again. He was going to a gallery where one of his paintings was shown among paintings of recognized local artists. He was officially last seen walking to the bus stop only 250 m from his home. He never arrived to the gallery or to the painting lesson he was supossed to attend later. But that day the Queen of Spain was visiting Malaga, how could be a kid kidnapped in broad daylight?

There were only a few leads, but the most promising was one that involed a Swiss national, that was very similar to an sketch that the missing kid had given as a present to a classmate:

In the end of 2019, this sketch reappeared in the most unexpected way: the classmate that had given the sketch to the police in 1987 found it in her mailbox, a sketch that should have been in police possession. Also, some anonymous notes have been recived by the family in the last months. The brother, together with a journalist, made a new investigation, and found witnessess stating that he had not only visited the gallery, but that he had even arrived to the place where the painting lesson was taking place, the club El Cenachero. But he never attended the lesson, so he would have disappeared there.

Los caminos de la genialidad son inescrurables

Escuchen esta misteriosa canción, titulada "El hombre quemado":



Dice la historia oficial que fue recibida por el equipo de Milenio 3 y desconocen el origen...

Bueno, algunos datos sí podemos dar:

La voz es la de Pablo Villarrubia y lahistoria la de Joao Prestes en Sao Paulo que explicará quien apareció quemado de dentro hacia afuera.

Escuchen a partir del minuto ocho:



Probablemente la voz de la canción (mejor dicho, remix) se trate de la aparición radiofónica de Pablo Villarubia en Milenio 3, contando la misma historia.

Y la música es esta (vía ForoCoches, of course):




ACTUALIZACIÓN 11/03/2012.

Según desvelaron en Milenio 3 el pasado día 11, y como habíamos apuntado, se trata de la voz de Pablo Villarubia hablando del caso de Joan Prestes.

Y como nos había apuntado K, está realizado con la aplicación de móvil Songify. Lo único que nos quedaba por saber era el autor y, según se ha desvelado, fue Santiago Camacho.

PS: Como se entre la SGAE del número de descargas que ha tenido esta canción...

The Phonautograph

"From 1854 he [Scott de Martinville] became fascinated in a mechanical means of transcribing vocal sounds. While proofreading some engravings for a physics textbook he came across drawings of auditory anatomy. He sought to mimic the working in a mechanical device, substituting an elastic membrane for the tympanum, a series of levers for the ossicle, which moved a stylus he proposed would press on a paper, wood or glass surface covered in lampblack. On 26 January 1857, he delivered his design in a sealed envelope to the French Academy. On 25 March 1857, he received French patent #17,897/31,470 for the phonautograph.




The phonautograph used a horn to collect sound, attached to a diaphragm which vibrated a stiff bristle which inscribed an image on a lamp black coated, hand-cranked cylinder. Scott built several devices with the help of acoustic instrument maker Rudolph Koenig. Unlike Edison's later invention of 1877, the phonograph, the phonautograph only created visual images of the sound and did not have the ability to play back its recordings. Scott de Martinville's device was used only for scientific investigations of sound waves." [Wikipedia]

But the story goes on:

"In 2008, the New York Times reported the discovery of a phonautogram from 9 April 1860.The announcement of the discovery was accompanied by an announcement that the visual recording was made playable — "converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California." The phonautogram was one of Leon Scott's forgotten images in Paris; they were scanned then processed by a sophisticated computer program developed a few years earlier by the Library of Congress.

The recording was a ten-second snippet of a singer, originally thought to be the daughter of the inventor, before it was discovered that the recording was played at twice normal speed and was probably his own voice, performing the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune". This phonautograph recording is now the earliest known recording of a human voice and music in existence, predating, by twenty-eight years, the longest surviving Edison phonographic recording of a Handel chorus from the oratorio "Israel in Egypt", made in 1888." [Wikipedia]

"Au Clair de Lune" can be heard here.

via Javier Sierra at Milenio 3

The Man Who Smoked Inside A UFO

I have writen several times about radio show "Milenio 3" and tv show "Cuarto Milenio", both hosted by Iker Jiménez, and both about "mistery", which includes UFOs, ghosts, conspiracy theories, etc.

On October 30, 2011, they broadcasted the story of Julio F (you can see drawings of the creatures seen by Julio F.). The story is very widely explained in "Rune Øverby's base forum POLARIS" (one of the few english language websites that speak about this story):

"Thirty-year-old Julio Fernandez and his English Pointer dog "Mus" were driving in his car to do some early morning hunting for hares. They were driving towards Soria province, Spain. At about 4:30 a.m. Julio stopped to drink coffee and anis at a wayside bar known as the Hostal 113, beside the highway on the outskirts of Algora. At 5:45 a.m. Julio left the bar and drove on, half an hour later passing Medicaneli. Suddenly he "knew" that he had to be at a certain location 15 km further on, and put his foot down on the accelerator. At this point his conscious recollection stopped."

I think the stop at the bar is the most interesting moment of the story:

"Since he realized that it was too early to begin the hunt, he decided to stop at a bar along the way and drink a coffee, which he used to when he goes hunting. So about half past five, he was at the bar “Hostal 113” in the side of the road just on the outskirts of Algora, near Quadalajara.

The bar waiter was tall and light hairy (Julio said that he had a wig). He was wearing rubber gloves, which under Spanish law does not to be allowed for bar personal. In the short time, about 20 minutes, he was in the bar, Julio noticed that nobody was there, or came in, while it normally should have been numerous trailer drivers, police and hunters there. Besides the bar mans curious minds, no way seemed to behave as expected. And it was another thing to withdraw Julio attention. He felt a strong smell of pine, which appeared from detergent used in the bar. Curiously Julio felt the same scent on board the craft later.

Also the conversation with the waiter was strange. Although Julio was under hypnosis, he could not reproduce it. But they talked about hunting and the waiter became interested in his dog Mus and insisted that Julio would go to a special place to hunt. (Subsequent researchers interviewed the owner of the bar Hostal 113 and he told me that it never opened in front at 08.00 on Sunday and that he did not have a waiter who fits the description Julio."

Later the story goes on like a classic abduction story (you can read it very well detailed here). He travels in a smaller road, the car stops, he sees two tall men that take him inside an starship...

But my favourite moment is this one: "A heavy smoker, Julio lit a cigarette. The men asked if they might take one away for study and deposited it into the same cylinder." Not only this, as they revealed in the radio show, he throw both the ashes and the cigarette end on the floor of the starship.

Chinese Structures in the Desert

This week there has been a big buzzle in Twitter about the Giant Structures that China is building in the middle of the desert, as shown in "Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?". I trully encourage you to take a look at the photos in the article. Compared to them "Flashforward" looks like a boring drama... ;)

Taking a little time in Google Maps looking around the structures already shown in the article at Gizmodo, I have found this other series of structures:






Another one:

The Mothman: Facts

Silver Bridge after collapse of 1967, Point Pleasant.

The Mothman Prophecies is an advisable 2002 movie with Richard Gere [imdb]. It tells the story of John Klein, a man who arrives to the town of Point Pleasant and discovers that several people there claim that they have seen a misterious winged being with red eyes. He begins to investigate and every time he gets more involved in the mistery.

What many people don't know is that the character of John Klein was inspired by John Keel [Biography]. He wrote the book of the same name "The Mothman Prophecies", after spending several time in the town of Point Pleasant.

Usually, when we speak about the misteries that fill the world, we are always condemned to make our judgements based just on the witnesses of the event. The same happens with the story of the Mothman as it refers to the creature, but there is one fact that anybody can anybody can check for themselves: this is the sequence of the events that took place in Point Pleasant.

During the years 1966 and 1967 a lot of witnesses claim seeing an strange winged creature, the Mothman. There is many documents of the time that prove the fact that the sightings existed, or at least that the people believed that they saw it.

On December, 15, 1967 the Silver Bridge of Point Pleasant collapsed, resulting in the death of 46 people.

Newspapers References:

"Bird Echoes Still," Point Pleasant Register, 11-21-1966.
"Bird Gets Once-Over," Point Pleasant Register, 12-1-1966.
"Birdman Could Be FHS Balloon," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-18-1966.
"Could the Moth Man Be Balloon? Huntington Advertiser, 11-18-1966.
"Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something," Point Pleasant Register, 11-16- 1966.
"Flying Man Seen Here, Man Claims," Charleston Gazette, 11-18-1966.
"Four Pt. Pleasant Car Occupants See Bird-Like Creature," Morgantown Dominion News, 11-17-1966.
"Mason County Bird Known Far and Wide," Point Pleasant Register, 11-28-1966.
"Mason Countians Hunt Moth Man," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-17-1966.
"Mason County Has Flying Mystery," Morgantown Dominion News, 11-18-1966.
"Mason Bird-Monster Presumed Gone Now," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-22-1966.
"Oh, That Bird It Was Seen Again," Point Pleasant Register, 11-25-1966.
"Our Bird Has Law On Its Side," Point Pleasant Register, 11-19-1966.
"Owl? Goose? Prank: Or Take Your Choice," Huntington Advertiser, 11-17-1966.
"Professor Says Moth-Man Could Be Large Crane," Huntington Advertiser, 11-19-1966.
"That Mothman: Would You Believe a Sandhill Crane?," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-19- 1966. References from the West Virginia Archives & History.

Some of the newspapers mentioned above:

The Herald Dispatch. November 22, 1966.

The Herald Dispatch. November 19, 1966.

The Athens Messenger. November 18, 1966.

Point Pleasant Register. November 28, 1966.

Huntington Herald Dispath. November 17, 1966.

Source Unknown. November, 1966.

Source and Date Unknown.

Source and Date Unknown.

Athens Messenger. November 16, 1966.

Source and Date Unknown.

Point Pleasant Register. December 14, 1967.

The Herald Dispatch. November 22, 1966.

The Cottingley Pictures. Do Fairies Exist?

Elsie Wright, was a sixteen year old, when she asked her father for his camera (a Butcher Midg No. 1 Magazine Type Falling Plate 1/4-plate camera) She and her eleven year old cousin, Francis Griffith, took several pictures of themselves besides the river behind their home. When Mr. Wright, unveiled the plates, he discovered that there were pictures of her daughter and nephew but also of what appeared to be fairies, but he was convinced that they were faked, so he forbade her daughter to take the camera again. Buy her mother, Polly Wright, was sure that they were real.

The affair became public in the summer of 1919, when Polly Wright, attended a meeting at the Theosophical Society in Bradford. She was interested in the occult and she had some experiences in that matter, such as astral projection and memories from past lives. That night's conference was about "the live of fairies" and Polly Wright told the person sitting next to her about the existence of the photographs taken by her daughter. After this conversation several of the photographs got in the hands of some prominent theosophs.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, father of Sherlock Holmes, also interested in the occult, had to write an article on fairies for Strand Magazine for the Christmas issue, that was to be published for the end of november of 1920. Working on this article he got to know about the existence of the copies of the photographs.

[Wikipedia]

In 1981, in an interview by Joe Cooper for the magazine The Unexplained, the cousins stated that the photos were fake; they had held up cutouts with hatpins. Frances Way (née Griffiths), however, continued to maintain until her death in July 1986 (Elsie died in April 1988) that they did see fairies and that the fifth photograph, which showed fairies in a sunbath, was genuine.

Maybe the pictures were faked; maybe they were real. But the most surprising thing is that two girls, of sixteen and thirteen years old, were capable of doing such great pictures; and especially in that time, that photography was technically difficult.

The Dyatlov Incident

Among the mistery stories that I have heard in my life, I had always preference for the ones that include graphic material. I have spoken before about the story of Carla Moran/Doris Bither (the story that inspired "The Entitiy"). Maybe it is this the reason why I find the Dyatlov incident so fascinating. Let me show you some photos and after we will talk about the story (and the legend) of what happened to the Dyatlov expedition.

It was 1959, when a group of young students from the Ural Politechnical University made a cross-country skiing expediton at the Ural mountains, wishing to arrive to the Otorten Mount (Отортен).

The groups arrives by train to Ivdel (Ивдель), in the centre of the Sverdlovsk Oblast region on January 25th. By truck they get to Vizhai (Вижай), the last inhabited town. The 27th they begin their way to Otorten.

The members of the expedition are Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов), the oldest and chief, who has given name to the incident, Zinaida Kolmogorova (Зинаида Колмогорова), Lyudmila Dubinina (Людмила Дубинина), Alexander Kolevatov (Александр Колеватов), Rustem Slobodin (Рустем Слободин), Georgyi Krivonischenko (Георгий Кривонищенко), Yuri Doroshenko (Юрий Дорошенко), Nicolas Thibeaux-Brignollel (Николай Тибо-Бриньоль), Alexander Zolotarev (Александр Золотарев) and Yuri Yudin (Юрий Юдин).

Like in old good stories, one of them gets ill. Yuri Yudin is the lucky who gets ill the 28th and can not go on with the rest, waiting the others to come back.

On January the 31st, still 10km from their destination, at the hill called Kholat Syakhl ("Horror Mount" in Mansi Language). They decide to camp for the night at that place. Never again they will be seen alive.

When the rescue team arrives to the camp, ttroben que les tendehey find that the tents have been torn from the inside, just like if the people who were sleeping there have escaped from them without even time to open the zippers.

The first bodies are found naked (only with the underwear) some meters from the tents. They have died of hypothermia due to the temperatures of 30 degrees under zero.

This was the official version. But it is said that another group of corpses was found several months later, when the snow melted, 5 meters under the ground, with a little more clothes on them, but yet not enough to the cold of the Urals . Appearently without signs of violence, but the autopsy showed that the internal organs were totally wrecked. And even more strange, one of the bodies, of one of the girls, was missing the tongue.

At the camp are found several photographic cameras, and in them, the photos that the group had been taking during their journey. The photos that you have seen before these text are some of them.

And these are some of the photos taken by the rescue team.

Despite what we belief that really happened to them, and why the bodies were found that way, there is two aspects that I find really interesting: in the first place, the impact that always have the pictures taken of people a short time before their dead (this is probably because it reminds us of how weak is the human life); in the second place, obviously, it is to imagine what could have forced these university students to get out of their tents almost nude or barely dressed, at temperatures of 30 degrees under zero, and why the did not had even time to open the zipper of the tents...

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Conjuring Up Philip: The story of Philip Aylesford

"Philip Aylesford was born in England in 1624 and followed an early military career. At the age of sixteen he was knighted. He had an illustrious role in the Civil War. He became a personal friend of Prince Charles (later Charles II) and worked for him as a secret agent. But Philip brought about his own undoing by having an affair with a Gypsy girl. When his wife found out she accused the girl of witchcraft, and the girl was burned at the stake. In despair Philip committed suicide in 1654 at the age of thirty." [themystica]

The Philip Case was one of best documented poltergeist phenomena of the XXth Century. The experiment involved not contacting one ghost, but "creating" one. It took place in Toronto, Canada, and it was carried by the "Owen Group"; its members were: Iris Owen, a former nurse and wife of the mathematician A. R. G. Owen; Margaret Sparrrows, former chairperson of MANSA in Canada, an organization of individuals with high IQs; Andy H., housewife; Lorne H., industrial designer and husband of Andy H.; Al P., heating engineer; Bernice M., accountant; Dorothy O' D., housewife and bookkeeper; and Sidney K., sociology student. Dr. A. R. G. Owen or Dr. Joel Whitton, psychologist, attended the group meetings. As we can notice, they were highly educated people, especially Dr. A.R.G. Owen.

Dr. A.R.G. Owen was educated at Cambridge University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and physics (1940), a Master of Arts (1945), and a PhD in mathematical genetics (1948). During World War II, he was very involved in the invention of the system of radar that is still in use today; as an Experimental Officer in Radar Research and Development at the Admiralty Signals Establishment, he invented a radar aerial for the British War Office.

The Owen group created the character of Philip Aylesford, and they planned to materialize him They began conducting sittings in September 1972 during which they meditated, visualized, and discussed the details of Philip's life. Although no apparition ever appeared, occasionally some sitters felt a presence in the room; still others experienced vivid mental pictures of "Philip.".

British psychologist Kenneth J. Barcheldor who speculated that some of the group members might have skepticism concerning their venture. He felt the séance setting possibly would produce a communication with "Philip," which was the sitters' expectations.

That changed the development of the sessions. Demonstrations of Philip began to be more frequent.

One session was held in front of a live audience of fifty people and was videotaped to be shown on television. In other sessions sounds were heard in various parts of the room and lights blinked on and off. The levitation and movement of a table were recorded on film in 1974. "Philip" seemed to have a special rapport with Iris Owen. Some member thought they heard whispers in response to questions, but efforts to capture them on tape were inconclusive. [themystica]

Iris Owen and Margaret Sparrows wrote a book about the experiment, "Conjuring up Philip".

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The story of the 'Fausto', the ship that disappeared three times

Canary Islands

When we talk about sea misteries and ghost ships, we usually think of ships that disappeared and were never found or thips that were found after its disappearance with no alive crew on it. The unique thing about the story of the boat “Fausto” is that it disappeared three times.

The "Fausto" was a motor fishing boat of 14 meters in length and was fitted with an engine of 4hp. Judging from the comments, was regarded as extremely seafaring craft, which suggested that could withstand strong waves.

The crew was formed by Ramón Concepción Hernández, 47-year-old skipper, married with eight children, of whom three are married: his brother Eliberto, 42, married with six children; Miguel Acosta Hernández, 43, married with three children, all three were Tazacorte natural, agricultural and fishing village on the island of La Palma , home to their families . The fourth crew member, Julio García del Pino, 27 years old, was born in El Paso , married with two children. He had joined the crew of the "Fausto" on July 21 st , date on which the boat left port for sea fishing. He had embarked on the island of El Hierro to returning to La Palma . The boat was owned by Rafael Acosta. [ La Vanguardia, 1968, October 12 th ]

It so happens that the "Fausto", built in Santa Cruz de la Palma, had sunk once before when it was docked in the port, following a fire caused by a spark from the engine. After a few months it was refloated, remaining in the dry dock about two years until it was acquired by its current owner, Ramon Acosta Arroyo. After its reconstruction was launched again on 27 April 1966.

Tazacorte

In 1968, July 21 st , it sailed from Valverde, the capital of the Island of Hierro , with destination Tazacorte, in the island of La Palma. A fter several days at sea without news from the boat, it was given up for lost until it was seen by the British ship "Duquesa", found it 111 m iles West from Las Pal­mas . The british merchant provided the crew of the "Fausto" with their situation and supplied them with food and water. After that the “Fausto” took the direction of La Palma. British merchant who provided them their situation and stocked food and water. In Tazacorte it was expected around 25 July, but again lost again.

Not appear to follow the trawler began their search for boats and planes from naval and air base of the Canaries, investigations proved fruitless. However, again lost in the Atlantic , were worth nothing without the search by the Spanish authorities with the destroyer "Magallanes", two tugs and several aircraft.

On October 10 th , the "Fausto", which was adrift in the Atlantic, was found b y the Italian merchant "Anna Di Maio”. There was only one crew member aboard, and he was dead. The news of the appearance was broadcasted by Radio Trieste and captured by "Entel". The full text of the message sent by the master of Italian ship reads:

"Coastal Radio Trieste. Today 9-10, 10.54 hours, 0.3 minutes latitude 23 degrees north latitude and 38 degrees 30 minutes West longitude, fishing boat “Fausto”, number plate TE-2-1268. Single sailor dead. No paper from the boat nor from the dead sailor discovered on board. He was many days dead. 16.12 hours. We tow the boat to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. We hope to arrive at 15.10. Captain “Anna Di Maio” ". [ La Vanguardia, 1968, October 15 th ] [ ABC, 1968, October 11 th ]

The "Fausto" was found on 10 October (or the 7 th at 8:00 am according to Spanish newspaper ABC), by the Italian ship "Anna Di Maio". As a rough estimate, the "Faust" was about 1,200 miles from the island of La Palma and about 1,700 miles from Puerto Cabello.

The body found on board was the one of Julio Garcia del Pino. The crew, Heriberto Hernández Concepción, motorcyclist, sailor Miguel Acosta Hernandez and skipper, Ramon Concepcion Hernandez, were presumed dead or missing.

"When we find the "Faust" there was only one body on board ", said today the Italian captain of the freighter "Anna Di Maio," Bruno di Magio, upon arrival at Puerto Cabello.

"It looked like a ghost ship ", he remarked, " was totally abandoned. In the engine room, the corpse of a young man in an advanced state of decomposition. "

When the "Faust" was towed by the Italian ship to Puerto Cabello , this crew noted that, at dawn on 12 October, the fishing boat had disappeared.

"Two days after starting the towing of "Fausto", October 9th, at five in the morning, we realized that it had disappeared and that we could do anything to retrieve it ," he told the astonished journalists who had gotten on board the "Anna di Magio" hoping to make photographs of "Fausto", believing it to come towed. [ ABC, 1968, October 16 th ] [ ABC, 1968, October 17 th ]

The second mate of “Anna di Magio”, Aseione Luciano, who personally discovered the dead body, noted that, although he was completely naked and had no personal documents which identify him. By letters found on board he was supposed to be Julio Garcia del Pino, three of whose brothers, who reside in Venezuela, Puerto Cabello came today hoping to bury his remains.

The delegate from the Spanish Consulate in Puerto Cabello, Santiago Marichal, was given by Captain Di Magio a sealed envelope containing letters from Julio Garcia.

But according to ABC, fatally, forty-five hours later, at dawn on October 9, the "Faust" was lost for the third time, to discard the rope with which it was being towed by the Italian cargo ship to Venezuela , explained Captain Di Magio today

The "Faust" seems doomed to roam the Atlantic , unaware of the rescue attempts and the search conducted by vessels and aircraft and insensitive to the anguished messages Navy stations and amateur radio in various countries, who attempted to contact her small radio transmitter.

Puerto Cabello

With tears in his eyes, the brothers of Anthony Garcia del Pino, John and Peter - evoked today in Puerto Cabello, while listening to the captain's story "Anna di Magic, the dramatic moments lived by his brother, who, without water and exhausted and all food, remained near the transmitter, using the latest effort of his life for help, hoping that some ship sing his final call.

The "Faust" is a "ghost" that may reappear again at any time, to mariners on the ocean, until it is brought ashore or sink on its own under water. The crew, consisting of brothers Ramon and Concepcion Ettberto Hernandez and Miguel Acosta Hernandez, took a passenger to Julio Garcia del Pino, who apparently managed soorevivirles to die later in utter solitude.

According to t he information referred by "El Nacional” from Caracas is said that the "Fausto" has been seen in several American ports under the name " Maria Dolores " and sold for more than a hundred thousand Bolivars, before leaving the Canaries. It also says that the Venezuelan police have known that one of the crew turned several months ago some money to his family, living in England, which rules out the thesis of the death at sea from the crew of the "Fausto". [ La Vanguardia, September 24 th ] Other chronicles from the same newspaper "Diario Nacional" of Venezuela reports that the ship now sails under the name "Carmen Dolores" and has been seen in the ports of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and Trinidad. Venezuelan police apparently have reports that the fishing might be in some small Caribbean island. However, there is no vessel registered under the name " Maria Dolores ". The Spanish police has sent to Venezuela the data of the three crew members of the fishing boat, Ramón Concepción Hernández, Miguel Hernández and Concepción Heriberto Acosta, in case they are located in that country. [ La Vanguardia, 1970, September 25 th ]

Informes desclasificados por el FBI sobre el tema OVNI (UFO)

Todos hemos oido alguna noticia del tipo: "El Gobierno de Estados Unidos (o de otro pais) desclasifica los documentos sobre OVNIS".

Pero la verdad, verlo en la página oficial del FBI provoca una sensación cuanto menos curiosa. Sobre investigaciones acerca de casos de mutilación de animales:

"The material concerning the Animal Mutilation Project contains accounts of animal mutilations which were reported during the late 1970's. The FBI became involved when fifteen mutilations occurred in New Mexico. Various theories concerning the origins of the mutilations were explored by the FBI, including satanic cults, UFOs, pranksters, and natural predators. The investigation failed to identify any individuals responsible for the mutilations. "

FBI Web Site

Is there a Secret Code hidden in the Holy Bible?

Much has been written about the existence of a secret code in the Holy Bible. But does it exist? There is a lot of people who claim that there is one code.

In 1994, the magazine Statistical Science published one essay about it "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" [*]. In the same magazine, other researchers published one paper, "Solving the Bible code puzzle", denying the existence of the code.

The point of these theories is that, if you take the original hebrew text of the Bible and you use the method of the ELS (Equidistant Letter Sequences), you find references of many of the most important events of mankind history (such as WW2, 9/11, etc). Critics say that statistically, you could find references to anything in any book of the size of the Bible. So in the end, it is just a question of faith.

The Story of Xavier C.

Xavier C was one amateur photographer (also journalist and draughtsmans) who went to the forest of Vallgorguina on July 21st, of 1986, to take photos. This forest is famous for the dolmen "Pedra Gentil" and for being a documented place of witches activity in the past.

He was making photos when he lost conscience of time. The next day he declared to have forgotten anything that happened within the 24 previous hours. In a session of hypnosis he claimed that he had been in a cave surrounded by strange beings.

But the fact that has kept this story alive (that otherwise would have been long ago forgotten), is the in the film that Xavier C. was carrying that day, two misterious photos were found.

They could be nothing, or they could be everything. It's up to you to decide.

Ever Dream This Man?

My favourite show "Cuarto Milenio", from Spanish channel Cuatro, last sunday analyzed the "Ever Dream This Man?" controversy. The history goes as follows:

"In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN.

From January 2006 until today, at least 2000 people have claimed they have seen this man in their dreams, in many cities all over the world: Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Tehran, Beijing, Rome, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, New Dehli, Moskow etc. "

If you have dreamt of this man, please click here.

All this can be found at the official website of Ever Dream This Man? And it is part of the campaign for the forthcoming movie This Man.