Tuesday, 22. May 2007
Crop Circle Science

Keep your eyes open as the 2007 crop circle season nears!

Historical Indications That Crop Circles Are Not "New": Although most people think of the cropcircles as a modern phenomenon (and wonder if modern technology may be responsible), there is some evidence that the circles have been appearing off-and-on for hundreds of years.

Here is one of the best-documented accounts:

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Drawings of two U.K. crop formations described in 1686 by Prof. Robert Plot. Plot examined multiple such formations and states that the soils "under all of them were much looser and dryer than ordinary, and the parts interspersed with a white hoar... much like that in mouldy bread, of a musty rancid smell, but to the tast[e] insipid." --A Natural History of Staffordshire (1686)

More at Other Facts

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The physical changes documented in crop circle plants by Michigan biophysicist W.C. Levengood have been determined by evaluating hundreds of sample plants -- both downed and standing -- taken from inside the overall perimeter of each formation against hundreds of control plants taken at varying distances outside each formation, in several directions. More than 250 individual crop formations from multiple countries, over a 10-year period were examined in-depth. Although many of the formations studied were relatively "simple" in overall design and/or relatively "small" in overall size, many larger and more "complex" formations -- those whose overall design included intricate geometric shapes with multiple design elements of varying sizes -- are represented here.


Plant Abnormalities

The BLT Research Team Inc.'s primary focus is crop circle research - the discovery, scientific documentation and evaluation of physical changes induced in plants, soils and other materials at crop circle sites by the energy (or energy system) responsible for creating them and to determine, if possible, from these data the specific nature and source of these energies. Secondly, our intent is to publish these research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals and to disseminate this information to the general public through lectures, mainstream articles and the internet.

BLT Inc. is composed of several hundred trained field-sampling personnel in the U.S., Canada and Europe who collect plant and soil samples at crop circle sites for analyses by a number of scientists in various disciplines.

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The BLT Crop Circle Research Team


Related Entries:
Crop Circles Photo Galleries - all eye candies.
Crop Circle Season 2006 - with many links to other Crop Circle Researcher. (English and German)
Die Kornkreise in Wylatowo, Polen (German)
Category: Mysteries & Enigmas |




Thursday, 19. April 2007
3D Unveils the Mystery of the Great Pyramid

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It all began 4,500 years ago, when a civilisation that knew nothing of iron tools, the wheel or pulleys built one of the most mysterious monuments in the entire history of humankind: the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt.
How did they do it? Nobody alive today knows with any certainty.

The secret of the construction of the pyramid of Khufu in Egypt has always held people in fascination. Numerous theories have been put forward but none has yetstood up to analysis.

Eight years ago, the architect Jean-Pierre Houdin had a flash of intuition and developed a revolutionary theory. Considering Khufu' monumental undertaking as the first industrial construction project in history, he turned to Dassault Systèmes technology to test his hypotheses and feed his thought processes. So it was that he joined the 'Passion for Innovation' programme.

Having demonstrated the validity of the theory with the aid of their scientific 3D solutions, Dassault Systèmes invite you to enjoy an extraordinary journey through time and space. Relive the Great Pyramid construction project in real-time 3D!


3D Unveils the Mystery of the Great Pyramid

Category: Buildings & Places | Mysteries & Enigmas |




Friday, 13. April 2007
Free E-book on Crystal Skulls

If you are at all interested in the phenomenon of crystal skulls, then don't miss the new updated release of Joshua & Desy Rainbow's free ebook on the subject.

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This e-book offers for our friends around the world a brief taste about the crystal skulls and shares a little bit about the work we do with our crystal friends. By the way this is a new revised and updated revision of our free e-book, so if you have downloaded the 2003 version or received it from a friend before, you may want to get this updated copy.


Download it here: Journeys of the Crystal Skull Explorers.


Or you can read it directly here (pdf). 57 pages with a lot of pictures!
Category: Books & Magazines | Mysteries & Enigmas | New Legends & Claims |


Friday, 23. March 2007
The Upuaut Story

The Great Pyramid is the biggest among the three pyramids in Giza, and sometimes referred to also as the First Pyramid or the Pyramid of the King Khufu. It has been counted among the Seven Mysteries in the World since early times, but its purpose still remains unknown. There are plenty of books written on the Great Pyramid, but most of them are for general readers.

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In the early 1990s, German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink explored the inside of the Great Pyramid by sending a remote-controlled robot through four small tunnels called "air shafts" with their openings measuring about 20 by 20 centimeters extending some ten meters into the Pyramid. As a result, he discovered a door with copper handle at the end of the air shaft extending southward from the Queen's Chamber. Gantenbrink: ""We are not discovering anything in the Great Pyramid, there is nothing really remaining to be discovered inside."

Here is the website of Rudolf Gantenbrink: The Upuaut Story.


This web site contains a complete scientific report about the investigation of the so-called "air shafts" inside the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and all related additional information. It includes a set of 4 extremely detailed CAD drawings, 27 explanatory graphics and 61 original photos.

Another series of pages that attempt to cast some light on the questions: What is the story behind the shaft which passes through the subway under Khafre's Causeway? Is it a shaft tomb of the twenty sixth dynasty as described by Dr Selim Hassan, or does it have some connection with the ancient mystery schools of Egypt?
The Shaft, The Subway & The Causeway

And Today? Once again Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has announced an expedition to investigate the 'doors' found in the shafts of the Queens Chamber in the Great Pyramid: "I dedicated my whole life to study the secrets of the Great Pyramid and I must say that these doors create many exciting questions ... I can only say that this year I will reveal the secrets of the Great Pyramid doors."

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In the news: Pyramid's Secret Doors to Be Opened by Discovery Channel.

We stay tuned!
Category: Buildings & Places | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Sunday, 11. February 2007
Dr. Masaru Emoto - Water Crystals In Motion

This Video takes a photographic look at water crystals, we are able to determine the mysterious effects that music and words have on water.

Until now, researchers alone, with the use of their microscopes, had the capacity to witness water crystals grow and expand. Note any more. Caught on video for the first time: water crystals in motion.

Water "listens" to music. Under normal conditions, distilled water can only produce simple hexagonal crystals. Not once it has"listened" to Mozart. Exquisitely shaped crystals formed and expanded as if in pursued of the beautiful music.

Water can "read." Showing water the work "hope" produced crystals that grew and projected towards the image of hope itself.

Water can "feel". Find out what happens when human thought is projected onto water!

Author: Dr. Masaru Emoto.
Runtime 43 minutes (the last 10 minutes are advertising).




Related Entry: The Message from Water - Die Botschaft des Wassers
Category: Movies & TV | Mysteries & Enigmas | New Legends & Claims | Symbols & Geometry |


Wednesday, 20. December 2006
Nazca: Linien und Geoglyphen - Nazca: Lines and Geoglyphs

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Sie sind eines der größten Rätsel der Erde - die weltbekannten Bodenzeichnungen in der Wüste im Süden Perus. Die Dresdnerin Maria Reiche versuchte in 40-jähriger Forschungsarbeit das Geheimnis um die Entstehung und Bedeutung der Geoglyphen zu lüften. Ihre Theorie, dass es sich um eine riesige astronomische Kalenderanlage handelt, ist bis heute nicht bewiesen.


Verein Dr. Maria Reiche - Linien und Figuren der Nazca-Kultur in Peru
(German version)

They are one of the greatest mysteries of the world – the famous soil drawings in the south of Peru. The Dresden-born scientist Maria Reiche tried to disclose the secret around the creation and meaning of the geoglyphs. Her theory, which says that it is a huge astronomical calendar installation, isn’t proved until today.

Association Dr. Maria Reiche - The Lines and Geoglyphs at the Pampa of Nazca/Peru (English version)

Über zum Teil zehn Kilometer erstrecken sich die Linien und Figuren, die aber nur aus der Luft als solche zu erkennen sind. Sie "überspringen" ausgetrocknete Flussbetten, steigen Berge empor und setzen sich auf der anderen Seite wieder fort. Hinter der scheinbar chaotischen Anordnung im Geröllboden scheint aber durchaus ein System zu stecken, das ein geordnetes Netz ergibt.

Ein sehr guter Artikel von Geoscience: Geheimnisvolle Bodenbilder in der Pampa - Die Nazca-Linien. (German)

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Die Erdzeichen von Peru - Zeugnisse einer prähistorischen Luftfahrt?
Eine Hypothese von August Steimann, Würzburg. (German version)
The soil drawings in Peru - evidence for a prehistoric aviation?
A hypothesis by August Steimann, Würzburg. (English version)

1,300 kilometres of lines, 300 geometric figures and about 50 biomorphic drawings are etched onto the Peruvian desert ... Runway for alien spaceships? That's just one of the fanciful theories on the purpose of the Nazca lines ...

Nazca Lines by Discovery Channel. (English)

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Beim Anblick der Geoglyphen stellen sich folgende Fragen: Wie wurden sie hergestellt? Wer hat sie gemacht? Warum wurden sie in der pampa angelegt?

Geoglyphen vom Schülermuseum smart-art (German version)


Looking at the geoglyphs of the Nasca the following questions are posed: How where they produced? Who made them? Why were they laid down in the pampa?

Geoglyphen by the Schülermuseum smart-art (English version)

Photogrammetric Reconstruction of the Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa by M. Sauerbier, ETH Zurich (English)


Signale im Sand - 3D-Erfassung und Visualisierung der “Geoglyphen von Nasca” von A. Grün, S. Beutner, S. Bär, Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie ETH Zürich (PDF - German)

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Category: Buildings & Places | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Saturday, 16. December 2006
Quest for the Lost Civilization

Journalist and author Graham Hancock journeys around the world: From southern Europe to Egypt, the Americas to Japan's Pacific Islands - visiting ancient sites and searching for evidence of an advanced civilization that may have existed in 10,500 B.C. He takes us around the world re-examining ancient mysteries and asking puzzling but pertinent questions as he does so. As well, he raises his own speculation and theories as to possibly what really happened.

Of course, Graham Hancock's views are in sharp contrast to what we find in history, anthropology and religious text. E.g. his premise is that the ancient Egyptians, Cambodians, Incans, Aztecs, Olmecs, Easter Islanders, and paleolithic Europeans built their stone alignments, circles, pyramids, and gigantic heads to reflect the patterns of the stars.

What is fantastic about these programs is that the viewer feels that he is exploring along with Hancock as well as experiencing the sense of mystery and awe that Hancock is probably experiencing.

There is brief commentary given by experts such as Egyptologists, geologists, engineers, and mythologists. There is even a brief rebuttal to Hancock's beliefs by experts, such as the Director of the Egyptian pyramids.

In conclusion, these programs present to the viewer unanswered questions about ancient mysteries. If you like mysteries like I do, then you must view these programs.

Part 1: Heaven's Mirror. Runtime 50 minutes.

Intro: "We're off the coast of the Southern most tip of Japan. I've come to investigate an underwater mystery that could simply rewrite history. This looks like a temple but the last time it was above water was ten thousand years ago. If it is man-made, it's the oldest known structure on Earth. I believe it could prove the existence of a lost civilization."



Part 2: Forgotten Knowledge. Runtime 50 minutes.

Intro: "The Nazca lines in Peru are the biggest drawings in the world. So big, we can only view them complete from the air. Etched in the desert at least two thousand years ago, they must be of a civilization of astronomers. They turn out to be ground maps of the stars, exact representations of the night sky."



Part 3: Forgotten Knowledge. Runtime 50 minutes.

Intro: "Easter Island statues could hold the secret of what happened in the world before history began. Why did ancient cultures with no known contacts have so much in common? My theory is they derived from a common source: a single, lost
civilization."

Category: Buildings & Places | Movies & TV | Mysteries & Enigmas | New Legends & Claims |


Sunday, 03. December 2006
Ancient Marvels: Japan’s Mysterious Pyramids

Most historians and archaeologists maintain that civilization as we know it began about 5,000 years ago with the emergence of the earliest Egyptian dynasty. But, a small yet persuasive number of scientists believes that a highly advanced civilization, nearly twice as old, flourished during the last Ice Age. Solid evidence of this 10,000-year-old civilization is difficult to produce, but some feel a recent discovery off the coast of a tiny Japanese island, Yonaguni, may be the proof they seek.

This History Channel presentation travels to the site and plunges beneath the waves to examine the discovery, and talks to the investigators who are trying to unearth the secrets it holds.

The answers remain unknown, but the questions themselves may forever change some of the most basic assumptions about our past.

Here is Japan's Mysterious Pyramids - Total runtime 42 minutes:



More about the mysterious underwater pyramid structure at Yonaguni by the Morien Institute.
Great underwater photographs!
Category: Buildings & Places | Movies & TV | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Sunday, 12. November 2006
The Bermuda Triangle

Some people believe that the laws of physics don't apply in the Bermuda Triangle and it is one of only two places in the world where a compass won’t point to true, magnetic north.

Over the years hundreds of ships and planes have gone missing in the area of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. One of the most famous disappearances occurred in December 1945, when Flight 19 - five US Navy bombers - vanished while on a training exercise.

One explanation for the mysterious disappearance of entire ships could be large pockets of gas which are common on the sea bed in the area. When the gas rises to the surface they dissolve in the water, decreasing the buoyancy and causing ships to sink.

This is the full version of the documentary 'The Bermuda Triangle', looking at the many mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and offering some possible explanations for what really happened. It also contains dramatic recreations of some of the most famous stories, including the disappearance of Flight 19. By BBC, Discovery Channel and ZDF, originally aired 2004.



Total duration of this video is 59 minutes.


See also:
Dive to Bermuda Triangle - an interactive tour by Discovery Channel.

The website of historian & Bermuda Triangle researcher Gian Quasar:
Bermuda Triangle Mystery.

The Bermuda Triangle: Startling New Secrets by Sci Fi Channel.


Related Entry:
Decoding the Past - Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle (another videos by History Channel)
Category: Movies & TV | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Wednesday, 18. October 2006
Enigmas of the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château

So though the door to the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château is now locked, let us imagine how the green door swings on its hinges, and we wander inside. What we see today bears little resemblance to what people saw thirty or fifty years ago. People have said that each time they walked through this door, it seemed as if graves had been moved. And that had been quite often the case: though not through magic, but through human hands trying to uncover some “secret”. And why all this digging in this place? Because Saunière himself did it and because one of the graves was supposed to be the grave of a famous local woman, Marie de Nègre d’Ables, which according to some theories, was a “fake” tomb – it really was Mary Magdalene buried there. So, as a result, every corner of the cemetery was dug up, four or more times over. But let us not forgot that the first profanation and destruction was allegedly – allegedly! – carried out by Saunière himself.

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Enigmas of the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château:
Part 1 : “Some are more equal than others”

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Saunière arrived in Rennes-le-Château in 1885, but initially, he did not stay for long: his preaching from the pulpit against the Republic means that he is penalised and spends several months in Narbonne. Upon his return, he has money in his bag from the Countess de Chambord, money which he uses to do the most essential repair works. What specific “essential repair works” were carried out, is never clearly defined. It is however known that at that time, he already takes a particular interest in the cemetery. Perhaps he already knows what he is looking for and what he is doing? And it seems that he is the one who has figured out Bigou’s message. Saunière immediately goes to where Bigou is leading him: the discovery of the real tomb of the Lady of Hautpoul. It is this secret that he uncovers… and no doubt, it is here that he finds objects of great value.


Enigmas of the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château:
Part 2: A required stop at the tomb of Marie d’Hautpoul

When we talk about the “old cemetery”, we are actually not talking about the cemetery as it was at the time of Saunière. The “old cemetery” no longer exists, no doubt since a very long time. We would like to call this the “primitive cemetery” and we are talking here of a time when the “primitive church” of Rennes-le-Château was not the present one, but the church of St Pierre aux Liens, in the centre of the village. To refresh our memory: originally, what is now and what was at Saunière’s time the village church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene, was originally the chapel of the castle of Hautpoul. At that time, it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was following the destruction of the church of St Peter (by Catalan mercenaries) that the chapel of the castle became the parish church. As such, we should be careful about trying to push back the date of the usage of this cemetery too far into history.

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Enigmas of the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château:
Part 3: The Hautpoul knowledge



UPDATE 16.11.06

The Société Périllos have part four of their ongoing series:

It is clear that the interesting parts of the cemetery are in a relatively small and clearly identified area… at least, that is now the case with the publication of this article. There was an “original area” and there was a “new area”, which Saunière created.

Enigmas of the cemetery of Rennes-le-Château
Part 4: “Jesus of Galilee is not here”?



Related Entries:
Rennes-le-Château & Périllos
Rennes-le-Château Research & Resource
Category: Articles & Essays | Buildings & Places | Mysteries & Enigmas | New Legends & Claims |


Thursday, 21. September 2006
Is this a Ghost?

A ghostly image was capture by a security video camera in a Sydney office building. The overnight camera switches on when it detects movement. At 11:23 p.m., it switched on, capturing a glowing, vaporous apparition on the stairway. One skeptic dismissed it as a cobweb, but others who have reviewed it, including a forensic video analyst, can't say for sure what it is. Is it a ghost?

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It's a video from 'Today Tonight' on Seven, an Australian television current affairs and magazine style program. Like 'A Current Affair', 'Today Tonight' is notorious for its sensationalist reporting. For this reason the program is constantly under criticism and ridicule.

Whatever it's worth to take a look at it. It takes 5 minutes.
Category: Ghosts & Spirits | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Friday, 15. September 2006
Rennes-le-Château Research & Resource

At the end of the 19th century, Bérenger Saunière, the poor parish priest of Rennes-le-Château, all of a sudden started spending a lot more money then he could ever have earned performing his normal duties. He had been assigned to this tiny village in the south of France at the age of 33 and had spent his first few years there in piety and poverty. According to his meticulously kept accounting books, in February 1892 he had a debt of FFR 105 and FFR 80,65 in his 'fonds secrets' (savings). That all changed in the 1890's. From that time on, his surviving papers and accounts record a total expenditure of some FFR 660.000, equivalent to EUR 4.000.000 today. Between 1897 and 1899 he spent an average of almost FFR 50.000 (EUR 300.000) per month. His salary as a priest was 900 FFR per annum.

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It is now an established fact that Bérenger Saunière made one or more discoveries during his life that brought him fortune in one way or another. On top of that he showed some pretty strange behavior throughout his time in Rennes-le-Château, always assisted by his housekeeper Marie Dénarnaud who was 16 years younger than he was.

For years they were seen digging in the cemetery at night together, to such extent that the municipal council filed an official complaint for deplacing graves and disturbing the death after which they did indeed cease there nightly violations of the graveyard.


What Saunière appears to have found

Although there are numerous theories and ideas as to what Saunière found, there now seems to be some consensus between scholars and treasure hunters as to what he discovered.

1. A parchment containing the genealogy of King (Saint) Dagobert II from 681 to 1244, when Jean VII married Elsinde de Gisors. The document is dated 14th March 1244 and carries the seal of Blanche of Castille, Queen of France

2. The testament of Francois-Henri d'Hautpoul, Seigneur de Rennes et Bezu, with attached a genealogy of the Merovingian descendants from 1200 to 1644, where 6 lines of descent are related to Saint Vincent de Paul. This document is dated 23rd November 1644 and is signed by Captier, Notaire at Esperaza

3. The testament of Henri de Hautpoul, dated 24th April 1695, in which five saint are invoked of which Saunière later put statues in his church

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4. A double sided parchment, dated 1753 by Jean-Paul de Negre de Fondargent or Saunière's predecessor Abbé Antoine Bigou, containing on one side a piece of Latin text from the new testaments, compiled from Luke, Matthew and Mark. On the other side it contains the story of Jesus visiting Lazarus in Bethania from the Gospel of John in Latin

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The double sided parchment (item 4) contains a number of messages, some of which are easy and other which are extremely hard to decode.

In combination with the tombstone of Marie de Negri d'Ables, (who was buried by Antoine Bigou who also made her tombstone), are said to lead to a treasure. It appears like Abbé Saunière, alone or with the help from experts in Paris, cracked the code and followed the treasure map that resulted.


Rennes-le-Château Research & Resource
An excellent resource on Rennes-le-Château: Complete with graphic novel illustrations of Saunière et al, and is full of excellent information: bios on the players in the mystery, a timeline, the layout of the Saunière Estate, reading lists and much more.
Category: Buildings & Places | Mysteries & Enigmas | New Legends & Claims |


Monday, 04. September 2006
Historical Photographs of Crop Circles

This year at several crop circle conferences, such as the „Glastonbury Symposium“, crop circle research pioneer David Kingston shared with audiences a set of photographs showing several pre-1980 crop circle formations that he’d visited in Dorset during that period. These photographs had never been publicly aired before. The following article will take a close look at this photographic evidence in order to demonstrate their exceptional worth and importance, not only for a truer understanding of the crop circle phenomenon’s history but also for a better understanding of what the whole Doug and Dave story was all about.

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“New” photographic evidence for a complex phenomenon prior Doug and Dave
Note: David Kingston is well known as a serious crop circle researcher and he is accepted from both sites - the sceptics and the researchers.
Category: Articles & Essays | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Saturday, 19. August 2006
The Field Guide

This looks interesting but I'm ambivalent. On the one hand, I can see their point for an 'artwork' - on the other hand it just furthers the field of crop circle as one that cannot be trusted, despite there being some excellent researchers out there who have fascinating data.

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Three decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that continues to change people's lives to this day.

Now, in the first book of its kind - part history and part how-to guide - the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed, by the people behind the modern era's most astounding artform.


The Field Guide: The Art, History and Philosophy of Crop Circle Making by Rob Irving & John Lundberg, Edited by Mark Pilkington. The website has a PDF press release and also samples of the inside of the book, for those interested.

Rob Irving & John Lundberg are best known from the The Circlemakers.

Whether or not you believe in UFOs, this site makes it clear that some of England's crop circles are not an unexplained phenomenon. John and Rod tell you how to use a wooden board, some rope, and a few simple tools to make your own circle patterns. Check the Beginners Guide.
And don't miss Rob's landmark article "Art & Artifice" in which he claims that deception is part of creation and a necessary part of both science and art.

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The pair makes crop circles for pop videos, TV celebs, and Mountain Dew, as well as their own entertainment.
In the recent past Greenpeace asked Circlemakers to help them illustrate the perils of GM contamination of maize, the ur-crop of Mexico. They created a 200ft across question mark in eight-foot-high maize in Oaxaca.
Full story and pics at Greenpeace.
Category: Books & Magazines | Mysteries & Enigmas |


Friday, 11. August 2006
Northwest’s 10 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries

The unknown, the unexplained, the uncanny!

Evening Magazine goes in search of answers to the Northwest's 10 greatest unsolved mysteries.

Click on the videos and find out who's Craig and what killed Lewis.

See what happens when UFO's are sighted at various Northwest locations.

Check out some mysterious mounds and holes.

And, of course, don't forget Washington's biggest mystery: D.B. Cooper.


Northwest's 10 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries
by KING5.

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Tackle this interesting piece, it's a four part video report.
For sign in use
Email Address: 'esogarden@hotmail.com' - Site Password: '1234567'
Category: Mysteries & Enigmas | New Legends & Claims |


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