In early evening of October 21, 1978, Frederick Valentich, a 20 year old pilot took off from Melbourne’s Moorabbin airport. He was on his way to King Island which is just off the coast of Victoria. The journey was only 130 miles away and in his Cessna 182 it should have taken over an hour for him to make the trip. Unfortunately something mysterious happened and he didn’t arrive at his destination.

Frederick’s last communication that fateful day was at 7:12pm and it is this communication which has propelled this story from a simple disappearance into an intriguing mystery.

Here is a transcript of the communication which took place:

1906:14

DSJ Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet. Is there any known traffic below five thousand?

FS Delta Sierra Juliet, no known traffic.

DSJ Delta Sierra Juliet, I am, seems to be a large aircraft below five thousand.

1906:44

FS Delta Sierra Juliet, What type of aircraft is it?

DSJ Delta Sierra Juliet, I cannot affirm, it is four bright, it seems to me like landing lights.

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1907

FS Delta Sierra Juliet.

1907:31

DSJ Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet, the aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above.

FS Delta Sierra Juliet, roger, and it is a large aircraft, confirmed?

DSJ Er-unknown, due to the speed it’s travelling, is there any air force aircraft in the vicinity?

FS Delta Sierra Juliet, no known aircraft in the vicinity.
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If you are planning a trip to Hong Kong, you really should take a drive along Tuen Mun Road, one of Hong Kong’s oldest major motorways which runs from Tuen Mun to Tsuen Wan.

Not only will you enjoy the scenery, but you may also get a chance to encounter something different.

Hazards such as narrow carriageways and blind spots are more frequent than on modern motorways and this combined with the heavy traffic often results in accidents. Such is the case of Tuen Mun Road which is one of the biggest killer roads in Hong Kong. But not all the deaths and accidents are explained away so easily. According to locals, many of these are caused by ghosts.

What would you do if you were driving along, minding your own business, when suddenly something pops up into the middle of the road? Apparently this is precisely what these ghosts do – appear out of nowhere right in front of you. The result of swerving out of the way has the unfortunate result of real collisions happening.

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This strange phenomenon has not only been reported by locals, but also by tourists who have not heard of the ‘ghost theory’ before.

Exactly who the ghosts were is not known, but local rumour has it that the number of these ghosts are increasing due to the increasing number of deaths taking place. Could it be that the original ghost was lonely?

A creature has supposedly been sighted in the murky waters of Flathead Lake in western Montana, USA, since the late 1880s.

The first sighting allegedly occurred in 1889, when passengers and crew of the lake steamer U.S. Grant, commandeered by Capt. James C. Kerr, viewed the beast.

The whale-like object was at first thought to be an approaching boat, but it was soon noticed to be alive, whatever it was.

Sporadic appearances have been viewed by scores of people since then. Documented sightings were reported in the early 1900s, 1912, 1919, 1922-23, 1934, 1937, 1939, and in every decade since.

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The most numerous sightings were reported in 1993 – nine of them. On July 29, about 1:30 p.m., a vacationing Illinois policeman and his wife and three kids all witnessed a “nessie” as it surfaced about 50 yards away from their boat in calm waters off the north side of Wild Horse Island.

The creature appeared inthe middle of a school of small fish. It swam past their boat about a hundred yards away but was easy to follow visually because of the wake. They described the creature as shiny with a small ball-sized head and about 15-20 feet long. They also mentioned that it looked like it had ‘humps’.

Three years ago this week a couple from Polson claims to have seen the mysterious creature near the Big Arm shoreline. This is one of the most recent sightings of the unexplained creature.
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Do you ever dream of going to a place where the improbable is commonplace? Where everyday physical facts that we take for granted are reversed? Well, there is such a place! You can go and visit it.

Just outside of Gold Hill in Oregon, you will find a roadside attraction named the Oregon Vortex. Here, you can witness objects seemingly roll uphill or balance at odd angles. The attraction’s proprietors claim that it is the result of paranormal properties in the area. Sceptics claim that it is merely an optical illusion.

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The phenomenon is only about 165 feet in diameter and has been mentioned in the earliest Oregon historical records. Apparently the native Indians named the area “The Forbidden Ground”. This was partly due to animals refusing to enter the area. In fact today, you will still notice an absence of birds and even insects within the vortex. (more…)