Hessdalen rose from obscurity in December 1981 to become one of the most talked about places in Norway and beyond.

Hessdalen is a valley in central Norway. It lies southeast of Trondheim and about 30 kilometres northwest of the town of Roros. The whole valley stretches 12 kilometres in length and has only around 200 inhabitants.

In December 1981, a number of unknown lights appeared in the skies above Hessdalen. Sometimes they would move about at a fast rate of speed, and other times simply hover motionless for hours.

What makes this more unusual than similar lights, like the Paulding or Brown Mountain lights, is that these are sometimes caught on radar. In one case, an orb of light was tracked as it travelled more than 8 500 meters per second.

The vast majority of these lights are seen within the valley, below the mountain ridges around. There are three main shapes that are reported by witnesses: bullet shaped, football shaped and inverted xmas tree shaped. The colours vary from white to yellow and even red.

The sightings continued until the winter of 1983 when observations dropped off drastically. However by the following year, reports were again on the incrase.

In 1983 Project Hessdalen was established to investigate the lights. Fifty-three light observations were made during the 1984 field investigation. In 1985 none were spotted when equipment has been deployed and now 20 observations a year are reported.

In the spring of l994 a group of 20 scientists attended a workshop in Hessdalen which lasted for four days. These included Professor Boris Smirnov from the Institute of High Temperatures in Moscow, Russia, Professor David Fryberger from the Stanford Linear Accelerator in the USA, and Professor Yoshi Othsuki from Waseda University in Japan.

All the scientists agreed that the Hessdalen lights were “real” and not illusions of any kind and that they were worthy of further scientific study.
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Andrew Collins, who was part of the team who discovered the new cave systems under the Giza plateau, has written a new article about the recent History Channel television reality show “Chasing Mummies” and of Dr Zahi Hawass’s attempt to disprove the “Pyramidiots”.

In this episode Dr Hawass asks executive producer Leslie Greif to do him one final favour before he retires. He wants to prove the “pyramidiots” wrong, for they say there are caverns that stretch all the way to the Pyramids.

Andrew Collins writes:

For the fist time , finally, the public has had the chance to see what myself, Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner Simpson and my wife Sue found and explored back in 2008 – Giza’s previously unrecorded cave complex. In an episode of the History Channel television reality show Chasing Mummies, broadcast on September 1, 2010, Dr Zahi Hawass, along with an assembled team that included a full camera crew, were seen investigating the caves for an estimated distance of 300-350 feet. Their goal was to disprove the “pyramidiots” who believed that previously unknown caverns located in Giza’s north cliff reached all the way to the main pyramid field, several hundred metres away.

It was in 1837 that the large tomb, through which the caves are accessed, was examined by British explorer Col. Richard Howard Vyse and engineer John Shae Peering. Vyse recorded that on May 3 the mummy of a “large bird” was “carefully” removed from the tomb’s interior (Vyse, I, 238), while Perring’s subsequent plans of the site indicate a complex structure now known to be on two levels, next to which he wrote the word “Excavated tombs and pits of bird mummies” (Vyse, 1840, I, I; Perring, 1839-42), indicating that more than simply one bird mummy was found at the site.

In January 2007 Sue Collins and I visited the tomb, which does not appear to have been mentioned in any publication since Vyse and Perring’s day. I was intrigued by the site’s possible use as a bird necropolis, and discovered that within the tomb walls are a number of horizontal slots that were probably used for the interment of birds, and also small animals, perhaps left as offerings to a bird-related deity (Collins, 2009).

Read the whole article at Andrew’s site: WHERE NEXT WITH GIZA’S CAVE UNDERWORLD? Reviewing the Exploration of Giza’s Cave Complex in the Wake of Chasing Mummies Episode “Bats”

With echoes of the DB Cooper case, three ‘credible’ witnesses reported seeing a man leap from a plane at a high altitude and then plummeting towards the earth.

Initially they thought he was a skydiver, but no parachute was deployed and they were convinced that he fell to his death.

There is only one problem, despite a search of the densely populated Atlantic City, nothing has turned up. The man has completely disappeared.

The search began with search parties, but later helicopters were drafted in to help. Nothing was found.

So how does a person fall froma plane and then vanish?

The witnesses could have been mistaken. Perhaps they thought it was a person but was just something else falling from the plane.

It could have been a hoax where the people in the plane pushed out a dummy or ‘human sized’ package.

Another possibility is that it was part of a drug smuggling ring. The packaged drugs are pushed out the plane and then collected by someone on the ground in a designated area.

If it was indeed a body, then perhaps it is hidden amongst foliage, on top of a roof or fallen into water. In any of these cases, it would be hard to find the body.

The final unbelievable and unlikely suggestion is that perhaps the person managed to survive the fall and merely walked away.

Part of the mystery is that no planes have reported losing a passenger…

Source: Courier Post Online

Its finally here! The Guinness Book Of World Records 2011 was published today.

The new book has a plethora of new weird and bizarre new records. Take Stephen Parkes, a media technician from Nottingham, 44, who has the ‘Largest Collection Of Smurf Memorabilia’ with 1,061 figures.

Simon Elmore held 400 drinking straws in his mouth for ten seconds in Bavaria, Germany, in August 2009 to win the ‘Most Straws Stuffed In Mouth’ entry.

The animal world is also well represented with entries like Swallow, the world’s smallest cow. She stands a mere 33.5 inches tall, has lived 11 years and given birth to 9 calves – all of which tower over her.

Fluffy the python who lives in Columbus Zoo and aquarium, Ohio, U.S won the ‘Longest Snake in captivity’ award, reaching an amazing 24 feet in length.

Winning a more obscure title is Anastasia, a Jack Russel who in 44.9 seconds seized the title of ‘Fastest Time To Pop 100 Balloons By A Dog’.

You can order it from Amazon above, or from the links below!