Monday, September 10, 2012

The Invasion of the Big Worms in Laguna Madre



Specimens collected for exam. The worms - which are reproducing themselves rapidly, are unknown to the local citizens, the fishers that work in the Laguna and biologists. They have between 20 and 30 cm long. They stink and cling to human skin causing severe irritation.

MEXICO. In the city of Vitória, state of Tamaluipas, fishermen working in the Laguna Madre requested the support of biologists Centro Regional de Investigacion Pesquera (Regional Center of Fishery Research), the SAGARPA (Secretary of Agriculture Livestock Rural Development Fishery and Food) and of the state government to help them control a plague of unknown marine worms that is spreading in fishing waters. 

Besides to be a strange life form in the ecosystem, the worms produce a nauseating odor and irritate the skin of who comes into contact with them.

The President of the Consejo de Vigilância de la Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Carvajal (Council of Surveillance Cooperative Society of Fishery Carvajal Production), Ángel Ramiro Fuentes said the creatures are spreading (or are reproducing themselves) in the entire Laguna Madre.

At the site, no one never seen these big worms that have been captured by fishing nets installed in the coastal of the various villages of the saline lake - that is Laguna Madre.

Fuentes explained: The plague is spreading throughout Laguna. That has not yet affected (apparently) the quantity and quality of shrimp but is affecting fishermen. It is a parasite that clings to human skin and cause much irritation.

The animals have a length between 20 and 30 cm and are covered by a sort of mucosa. They appeared there two months (amid July and August, 2012) and are multiplying rapidly.

The authorities and especially the Regional Center of Fishery Research are mobilized in order to study the specie to determine the degree of danger these creatures may to represent to health of persons (besides the skin irritation, what is already enough to be a problem) and of the fishes, considering that the fishery product is destinated to human feed.

SOURCE: DE LA CRUZ, Antonio. Extraña lombriz invade la Laguna Madre y cooperativas pesqueras claman por ayuda.
GACETA/MEXICO, published in 09/09/2012.
[http://www.gaceta.mx/noticia.aspx?idnota=46943]

This news in Portuguese: A Invasão dos Vermes Marinhos em Laguna Madre. 
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/a-invasao-dos-vermes-marinhos-em-laguna.html]

Gorgakh, The Mutant Monster Corpses Eater of Pakistan



Gorgakh, Pakistan the pangolin-monster. Posted in YOUTUBE on 18/08/2012. 
[http://youtu.be/bwtGyb1pcbM]

SHORT VERSION MORE IN THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL PAKISTANI, PAKISTAN SHAANE (http://www.shaanepakistan.com) - posted on 15/08/2012 - [http://youtu.be/j1xMToxRY58]

PAKISTAN. News about sighting and / or capture of strange creatures have appeared frequently in all midia. Often, it is just about some kind of rare animal or something like a large dog or wolf, bald and squalid that is immediately identified with chupacabras. But...

In August (2012) - in Swabi district, the fourth most populous of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Pakistan, an animal was captured and killed by the citizens. The images were posted on Youtube where bizarre headlines and titles refer to the creature as "an alien"m an extraterrestrial. Occurs that, in true it is very earthly, or better, subterraneous.

Many netizens, between irony and contempt, expressed their vast wisdom identifying the animal as a pangolin. Moreover, most commentators - "experts" - say that the unusual size of the individual that appears in the images is "obviously" a photographic trick that consists in a simple approaching of the object in front of the camera, a matter of perpectiva.

Also remembered was that pangolins are endangered and that the conduct of Pakistanis ...was an act of brutal ignorance.


ABOUT PANGOLINS

The pangolins, whose name derives from the term pangulang, meaning "convolves by self same" - despite the wide body covered with hard scales and made ​​of keratin, of the sharp front claws that give it a reptilian appearence, are toothless mammals.

Related with the anteaters, they use their long and sticky tongue - that reaches the middle of the chest for collect ants in their holes, food of most species. There, too - the arboreal pangolins, that climb trees and eat other insects, especially termites, whose nests are under the bark of the trunks.



Pangolin of India

Their different species are found in India (Manis crassicaudata), including regions of Pakistan - where the species usually have a size 33-45 cm long. At China and also at Africa, where different species live at a wide area stretching from downtown to the south of the continent. Among these, the giant pangolin.

The Giant Pangolin is common in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Its gigantism can be defined - in terms of measures - between 1.30 and 1.40 m long, between the males - from nose to tail and a specimen of this type weighs about 33 kg.



The majority of netizens, says the size displayed - in the image of Pakistan, is the result of a trick of perspective. The matter could be closed. The pangolin is a harmless creature, toothless and is threatened of be extinct. The video is a fake. End point. However, certain details of the images and news asks a more careful analysis.

However, the same image has a benchmark that excludes that theory. One can clearly see two fingers of the boy next to the animal; the fingers of a normal human hand and this gives an idea of the real size of the animal. Is possible to see too, the feet of three person near the animal. Normal feet.

This reference point indicates that this pangolin, really is a giant pangolin. But the common Giant Pangolin, natural of Africa, larger than the Asian pangolins, are minor of the creature in the photo, even for the more well-endowed, the greaters among individuals of their species.

At Pakistan, this animal that can be seen in the photo, this type of pangolin - is well known and considered a monster. There, is called Gorgakh (or in Urdu قبر کھودنےوالا - spoken idom at Pakistan, grave digger in English) and - about this being, the pakistanis say that eats freshly buried corpses, digging up their graves, violating the coffins.

Despite its reputation to be a harmless insectivorous, similar to the anteaters, phylogenetically, the pangolins are closer to the carnivores. That would explain why an animal that usually eats ants and termites would be interested in newly buried corpses.




In this another photo (above), more complete - in the top - and expanded with quality, another element of comparison appears to certify the veracity of unusual size of this pangolin: while the previous photo (full body) can be seen the fingers of the boy, holding a stick, walking beside the Gorgakh here can be noted:

1. what appears to be a human arm with a bracelet, on the wrist, that seems to be surrounding the thorax region of the animal beneath the limb or claw, on the right and which can best be seen with the applying of a greater contrast in the image with decreased brightness;

2. especially, a thick rope, above the head of the monster that appears to be tied to the neck of the animal, holding him.

This, without to mention the what seems to be a ring in its nose that was observed bysome netizens. 

See photo in super enlarged in SIASAT, website of Pakistan [http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?129017-Monster-killed-in-Swabi-district - KPK] - The subtitle says: It was found and killed here in our village Swabi...

In the more complete photo of the SIASAT is possible to see - too, a long appendix on the left that end in an arrow-shaped. It is the tongue of Gorgakh, much major in lenght than in pangolins known.

From the analysis, is possible to conclude that this Pakistani pangolin, is indeed a Gorgakh, or be - a gravedigger, the meaning of the local expression. A gravedigger in reverse, that violates graves instead of closes them.



A breastplate or armor with shoulder pads made ​​with scales of Pangolin. The object, uncommon, was gifted to the King George III (1760-1820), monarch of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland (from 1801) - by Francis Rawdon, 1º Marquis of Hasti.

The piece is from Rajasthan - today the largest state of India. Apparently, this not gave much luck to the king, he died that year. Photo: Gaius Cornelius, 2006. On display at the Royal Armouries, Leeds - England, UK.


At China, where the pangolins are not monstrous, and still are all insectivores, they are hunted for use in the preparation of special foods. Moreover, its scaly leather is used in the manufacture of garments, and in earlier times, a breastplate of pangolin's leather was an excellent vest anti-blows of knives. Perhaps even today, could refrain the impact of a small caliber bullet.

Regarding the gigantism of this pakistani pangolin, if the analysis of the photos - made here, and the testimonies of the inhabitants of the local where it and others like it are known and are found, if this has some value, the question is: why this pangolin is so greater? Not even the species of the called "giant pangolin" has a comparable size. Moreover, this giant species has its habitat in Africa, far away from Pakistan.

Besides to be really a giant pangolin, this creature developed an anomalous feed habit for their species, accentuating their carnivore aspect, since it became a predator of fresh human corpses, which obtain its nourishment from corpses, tearing the flesh with its claws to ingest the portions in pieces. Despite the lack of teeth, a pagolin is able to swallow and digest ants. Likewise can digest the meat of the corpses.

The Pakistani tradition, which even has a special name for the creature relating it to their funerary diet, indicates that the people of that country already has some familiarity with this strange kind of pangolin. In current terms, a tradition need not - necessarily, to have hundreds of years. Already there are postmodern myths. Some ocurrences, if are dated from the decades of 1960 or 1970 can to be considered traditions.


Considering that Pakistan is one of the few countries of the world recognized like holders of atomic energy technology aimed at making weapons; that the radioactive waste from various sources is often discarded in subterraneous dumps that - no guarantees that are actually sealed properly, and - even, considering that not all accidents with reactors are disclosed to the public knowledge, it would not be absurd to think in Gorgakh as a mutant resulting from contamination by high levels of radiation. Or - worse, a creature genetically modified, in laboratory - of which offspring could have been - inadvertently, liberated in nature or to have escaped to the control of scientists.

SOURCES
ROSE, Tom. Giant 'Gorgakh' killed in Pakistan.
EXAMINER, published in 23/08/2012.
[http://www.examiner.com/article/giant-gorgakh-killed-pakistan]
Giant 'Gorgakh' killed in Swabi.
MARDAN/PAQUISTÃO, August 2012
[http://www.mardan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2169:giant-gorgakh-killed-in-swabi&catid=151:story-news&Itemid=291]
PANGOLÍ. WIKIPEDIA/catalan. [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangol%C3%AD]
PANGOLIM. WIKIPEDIA/portuguese [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolim]
PALGOLIN. WIKIPEDIA/english. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin]

Thursday, September 6, 2012

UFO at Gonars, Italy


The image obtained by Giancarlo Píu. He allow publish his own phone number, in the hope that someone can explain what's this: Piu e la sua famiglia gradirebbero essere contattati da chi si riterrebbe in grado di poter dare una spiegazione allo strano fenomeno - XXX. 6127835.

The complete number is in the page source of the news. (This citizen is risking receive many pranks by phone publishing his number. We know, how says the Brazilian singer and composer Gilberto Gil: A raça humana é, uma semana, do trabalho de Deus... OR The human race is only a week day of the god's job).


ITALY. On Friday, August 31 (2012) Gonars, a small municipality (or county) of the Italian province of Udine, an unidentified flying object was seen in the night sky flying in the lowlands (La Bassa of Gonars), fast and quiet.

The citizen, Giancarlo Píu - tells: on Friday, 20:30 hours - I was in the backyard to see the coming of a storm when a ball appeared in the sky orange, very bright

Giancarlo caught the attention of family members and they gone observe the object. One of them achieved capture an image with the camera of a mobile phone.


The path of the UFO, the Gonars to Mortegliano, province of Udine - Italy. The easy access to photograph and filming equipment enable more frequent records of strange phenomena worldwide.

He describes: The ball changed colors, from orange, yellow and red. She kept track nor smoke. It was too fast to be a plane, a satellite paraser estavabaixo too and if a meteor had fallen. It had flashing lights and was moving. Came from the south and going in a northwesterly direction, towards Mortegliano (another small town in the same region).

SOURCE: Misteriosa sfera nel cielo della Bassa.
MESSAGERO VENETO/ITÁLIA, publicado em 06/09/2012.
[http://messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/cronaca/2012/09/06/news/misteriosa-sfera-nel-cielo-della-bassa-1.5651689]

Machu Picchu - The Small and Mysterious Grave of the Mountain

The tomb on the hill. Mysterious: small and isolated.

PERU. A strange tomb was found on the hill Uñawaynapicchu in the Archaeological Park of Machu Pichu - on Monday, 03/09/2012. Unlike other funerary constructions of the pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru, this grave is located on the top of a rocky hill, about 10 meters below the summit of the elevation, in front of the big wall of Machu Pichu. Small - measures only 1.20 meters long and has 75 cm wide.

The park director Fernando Astete told Andina news Agency: It is unique because all the graves of Machu Pichu, such as those found by Hiram Bingham (north-american explorer and treasure hunter, 1875-1956), are caves that had been closed with stones of different sizes - stacked and covered with mud - which served as the cement of these constructions.

Researchers have realized that this strange sepulture was desecrated but on the spot were found bones and pottery shards. Next to the tomb, were rescued pieces of stone that belonged to it, what allowed to restore the original appearance of the crypt.

Archaeologists and historians have no idea who was buried there but they believe that was a character distinct or at least unusual, given the location difficult to reach and the size remarkably reduced of this mysterious burial chamber.

SOURCE: Machu Picchu: hallan tumba "única en su género" en el parque arqueológico.
EL COMERCIO/PERU, publicado em 05/09/2012.
[http://elcomercio.pe/turismo/1465523/noticia-machu-picchu-hallan-tumbaunica-su-genero-parque-arqueologico]

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Swaziland - The Dance of the Virgins For the King


The virgins of Swaziland. Dancing to get a place of queen aside the king. 
In YOUTUBE [http://youtu.be/bOSC4GMQzYA]


AFRICA. SWAZILAND. At the small kingdom of Swaziland (17,364 km2), situated in the south of African continent, in august, more than 80 thousands of young women, allegedly virgins, danced half naked, only wearing short skirts and breasts on display to impress the called Ngwenyama (title of king) - King Mswati III, nicknamed "the Lion". It is the Umhlanga or Baile de la Caña (something like The Dance of Bamboo Stick).

The ritual is performed at the royal residence, in Ludzidzini Royal Village. In this time of year, during this party, the king chooses one of these women to be his new bride and future wife - aside of the others - that he already has. They are twelve - currently (2012). 

The other wives - they also observe the dancers - the girls candidates to be the wife of each year. Indeed, everyone sees this ceremony because it become a tourist attraction of the country and videos of the annual performances are available on Youtube.

Besides the possibility of becoming queen, young women dance to show their pride in still be virgins. It is a statement of virginity.


The king: he is needing a diet... urgent...

Mswati III, born in april 18 of 1968 - four hours before the country to get independence from Britain - succeeded his father Sobhuza II in 1986. Initially, it was named after Makhosetive. He already had 13 wives but one of them was caught betraying him with the Minister of Justice and both were arrested.


Swaziland is a kingdom very poor. Two-thirds of his subjects, a population of just over one million of inhabitants, are fed by international aid; 34% of the active population is unemployed and more than half live on less than a dollar a day. And - even - Swaziland is considered the African country with the highest percentage of people with AIDS, about 39%.


TRADITION

Nobody knows when or how the tradition of this ceremony began. It has been realized by hundreds of years and is a heritage of the culture of Zulu nation (a nation of african natives). The party is not only for the king choose a new bride. 

But, is much more that this. In truth, in its origins, the Umhlanga is in honor to the mother-Queen of the Swaziland also called the great Elephanta or Indovuzaki. At Swaziland, while the king rules the administration, the politics, the Mother-Queen is the spiritual chief of the kingdom.

To be a mother-Queen, the wifes, among the all of them have to reunite certain conditions. She can't belong to the royal family regnant and has to have only one son. This woman, that will be always a wife of the precedent king, is choosed to be the mother Queen by decision of the royal family and never by another system.

Not are all the wives choosed during the Umhlanga. The first two wives are elected by national counselors and must to be of determined clans: one, of the Matsebula; another - of the Motsa clan. These wives have special ritual functions and their sons never will be the heirs of the crown


THE QUEENS

A politically active woman who represents the kingdom brightly in intercional scenario. Los Angeles, USA - 2009. Getty Photos IN HUFFINGTON POST, 19/05/2012. 

[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/inkhosikati-lambikiza-swaziland-first-lady- _n_1529955.html?1337522107&ref=style#slide=998403]. 

LOOK - The list of Swaziland Queens 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_Swazi_throne]


The list of wives of the king Mswati III of Swaziland is very interesting. Contrary to what one might think seeing the girls in the dance of the virgins they are not simpletons women and even less - wild natives. 

At least two of them are formed in higher education, in university courses: LaMatsebula, ritual wife, has degree in Psychology. LaMbikiza, born June 16, 1969 as Sibonelo Mngomezulu, is lawyer and is active member in the Swazi Royal Initiative to Combat AIDS (RICA).

LaMotsa, the other ritual wife is Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1996. LaNgangaza, born Carol Dlamini, is patron of the world organization "Hospice at Home" previously led by Diana, Princess of Wales.


SOURCES
Miles de vírgenes en Suazilandia bailan para convertirse en «prometidas» del Rey.
ABC/Spain, published in 03/09/2012.
[http://www.abc.es/20120903/internacional/abci-baile-mujeres-virgenes-suazilandia-201209031501.html]
MATEUS FERREIRA, Leonor. Virgens dançam para conquistar Rei Mswati III.
Diario de Noticias/Pt, published in 03/09/2012.
[http://www.dn.pt/inicio/globo/interior.aspx?content_id=2749958&seccao=%C1frica&page=1] 
Rei da Swazilândia cumpre ritual para escolher a 14ª esposa.
TPA-SAPO/Pt, published in 04/09/2012.
[http://tpa.sapo.ao/noticias/internacional/rei-da-swazilandia-cumpre-ritual-para-escolher-a-14-esposa]

New Informations and Photos of the Machine Dated in 400 Million Years

The reel in an ancient rock: an anachronistic visin.

RUSSIA. In 2009 (?), the LAI (Laboratory of Alternate History) received a letter with photos very interesting. The author of the photographs was Alex Gobulev. In the images obtained near the town of Serpukhov Sarakseevo the outskirts of Moscow - a stone that did seem to have a normal aspect, terrain, but containing, encrusted at its core, a screw.

The stone, originally much larger, was extracted and fragmented to be used in constructions of the village. A research group of the an institution - a private and independent NGO - the International Research Center for Cosmic Research of Russia or simply Kosmopoisk (chaired by aerospace engineer Vadim A. Chernobrov) which at the time was investigating the alleged fall of a meteorite in the region, near the city of Kaluga, was called to examine the discovery.

The first avaliation, indicated that the rock was very old and in one of the pieces, realy, was incrusted a small object, with the size of few more of one centimeter. It was surprisingly similar to a screw or a coil of metal. And there was another object in other fragment of rock, a reel. It was an anachronistic vision.

The screw

The stone with the screw and several other fragments of the same material were delivered to a specialist Paleontological Institute. In the analysis, dozens of scientists from various areas analyzed the material. And there were also other foreign objects that were revealed fossilized through exposure to X-ray.

The stone with the screw and several other fragments of the same material were delivered to a Paleontological Institute. In the analysis, dozens of scientists from various areas analyzed the material. And there were also other strange fossilized objects that were revealed through exposure to X-ray. Like the reel...

The details increase to the mystery: the "screw" nd reel are clearly deposited or placed (contained) in empty cavities. The process of fossilization has not filled the void surrounding. The spaces that containing them, have are well-delineated and, in the case of the reel, is possible see its rounded ends.

The lithology (geological science of rocks) determined the age of the original block rocky. Between 300 and 320 million years ago. 

Around the screw, there was deposits of other materials, which were identified as fossilized remains of marine organisms belonging to an ancient geological period, extremely indented: are crinoids, called Lilies of Sea. This reinforces and confirms the datation of the rocks. The finding became then something inexplicable.

The crinoids are echinoderms that are not move by themselves (but link themselves to a base and, while are free, they follow the movement of the waters being driven by marine currents). Ifor when they find "a port", being rock or wood, their bodies adhere to this fixed base.

The crinoids have their soft tissues sustained by a structure stiff, made of calcium carbonate: an endoskeleton. In the process of fossilization these soft tissues decompose leaving only the solid material that - often - resemble themselves to artificial objects like gears in a machine. That would explain how the artifacts were isolated in capsules: because, for a time they were protected by the organic matter of the crinoids.

However, the screw and the reel - both - jammed into the rock, isolated in their capsules could not be confused with the fossils of organisms because of their anatomy: they are very well delineated. These objects, in no way are similar to the crinoids.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATIONS

KOSMOPOISK - Общеросси́йская нау́чно-иссле́довательская обще́ственная организа́ция «Космопо́иск» [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmopoisk]

CRINOID. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid

KEY WORDS OF THE SEARCH (in russian): Калуга винт окаменелые (translating/english: Kaluga screw fossilized) - (translating spanish: Kaluga, tornillo, fosilizado)

Search engine used: Google

The origin of this news was a survey on a website in Spanish language (see Sources). However, this editor found little and went hunt the original, according to the editor of the Spanish blog the source would be a Russian magazine called Ogonek But, Spanish blog, not released the URL of this magazine (but should have disclosed. Hell ...). 

This source was not found. We only found a OGONEK.NET - in german language.

Advanced search in the website OGONEK.NET - using key words indicated above did not result in any reference. Then, we use the key words in russian and the news was found (in the source indicated below and in others - all them in russian language). 

There were several illustrations and at least one contradiction to what was published in the Spanish blog. The ENIGMAS E MISTERIOS website informs that the discovery took place in 1996. But the Russian website, clearly, mentions 2009.

To find the a correct date we seek a reference page of the research group Kosmopoisk in English and Russian, in Wikipedia. In these sources, we find the record of a series of expeditions conducted in October 1996 in Kaluga (in subtitle Korenevo).

That year, the team Kosmopois was at this region - Kaluga - to investigate what would have been the fall of a meteorite. They were called, according to the russian website, to examine the rock that contained the anachronistic objects found. Then, the group collected the samples that were later analyzed.

The editor of Brazil Weird News wants to make clear that, with this kind of journalism without no one criterion for the accuracy of information, which does not disclose its sources (the case of the spanish website), it is difficult to share, in fact -the knowledge. We consider this kind of omission one amateurism unthinkable for a professional journalist. 

But this news is being published here, with as much detail obtained because no doubt it is a piece in nothing negligible for a collection of fortean events. Ie Charles Fort would have cut the page of the newspaper and filed it in his collection. Thus, we made the same. The difference is that, nowadays, a collection like this can be public. BWN shares with you.

This editor remember, even, that this news has an obvious connection with another news, here published - a one which caused much controversy and even scorn from other editors and readers for the BWN BLOG: Machine dated at 400 million years found in Russia

The source, an Italian website that also omitted any mention of its source but the same scientist of the other news appears, in this news - Alex Gobulev, as the person who would have made the first records of the finding.

Finally, we advise that on entering the Russian website page, our machine is immediately disconnected from the internet. Damn, coincidence or page contaminated? We do not know. But here is the record of the fact. 

We save the Russian text and the images captured by a tool, no download. This editor has much appreciation for his PC, so I hesitate to go there again. This business of Russian page which disconnects the network is very unpleasant ...

SOURCES
Rusia: Tornillo 300 millones de años.
ENIGMAS Y MISTERIOS, published em 01/09/2012.
[http://enigmasmisterio.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/rusia-tornillo-300-millones-de-anos.html]
Раскрыта тайна окаменевших «болтов» и «катушек». (OR Revealed secret of screw and reel fossilized and - even - more appropriately: Discovered fossilized screw and reel)
[http://p-i-f.livejournal.com/3057539.html]
published em 16/03/2012.