Whales In Space

City officials in Raleigh, North Carolina claim a colony of tubifex worms are responsible for the web-plosion of articles on the the internet concerning the mysterious sewer creature captured on video and then distributed to the world on YouTube.com.

The video was captured in a sewer pipe under Cameron Village on April 27.

Tubifex worms are found in sewage and pond sediment and are actually sold both live and dried as fish food in pet stores.

Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department, explains the pulsating glob of worms were reacting to the bright light and heat from the camera when he spoke to www.news14.com.

So everyone relax. We aren’t being invaded by blob aliens that are living in the sewers… yet.

Its been one year since WhalesInSpace.com launched in its current format and what a year in the world of weirdness it has been.

Highlights would have to be the Tom Biscardi’s RickMat Bigfoot Press Conference and when it was revealed to be a hoax. Whales In Space was able to get a reporter to the conference and cover the event as it happened. I still think there is more to this story that was never discussed, except in the private conversations between cryptozoologists and and those who pay very close attention to these things. Also the Blossom Goodchild October 14th UFO prediction stands out as one of the most interesting stories of Whales In Space’s first year.

The February 15th Texas Fireball caught on video and the amazing number of other Fireball sightings and mysterious sonic booms before and after wards also caught the worlds attention.

Also in the first year, we saw the rise of sasquatchploitation, multiple black balloon cluster UFO sightins, two Montauk Monsters and the possible return of batsquatch or at least some clarification to the story.

And still going one, with reports still coming in, the Orange Ball of Light (ORBL) sightings over the UK. If these are just chinese lanterns, I would suggest buying some stock in a chinese lantern company, because sales are up.

A big thanks to everyone who read a post, who made a comment, who sent in photos and stories and tips. A big thanks to everyone who linked to our site.

In the first year we had 200 posts exploring the weirdness of aliens, UFOs, exopolitics, cryptozoology, other paranormal fortean phenomenon, and ultraterrestrial activities. I expect the next year to bring weirder yet stories.

About 30 miles east of Portland the residents of Sandy, Oregon, prepare for their annual Sandy Mountain Festival, July 11th and 12th, and some undeniable and blatant sasquatchploitation is in full swing. Sandy is a town in Clackamas County of approximately 8000 people on the Sandy River in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and Mount Hood. A quick search reported bigfoot sightings in Clackamas County of BFRO’s database turns up a collection of Class A and Class B sightings.

Their local newspaper, the Sandy Post ran several strange articles concerning the Sasquatch Sightings contest, where $100 can be won if your entry form is randomly drawn by this Festival Queen.

Below are two of the articles.
Hunt is on for Sasquatch Jr. - June 9, 2009

Hunt intensifies for Sasquatch Jr. - June 23, 2009

And who found Sasquatch Jr. and collected the $100 prize?
Eight-teen year old Sandy High School graduate Zachary Funk.

If you are planning on attending the Sandy Mountain Festival, you had best make your reservations to stay at the Bigfoot Lodge and Trailer Park now.

Micah A. Hanks of www.gralienreport.com has a great blog entry concerning the phenomenon he calls “Screaming Kangaroos: Large Anomalous Marsupials in the USA?“.

It seems weird kangaroo like creatures have been reported in the US going back as far as 1934, with a sighting by several residents of Tennessee.

Then in October of 1974, multiple sightings of a kangaroo have been documented in around Chicago, Illinois and a famous sighting in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin that resulted in a popular photo (which I can’t seem to find online).

These sightings said to be documented in Jerome Clark’s Unexplained!: 347 Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, which I just ordered from Amazon.

Sightings continued into the 80’s with reports from California and people today continue to report seeing kangaroo or kangaroos like creatures where there should be any.

So what are phantom kangaroos?

Another cryptid that is being mistaken for kangaroo?

A werewolf or chupacabra (the kangaroos were thought have killed pets and other animals in the 1934 Tennessee incident, very chupacabra-like)?

Or something else totally different? Of course the doubters will tell us they we normal kangaroos, escaped from zoo or the circus.

On June 24th, the Italian news agency Adnkronos announced that Abuna Pauolos, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, said that the long sought Ark of the Covenant would be revealed to the world. Pauolos, while in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, told the news agency, “Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries.” The Ark was to be revealed on Friday, June 26th.

Ethiopia is thought to be one of the possible resting places for the Ark Of The Covenant, which has been ‘missing’ since Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian army destroyed Jerusalem in 586 or 587 BC and is possibly the most searched for item in human history, as it is thought to be the source of great power. It has been theorized that the Ark may contain alien technology and left on earth by ancient astronauts. Erich von Daniken may have been one of the first to explored this in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods.

This morning, the Ethiopian Review reported that the Ark will not be made public. “No, the ark is not going to be revealed. Nobody could touch it. If you do so, God will smite you.” Aba Gebremedhin said. The blame for the confusion was placed on the on the Adnkronos journal.

“The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it… is invincible.” - Brody - Raiders of the Lost Ark

I doubt the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia is in possession of the actual Ark, as it is too powerful to held in such an unsecured location. It is more likely in the hands of much more powerful people. The Ark may also still be lost (the bottom of a riverbed, bottom of an ocean or sea, or other remote location) or was possibly destroyed as some historians claim.

Graham Hancock’s Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, is an excellent book of one man’s real quest for the Ark.

More Orange Ball of Light (ORBL) sightings over the UK.

Whale In Space got this comment from a ORBL witness in Essex.

11.25 pm - 26th June 2009

Two orange orb lights floating in the sky one in front of other. First one stopped and seemed to wait for the second one then they were still for a couple of minutes. One disappeared and then after another minute the second one disappeared. took photos. Goodmayes Essex.

After a quick follow up email, Joanna Salsen, who posted the original quote, sent several photos and a video of the ORBLs. She added there were some clouds in the sky and no noise associated with the sighting.

If anyone else saw these two unidentified orange lights in the sky over Essex on Friday June 26th, email us the detail.

Florida-based Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) will be working with the Utah Sasquatch Group to search a remote section of the Ashley National Forest, near the Utah-Wyoming border this weekend, looking for Bigfoot evidence.

BFRO returns to Utah for the first time since a 2007 expedition. Approximately 25 participants will spend the weekend setting up and monitoring audio and video equipment and hiking through the area looking for any sign of bigfoot. Reports as recent as two weeks ago of a strange hairy “reddish figure” and past discoveries of unexplained large foot prints in the area must have Utah Squatching Group member John R. Salmond excited to have the resources of the BFRO in Utah this weekend.

Utah is bit of a bigfoot hotspot, with multiple bigfoot groups. Utah Bigfoot claims there have been over 160 bigfoot sightings reported in Utah, most located around the Uintah mountains. Other hotspots include Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Timpanogas, Logan, Ogden, High Uintah’s, and West Desert.

On February 21, 1997, Art Bell had a guest on his Coast to Coast AM radio show named Mel Waters who claimed to know the location of a mysterious hole on his property outside of Ellensburg, Washington that had some very interesting paranormal properties. He subsequently appeared on February 24, 1997, April 2000 and January 29, 2002. His final appearance on the show was on December 20, 2002.

Waters claimed to own property near Manastash Ridge, Washington, about nine miles west of Ellensburg. On his property, he had found a hole. The hole was about 9 feet around, brick lined down the first 15 feet, and had been used by locals to dump garbage and other unwanted junk for years, never filling up. If you dropped something into the hole, you never heard it hit bottom, and Waters had tried lowering a weight on the end of a fishing line in an attempt to determine the depth. After attaching many reels of line together, the estimate was the hole was in excess of 15 miles deep. The hole also was said to have some other odd qualities, like the ability to bring dead animals back to life. Waters shared a story of a local who had thrown his dead dog into the hole, only to have the dog return to him alive later. At some point, Waters sold the property and Waters disappeared, and with him, the exact location of Mel’s hole.

Since then, there have been multiple ’searches’ for the location of Mel’s Hole. Nothing has been found matching Water’s mysterious description. In fact, rumor has it the Tri City Herald reported that Waters was not listed in the Kittitas County telephone directory or the registered as a taxpayers, and that authorities in Ellensburg were unable to find any evidence that he was a ever resident or existed. Even the Mel’s Hole Website has called further searches off after determining that the quest for Mel’s Hole is a series of dead ends.

The tale of Mel’s Hole is widely accepted as a urban legend and hoax now, but some rather odd details suggest there may be more to the story than a simple hoax.

First, the story of Mel’s hole didn’t start with Mel Waters. On September 18, 2008, Coast to Coast AM had a guest name Red Elk, an Inter-Tribal Medicine Man who claimed to have visited the hole with his father in 1961 and also claimed to have more information on the hole. Red Elk has said the hole is 24–28 miles deep and connected to Mt Rainier. He has also been know to tell tales of an Inner Earth beneath the surface of the ground with a race giant lizardmen who make sex slaves of captures humans.

Red Elk is not the only one other one to have seen the hole. Ellensburg resident Jay Nickell remember exploring the area of Manastash Ridge as a teenager and coming across a hole that fits Waters’ descriptions.

There are rumbling of a government conspiracy to conceal the location of the hole. Mel’s property was near Yakima Firing Range, a 500 square mile training and firing range near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, used by soldiers from Fort Lewis. It is said the satellite photos of the area have been altered to protect the military’s training and that images of the hole and Waters’ land were also doctored.

On Waters’ second phone call into Coast To Coast, he described how was prevented from returning to his land by government or military Men In Black types. They claimed there was a plane crash on his property and would not allow him back on his property. Could these Men In Black possibly be responsible for then erasing any record of him owning property or paying taxes in Kittitas County?

During his second call, he also told the story of a conversation Waters had with a long time Kittitas County resident who remembered the hole from many years ago. According to the long time resident, there used to be stone monoliths, much like Stonehenge, with out the top pieces, surrounding the hole.

Waters is thought to now be in Nevada, studying another mysterious hole. This hole is creeper yet, with a bizarre story of a dead sheep that was lowered into Waters’ new hole and returned dead and completely ‘cooked’ on the inside. When cut open, the sheep was found to be filled with a jelly like substance described as a tumour that formed into a alien/seal like creature that jumped back into the hole.

Until Mel Waters resurfaces, we may never know the truth behind the strange tale of Mel Waters and The Devil’s Hole.

Thanks to a Whales In Space tipster for the heads up on Mel Water’s Devil’s Hole.

Yet another Orange Ball of Light (ORBL) sightings over the UK.

This time over Grantham, Lincolnshire Saturday night. Twenty-nine year old Jackie Forbes of Harris Way went out to her garden a touch after 10:30 pm on June 20th and saw an orange ball of light for about one minute before it disappeared.

“It was travelling at the speed of an aeroplane but it was bigger and orange. Sometimes the planes at night have flashing lights on but this was constant.

The something else dropped from underneath the plane.

It was really weird. It definitely wasn’t a shooting star or a meteor.

I think somebody else out there must have seen it.”

www.granthamjournal.co.uk collected several other reports froms over the weekend of strange orange glowing object in the sky.

One of an “orange and red ball in the sky” over Springfield Park Saturday night and another Sunday about 6pm.

Of course the Orange Balls of Light Chinese Lantern Theory (ORBLCLT) is brought up at the end of the article, but we have come to expect that.

A 73 year old Lisburn man, Mike Warner, has spent 23 years searching three continents looking for evidence of giant snakes. Now, from deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, he claims to have over 700 photographs and 5 hours of video of a giant ‘black boa’ or ‘Yacumama’. At over 40 meters in length (130 feet) and 2 meter in diameter (6 1/2 feet) this creature is many times larger than any cataloged snake.

Mike Warner, at 73, with the assistance of his son Greg Warner, spent 12 days in March using the latest satellite equipment to take images of the huge reptile and were able to officially announce the discovery on May 2 after flying over the creature multiple times, taking photographs and getting video.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) has the exclusive rights to release all the pictures from their Peruvian expedition and has been in contact with the Warner’s concerning the photos and video. On June 12th, they published several pictures, which fail to provide the definite evidence first described.

I will admit, as CFZ does, I don’t see it. I understand they are claiming the existence of these ‘channels’ than run into the river are part of the evidence, but I don’t see the snake in the images. Its seems video may better show what the claim to have seen.

Check out CFZ’s collection of posts concerning the Peruvian “Giant Snake” or lack there of.

It seems CFZ took some abuse from their readers over these pictures, the whole time maintaining that the Warners were “decent fellows”. Yesterday they published a letter from the Warners:

Jon,

I see by your post today that you are taking some abuse over the release of this data (it’s being directed at us too). My dad and I release you from our gentleman’s agreement to save you any further grief. Let us know and we will respect your decision. My dad’s away this weekend and we can’t release our findings until next week anyway and then we’re finished with this process. I know you disagree with us but I hope that we can make you “happy by proving you wrong” one day. We are now working with scientists who see some merit in the data we have released and some TV producers have approached us following our story breaking in the papers a few weeks ago.

Kind regards

Greg & Mike

I doubt this is the last we have heard of Greg and Mike Warner.

It does make me think of the photographs of the Nabau Sighting - Giant Snake Of Borneo from earlier this year.

Those photos, faked or not, made it easy to see a giant snake swimming down the Baleh river in Borneo, Indonesia.

Why would the Warners submit themselves to such harsh criticism with such lack luster data?