Mysterious Universe

On this Plus+ Episode of Mysterious Universe, we find out why it’s not a good idea to go Yowie hunting by yourself.

Also, it turns out a brain injury can be a good thing for some and discover that clowns can improve your fertility!

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On many occasions, people in terribly life-threatening situations manage to prevail, virtually without the help of any others. This would appear to be the case outwardly, at least… but the very ones who might contest it could be those who actually have endured such experiences.

Some may attribute such persistence to thrive to the help of a higher power. For instance, many who have near-death experiences recount meeting their deceased friends at some spiritual gap between this world and the next, and being told either that they have a choice as to whether they remain on Earth, or enter the great beyond. Others might not have the luxury of any option, returning instead from the throes of death after being advised that their work in this world may not be complete.

But there are others who recount far more extraordinary encounters with the great beyond, in which they literally feel that they owe their lives to some presence that may have not only preserved their physical existence but that may have granted them insights into seemingly otherworldly things that may be very much of this realm.

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This week’s features include the Curse of Mars, the Krampus demon, and super viruses.

We also include an eyewitness account of a strange cloud that manages to play kerplunk with the local wildlife, along with an in depth look at recollections of life before birth.

Show notes, music, and video after the jump.

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It was a truly horrific and nightmarish beast that provoked both overwhelming fear and intense alarm within the minds and hearts of the fine folk that lived in the small, and somewhat isolated, Texan town of Sublime throughout the 1830s. It roamed the dense and mysterious thickets and fields of an area whose people became terrified of the unknown entity in their midst. And it rapidly became known to those that were forced to live in its dark shadow by the memorable moniker of the Wild Man of the Navidad.

So the notable legend goes, at the turn of the 1830s, strange and hard-to-identify barefoot tracks of two so-called “wild people” were often found both in and around the varied settlements of Texas’s lower Navidad, and specifically in the area of Sublime, which can be found roughly halfway between the cities of San Antonio and Houston.

Generally speaking, the tracks were relatively small, and consideration was given to the possibility that there was both a male and a female on the loose. Keen and alert guard-dogs on local ranches and properties would on occasion react both violently and furiously when the strange and unidentified visitors were believed to be quietly and carefully prowling throughout the area late after nightfall had enveloped the entire area. And there were even reports of the mysterious pair breaking into people’s homes and stealing food.

According to the legends and tales that inevitably surfaced in the wake of the initial wave of mysterious reports and encounters, a human skeleton was later discovered in the area – something that led a number of commentators to conclude that the wild woman’s larger, male companion had possibly died. Precisely what happened to the skeleton – if indeed it ever really existed, of course – remains unknown, and is lost to the inevitable fog of time, unfortunately. An initial attempt, organized by a group of men in the area, to hunt down the other mystery hominid utterly failed. On the second occasion, however, there was an intriguing development in this early, somewhat Bigfoot-like affair.

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For many, a recent “We the People” petition, aimed at getting U.S. President Barack Obama and his Administration to acknowledge extraterrestrial presences here on Earth, fell just short of the long-sought “disclosure” so many in UFO circles advocate today. The idea here is, of course, that not only has Earth been visited by neighbors from distant star systems, but that government organizations have been hiding the information from the public for years… and that it’s high-time for them to stop.

And yet, world governments have already acknowledged a number of UFO-related incidents over the years, many documented in old declassified files that have been expunged from bulging file cabinet drawers in the basements of organizations like the CIA, FBI, and the NSA. The latter of these three groups drew particular interest in this regard as recently as April of this year, when a large batch of UFO-related files appeared at their website; that said, here is a direct link to the NSA’s portal to all disclosed UFO documents for your browsing pleasure.

Browsing the NSA site’s collection of UFO documents, among the files listed one will see links to documents titled, “Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages by H. Campaigne,” and “Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Howard H. Campaigne.” Looking at the PDF documents these links provide access to, one will find that a rather intriguing bit of information is disclosed: what appear to be references to a series of “alien” radio signals recorded decades ago via satellite are described, in addition to an attempt by the author of these articles at deciphering the ET messages! Could this really be “the smoking gun” so many have hoped for, or is there more to the story than meets the eye?

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Author’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series about Dan Mitchell of Wisconsin, U.S.A., and his struggle to identify the entity that’s haunted him throughout his life – the Harlequin. (Read Part One Here)

Mitchell knows his father saw the Harlequin at least once – they were together when it happened. As Mitchell grew, the entity’s visits to his room stopped, but he knew the Harlequin hadn’t left him. In 1991, Mitchell, then 15, and his father were driving from the family’s cabin in the north woods of Wisconsin into the nearby town of Eagle River when they encountered someone on the road. “There (was) this steep hill we would drive down on our way into town,” Mitchell said. “Sometimes as we were driving, my dad would turn out the headlights on his truck as we flew down this hill. We were on our way into town one night when he did this.”

One night Mitchell’s father thought better of it and turned on the headlights and they saw someone walking up the hill. “When we got to the top of the hill in the truck, this guy was walking on the gravel road pushing a stroller,” Mitchell said. “Now, it was probably 9:30 at night, pitch black, and who would push a stroller in the pitch black?” As Mitchell’s father drove by the figure, Mitchell knew something was wrong. “I could tell this guy was hiding his face,” he said. “There was just something not right about it.” When the figure disappeared in the distance and darkness, Mitchell could feel they’d just driven by the Harlequin. “My Dad looked a little bothered by it as well,” Mitchell said. “But he didn’t say anything probably to keep me calm. I was really not wanting to go back to the cottage because it was headed that way.”

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Sent to me recently by the good folks at Anomalist Books, Grassroots UFOs is a brand new book that is as alternative as it is refreshing and informative. And it’s one that should be in your UFO library, too. Like now. Written and illustrated by UFO authority Michael D. Swords, Grassroots UFOs is, essentially, a large and varied collection of witness-testimony secured – under truly near-unique circumstances – by a man named John Timmerman. For more than a decade, Timmerman was the brainchild behind a “traveling UFO exhibit” (for the Center for UFO Studies – CUFOS) that surfaced in shopping-malls just about here, there and everywhere across the United States. Its intention was to both inform and entertain those with an interest in UFOs.

There was a notable spin-off effect to the exhibit, however. It brought forth hundreds of people who were willing to quietly share with Timmerman the details of their very own UFO experiences and encounters.

And it’s in the 250-pages of Grassroots UFOs that those cases are now revealed.

For me, Grassroots UFOs harks back to the days of such books as Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s The UFO Report, Leonard Stringfield’s Situation Red, and Coral Lorenzen’s Flying Saucers. In other words, it’s a book packed with previously-unseen witness testimony (all captured via Timmerman’s trusty tape-recorder) on pretty much every aspect of Ufology, and one destined to become a fine resource tool for both present-day- and future-researchers.

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