Mysterious Universe

Ominous tales of ghost ships like the Flying Dutchman and the Mary Celeste have been passed down from one generation of seafarer to the next for centuries, but as eerie as these haunted vessels are alleged to be there is another even more disturbing maritime phenomena that deals not with ships that have been abandoned, but those whose crew have mysteriously perished. Arguably the most disturbing of all these legends is the shocking case of the SS Ourang Medan.

According to widely circulated reports, in June of 1947 — or, according to alternate accounts, February of 1948 — multiple ships traversing the trade routes of the straits of Malacca, which is located between the sun drenched shores of Sumatra and Malaysia, claimed to have picked up a series of SOS distress signals. The unknown ship’s message was as simple as it was disturbing:

“All officers including captain are dead, lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.”  This communication was followed by a burst of indecipherable Morse code, then a final, grim message: “I die.” This cryptic proclamation was followed by tomb-like silence.

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The eventual discovery of alien life, and the hope that it exists in various life-conducive pockets within our universe, is hardly a motivation relegated just to ufologists. Physicists, philosophers, and historians will no doubt have equal interest in this paradigm-shifting eventuality, and for different reasons. Think of what technology we can hope to utilize, for instance, in the event that an intelligent alien race begins to interact with Earthlings? Even in the event that we were only to discover more primitive life than ours on a nearby planet, the implications regarding our own evolution as a species could be placed in a new perspective, through the simple observation of how life evolves on a non-Earth environment.

It remains the hope of many ufologists that unidentified aircraft with capabilities far exceeding our known laws of physics might represent extraterrestrials. Elsewhere, space programs employ cosmologists with hope of determining where “out there” such life might exist. However, it always seems to be the case that the search for intelligent life is something that, while hopeful (and even probable), requires a tremendous amount of diversity in thinking applied to the actual process.

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Winged Shadow Giants turn up for one family’s Thanks Giving feast while a young boy in the UK complains of being kept up by a “grey skinned man” visiting him in the night.

Cursed homes and artefacts are also featured along with a more serious look at the evidence for Ancient Aliens.

Read on for show notes, music, and books.

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Regardless of whether or not UFOs really have crashed to Earth, there can be no doubt that mentioning the words “crashed” and “UFO” in the same sentence inevitably brings the controversial Roswell, New Mexico affair of July 1947 to mind. But, there are numerous other cases on file that could, perhaps, be termed the “little brothers” of Roswell. And even though, as people may know from my Body Snatchers in the Desert book, I’m not a particularly big fan of crashed UFO cases, there are some that even I still find very intriguing, including the following…

The genesis of the affair in question appeared to come from a U.S. Department of State telegram transmitted from the American Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, to the U.S. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C., on 15 May 1978. Captioned Report of Fallen Space Object, it detailed strange events then afoot in Bolivia.

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Glowing Blue Entities and Black Eyed Harlequins warm us up for tales of life beyond death and poltergeist encounters on today’s show. 

Mysteries of the Multiverse are also featured with more tales of out of place/time dinosaurs, local time slips, and working Russian Time Machines. Hide your puppies.

Show notes, music, and books after the jump.

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Every person spends a little time each day thinking about the future. What meeting do I have to attend later today or perhaps what will I feed the kids for dinner are among the more common thought projections of this sort; in the greater scheme of things, where will I be five years from now and how much money will I be able to save before retirement are the sorts of ideas that might involve a bit more planning.

For some people, predicting where they think they’ll be a few decades from now comes easily, and may involve not only a great deal of careful planning, but also high hopes, goal setting, and great aspirations. This isn’t exactly the case for many in the computer science and information technology fields, however. In fact, much like the event horizon of relativity theory, lying in the not-too-distant future seems to be the promise of some singular event beyond which it is difficult to predict the future progression of human evolution, both technologically and biologically. Part of what makes this impending future so difficult to ascertain is the very likely presence of artificial intelligence, and the uncertainty that surrounds what a future world will be like where humans aren’t the most intelligent beings on the planet.

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People often ask me what I enjoy investigating most of all: UFOs, Conspiracy-theories, Cryptozoological creatures, or something else? Well, I’d have to say that Cryptozoology is probably my main passion, and particularly so werewolves, which seem to pop up just about here, there, and everywhere. But, without doubt, one of the strangest of all werewolf-themed accounts to cross my path is that of the Alrewas Werewolf…

Alrewas is a village situated approximately five miles north of the English city of Lichfield and has a population of approximately 3,000. It lies adjacent to the A38 road, which follows the line of Ryknild Street, an old Roman road; and according to the English Place-Name Society the village’s old name translates as: “Alluvial land growing with alder-trees.”

Certainly, Alrewas is steeped in the world of the past: it is home to an All Saints Anglican church, which can be found just off Church Lane, and which dates from the 12th century. Some of the original Norman work on the church can still be seen; however, a great deal of Gothic enlargement is also in evidence, while the church font dates from the 15th century and the pulpit from the 17th century.

And it was within the confines of this pleasant little village that, in the 1950s, a fully-fledged werewolf was said to lurk.

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