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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAdapted from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Hunters UFO Hunters is an American documentary television series that premiered on January 30,
2008 on The History Channel and ran for three seasons. It is a spin-off series of History's UFO Files and is produced by Motion Picture Production Inc. The tagline of the show is:
"Hoax or History?"
The show follows numerous forensic investigations (referred to as "cases" in
the beginning of each episode) led by William J. Birnes and his team of
experts: researcher and scuba diver Pat Uskert, mechanical engineer and MIT
researcher Ted Acworth, and investigative biologist Jeff Tomlinson. In the
second season, Tomlinson departed. In the third season, Acworth was replaced by
mechanical engineer Kevin Cook.
In each episode, the team investigates reports of unidentified aerial phenomena
in which they interview witnesses of close encounters with UFOs, USOs, and
supposed extraterrestrial life. They also analyze any evidence collected such
as photographs, video, or recovered physical material. They also conduct
research with other investigators and scientists in the field in an attempt to
find conclusive evidence that a report is real or a hoax. The show also
investigates long-standing UFO cases such as the Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash incident and other famous sightings throughout history.
Season oneSeason One aired from January 30, 2008 to May 7, 2008. | Episode | Title | Original Airdate |
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| 101 (1) | "The UFO Before Roswell" | January 30, 2008 | | The hunters take a look at a little-known UFO encounter off Maury Island,
Washington which happened two weeks before the famous Roswell, New Mexico
crash. | | 102 (2) | "USOs" | February 6, 2008 | | The team checks out the reports of unidentified submerged objects (USOs), one
of which reportedly caused the crash of a single-engine aircraft,
off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, California. | | 103 (3) | "Abductions" | February 13, 2008 | | The team looks back into the famous Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction case
and later observes the surgical removal of a supposed
alien implant from a man's leg. | | 104 (4) | "Crash and Retrieval" | February 20, 2008 | | The team looks into the 1974 Coyame and 2007 Xilitla UFO crash cases in Mexico,
where the Mexican and U.S. military reportedly recovered wreckage
material. | | 105 (5) | "Military vs. UFOs" | February 27, 2008 | | The team reopens the files on the famous 1956 RAF Bentwaters and 1980
Rendlesham Forest UFO incidents, and the supposed cover ups that followed. | | 106 (6) | "Cops vs. UFOs" | March 5, 2008 | | The hunters look at police reports from Florida and the United Kingdom that
involve patrolmen encounters with UFOs. | | 107 (7) | "Reverse Engineering" | March 12, 2008 | | The team looks into lingering rumors that advanced military aircraft, such as
the SR-71 Blackbird and B-2 Spirit Bomber, were designed from reverse
engineered alien technology. | | 108 (8) | "Vortexes" | March 19, 2008 | | The team looks into New York's Hudson Valley; Sedona, Arizona; and Britain's
Stonehenge, to determine what makes them purported UFO hotspots. | | 109 (9) | "Alien Contact" | April 2, 2008 | | The team compares the strange encounters of two men, one from Cleveland, Ohio
and the other from Suffolk, Virginia, to see if there is evidence that they've
had contact with extraterrestrials. | | 110 (10) | "Invasion Texas: 2008" | April 9, 2008 | | The team investigates the January 2008 mass UFO sightings between Fort Worth
and Houston, Texas. | | 111 (11) | "UFO Dogfights" | April 16, 2008 | | Investigation into an Iranian and a Peruvian fighter pilot's claims of combat
engagements with UFOs. | | 112 (12) | "Code Red" | April 30, 2008 | | The team interviews military air traffic controllers who have come forward
about tracking UFOs over restricted airspace and the security alerts that
followed. | | 113 (13) | "The NASA Files" | May 7, 2008 | | The team interviews former NASA astronauts, engineers, and scientists and
delves into video footage to see if the space agency knows more about UFOs than
it is letting on. |
Season twoSeason Two aired from October 29, 2008 to February 25, 2009. | Episode | Title | Original Airdate |
|---|
| 201 (14) | "Invasion Illinois" | October 29, 2008 | | The team reviews a 2004 Tinley Park, Illinois UFO mass-sighting event where
some eyewitnesses claim seeing three separate objects, while others believe it
was a single triangular craft over 1500 feet wide. | | 202 (15) | "UFO Emergency" | November 5, 2008 | | The hunters reopen famous police cold-cases involving mass UFO sightings such
as the 1994 Trumbull County, Ohio and Holland, Michigan sightings and the 2000
Millstadt, Illinois case where 911 dispatchers were flooded with calls and
police radio chatter of strange lights moving slowly through the sky. | | 203 (16) | "Heartland Explosion" | November 12, 2008 | | The team investigates an April 16, 2008 Kokomo, Indiana report of a high
decibel boom that echoed across the heartland and was supposedly followed by
sightings of a fiery object in the night sky. | | 204 (17) | "First Contact" | November 19, 2008 | | The team researches the story of the 1897 Aurora, Texas UFO crash where the
townsfolk are rumored to have tossed the ship wreckage down a well
and buried the body of the non-human pilot in their local cemetery. | | 205 (18) | "The Real Roswell" | December 3, 2008 | | The team looks into rumors of a possible second crash site of a flying disk
recovered by the military in New Mexico on the same night as the famous Roswell
UFO Incident. | | 206 (19) | "Arizona Lights" | December 10, 2008 | | The hunters join filmmaker James Fox on an investigation of an April 21, 2008
mass-sighting report of a triangular craft spotted over the Nevada/Arizona
border to as far as Tucson and looks at connections to the "Phoenix Lights"
incident of 1997. | | 207 (20) | "Lost UFO Files" | December 31, 2008 | | The team delves into the University of Arizona archives to review the notes of
late UFO investigator James E. McDonald and brings to light his research and
evidence that has lain dormant since his
death in 1971. | | 208 (21) | "Alien Fallout" | January 14, 2009 | | The investigators take a look at close encounters of the second kind, such as
the December 29, 1980 case of Betty Cash, and Vickie and Cody Landrum, who
claimed they encountered a fiery object hovering over a road that emitted
intense heat and allegedly left them suffering symptoms of radiation
exposure. | | 209 (22) | "UFO Storm" | January 28, 2009 | | The team joins UFO researcher Nick Pope and investigates a recent wave of UFO
hysteria in the United Kingdom which started soon after the Ministry of Defense
released formerly classified documents in May 2008. | | 210 (23) | "Giant UFOs" | February 4, 2009 | | The team probes the skies over England following an airline pilot's official
report of a pair of UFOs he believed to be at least a mile in length, and a
review of other sightings of gigantic unidentified craft seen over the United
States. | | 211 (24) | "Aliens at the Airport" | February 11, 2009 | | The hunters investigate the growing number of encounters between commercial
aircraft and UFOs, highlighting a November 2006 incident at O'Hare
International Airport in Chicago and a 2004 sighting in Osaka, Japan. | | 212 (25) | "Alien Crashes" | February 18, 2009 | | The hunters try to find what the military covered up in a recent May 2008 crash
of an unknown object in Needles, California, and looks at other famous crash
incidents like the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania case where the military supposedly
undertook a massive clean up effort and intimidated local witnesses. | | 213 (26) | "Area 51 Revealed" | February 25, 2009 | | The team finds new vantage points to spy on the recent activity at Area 51,
which in the past decade has acquired more public lands to increase perimeter
security, and built new towers, buildings and runways for the continued
development of top secret aircraft. |
Season threeHistory ended season three of the series abruptly on May 20, 2009 and the last
four episodes that were produced were never broadcast. According to his
Facebook page, Bill Birnes headed up an online petition for History to continue
the series. On October 29, 2009, History aired the last four episodes as a
four-hour marathon. | Episode | Title | Original Airdate |
|---|
| 301 (27) | "Giant Triangles" | March 18, 2009 | | The team investigates the increasing number of enormous black triangle reports
in Sonora, California – what has become known as "Triangle Alley" – and
analyzes night and rare
daylight video footage of these objects to determine if they are top secret
military aircraft or otherworldly spacecraft. | | 302 (28) | "Underground Alien Bases" | March 25, 2009 | | The team looks into the claims of undercover investigators and former military
personnel about Dulce Base, an alleged alien facility that exists somewhere
below a mesa near Dulce, New Mexico, where human-alien hybrid experiments are
being performed and how the beings
there came into deadly conflict with military personnel. | | 303 (29) | "The Greys Conspiracy" | April 1, 2009 | | The team investigates alien abduction cases from different parts of the world,
each with alarmingly similar details involving alien-human hybrid
experimentation and beings ufologists call "Greys" which are typically
described as gray-skinned humanoids with large, black,
almond-shaped eyes. | | 304 (30) | "Underwater Alien Bases" | April 8, 2009 | | The hunters delve into the mountain of reports from the Gulf Breeze, Florida
UFO sighting wave of the early 1990s and then looks for possible connections to
recent
reports from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba of alleged Unidentified Submerged Objects
(USOs) spotted rising from the
ocean. | | 305 (31) | "Nazi UFOs" | April 22, 2009 | | The team ventures to Germany and Poland to investigate rumors that the Third
Reich had reverse engineered alien technology and may have produced a functional
spacecraft, and how some of this technology was captured by the United States
and helped jump start the U.S. space program. Military historian Igor Witkowski
gives the team insight on "Die Glocke" (The Bell), an alleged top secret Nazi
wunderwaffen. | | 306 (32) | "Alien Harvest" | April 29, 2009 | | The team investigates the phenomena of cattle mutilations, investigating a
recent slaughter and following patterns of other cases, as well as sightings of
black helicopters which have led some to believe the military may be involved
in the killings as
part of a secret experiment. | | 307 (33) | "UFO Relics" | May 6, 2009 | | Investigating so-called "trace cases," the team studies supposed physical
evidence left behind after various UFO sightings, from a strange glass-like
rock found in Poland, to an odd piece of metal a Missouri man claims to have
found after it was dropped from a UFO. | | 308 (34) | "Underwater Area 51" | May 13, 2009 | | The investigators monitor the activity of the AUTEC (Atlantic Undersea Test and
Evaluation Center, which is used by the U.S. Navy for underwater research, but
the increasing reports of UFO and USO activity surrounding the facility have
lead to rumors the base is testing alien technology. | | 309 (35) | "UFO Surveillance" | May 20, 2009 | | The team analyzes videos and eyewitness accounts that suggest a strong UFO
presence at two of America's top research facilities; Brookhaven National
Laboratory on New York's Long Island, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in
Northern California. | | 310 (36) | "The Silencers" | October 29, 2009 | | The hunters delve into cases involving witness interrogation by mysterious
agents known as the "Men in Black" (MIBs), who sometimes appear suddenly after
a UFO event, exhibit unusual behavior, know facts that have not been divulged
by witnesses, and threaten the lives of those involved with severe consequences
unless they remain silent about their encounter. | | 311 (37) | "Area 52" | October 29, 2009 | | The hunters investigate the Dugway Proving Ground, a remote military testing
facility near Dugway, Utah, and examine the reports of UFO activity that has
surrounded the site for the
past 10 years – leading some UFO watchers to dub it "Area 52" and "The New Area
51." | | 312 (38) | "First Response" | October 29, 2009 | | The team tries to gather insight on the military's "First Response" protocols,
the alleged recovery and cover-up procedures that are followed in case of a UFO
incident. The investigation takes them to a claim of a military pursuit of
multiple UFOs near Long Beach, California and a return visit to the supposed
UFO crash in Needles, California in 2008. | | 313 (39) | "Dark Presence" | October 29, 2009 | | The team investigates the phenomena of orbs – mysterious balls of light that
appear to coincide with earthquakes – and travel to areas of orb activity
in Arizona, Indiana, and Missouri where some witnesses claim the spheres are
intelligent and communicate through
dreams and premonitions. |
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| | | | This website is predicated on the basis of the following categorization of the
Sciences ... Four Categories of Science By Stanton T. Friedman (Former Nuclear Physicist)Some people have insisted that if I can't provide a piece of a [flying] saucer
or an alien body, there is nothing to support my claims. I was quite surprised
during my last visit with Carl Sagan in December 1992, when he claimed that the
essence of the scientific method was reproducibility. In actuality, as I wrote
Sagan later on, there are at least four different kinds of science: - [Category-1 Science] Yes, there is a lot of excellent science done by people who set up
an experiment in which they can control all the variables and equipment. They
make measurements and then publish their results, after peer review, and
describe their equipment, instruments, and activity in detail so that others
can duplicate the work and, presumably, come to the same conclusions. Such
science can be very satisfying, and certainly can contribute to the advancement
of knowledge. However, it is not the only kind of science.
- [Category-2 Science] A second kind of science involves situations in which one cannot
control all the variables, but can predict some. For example, I cannot prove
that on occasion the moon comes directly between the sun and the Earth and
casts a shadow of darkness on the Earth, because I cannot control the positions
of the Earth, moon, or sun. What can be done is predicting the times when such
eclipses will happen and being ready to make observations when they occur.
Hopefully the weather where I have my instruments will allow me to make lots of
measurements.
- [Category-3 Science] A third kind of science involves events that can neither be
predicted nor controlled, but one can be ready to make measurements if
something does happen. For example, an array of seismographs can be established
to allow measurements to be made at several locations in the event of an
earthquake. When I was at the University of Chicago, a block of nuclear
emulsion was attached to a large balloon that would be released when a
radiation detector indicated that a solar storm had occurred (something we
could neither produce nor predict). Somebody would rush to Stagg Field and
release the balloon. When the balloon was
retrieved, the emulsion would be carefully examined to measure the number,
direction, velocity, and mass characteristics of particles unleashed by the sun.
- [Category-4 Science] Finally, there is a fourth kind of science, still using the rules
to attack difficult problems. These are the events that involve intelligence,
such as airplane crashes, murders, rapes, and automobile accidents. We do not
know when or where they will occur, but we do know they will. In a typical year
more than 40,000 Americans will be killed in automobile accidents. We don't
know where or when, so rarely are TV cameras whirling when these events take
place. But we can, after the fact, collect and evaluate evidence. We can
determine if the driver had high levels of alcohol in his or her blood, whether
the brakes failed, whether the visibility was poor, where a skid started, and
so on. Observations of strange phenomena in the sky come under this last
category.
In all the category-4 events, we must obtain as much testimony from witnesses
as possible. Some testimony is worth more than other testimony, perhaps because
of the duration of observation, the nearness of the witnesses to the event, the
specialized training of the observer, the availability of corroborative
evidence such as videos and still photos, or the consistency of evidence when
there is testimony from more than one witness. Our entire legal system is based
on testimony — rarely is there conclusive proof such as DNA
matching. Judges and juries must decide, with appropriate cross-examination,
who is telling the truth. In some states, testimony from one witness can lead
to the death penalty
for the accused. We should take note of the fact that even instrument data is dependent on
testimony from the observer of the instruments, and on appropriate calibration
and validation under standardized circumstances. Also, our courts place limits
on requirements for testimony, such as that against one spouse by the other.
Furthermore, there are rules about hearsay testimony, and rules regarding legal
evidence are complex and detailed. When it comes to flying saucers, we must remember that the reason most
sightings can be determined to be relatively conventional phenomena, often seen
under unusual circumstances, is that most people are relatively good observers.
The problem comes with the interpretation of what was observed. People watching
the sky late at night may get excited about a very bright light that moved very
slowly. Checking on the position of the planets at that time may reveal that
that light was Venus, because we have good information as to the angle of
observation, the direction of the light from the observer, the relatively slow
rate of motion, the location of Venus at that time, and so on. On three
occasions, when living in Southern California, I was called by people who
described an unusual object moving rapidly. I tried to make sure that I
analyzed their observations, such as, what time was it? In what direction were
you looking? In what direction did it seem to be moving? Was there any sound?
What was its apparent size, say, as compared to the moon (just covered by an
aspirin held at arm's length)? Two of the people wanted to tell me that the object was just over the next
hill. I stressed that this was an interpretation, because even huge objects far
away can seem to be small objects nearby. In all three cases, I felt that what
was being described sounded similar to a rocket launched down the California
Coast when the sun had gone down, but while the object was high enough to still
be in sunlight. I had seen such a spectacular case once myself. I checked, in
all three cases, with Vandenberg Air Force Base, which launches many rockets
down the U.S. West Coast. Indeed, there had been a launch at the right time in
each case. One case was especially intriguing, because several witnesses were
looking out across the ocean from a beach area and described the thing they saw
as similar to a string of popcorn. It turned out to be the launch of a special
weather satellite with extra solid boosters being dropped off multiple times. The people were good observers. To say the least, it would be irrational to say
that people are good observers when their input allows us to identify the
object being observed, and yet poor observers if we can't identify the UFO as
something conventional. — Stanton T. Friedman (Nuclear Physicist)
Flying Saucers and Science
Subtitle — A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes,
and Government Cover-Ups
(Chapter 1 - "The Case for the ET Origin of Flying Saucers")
(Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books, 2008)   | | | | |
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Warning to the unthinking (and to the control freaks and power junkies) ... You probably won't like the following 'thinking' observation ... But it's
an important part of any exploration, investigation, study, etc. of the Mysteries of the World ... SEVEN DOORS TO SEVEN ROOMS OF THOUGHT- Accept the statement of Eminent Authority without basis, without question.
- Disagree with the statement without basis, out of general contrariness.
- Perhaps the statement is true, but what if it isn't? How then to account for
the phenomenon?
- How much of the statement rationalizes to suit man's purpose that he and his
shall be ascendant at the centre of things?
- What if the minor should become major, the recessive dominant, the obscure
prevalent?
- What if the statement were reversible, that which is considered effect is
really cause?
- What if the natural law perceived in one field also operates unperceived in all
other phases of science? What if there be only one natural law manifesting
itself, as yet, to us in many facets because we cannot apperceive the whole, of
which we have gained only the most elementary glimpses, with which we can cope
only at the crudest level?
And are those still other doors, yet undefined, on down the corridor? |
- Please do not assume or conclude that, just because I present many views (in
the form of textual notes, pictures/stills, and audio and video
clips) — as well as many advertisements, some by me and some
automatically by Google Adsense and Amazon — on this website,
it does not
mean that I am in agreement with or that I believe in the views and/or ads
offered-proferred ... That would be displaying such a parochial and provincial
attitude, towards this website and towards me as well!
As an ex-military officer, I assure you that I am in the habit of reading,
viewing and digesting lots of stuff that I don't necessarily believe in ... We
call all the stuff we read, view and digest, 'military intelligence' ... The
same applies with 'business intelligence' in the business world, of course. Our aim, as usual, is to find out what others (including our friends, enemies,
competitors, suppliers, strategic partners, business partners, etc.) believe
in. In order to do that effectively, we have to 'get out of the way', so to
speak — we have to remove our humongous
ego! — else we will never ever really have gotten started in
our journey of exploration and discovery of the Mysteries of the World. Furthermore, similarly and additionally, as a "Charismatic Christian", there
are lots of stuff presented in this website that I do not believe in ... which
had even led some to label me as "Fundamentalist"! ... Whatever! Matthew 7 1Judge not, that ye be not judged.2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye;
and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt
thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. — Jesus the Christ
(Yahoshua ha Mashiach;
Yeshua/Yesua; Ieosus; Joshua),
"Sermon on the Mount"
If you want to hear the NIV — specifically, from The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993) — please click the audio player below:
In short, in this website, I present many things that, I am hopeful, would be
of interest to a student, explorer and investigator of the Mysteries of the World ... but this doesn't mean that I believe in any of the stuff presented. ... Got it? ... Right! - Here is a purpose that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
[Mysteries, Monsters, Mutants, Myths, Miracles & Much More ...]Our purpose ... is to describe the rich variety of anomalous, unexplained,
sometimes totally bizarre phenomena that people have experienced in all times
and places and that are still occurring today. ... the nature of the world and
of our existence are quite different from that which we were taught at school.
The reality is far more interesting, humorous and expansive than any religious
or rational, scientific world-view can possibly accommodate. It is not our intention here to dispute anyone's beliefs or
theories — but we should like to point out their limitations.
There are things that happen in this world - and have occurred throughout the
whole of human experience - for which there has never been a lasting
explanation. Explanations are temporary products, coming and going in response
to fashions. Meanwhile, the happenings they are supposed to explain carry on as
mysteriously as ever. — John Michell and Bob Rickard
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena (Rough Guide Reference)
(New York, NY: Rough Guides Ltd, 2007) - Here is a sentiment that I am wholeheartedly in agreement with ...
As I sit down to redo this book for an American audience, what rises before me
is last night's dream: I'm in a broad and beautiful land among many trees. It's
night. I look up at a huge old tree that's dark against the starry sky in its
detail of twig and branch. There is room enough here for all of us, I realize,
here in this big, intricately textured park. But I see that some want to cut
down the trees and level it out, so huge throngs of people can gather to gaze
up at the sun's glare. I watch dark twigs fingering the remote, untouchable
stars. A voice speaks: "Don't turn this into a Copernican Garden." Waking up, I remember that I went to sleep wondering how to put this book
together. And I take "Copernican Garden" to mean a parking lot vista where
masses gather to honor the bright sun of traditional science with its old rules
as the center of the universe. So I will not cut down the trees and level this book out. It is between you and
me [or you and I], a conversation as we stroll along in a moonlit fractal
garden past webby connections of thought that merge to patterned insight. Here
hidden delights nestle in scaling patterns of self-similar but never quite
repeating beauty. Here the tree of life hold stars in its branches. No matter
how huge, this garden stays human-sized because we have a place in it, you and
I. No need to cut down the connective forest and level things out for that
bright Sol [sun] of left-brain logic whose daytime dazzle — so
close and glaring — can blind us to the myriad constellations
beyond. [...] — Katya Walter, Tao of Chaos
Sub-title: Merging East and West
(1994, 1996) - Here is an observation (adapted) made in the Acknowledgement page of a book ...
It takes many minds to produce a book [including an e-book, of course].
Although most authors [especially of non-fiction books and articles] would
prefer not to admit this fact, fundamentally they are merely 'synthesisers' of
accumulated knowledge. The process of synthesising may unveil a new reality map, or paradigm, which,
in due course, will be used by future pioneers to unveil further paradigms. This principle was summed up by Sir Isaac Newton when he remarked: "If I have
seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". [...] — Christian von Nidda, Our Secret Planet
(2005) - Here is an observation about UFO-Aliens cover-up or conspiracy that may be of
general interest, although some readers would not agree with the observation
(e.g., they may say that some whistleblowers, such as Bob Lazar on the
Roswell-type flying saucers in secret Area-51 labs, have already come forward)
...
If any long-term coherent cover up of UFO information does exist, however, then
it must operate at all levels of government and the media. It must encompass
all the relevant written materials, from the briefest handwritten note in
government files to entries in squadron log books to letters in the personal
papers of members of the Establishment. Hundreds of politicians, service
personnel, police officers, clerks and officials, over half a century, would be
required to excise any reference to the reality of UFOs from official documents
and the media. The number of people who would have taken part in this cover up
would be vast, yet not one person has broken ranks to 'blow the whistle' on the
greatest story ever told. Meantime, millions of dollars are being spent every
day on space probes and radio telescopes that are searching for evidence of
alien life. Would there be any reason for a conspiracy of silence if that
evidence already existed? — Dr David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows
(2002) - Even though I am a "Charismatic Christian", the views presented herewith, in
this Mysteries of the World Website, will NOT be colored by this fact of being a Charismatic Christian. Rather, where and
when I find it necessary (and usually, I would NOT find it necessary, since I find it tiresome to repeat myself, again and again
and again ..., ad infinitum ..., but if I should find it necessary to repeat myself), I will then state
what my Charismatic Christian beliefs lead me to believe
in — even though I am aware that my own Charismatic Christian
beliefs may or may not be the same as, or in accord with, those beliefs of
others who also may want to regard themselves as Charismatic Christians
(nb/note well: there appears to be so many varieties of Charismatic Christian
beliefs, including from those who are simultaneously of the
traditional-historical denominations — such as the Roman
Catholics, with their purgatories, mortal and venial sins, and their Mother
this and Mother that. Shudder! Shudder! Shudder!).
Thus, for example, I do not necessarily "believe" in "ghosts", even as I (will
later) examine the entire gamut of so-called "paranormal events or phenomena",
especially of those with a psychic bent (truly, these are bent!, as in
less-than-straight, aka "crooked", thinking variety). Many so-called "ghosts"
are probably some form of "fallen angels" or "demons" of the Biblical kind,
masquerading as either gods, demons, spirits, ghosts, or even "angels of light"
(when they are obviously "fallen" and are "angels of darkness", or "sons of
darkness" as used in one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e. The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness). Anyway, the author of 1 John, gave us a simple test against any "spirit" to see
whether that spirit is of light (God; Christ/Son of God; Holy Spirit of
God/Comforter/Advocate/Paraclete/The One; Jehovah/Yahveh/Yahweh/God the Father)
or of darkness (Satan, Lucifer, the Devil; the Anti-Christ; the False Prophet;
the Beast): 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world. — First Epistle of John
(1 John 4:2-3; New
International Version/NIV)
(Note: many Catholics like NIV
and dislike KJV! Tough!) Whatever the case may be about "ghosts" and other "apparitions", in this
website, I have stated that we will be truth-based and science-based. Despite
this, definitely, I will not be ashamed of being a Charismatic Christian or of
God's Word:If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him
when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy
angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Luke 9:26; NIV)If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful
generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's
glory with the holy angels. (Spoken by Jesus and recorded in Mark 8:38; NIV) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the
salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. (Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans; Romans 1:16; NIV)
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