World War Two radio picking up 1940's broadcasts despite having no power

A 70-year-old radio at a Scottish heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts featuring Winston Churchill and the music of Glen Miller.

The Pye valve wireless at Montrose Air Station, a heritage centre that tells the story of the men and women who served there, has no power and is not connected to any source of electricity.

The aerodrome has been a source of paranormal sightings and sounds for almost a century, with reports of ghostly figures, eerie footsteps and door handles turning, but the mysterious wireless broadcasts have had even the most sceptical staff at the station searching for a rational explanation.

The vintage radio set is kept in a recreation of a 940s room. Several people have heard Second World War era broadcasts including the big band sound of the Glenn Miller orchestra and speeches by Winston Churchill. The broadcasts come on at random and can last for up to half an hour.

Technicians who examined it removed the back, but found "nothing but cobwebs and spiders".

ob Sutherland, a trustee of the air station heritage centre and its treasurer, said: "I have heard it playing Glenn Miller and recognised the song as At Last.

"The volume was very low but the music was quite identifiable.

"Graham Phillip, another volunteer, has heard what he was sure was Winston Churchill and others, including centre curator Dan Paton and his wife, have heard it.

"I was a wireless operator with the RAF and know a bit about them. We have also had our resident radio expert, Ewan Cameron, look at it.

"If we had a powerful transmitter in the area the radio might pick up something, but we don't.

"It is an old Pye radio which would probably explode if it was switched on."

Mr Phillip said: "We have all heard the footsteps and seen door handles turn but the wireless is something new and unexplainable.

"It's not just one of us who's heard it - most of us here have. We are talking about highly educated, reliable people.

"My wife Aileen was with me when we heard the Glenn Miller Orchestra last weekend. She's a physicist and not predisposed to believing in things like this but no-one has an explanation.

"If there was a transmitter nearby you'd think it might pick up Radio One or something, but I know what we heard. It went on for half an hour on and off. But the aerial is out anyway.

"We've had the back off and the technicians said there was nothing but cobwebs and spiders."

Volunteer Marie Paton, 67, whose father Jack Stoneman bought the wireless secondhand in 1962, said: "It's a bit scary. I thought someone was playing a prank on us but I heard it myself last Saturday.

"It plays Glenn Miller, and that's what everyone has heard. It is very faint and you have to put your ear to it, but that's what it's playing. All the experts say it should be impossible.

The wireless broadcasts join a long list of mysteries at the air station, where the heritage centre is in the original headquarters building. Visitors have reported strange "energies" around the airfield, phantom footsteps, doors opening and shutting, the sound of aircraft engines, shadowy figures walking in and out of rooms and even the sighting of a pilot in full flying kit.

The most notorious were the sightings of Lieutenant Desmond Arthur of the Royal Flying Corps who was killed when his biplane crashed.

He is said to have haunted the area until honour was satisfied in 1917, when a government inquiry concluded that he had not been killed by his own foolhardiness but because of poor repairs to his plane.

Peter Davis, 65, the heritage centre's secretary, added: "It is most odd and we cannot understand it. The station has a very abnormal presence. Several paranormal groups have been in to investigate various things, but the wireless has everyone including our radio technicians stumped."

The air station was established in 1913 by the Royal Flying Corps as Britain's first operational military airfield. There are more details about the heritage centre at its website.

Link to original story can be found here.

Another V shaped UFO seen in Northern California

The recent wave of UFO sightings in Northern California continues, this time in Oakland. On May 28, 2010 a V shaped UFO was filmed around 10:00 pm.

The video looks similar to the Fremont video shot in December 2008, but I think these are separate craft flying in a tight formation. If you look at the lower leg, the spacing of the white lights is different than the top leg. Still, whatever these craft are they are moving at a high rate of speed and in a tight formation.

If they were conventional aircraft you would see a strobe light, but not on these. My theory is that it's some sort of terrestrial form of aircraft, albeit it a some sort of secret one.

UFO seen over Fresno on May 25, 2010

The first object in this video, a red light, is what's reported to be the UFO and seen over Fresno. According to the witness it was filmed at about 5:00 in the morning on Friday, May 25, 2010. Whatever the object is, it is definitely moving as you can see it pass behind several pine trees that are in the foreground and even changes direction mid-flight.

At around the 3:55 mark you do see another object, but it is a conventional aircraft (despite the observations of the person recording the footage) given the blinking strobe light and the stationary navigational ones.

It's hard to discern what the object is. It's highly unlikely that it is a plane, as the only light that is seen is a red one, and it is blinking. Aircraft do have red and green navigational lights, but they are always on, never blinking. A balloon of some sorts is also unlikely given the object changes direction. Given that the object was seen in early in the morning it's highly unlikely that there were many witnesses. What the object is I cannot say, but I can say it definitely wasn't an airplane.

Strange things seem to be flying in the air throughout California. Hopefully one day soon there will be a good piece of footage to explain what they actually are.

MMA fighter rips heart out of trainer thinking he is possessed by Satan

A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it was alleged today.

Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell's tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film, officers said.

They claim they found the 26-year-old standing naked over his friend's body with parts, including an eyeball, strewn around the blood splattered room in Klamath, California.

Wyatt allegedly told police he had drunk a cup of tea spiked with hallucinogenic mushrooms and became convinced Powell was possessed.

According to an autopsy Powell, 21, bled to death after his heart was ripped out.

The coroner said Powell had been alive when the organ was ripped out after his chest had been sliced open with a knife.

Wyatt told the police he thrown the heart into a fire along with other organs that he had removed from the body, it was claimed.

He allegedly told investigators he cooked the body parts because he was fearful Powell was still alive and he ‘needed to stop the Devil’.

Police had been called to the grisly scene after a third friend had witnessed a sudden mood change in Wyatt after they had all ingested wild mushroom tea.

Justin Davis told police he returned to the flat to find Wyatt naked and covered from head to toe in blood.

He noticed an eyeball lying in the middle of the floor and saw Powell's mutilated body.

A lawyer representing Wyatt has claimed the wild mushrooms caused him to act in such a violent way and had not control over his actions.

‘My client was trying to silence the devil,’ said James Fallman.

‘I think he was having a psychotic fit based on the mushrooms he had.’

Wyatt has been charged with first degree murder and torture.

Prosecutors added the torture charge as Powell was still alive when his heart was removed.

Link to the original article can be found here.

We at Weird Fresno want to know if he chanted Kali Mata as he ripped out the guys heart.

Local paranormal investigation group documentary to air on TV this Sunday

The Jeffery Hotel, Coulterville California

This Sunday, local paranormal group Central California Paranormal Investigators (CCPI) will be having a documentary they recently filmed in Mariposa County air on KAIL TV ch 53/7.1 digital on May 30, 2010, from 8:00pm to 10:00 pm. This is the second documantary the group has produced of haunts in Central California and this one takes places in the small ghost town of Coulterville, at the historic Jeffery Hotel.

CCPI was joined by several other investigators who had taken the Paranormal Studies program and the Fresno Adult Education Center. The group has yet to release yet what evidence they have gathered, but will do so when the documentary is aired this Sunday.

For those interested in taking the Paranormal Studies program, the next one is scheduled to start sometime in the fall of 2010 and you can register on-line here when the class is available.

Satanic cult sacrificed victims then ate them.

Seven young members of a satanic sect have gone on trial in Russia accused of four gruesome murders in which they "ritually sacrificed" their victims before cooking and eating parts of them.

Prosecutors say the murders took place on 29 and 30 June 2008 in a remote forested area close to Yaroslavl with two victims killed per night.

The self-styled devil worshippers, which included a young teenage girl, lured three girls and a boy aged from 15 to 17 to the spot by plying them with alcohol and inviting them to sit round a bonfire.

hey then killed them in a sacrificial ceremony, stabbing them 666 times each in homage to the so-called Number of the Beast.

Prosecutors say the young killers then dismembered their victims' bodies and cooked certain body parts such as the hearts and the tongues before consuming them.

They buried the rest of the remains in a giant pit which they marked with an inverted cross topped with a dead cat. Investigators say the sect was formed in 2006 and gleaned its knowledge of Satanism from the Internet, initially killing cats and dogs before graduating to homicide.

The case has shocked inhabitants of the historic city of Yaroslavl some 150 miles north-east of Moscow which is one of Russia's 'Golden Ring' tourist destinations and better known for its beautiful churches and monasteries than grisly ritual killings.

The defendants' young age - four of the accused were under eighteen at the time of the murders - and the sheer cruelty of their crimes combined with the fact that none of them came from poor families has left many locals struggling to understand their motives.

The case is being held behind closed doors but local media say all seven defendants admit their guilt. They are officially charged with murder, theft and the desecration of human remains.

They would typically be jailed for life but the fact that four of the defendants were minors at the time means they are likely to get off more lightly.

Link to the original article can be found here.

Witnesses photograph UFO in Northern California

This photo, taken in Northern California, purports to be

some sort of flying craft.

Same object, cropped and enlarged.

Two California witnesses report watching "strange looking objects" in the sky on May 13, 2010, when one of them came close enough to photograph, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The reporting witness stated that his "niece, whom was behind me, was able to snap a picture of a V shaped object. "

No town name was given in the public portion of the MUFON report.

The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If California MUFON State Director investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.

CA, May 13, 2010 - Unidentified V shaped object hovers above us.

I and my niece had been watching strange looking objects when we noticed one of them flying in our direction I decided to shine my laser light not at it but fairly close to it then it slowed down flew closer to us and then stopped. I somehow lost sight of it after shining the laser but my niece whom was behind me was able to snap a picture of a V shaped object. I did not realize that she had this picture until recently.

Link to the original article and MUFON report can be found here.

Rectangular-shaped UFO reported over California freeway

A California witness driving along a freeway near the city of Concord on May 20, 2010, watched a rectangular-shaped object with lights along its bottom edges and a red flashing light at one end, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness stated that the incident seemed to be similar to a rectanglular shaped UFO that hovered low over I-15 near Riverside, CA.

Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, CA, population 121,780.

For the link to the original article and to the complete MUFON report click here.