BRIEF REPORTS
INVESTIGATOR
MAGAZINE
153 (November 2013) and 156 (May 2014)
BRITAIN SHUTS UFO
DESK
The Weekend
Australian reported that Britain’s Ministry of Defence has shut
down its
two-man UFO desk (June 22-23, 2013, p.10) and released 4400 pages of
correspondence
covering the previous few years. The correspondence consisted of
reports of
sightings, general queries, and replies from the UFO desk.
Investigator used to have
articles about UFOs regularly. But these declined due to investigative
dead-ends
and lack of scientific substantiation.
WATER- SUNSHINE DIET
An
American woman stopped eating on May 3, 2013 because: “I want to
provide
evidence…that human beings can live and thrive and do really well
without
having to eat solid food… This will literally save the Earth."
The Sunday
Mail of South Australia reported: “Naveena Shine, 65, from Seattle,
stopped
eating in May to explore Breatharianism — the concept that food is not
necessary and sunshine provides all the nourishment needed.” (2013 June
9)
Ms Shine
followed a diet of water and tea and "a small amount of milk." She set
up
cameras so outsiders could monitor she wasn't cheating and said she was
aiming
for 100 days without eating. She wrote on Facebook, "Plants live on
light, then
we eat plants. Are we simply not accessing our inherent ability to live
on
light? ... If humans did not have to eat, we could turn our planet back
into a
place of beauty."
A
sedentary person taking only water and tea might survive 3 months.
Drinking
milk would make a difference.
Harry
Edwards reported on "Breatharianism" in Investigator #69 and
argued that
people's need for food is proved because millions die from starvation.
After
six weeks Ms Shine’s weight had declined from 159 to 126 pounds which
is the
normal rate of weight loss from fasting and after 47 days she resumed
eating.
(Gabbatt, A. The Guardian, June 19)
BIBLES
MYTHICAL BEASTS
Aside from the famous hoax photo of the Loch Ness Monster in 1934, and
the 1967 footage of an alleged Bigfoot running, sightings and
encounters are still occurring.
Fortean Times (No. 273, March,
2011) reports that landscape gardener
Richard Preston, working near the Loch Ness shore, saw a "four hump
feature". The same page recalls "famous Nessie hunter" Tim Dinsdale
(1924-1987) who recorded a 2-minute film of Nessie in 1960. His son,
retired police detective Simon Dinsdale, is quoted stating the film is
genuine and that he himself had seen Nessie on two occasions.
Also on the same page is the testimony of Jason Cooke a security guard
from Nottingham. Cooke found the 23-metre-long monster with Google
satellite maps!
Fortean Times (No. 282,
November 2011) has photos of "two humps" moving
through Loch Ness, 50 metres from the shore, photographed on September
7, 2011.
Fortean Times (No. 296,
December 2012) reported a sighting of "Bigfoot"
in Northern Quebec, Canada, on September 29 by two women. Also William
Barnes, who encountered Bigfoot in 1997, has teamed up with
anatomy-anthropology professor Jeffrey Meldrum to raise $300,000 to
build a "remote controlled dirigible" to search for Bigfoot.
For more information on illusive monsters consult Wikipedia or books
such as the following:
Binns, R. 1983 The Loch Ness Mystery
Solved, Rigby
Buhs, J.B. 2009 Bigfoot: The Life
and Times of a Legend, University of Chicago Press
Cohen, D. 1989 Encyclopedia of
Monsters, Guild Publishing
Costello, P. 1975 In Search of Lake
Monsters, Panther Books
Dinsdale, T. 1976 The Leviathans,
Futura Publications
Guenette, R. & F. 1975 The
Mysterious Monsters, Sun Classic
Lavers, C. 2009 The Natural History
of Unicorns, Harper Collins.