TV Producer Haunted by New Year’s Eve UFO Mystery

Thirty Year Old New Year’s Eve UFO Mystery Still Unexplained!

From the New Zealand Herald:

On the morning of December 31, 1978, I received an early-morning call from Neil Miller my chief-of-staff in the newsroom at Channel 0 (now Channel Ten) in Melbourne.

He was babbling, telling me one of our reporters and a freelance film crew had filmed UFOs from a freight plane in the skies over Kaikoura the previous night.

My friend – and fellow Kiwi – Quentin Fogarty was the reporter. I had sent him to recap another apparent encounter by two pilots 10 days earlier.

The objects were also seen by the two pilots, Bill Startup and Bob Guard, Quentin’s cameraman, David Crocket, and his wife, Ngaire, the sound recordist.

They were also confirmed on ground radar in Wellington and Christchurch, and further confirmed by the plane’s radar.

We also had 16mm film footage of the lights.

Read the rest of the story here.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Action Figures Released!

From Dread Central:

EMCE Toys and FearWerx have confirmed that the Mego Night of the Living Dead figures are finally on their way to consumers! Multiple issues both home and abroad caused delays upon delays getting the figures done, but that is all in the past and you can finally look forward to having your own Graveyard Zombie and/or Ben Mego figures.

Read more here.

TWILIGHT Sequel on Fast Track

LOS ANGELES – (AP) “Twilight” fans have a short wait for the next installment of the vampire saga.

Summit Entertainment spokesman Paul Pflug says “New Moon” is following just 12 months after the first movie, opening Nov. 20, 2009, over the same weekend as “Twilight” this year.

Summit has tapped Chris Weitz (“The Golden Compass”) to direct “New Moon,” based on the second book in Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series about the dangerous romance between a teen (Kristen Stewart) and a vampire (Robert Pattinson) fighting his bloodsucking instincts.

Weitz is taking over the franchise from “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke. “Twilight” has shot to $150 million at the box office since debuting Nov. 21.

The Most Literate Cities in the U.S.

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From the LiveScience Website:

Once again, bookworms in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest have beaten out Yankee types to reach the very top of a researcher’s list of the most literate American cities.

Minneapolis and Seattle tied for the top ranking this year, based on local newspaper and magazine circulation, library data, online news readership, book purchases and resources, and educational attainment.

Here is the full Top 10 Most Literate list for 2008 (OK, there are 11 cities on the list) generated by Jack Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University:

Minneapolis (tied for 1st)
Seattle (tied for 1st)
Washington, D.C.
St. Paul, Minn.
San Francisco
Atlanta
Denver
Boston
St. Louis
Cincinnati (tied for 10th)
Portland, Ore. (tied for 10th)

The study also found out this intriguing fact:

Contrary to popular wisdom, Internet use correlates with reading words printed on paper, Miller found. Cities ranked highly for having better-used libraries also have more booksellers; cities with more booksellers also have a higher proportion of people buying books online; and cities with newspapers with high per capita circulation rates also have a high proportion of people reading newspapers online.

Read the rest of the article here.

Viral Video/Trailer for THE UNBORN!

Faking real youtube videos is very hard.  Even Hollywood pros can’t do it, as demonstrated here.  However, they at least have the good sense to not attempt to carry “their hoax” through the whole video.

Dread Central’s Best and Worst of 2008

Our friends at Dread Central offer their take on ….

Their views are always worth a read.

Check them out here.

Video: Humanoid Creature Caught in a Mousetrap!

Here’s video of, and the story behind, what is being called “The Metepec Creature.”

Apple Valley Haunting

Haunted Home on 10788 Kiavan Road in Apple Valley, CA.

Ghost Theory has a nice post about a haunting in Apple Valley, California.  He’s a taste:

We moved in the summer before fourth grade (1977 I think) and I don’t remember what happened first but things moved/disappeared/reappeared, there were dark “clouds” that darted from room to room, a woman in a long black nightgown sort of thing, my bed shook, I saw an arm come over the end of my bed and pinch my big toe (this incident is VERY clear), gosh, what else… my sister had a “man” who lived in her room and talked to her, my name was called often, the door handle rattled, etc and just never felt alone. This is going to sound crazy given the way things are today with kids being whisked from their homes, but I slept outside on the back patio in a sleeping bag most of my 5th grade year because I was too terrified to stay in my bedroom.

This house is empty again as far as I know. The people who bought it from us in 1981 or 82 reportedly abandoned it about six months after they moved in. It was a man who had a daughter about my age and I always wondered if maybe she had strange experiences and that maybe contributed to their quick move out. I think it’s empty this time because of the economy though…. Tried to contact the real estate agent to see if he could maybe pull up any history on the house but I think he thought I was a head case! Oh well!

I STILL have nightmares about this house sometimes… it’s thirty years later for pete’s sake! We didn’t have a television growing up so I wasn’t really exposed to a lot of scary movies or anything like that but that makes me wonder if maybe my imagination was just running overtime out of boredom or something like that too.

Read the rest of the post here.

New Video of “Flying Humanoid” Over Mexico

Here’s the new video:

Here’s what the youtube poster has to say about his video:

English/Español
Hi, I’m Carlos Santillan in Tlalnepantla Mexico City
I recorded today saturday december 27th 2008 this weird looking object I do not know what it was.
I do not want to speculate by calling it a balloon nor a UFO nor a flying humanoid. Wacth the video, & judge by yourself. At the end of the video there are stills.
Thank you

And here’s the famous “flying humanoid video” from 2006:

Poltergeist at Police Station!

From the Ghost Theory Blog:

Some police officials claim a ghost, believed to be a woman poltergeist, gave them shudders by pushing them off chairs

Burglars? No. Murderers? No. Terrorists? Uh-uh. The cops posted at the Ramol police station claim they have routed something that is untrammelled by laws and far more fearsome: A ghost! Unbelievable, though, it may sound, the Ramol police claim they were ‘terrorised’ by a ghost for more than a month last year.

The Ramol police claim the ghost — believed to be a woman poltergeist — used to overturn furniture and shove cops working in the night shift at the police station. They say that the ghost, which was “contained by a tantrik” a few days before Diwali last year, used to specifically target cops sitting on chairs and tables.

The Ramol police station, which is referred to by villagers as bhoot thana, was set up on a rented premises on October 5, 2007. “This building was earlier a rice mill,” a constable, who didn’t want to be named, said. “Villagers say a girl had died while working in the mill several years ago, and her spirit roamed on the premises. They warned us against starting a police station here, but we told them that ghosts won’t trouble us because we are serving the people.”

According to a constable at the police station, more than 10 cops were “troubled by the ghost”. “It used to push police officials off tables and chairs,” the constable, Batuksinh Darbar, said. “Some police officials even complained of chest pain in middle of the night. They felt as if someone had jumped on their chests. Then there were others who felt someone was strangling them.”

Read the rest of the article here.