While the concept of cellular phones may seem like some kind of magic and wizardry to those of us from simpler times, I think it’s safe to say that no, your phone company does not employ the work of otherworldly interdimensional beings to hang out in your phone to ensure all your text messages are being both transported and received properly, so you (and your government) can know where your “dawgs at,” and so you can play Tetris on the bus while trying to ignore the presence of a creepy old lady in the back with a giant mole and the pleasantly powerful aroma of hot dogs gone wrong wafting its way about the bus like a vigilant night watchman guarding the most precious of jewels.
Besides, everyone knows that the legions of the undead are too busy shoving furniture around, appearing in mirrors, and making noises out of nowhere in order to comfort the people they left when they died.
Still! Take a look at this video! It’s really cool!
The claim is that the voices were not heard until they listened to the tape afterwards - several “heavenly/otherwordly” harps and bass being played, a male solo voice towards the end, voices being sung in harmony - well, just watch the video. It says everything.
Lyrics of supposedly angelic male vocalist .. or at least what it sounds like:
Hallelujah, ringing across the land
Everybody’s singing at the Lord’s command
All the saints and the angels up in glory wait to hear the news
of Jesus and his children as they’re coming through
Hmm … interesting … Do you know what time it is? AH SAID! … DO YOO KNOW WAT TAIM IT AIS?! That’s right, debunking time!
Okay, so this video alone didn’t give me a whole lot to go on - but - let’s see what we can derive from what’s been given to us so far …
1. The voices aren’t heard until AFTER they check back on their recording. This could signify a problem or malfunction with their recording equipment. What we could be witnessing here, is one recording overlaying another one. Maybe what’s being heard is a previously recorded song.
2. hmm … what else? Well, let’s try to do some research … Hello, Google … angels … singing … hallelujah … supernatural … ah-ha!
…. Okey dokey. Apparently, this all originated from a Jim Bramlett, former vice president of the Christian Broadcasting Network. His claim is that this is real … however, there are some discrepancies to his claims and the ones made in the video …
a. The guy in the video claims the video is from Kansas
b. Mr. Bramlett himself doesn’t know where it comes from. He says he’s had reports of it originating in other places, but then he’s quick to offer, “It is within the realm of possibility that that God allowed this manifestation in more than one place!” Yeah, because the angels are too busy singing around in churches to be making new songs. Listen to that funky beat they have going. That sort of quality musicianship and artistry takes time.
(This is where one paragraph ends and another one starts. For some reason, this thing doesn’t want to space them out even if I go back, edit, and put space in between the two. I cannot figure out what’s wrong.)
3.The words in the song are reportedly from a song recorded years ago by the late Tennessee Ernie Ford (”sixteen tons, what do you get?”) - unfortunately, I cannot seem to find any evidence of this to verify this (Google, you’ve failed me once again), but then, why would Mr. Bramlett try to counter this by saying that since the tape has been around for such a long time, maybe Ernie Ford got the song from the angels or maybe the angels were simply repeating Ernie Ford’s song … man, the more I research, the more lazy these angels seem. What a bunch of freeloaders, singing at churches around the world and whatnot (Mr. Bramlett has several other recordings of supposed angelic choirs. And they all seem to be connected to him - they’re not just collections of other people’s findings, they are his own or through people he knows..)
So, yeah. Singing angels. What’s the deal? Why don’t you get a job like the rest of us? Slackers.
This is one of the ones that creep me out a little. Notice how the reflected image blinks - this indicates that it’s not just an image edited in with video-editing-wizardry. That means that it could instead be … dare I think it … an actual video clip edited in with video-editing-wizardry! Wow! HA. HA. HAAAH! - still spooky.
What a creative ghost! I’m glad to know they have the kind of time to think of these inventive ways of creeping people out. Or at least this one does. All those other ghosts are a bunch of slackers. They just like … move/slide objects around (always just ever so slightly off camera, of course) or look like a hair passing by the lens of the camera. This ghost goes above and beyond. This ghost has class.
Here’s a pretty interesting story that my dad pointed out to me …
Scientists in Scotland explaced- placed explosives at the bottom of the Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. With the help of Scotland’s local wizards … No, not that one. Let me try again …
Years ago, in Siberia, a team of scientists were performing some kind of drilling project. You know, scientists and their hole-drilling ways. They had gotten miles into the earth’s crust. First, it was just getting really hot as they neared the core of the earth (14.4 Kilometers in - close to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit). At that point, their drill started going really fast and spinning with ease. There wasn’t any resistance. The core of the earth was hollow! Then, they started hearing some strange noises. At first, they thought the noises were coming from their equipment or audio malfunction (they had recording equipment used to monitor the earth’s movements at specific intervals), but they were greatly distressed by what they realized they were actually hearing.
Voices
Not just voices, but screaming ones. Hundreds, thousands of human voices screaming in the agony of Hell’s fire.
What really unnerved the Soviets, apart from the voice recordings, was the appearance that same night of a fountainhead of luminous gas shooting up from the drill site, and out of the midst of this incandescent cloud pillar a brilliant being with bat wings revealed itself with the words (in Russian): ‘I have conquered,’ emblazoned against the dark Siberian sky.
Here are the supposed voice recordings:
Spooky.
Of course, as all these things go, tracking down all these sources ended up being a wild goose chase for the good people at truthorfiction.com
The exact origins of the story are unknown, but all other evidence and reports are solely based on other people’s reports without any kind of fact checking involved.
The part about the bat? That’s definitely fake. They tracked down the guy that sent that bit in to a religious television program of some sort and he said right away that he made it up. He did it to see if they would do any fact-checking and research or if they’d simply just report the story. He provided his phone number and everything, and nobody contacted him.
Yay urban legends.
Supposedly, this painting is full of spoOOOoOOOoOoky! Well, it is a spooky painting, but what’s more is that it’s supposed to be haunted! *gasp* … or, you know … not.
The title of the painting is “The Hands Resist Him” and it’s supposed to be some sort of Carl Jung collective unconscious hey-let’s-reach-out-and-embrace-the-other-side sort of thing - which is a theme commonly employed by many artists, myself included.
The story behind the image is interesting, though. Apparently “both the owner of the Gallery where ‘Hands’ was displayed and the Los Angeles Times art critic who reviewed my show were dead within a year of the show.” Somebody else bought it (actor John Marley who ALSO DIED!! … but he was 77 so, yeah), and it ended up being abandoned *DUN DUN DUN!* So, after it was abandoned, some other nice folks found it and took it to their home. Their 4 1/2 year old daughter started claiming that the children in the painting were trying to get out, so they decided to get rid of it. EBAY TIME! And they got a bunch of moneys and everyone lived happily ever after. Or something like that.
What does the original artist of the painting have to say about all this?
Word up y’all, biscuit-heads. It’s time for another edition of … er … rather, introducing for the very first time, Impar’s Paranormal Pancake Parlor.
Now, I’m a big fan of paranormal type shenanigans and haunted pastry shops and what have you, but I’m not at all a believer in these sort of things - or at least, I’m highly skeptical of such things. I think the idea is fun, but my reasoning thus far is that with so many people on this earth with quick and easy access to technology that can capture images and record video coupled with how many people claiming to have a haunted house, one would think there would be a lot more evidence out there. But there just isn’t. The only place that I ever find halfway convincing evidence is on the show, Ghosthunters. Mostly because they try to take things from the skeptic’s viewpoint and try to debunk supposed paranormal activity, so when they find something that they’re like, “Yeah, I don’t know about that,” it seems more convincing. But it is a show, and as we all know, shows are there to make money and … well, please understand my skepticism. I still love the show and watch it fairly religiously. The investigators on the show strike me as genuine.
So, fake or not, I still love watching this sort of thing. And I’d like to share some of my more interesting or entertaining findings to YOU! YES YOU. Because I’m just that great of a person. I know! You could totally be doing something much more interesting right now - IN FACT, YOU PROBABLY ALREADY ARE! WHERE’D YOU GO? - but HERE! View this video! (no, I promise not to ever post any of those stupid SURPRISE LOL videos).
(the cool part is near the end)
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Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death and we are the imagination of ourselves!