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10 Places As Institute for Discovery Science, who wanted to disappearances of both land and sea craft. Some of the more famous ones include: study the mysteries surrounding the ranch. Mysterious As The Bigelow owns the ranch to this day and NIDS Captain George R. Donner of the O.M. Captain Donner: On April 28, 1937, keeps a tight lid on their findings. Bermuda Triangle McFarland was on his way from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Port Washington, Wisconsin, Continued From Page 5 and had to pass through the triangle. As the story goes, he was exhausted and retired to his cabin, leaving the second mate to wake him 7. The Devils Sea (Continued) when they neared their destination. About three One story has it that in 1952 the hours later, when the second mate went to do so, Japanese government sent out a research vessel, Donner was not in his cabin. Nor was he in the the Kaio Maru No. 5, to investigate the galley. An exhaustive search of the ship was mysteries of the Devil’s Sea. Naturally, of conducted, but he was never found. course, the Kaio Maru No. 5 and its crew of 31 Flight 2501: On June 23, 1950, people were never seen again. Another story Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 was on its way tells of Kublai Khan’s disastrous attempts to from New York to Minneapolis at the hands of invade Japan by crossing the Devil’s Sea, losing experienced pilot Robert C. Lind, and was at least 40 000 men in the process. carrying 58 passengers. Due to bad weather, The usual theories abound for what’s 5. Point Pleasant when the flight was near Chicago it changed really going on: from aliens, to gates to parallel Point Pleasant was probably aptly course and turned over Lake Michigan. Around universes, even to Atlantis (because why not). midnight, Lind requested permission to drop Some suggest that high volcanic activity in the named at one point, but it is now so shrouded in altitude from 3500 ft to 2500 ft, without ever region is responsible for some of the tales of mysterious and creepy events as to be specifying a reason. His request was denied, and disappearances (the Kaio Maru No. 5 may have nothing but an ironic alliteration. The most that was the last communication Flight 2501 been caught in an eruption). Our advice? Just famous of these events involves a creature ever had. It’s last known position was stay out of the ocean, period. known as Mothman, who reputedly terrorized supposedly within the Michigan Triangle. the small West Virginia community from November 1966 to December 1967. Over a While sources vary as to what amount of hundred different citizens of Point Pleasant are wreckage of Flight 2501 has been found (some eyewitnesses to this creature, a 7-foot tall broad say nothing, whereas others specify assorted chested man with hypnotic, glowing red eyes, floating debris such as seat cushions and the and wings that stretch 10 feet long and drag like), it seems clear that the plane crashed into behind him on the ground. the water. Mysterious, however, is that the plane The Mothman, who’s been the subject of was in perfectly good condition and in capable both a book and a movie (and who has his own hands at the time of the disappearance. What’s statue in Point Pleasant), has many possible more, despite searches still being conducted explanations. Some believe him to be an annually, neither the body of the plane nor extraterrestrial, others a mutant or a cryptid, and complete human remains have ever been some suggest the people of Point Pleasant were recovered. actually being scared by owls or a Sandhill Continued on Page 9 Crane. Whatever the case, reports of Mothman THE FUTURE OF GOD 6. Bigelow Ranch stopped after the Silver Bridge collapsed on THE FUTURE OF GOD December 15, 1967, killing 46 people and A M E N N Bigelow Ranch (formerly known as leading many to believe that the two events A M E Skinwalker Ranch and Sherman Ranch) is a were somehow connected. 480-acre property in northwest Utah that is In addition to Mothman, several other home to countless UFO sightings, animal paranormal tales from Point Pleasant include mutilations, and other strange occurrences. UFO sightings and reports of so-called “Men In Though mysterious happenings have been Black”—human looking creatures who unnerve documented since the 50’s, some of the most others by the sheer abundance of peculiarities in bizarre stories happened to a pair of ranchers their speech, appearance, and mannerisms. named Terry and Gwen Sherman after they These “men” supposedly appear looking for bought it in 1994. information about the paranormal (or rather, The first day they moved on to the people who have this information). property, they saw a large wolf out in the pasture. They even went to pet the wolf as it seemed tame (to the curious reader, yes, this is always a good idea). It was docile with the Shermans, but ended up grabbing a calf by the Nicholas P Ginex snout through the bars of its enclosure. When Terry shot at the wolf with a pistol, the bullets “Mr Ginex deals masterfully with a great had no effect. It finally left after Terry brought sweep of Egyptian history, closing the gap out the shotgun, though even that didn’t do any between our understanding and Egyptian actual damage. The Shermans tried tracking the understanding in most remarkable ways; for wolf, but it’s tracks stopped abruptly as if it had instance his explanation of ka or soul vanished. outstrips what many modern theologians can And that wasn’t the end of things. The offer.” Shermans were constantly plagued by such Review by Mike Voyce events as UFO sightings, intelligent floating As Advertised On orbs (reputed to have incinerated three of their 4. Michigan Triangle The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show dogs), inexplicable cryptids, and gruesome with cattle mutilations. It got so bad that the The Michigan Triangle is another Rob McConnell Shermans actually sold their ranch to Robert geographical triangle, located in the middle of Bigelow in 1996, the founder of the National Lake Michigan. 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