Page 26 - march_2008.qxd

26 Some Unsolved Mysteries 26 Some Unsolved Mysteries Some Unsolved The Taos Hum the purpose for which it was intended. Some Unsolved The Taos Hum The document contains illustrations that Mysteries heard in numerous places worldwide, especially suggest the book is in six parts: Herbal, Mysteries The ‘Taos Hum’ is a low-pitched sound Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, in the USA, UK, and northern europe. It is Pharmaceutical, and recipes. Shroud of Turin Shroud of Turin usually heard only in quiet environments, and is Jack the Ripper often described as sounding like a distant diesel Jack the Ripper The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth engine. Since it has proven indetectable by bearing the image of a man who had apparently microphones or VLF antennae, its source and In the later half of 1888, London was died of crucifixion. Most Catholics consider it nature is still a mystery. terrorrised by a series of murders in the east end to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. It is In 1997 Congress directed scientists and (largely in the Whitechapel area). The name currently held in the Cathedral of St John the observers from some of the most prestigious Jack the Ripper was taken from a letter sent to a Baptist in Turin, Italy. Despite many scientific research institutes in the nation to look into a newspaper at the time by someone claiming to investigations, no one has yet been able to strange low frequency noise heard by residents be the killer. The victims were typically explain how the image has been imprinted on in and around the small town of Taos, New prostitutes who had their throats cut and bodies the shroud and despite many attempts, no one Mexico. For years those who had heard the mutilated. In some cases the bodies were has managed to replicate it. Radiocarbon tests noise, often described by them as a “hum”, had discovered just minutes after the ripper had left date it to the middle ages, however apologists been looking for answers. To this day no one the scene. for the shroud believe it is incorrupt - and knows the cause of the hum. The police at the time had many carbon dating can only date things which decay. suspects but could never find sufficient Black Dahlia Prior to the middle ages, reports of the Black Dahlia evidence to convict anyone. In modern times shroud exist as the Image of Edessa - reliably there has even been some speculation that reported since at least the 4th century. In In 1947 the body of 22 year old Prince Albert Victor was the murderer. Even addition, another cloth (the Sudarium) known Elizabeth Short was found in two pieces in a with modern police methods, no further light even from biblical times (John 20:7) exists parking lot in Los Angeles. According to has been shed on the murders in recent times. To which is said to have covered Christ’s head in newspaper reports shortly after the murder, this day no one knows who the ripper was. the tomb. A 1999 study by Mark Guscin, a Short received the nickname “Black Dahlia” at Bermuda Triangle member of the multidisciplinary investigation a Long Beach drugstore in the summer of 1946, Bermuda Triangle team of the Spanish Center for Sindonology, as a play on the then-current movie The Blue investigated the relationship between the two Dahlia. However, Los Angeles County district The Bermuda triangle is an area of water cloths. Based on history, forensic pathology, attorney investigators’ reports state the in the North Atlantic Ocean in which a large blood chemistry (the Sudarium also is reported nickname was invented by newspaper reporters number of planes and boats have gone missing to have type AB blood stains), and stain covering the murder. In either case, Short was in mysterious circumstances. Over the years patterns, he concluded that the two cloths not generally known as the “Black Dahlia” many explanations have been put forward for covered the same head at two distinct, but close during her lifetime. the disappearances, including bad weather, alien moments of time. Avinoam Danin (a researcher Many rumours and tales have spread abductions, time warps, and suspension of the at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) about the Black Dahlia, and the investigation laws of physics. concurred with this analysis, adding that the (one of the largest in LA history) never found Although substantial documentation pollen grains in the Sudarium match those of the the killer. exists to show that many of the reports have shroud. been exaggerated, there is still no explanation Comte de Saint Germain for the unusually large number of Comte de Saint Germain Mary Celeste disappearances in the area. Mary Celeste The Count of St. Germain (allegedly The Babushka Lady Mary Celeste was launched in Nova died February 27, 1784) was a courtier, The Babushka Lady Scotia in 1860. Her original name was adventurer, inventor, amateur scientist, violinist, “Amazon”. She was 103 ft overall displacing amateur composer, and a mysterious gentleman; During the analysis of the film footage 280 tons and listed as a half-brig. Over the next he also displayed some skills with the practice of the assasination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, 10 years she was involved in several accidents of alchemy. He was known as ‘Der a mysterious woman was spotted. She was at sea and passed through a number of owners. Wundermann’ — ‘The Wonderman’. He was a wearing a brown overcoat and a scarf on her Eventually she turned up at a New York salvage man whose origin was unknown and who head (the scarf is the reason for her name as she auction where she was purchased for $3,000. disappeared without leaving a trace. wore it in a similar style to Russian After extensive repairs she was put under Since his death, various occult grandmothers - also called babushkas). The American registry and renamed “Mary organizations have adopted him as a model woman appeared to be holding something in Celeste”. figure or even as a powerful deity. In recent front of her face which is believed to be a The new captain of Mary Celeste was years several people have claimed to be the camera. She appears in many photos of the Benjamin Briggs, 37, a master with three Count of St. Germain. (Note that St Germain scene. Even after the shooting when most previous commands. On November 7, 1872 the was never regarded as a saint by the Roman people had fled the area, she remained in place ship departed New York with Captain Briggs, Catholic Church - the “st.” before his name and continued to film. Shortly after she is seen his wife, young daughter and a crew of eight. refers to his alleged home). moving away to the East up Elm Street. The FBI The ship was loaded with 1700 barrels of raw publically requested that the woman come American alcohol bound for Genoa, Italy. The Voynich manuscript forward and give them the footage she shot but captain, his family and crew were never seen she never did. again. The ship was found floating in the middle The Voynich Manuscript is a medieval In 1970 a woman called Beverly Oliver of the Strait of Gibraltar. There were no signs of document written in an unknown script and in came forward and claimed to be the Babushka struggle on board and all documents except the an unknown language. For over one hundred Woman, though her story contains many captain’s log were missing. years people have tried to break the code to not inconsistencies. She is generally regarded as a In early 1873, it was reported that two avail. The overall impression given by the fraud. To this day, no one knows who the lifeboats grounded in Spain, one with a body surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that Babushka Woman is or what she was doing and an American flag, the other containing five it was meant to serve as a pharmacopoeia or to there. More unusual is her refusal to come bodies. It has been alleged that these could have address topics in medieval or early modern forward to offer her evidence. [] been the remains of the crew of the Mary medicine. However, the puzzling details of Celeste. However, the bodies were apparently illustrations have fueled many theories about The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show Website never identified. the book’s origins, the contents of its text, and www.xzoneradio.com