The Hollow Earth Society… A Cadbury Egg it is Not.

Ahhh Easter Candy…it comes but once a year and is always satisfying. I remember the Easter baskets I would get containing jelly beans, sugar eggs, chocolate bunnies, peeps and my all time favorite of Cadbury eggs. I would easily eat ten eggs in a sitting, however not so much anymore since I have to watch my sugar levels. I remember sitting there and cracking them open and thinking about how much they were like the earth. A hard surface and yet underneath it was a flowing liquid of magma and toxic gas. Ok not exactly like a Cadbury egg, but you get what I’m saying. Now for years and even through my geology classes I was led to believe that this was in fact true, yet I came to realize that apparently I must be wrong. I discovered a society, if you want to call it that, that believes the earth to be hollow. Apparently this was not a new age thinking either, in some readings I have found that even Hitler himself believe in the Hollow Earth theory and that a tribe Aryan Race people inhabited the center of the earth. Aryan people and the occult…yep sure sounds like a wacky Hitler scheme to me.

Now I know what you’re thinking, this sounds way to far out to believe, well that is where you are wrong. In fact Hitler did believe strongly that the earth was in fact hollow and that a race of Aryan people inhabited that. In fact to this very day there are quite a number of people who believe in the Hollow Earth theory and they actually know where the entrance to it is.

Here is a sketch of what they believe to be the true and accurate depiction of what the earth is formed of.

 

It basically is an earth within an earth with people living their lives on the earths shell with a sun and moon while the inside of the earth lived its life under the crust with the core of the earth acting as a sun. The exact location for the entrance of the earth is said to like at 87.8 degrees North and South Latitude which would make it right at the polar caps.

Now there are those who feel that the hollow earth holds more to this earth and its history than just the Aryan race. Some believe that the inside of the earth holds the greatest of biblical mysteries such as the original location of the garden of eden, the lost tribes of Israel or even heaven itself. So heaven is where hell would be? That’s a bit of a swerve in popular biblical understanding.

When it comes down to it is the earth hollow? Well yeah in a way it is, but not livable hallow. The earth is hollow and filled with molten magma and toxic gases, that’s where lava comes from when volcanoes explode or the tectonic plates crack open. If the earth were in fact hollow I’m pretty sure we would’ve figured it out by now. I leave it up to you to decide, but I am willing to bet you any amount of money that it’s not livable inside the earth, heck it’s barely livable on the outside of the earth.

Be safe and have a Cadbury egg on me,

Jon Bolton

The Monster of Flathead Lake…not to be confused with Fathead Lake, that’s a story unto itself.

Throughout history the world over, tales of monsters and bodies of water have been synonymous with each other. Whether it is a lake, pond, river, ocean, stream…did I say stream??? How ever heard of a monster in a stream, a stream is so small…what is it a monster crayfish??? Ok back to the story at hand is again what I have said before, monsters and water have always been associated with one another and while there are storied of the past there will be more generated for years to come.  Now some of these stories are based within fact and some of these are based within the imagination of people who believe they have seen something that more than likely was not there in the first place. Are these people liars…no they just mistook something for something else…they could have seen a log floating in the water and from the stories they have heard over the years they believe it t be something not of normal nature. However there are those who in fact are liars and cheaters and report sightings for own personal gain and that 15 minutes of fame so many people in this world seem to try and go for. So with any story there will always be a certain amount of doubt and we unfortunately are quick to call someone crazy should they say they have seen something…and this is because of the bad apples whom have tried their deceptive craft.

Now some of the more well known of monsters and water are such stories of the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland, Champ of Lake Champlain in New York, giant squids in the ocean, supersize fish and the list goes on and on…well this is a story of…well…nobody knows exactly what it is. The monster of Flathead Lake is located obviously in Flathead Lake which is located in Montana. Here is your fact of the day…this lake is the largest lake in the Western United States and in certain location is so crystal clear you can see straight to the bottom, now remember this fact as I tell this tale of water monster.

The exact description of the monster is like that of any monster story, there are always some differences, but   for the most part it is describe as an eel like creature, about 40 feet long and is a blueish-black in color. Some feel that it is a descendant of the Sturgis, the fish not the biker festival, and it supposedly has protruding humps, a lot like the Loch Ness monster and Champ. Its funny if you think about it how almost every single water monster has some sort of protruding humps…are they all from the same family of animal…or is there some unwritten code I am not aware of and Wikipedia has failed to mention in which all water monsters must have protruding humps??? I mean seriously, why do they all have protruding humps…for once I would like to hear about a water monster that has some giant claw like hand and seaweed covering it…you know the type you always see on Scooby Doo…like Swamp Thing.

Ok back to the legend at hand with the Monster of Flathead Lake. The first sighting is told to be around 1889 by the skipper of a steamboat on the lake…have I mentioned this is a huge lake??? Well it would seem the he and his passengers witnessed this monster and one of the passengers had a gun on him and fired at it, which he didn’t kill it…must have been a bad shot. However this was said to begin the legend of this mysterious creature. So through the years even as late as 1993 many stories where told and it was supposedly filmed by a bank officer and a sales manager, because some how those type of people would never lie…might has well been a car salesman and politician reporting this sighting, but I digress, and witnessed to be a 12 foot long creature just below the surface of the water.

Now there are a number of theories of what this monster could be just there are theories for any and all water monsters. Now whether these theories are correct or not…well that’s why they are called theories…from the theory of it being an ancient dinosaur to that of being a mutant fish, or my theory that its not really there and it is being confused with something. Now I am an avid scuba diver and would love nothing more than to dive in a body of water and come across a true water monster, I know Im nuts…heck I want to dive with Great whites, anyways I really would love to see it, but I just don’t think it is there. Maybe someday there will in fact be evidence found of a great water monster, but right now I am unsure. I mainly question this legend because remember what I said earlier about it being so clear you could see down to the bottom…well don’t you think it would be pretty easy to find the monster since you can see the bottom and not have to worry about murky water and sonar and other technical gadgets to find anything in the water??? So I say to all keep looking out over the water and maybe someday you will catch that sought after evidence for all to see…or you can just look out over the water and enjoy the view and relax…your call.

Be safe and don’t forget your arm floaties,

Jon Bolton

Psychics & Mediums… Some of Them Aren’t That Medium.

In the wacky world of the supernatural and paranormal there are those people who believe they have a connection to “the other side” and no I don’t mean Canada or Mexico. That’s right, if you have been living under a rock for most of your life, there are people who believe they can communicate to the dead or predict the future. Now how awesome of a superpower would that be to posses that ability? Forget super strength or lightning fast speed, with the ability to talk to the dead and/or predict the future; the possibilities are limitless. Now I know there are people out there who either think those who can either predict the future or talk to the dead are complete scam artists and then there are those people that believe in this gift 100%. Where do I stand on this issue? Well at one point in my life I sided with those who completely believed and then later in my life I turned into one of those who thought they were a complete and total sham. However I sit here today typing my thoughts trying to figure out where I now stand on this topic.

Let’s begin with the name mediums, I have seen these people and I don’t think they have been a medium size in years, but that’s my opinion. The definition of a medium is “someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead”, so essentially these people are what the catholic priests are between you and God, which I have an issue with, but that’s another rant for later. However back to the land of the scam artists aka psychics, these people pray on the innocence of people and their desire to want to talk loved ones who have passed on into the afterlife. This is absolutely disgusting, to want to make money off of people and their fragile emotions. There has never been true evidence that these so called intermediaries between the living and the dead can actually come through with what they promise. Many people have tested these scam artists and each time the scam artists have failed and fallen flat on their faces. To read more into this please check out James Randi and his organization. He puts up one million dollars for anyone with a true gift to take so long as they perform in a controlled environment. And you know what? Not a single one of these people have come forward or been able to successfully get the million dollars. The ones who have TV shows and made tons of cash already say they don’t need to prove themselves…well don’t they have a charity they could donate the money too or wouldn’t they want to put all speculation to rest? I guess not.

As for psychics, they fall in the same realm of mediums and while they don’t claim to talk to the dead they do claim to have the ability to look into the future. Come on now really? All I have to say to that is if you could do that then why have you not played the lottery? Or how come you have never come forward about major events that could have saved peoples lives? I actually asked these and more questions to a few psychics and you know what the typical standard go to answer was…”It is not my place to interfere with fate”. Really? So you can charge $5 for a palm reading or $10 to gaze into your crystal ball and tell me about the future, but you can’t save people’s lives…oh yeah that makes complete sense.

All I ask is that you don’t give into these fakes and phonies, they are only preying upon your weak emotions and don’t really care about your future or your dead relatives. Life is way too short to worry about the past and you have all the time in the world to worry about the future. Live your life to the fullest and you will see that happiness is its own reward…thank you fortune cookie.

Be safe and medium? HA more like extra extra large,
Jon Bolton

Invasion Of The Giant Monsters (Updated)

When you think of Giant Monsters what is the first thought that comes to you mind, don’t think about it too hard. Just go with you first thought/picture that pops into your head, and am betting that the image looked something like this:

Am I right? More than likely I am, but if you have lived under a rock most of your life, the creature featured above is the infamous Godzilla of Japanese fame. Created from radiation due to nuclear and atomic bomb testing conducted after World War 2 in the effort of being able to compete with the American’s and their weapons program.

If you really think about it, this was the first example of why we need to be eco friendly and stop such destructive natures of nuclear and atomic weaponry. Can you imagine having this giant lizard being a part of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) or Greenpeace. This sucker could easily take out a whaling ship without batting an eye.

Now I talk about the gigantic lizard like mascot in jest, but if you think about the history of this planet we call earth; there have been many stories of giant monsters walking the earth. Look at the aspect of dragons and even more lifelike…dinosaurs. These suckers were huge and if you believe the stories that the Amazon tribesmen tell to this very day, there are still dinosaurs that exists in the deepest reaches of the Amazon rain forest which are too thick for man to go into. Also there are the stories of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland, Bigfoot in America, Europe & Canada, as well as the American version of the Loch Ness Monster, Champ who lives in Lake Champlain.

While these monsters are up for debate as to whether or not the truly exist it is very interesting that there have been more and more reports of giant monsters being spotted in the world. Again it’s also funny that Japan seems to be a hotbed of giant monsters. While these giants have been seen in various places of the world, it seems Japan is the mecca like magnet for such creatures.

So looking at these Giant Monsters what would you think? I know I am not sure what to think as these things completely baffle me and where they might have come from. Now I know that in the genetic nature of life there are always going to be some sort of anomalies and genetic mutations that result in gigantism. However, if you look and research at bit for yourself you will see that these giants are becoming more and more common in everyday life. It sort of makes you wonder why and more importantly how? Is this a product of evolutionary mutation, is it because of the phantom like global warming sensationalized by Al “I’m an Idiot” Gore, and before you send me hate mail on my comments on global warming I will go into that myth at a later date, doubtful, but again who knows.

I leave it up to you to ponder why these giant creatures have begun to rise up more and more in the culture and existence of our lives. However if I see Godzilla walking into my town, I think I’m just gonna bend over and kiss it goodbye.

Be Safe and Think About It,
John Cannon

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Who ya gonna call???… Thomas Edison of Course.

Ladies and gentleman step right and I’ll tell you the tale of a man. A man who created the wizard of Menlo Park, a man who create the light bulb, a man who held over 1,093 patents…a man who could give Dr. Ray Stanz and Egon Spengler a run for their money. That’s right folks I am talking about the one and only ghost hunter/buster himself…Mr. Thomas Edison (and the crowd goes wild).

That’s right, the man who gave us the electric light bulb and motion picture camera, the man who was one of the top inventors of the world was actually dabbling in the world of ghost hunting. Now it wasn’t like the ghost hunting we know of today with the fancy equipment such as EMF detectors, Ovilus, electric voice recorders or FLIR cameras but he was working on a device that would be able to let us, the living, communicate to the dead.

Not many people are aware of this because of their distaste for ghost hunting in the aspect of overly dramatized supposedly real tv shows or they just think is creepy. However Edison was a man always looking to the next thing and that happened to be the Ghost Machine. Now the evidence of such a machine created by Edison to have actually existed is a bit of a mystery as there were no plans or actually machine ever found. Just the faint words of a man, a great man, spoken in an interview to the October 1920 issue of The American Magazine, “I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us."

Many people speculate that this machine did in fact exist, but has somehow been lost over time. Could this machine been created by such a great inventor and lost over time…anything is possible I would suppose.

However in my opinion, as much as I would love to stumble across the only ghost machine to have been made by Edison I would bet it never made it from his mind into the real world. He was always thinking and creating things in his mind and while some may have been made, some were only written down and sadly to say only some were just thoughts.

Some people think that Edison would never think of creating such a machine yet I present two things to you for your consideration. The first being is that at this time of the world the Spiritualist movement was beginning to hit the Western world so why wouldn’t someone begin to think about communicating with the no longer living. And lets look at the next theory, the fact that when he made this statement he was ten years away from his death, he was a brilliant man who knew his time on earth was limited and maybe he wanted to have a way to still keep inventing even after he had past one into the afterlife.

Be safe and remember it was only a matter of time till he invented cable TV,

Jon Bolton

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Zombie Ants… Cause That’s What We Need.

When you hear the word Zombie it usually conjures up images of slow walking, drooling, brain eating and expressionless faces on the living dead. Now in recent years the whole Zombie epidemic has taken a grip on the modern world and there are quite a number of books, movies and tv shows made in reference to zombies. One of the earliest accounts I remember reading about zombies was in the book the Serpent and the Rainbow about a college professor who took on voodoo priests to see how they created zombies. It turned out through his research that it was a type of drug that would render the person motionless for a period of time and then keep them in a trance like state.

This idea of zombies and ancient voodoo drugs for complete zombie like control seems to not just be for people, but also seems to be able to affect the insect world. In particular I am talking about ants and a certain type of fungus that takes over their minds then their bodies and then when the fungus is done with them it kills them. Essentially this fungus puts the ants into a zombie like state and then uses it for its own purpose till it’s complete.



The fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis has in fact been around for millions of years, if you believe the earth is that old, and attacks carpenter ants as they move around the floor of the forest. In fact this fungus could be found almost anywhere, which is scary in itself. As the fungus takes hold of the ants it does it most bizarre damage towards the end of its usage of the ant. The ant will climb to the underside of the leaf it is on and then lock its mandibles into the main vein of the leaf in a type of death grip which locks the fungus into position on the plant.
Scientists who have studied this strange zombie like instance say that the force of the bite into the main vein can actually leave a lasting mark. The fungus uses the ant in order for it to reach the levels of the forest that are best for its growth and process. While scientists do not know the true cause of how the fungus produces such an effect it is clear that this parasitic fungus is a nasty one.

Can you imagine a fungus that takes over our body and mind then controlling your every movement and thought only to kill you once you have served its purpose? That’s a pretty scary though in my opinion and while I have not found any mention of the fungus being able to effect humans I am sure that enough was release on to a person it might just have the same effect.

Be safe and destroy all fungus,

Jon Bolton

UFO “Experts”…how do you get a doctorate in this stuff?

Let me first start off by saying that I am a UFO nut and would love for all these UFO conspiracys to be true as well as to get the chance to tour the real Area 51. Now with me stating that I am willing to believe in some aspect of the sense of UFOs, my concern is with these so called “experts” in the UFO community. I watch the shows on UFOs/Aliens like Ancient Aliens & UFO Hunters, heck I even own all the seasons of UFO Hunters on DVD, but how do you seriously become an “expert” on this stuff???

You watch these programs and read these books that are written by everyday normal people and people who have gotten their PHD. The every day people I am not going to look at because that’s way to easy for me to rip apart. I want to look at these people with a PHD and claiming to be experts. Now when I was going to college, and in fact I am returning back to college, at no time did I see a UFO course listed, not even as an elective. So how does one go about getting their PHD in UFOs, you don’t.  I have friends who have their doctorate in real studies and sciences and they went through years of courses/classes to get that PHD title on their name and they are proud of it and can prove what they say with real science and data. These UFO “PHD Experts” can only take the words of someone who may or may not have been invovled in a “secret” government program focused around reverse engeneering of a downed UFO craft or other “secret”projects. Now while these people may have bad or good intentions with making these stories up, can you really believe them if none of their stories can be backed with actual data???

One guy in the UFO community who is considered to be an “expert” says he worked at Area 51 and had high level securiy clearance and now that he has come out with his story the government is wiping out his physical history with college, work and even his identity. I am not going to give the genteleman’s name out because if this ever got back to him I don’t feel like getting sued, but how can we believe this guy? These is no real evidence other than a simple paycheck stub that can easily be created using a computer and an imagination, in fact identiity theives do it all the time.  So again ther eis nothing to back up how this guy could and should be considered an “expert”.

Now keep in mind I am not picking apart pilots, every day normal people or wackos…I am picking apart those people who claim to an “expert” in something with no real data to back what they are saying. These “experts” listen to what a person says and instead of really investigating it they let their mind wander and run away on a tangent of how it is aliean/ufo related and then it becomes fact in their mind and forced onto the public.

Now here is a thought…what if all these “experts” are actually working for the government in a misinformation campaign to keep the people of the world confused and focusing on something non-existant while they do something else behind the people’s backs. Think about that one you little conspiracy theorists. The government could be paying these people to lie about things they have seen or heard just in the same aspect as you would distract a baby with a shiny object or loud noise to attract their attention before the doctor gives them their shot so it hurts less…oh never thought about that one did you???

The study of UFOs should be based in fact and data, yes I feel that the government is hiding something in the aspect of UFO technology and yes I would love to see if this stuff was real, but I don’t think we will ever see that or know the truth for many many years.  So all we can do is watch the skies and talk to those people who have the same feelings and enthusiasim, but to claim yourself an “expert” on something you can’t back up is pretty weak in my opinion.

Be safe and always have fun,

John Cannon