Yes, it's been a 100 years since the famous Tunguska incident. And although the scientific community (the mainstream, that is) maintains that the only plausible cause for the event must have been a meteorite 40 meters across, over the years numerous researchers proposed various alternatives, the most popular being the alien craft explosion theory, the mini black hole theory, and last but not least the Nikola Tesla Death Ray theory. Coincidence that Tesla was working at his Death Ray at the time, and destroyed all his notes immediately after the Tunguska incident? Maybe it is...
“I froze in amazement - there stands something like a large, black silo framed in white limestone formations. It is a glass-smooth flank of a seemingly man-made structure. Even the thought of a tower-sized artifact embedded in rock in the middle of an obscure mountain is bewildering.” - Antonin T. Horak (Diary Entry), October 23, 1944
I came across this research page, referring to a vast underground structure a Partisan fighter used for hiding during WWII in the Tatra Mountains area in Slovakia.
Allen Hynek was involved until his death, and Ted Phillips took over for an expedition in 1999, of which the report on the web page is unfinished..
Now, I'm a sucker for caves and underground cities and secret hideouts and ancient alien artifacts. And I blame Indiana Jones for that. Never mind..
But this story had something genuine about it, distinguishing it from crappy internet mysteries and comic-inspired stories.
The story is well highlighted, with plenty of historical records, and the only room for doubt is whether the old man misinterpreted a normal cave for something artificial with strange properties. His report mentions polished walls, shafts, strange substances on them, and even a warm wall with a humming like a turbine (!) heard behind it.
What impressed me the most was his report of stalactites and stalagmites in all the passages, blocking his way and scratching him. He had to break off some big chunks to pass. Now, a carstic structure like a stalactite grows about a centimeter each century. You can tell where I am going with this. He also discovered some bear bones in there, where no bear could fit...
It all sounds very familiar, resembling closely the Pendeli Cave story I have followed closely for decades, down to the artificial tunnels from thousands of years ago and the strange feeling of awe.. I hope the Tatra Mountains cave does not have the fate of the cave of Pendeli, with the military and bizarre fractions of the NATO destroying everything in sight, while conducting weird and useless structures..
I will have to write to the people on the web page, to find out if there is an end to the story...
UPDATE: I contacted Ted Phillips and he informed me that a dedicated website, projectmoonshaft.org , will be up later this month, to accompany a new expedition to the Tatra Mountains in September and to offer info and video.
After reading the excellent article on Technoccult on the rise of violent incidents for no reason, including road rage, I started thinking what could have caused this. The obvious case on fast-paced life is not the only candidate. case 1: Being the animals that we are, reduced space means there are contenders in our private area or around it, and the reptile in us lashes out in defence. case 2: The Earth is defending itself, much like the diseases it uses from time to time, according to some fringe epidimiologists. How it works is, of course, pure speculation. case 3: (the scariest and the most interesting) We are ushered in a time of tension, war and mayhem by some alien race looking for some real-estate. Why fight the insects one at a time when you can make them kill each other? If I had a Conspiracy Theory Teacher he would be proud..
Careful study of public domain Lunar images, led researcher Allan Sturm to discover structures resembling hexagon, neatly arranged pods and some resemblance of a half-buried machine... Maybe the Moon still has surprises left for us, or at least it still has some bucks left in exploiting it. The future will tell, if we ever get to return up there... www.lunomaly.com
Arthur Clarke died 90 years old, full of experience and success, and almost a household name. The dreamer who first thought about communication satellites and trips to the moon, was in recent decades involved with an inner universe, that of the oceans and sea diving.. And although he never became the billionaire he could be, had he patented his ideas, I am sure he had very little regret about his life, since he always wanted to be remembered as a writer. His wishes fulfilled...
Another report about a UFO not seen by the naked eye, only to appear later in photographs. The locale of this, Tower Bridge over Thames in the heart of London made me think: How many invisible crafts fly over us, how many invisible beings walk among us and are briefly made visible by a fluctuation of the god-knows-what field or pure interdimensional coincidence? Are we indeed living in a world defined by our brains, which conveniently shut out all "out of norm" stimuli? Is this why children are reputed to see "more"? Is the m-theory correct? Is our universe spearheaded by a vertical universe, connecting us with at least 9 others? I hope H.P. Lovecraft was partially wrong, but then again, it does not seem so..
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
Yes, it's been a 100 years since the famous Tunguska incident. And although the scientific community (the mainstream, that is) maintains that the only plausible cause for the event must have been a meteorite 40 meters across, over the years numerous researchers proposed various alternatives, the most popular being the alien craft explosion theory, the mini black hole theory, and last but not least the Nikola Tesla Death Ray theory.
