Empire of the Odd

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press © 2011 The Associated Press

June 7, 2011, 9:16PM

HARDIN, Texas — Deputies who swarmed a rural Texas neighborhood Tuesday to search a farmhouse where a person claiming to be a psychic told officials multiple bodies were buried found no evidence of even a single homicide, a sheriff’s official says.

Liberty County Sheriff’s Capt. Rex Evans said there was no indication of bodies being anywhere on the property about 70 miles northeast of Houston. Officials ended their search Tuesday night and went home, with the focus of the investigation now turning to the tipster who led local law enforcement and FBI agents to the home.

The sheriff’s office had received two calls from the person, officials said. Evans said authorities took the tip seriously in part because the caller had details about the interior of the house that only someone who had seen it could have known.

He said authorities were working to track down the tipster and determine how she had such detailed information on the house. He said authorities had a name and number for the woman.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7600327.html#ixzz1Og9Se3cB

Of course it’s impossible to tell what the heck it is. It looks incredibly like a tree-branch in the foreground, until it was enhanced. Then it looks like an animated BF added in post. Not very convincing, but none of them are.

http://youtu.be/2jkACKh7Y8M

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/23/3647843/latest-theory-says-roswell-ufo.html#ixzz1ND0AbBBh

(Reuters) – With no sign of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday as forecast by an 89 year-old California evangelical broadcaster, followers were faced with trying to make sense of his failed pronouncement.

Harold Camping, the former civil engineer who heads the

Family Radio Network of Christian stations, had been unwavering in his message that believers would be swept to heaven on May 21.

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UPDATE: According to sources, there is a U.S. Government agency interested in this obvious heinous hoax and we felt it was in the best interest of justice to once again feature this story. To this day, we have heard nothing about missing Maddie and it’s still our opinion this hoax is a slap in the face to the millions of missing children.

Editor’s Notes: If this information is correct (appears to be), this may be the most disturbing story ever reported by scifake and a HUGE slap in the face to ALL parents who reported a child missing.

This story reminds me of the Hot Air Balloon hoax. The father claimed the boy went missing in the balloon (after it took off) hoping to appear on a reality TV show.

Keep this one thought in mind, the domain name www.maddieismissing.com was purchased three months prior to this little girl’s alleged disappearance.

Scifake will keep you updated with more information when it is available. NOW … go grab your barf bag because you will need it.

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According to a small Christian movement, yes, it will.

The movement, led by Harold Camping, who runs the Evangelical network Family Radio, is predicting that mid-May of this year will bring about Judgment Day — the time when, according to some, the earth will be destroyed because of mankind’s sins and all Christian believers will ascend to heaven.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/03/judgement-day-will-may-21-2011-be-the-end-of-the-world/#ixzz1Merfmw00

Hacker group Anonymous is turning its attentions from annoying the powerful, to hacking off UFO enthusiasts.

On May 22, after they have washed up after their mum has made them dinner, Anonymous members will flood UFO websites with fake reports of a triangular UFO.

Operation UFO will provide the members of Anonymous with endless hours of entertainment as the story is picked up by the mainstream media and becomes “reality”.

The assumption is that the next day the papers will be full of stories sparked by the UFO postings. Ghosttheory has opened a book on whether Fox will run a story linking the UFO with terrorism, or claiming that Obama’s birth certificate was signed by ET.

Read more: http://www.techeye.net/security/anonymous-turns-to-ufo-hoaxing#ixzz1Meo98Uig

PASADENA, Calif. – What if there really ARE little green men out there in the vast universe who plan to plop their UFO in a cornfield in Nebraska? That’s not just a question for science-fiction writers and 10-year-old boys, but for real scientists with alphabets after their names.

“It’s my day job, of course, to look for them,” says Dr. Seth Shostek, senior astronomer with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI.) “And I can assure you that I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t think that there was a good chance for success because it is not that lucrative,” he says.

Anthony Lane‘s review of Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” [New Yorker, May 2nd, 2011, Page 88 ff.] abutted, for this writer, a paper, discovered among others, entitled Speculations on the First Contact: Encyclopedia Galactica or the Music of the Spheres? by Guillermo A. Lemarchand of the Instituto Angentino de Radioastronomia [CONICET], Buenos Aires.

The movie review (by Lane) deals with how director Herzog presents his vision of the cave drawings on a wall in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, in the Ardèche reagion of France.
The Chauvet-Pont wall of drawings, from about thirty-five to thirty-eight thousand years ago, is more “cinematic” (says Herzog) than those at Lascaux, and should be compared with the shapes found at Swabia, four hundred miles away

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In my opinion, “It’s become a free-for-all,” and I think having licensed psychics is an excellent idea and we need to lobby our government to set up a psychic licensing board – every psychic who wants to practice needs to register. To register, you have to be tested under rigorous scientific double-blind conditions. No pass, no license.

I have always had a problem with the way psychics work. To say that you can contact the dead child of a grieving parent for a fee (any fee!) is absolutely wrong, and anyone who can do this to a person has no morals, and no respect for the grieving process people have to go through once they have lost a loved one, especially as psychic “powers” have never been proven scientifically, all we have is anecdotal evidence.

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