Mysterious Feline in Lincoln City

This wasn't originally what I was going to post today, but I figured I'd share it before the memory fades to the back of my mind again. It's also one of those experiences that unfortunately did not happen to me, so I can't substantiate much more then assuming that my family was telling me the truth.

About ten years ago we were staying at my grandparent's condo in Neskowin, OR, when my mom and my brother decided to take a trip into Lincoln City, just south of Neskowin on Interstate 101. Upon reaching the city, they took a short cut along NE E Devils Lake Rd, which goes along Devil's Lake obviously. Being a coastal community, this section of Lincoln City is only contains scattered houses and wilderness, the main part of the city being located almost mainly along Interstate 101.

Somewhere along their way to the factory outlet stores that lie on the other end of NE E Devils Lake Rd, my mom and brother saw what they took to be a mountain lion. There was one odd thing about it however. They described as being very dark, which may have been partly due to the amount of shade from the trees that hang over the road, but they insisted it was very dark and not just the shade.

From their description the only things I could figure was that it was either a large black dog that they thought was a large feline, or perhaps it was a mountain lion in in the shade. However, there are two other possibilities, which although unlikely may perhaps have been the case.

The first is that it was a melanistic (black) mountain lion. Interestingly, melanistic mountain lions, from what I understand, have yet to be confirmed as being real. That doesn't mean they don't exist, just that they have yet to find one to confirm they do. Unlike the mountain lion however, both jaguars and leopards have confirmed melanistic variants. That of course opens up the possibility that someone in the area happened to have a black leopard or jaguar for a pet (Last I checked, those guys aren't native to Oregon.) that managed to get loose.

Like I said however, I did not witness it, and for all I know, it may have nothing more then a average mountain lion or perhaps someone's black lab that got away. If it was indeed a lab or other type of dog, well my family needs to learn their animals.

Aliens and God

Aliens and God, according to some people, don't mix. In fact one of the main reasons some people think the government would cover up the existence of E.T. is because it would make for a lot of pissed off religious folk, particularly amongst those of the Judeo-Christian persuasions. All this talk about aliens not mixing well with traditional religion is actually rather unfounded however.

Sure there are many traditional Christians that do not believe in such things, but it never states in the Bible, or as far as I know any other religious text, that aliens would not exist. In fact approaching if from a Judeo-Christian perspective, Genesis 1:1 almost supports the existence of aliens, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth." See? God created the heavens, meaning the sky, space, and whatever lies beyond space, so therefore any aliens that exist were created by God (last I knew Satan could not create life, being as I don't follow organized religion though, I could be wrong.)if you accept Christianity.

Keep in mind that's just an interpretation, but logical none the less. I wish I had knowledge of other religions so I could build this up a bit stronger, but alas I was raised as nothing more then a mere simple Christian, who has jumped all through it's many denominations only to come out believing in God, but not any particular religion, sect, branch, cult, or whatever.

Seeing as this is a topic about God and aliens, I could go into the weird mixtures of Christianity, UFOlogy, and UFO cults and stuff out there, but that's a completely different ball game. Not to mention confusing, strange, and rather funny at times. So that's a topic for another time...and I think I'll touch upon this one again and get into more detail (I'm also doing this right before I go to bed, so I'm rather tired and only putting half the effort into this. What can I say, I'm an honest blogger.) after doing some more research. Maybe I'll even get around to reading some of that Bible thing and throw some more verses in here to back up what I've already said. Alright, I'm spent...g'night folks.

Random Cephalopod Goodness: Fossil Octopus

Browsing The Anomalist today, I came across some cool prehistoric cephalopodtastic news. Apparently some scientist types found the 95-million year old (thats like dinosaur times...literally) remains of octopuses fossilized in Lebanon. Not only is this incredibly rare, but they resemble modern octopuses so much that it's rewriting known ocotpus history and puts them right up there with crocodilians as surviving virtually unchanged since the dinosaur era...

Also...I'm now convinced that the only thing keeping us from currently being octopoidian slaves is the fact that these buggers don't have perfect memories. If they can open jars, navigate mazes, shoot lights, and flood aquariums...lord knows what they would be capable of if they had somehow managed to develop human like intelligence in their millions of years of evolution...or lack there of according to this guy...to each their own though...

Rare Octopus Fossil Found

Cool Sea Monstery Goodness

Well, one of the posts I was going to do under the guise of Captain Naveed, pirate extraordinaire, was going to be about a local Oregon beasty known as Colossal Claude. What's interesting about Ol' Claude is that he is considered by some in cryptozoological circles to be a Cadborosaurus. No, the Cadborosaurus is not a dinosaur, but your classic sea serpent that is supposed to live in the waters here in the great Pacific Northwest, ranging from Canada, down to almost Northern California.

In a interesting twist however, it appears that Cadborosaurus now has the support of some proffesional scientists, who claim that it may be an unknown form of pinniped, a group of sea critters that includes seals and walruses. Now this isn't really that new of a theory, but at least this time it's people in the academic community who are showing interest in it as opposed to just cryptozoologists who don't always get the credit they deserve. This is quite an awesome development in my opinion, and hopefully will help get at least one fringe subject some more cred.

Oh, and as for my rant about not being able to get into the military, I'm over it...I think...although I will say that the thing that mainly gets me now is that I know I'd look darned good in one of them fancy camouflage uniforms...and even better in the formal ones.

Nordics, Bigfoot, and Gluten

I can seriously say I've been slacking on posting recently. I don't know why really. Just sort of in need of a break from I think since I had a tendency to write multiple fairly decent sized posts every other day or so. Burned my brain out a bit in my opinion. Heck I'm still sort of "bleh" on it at the moment, but figured I'd drop you all a line and let you know that "The Realm" is not over and that I will be back very shortly with something of the quality that you've all come to expect from my ramblings.

Until then though I figured I'd share this article I found at BBC News yesterday about some of the UFO files the UK's Ministry of Defense released. The part I found most interesting was the part about the "fair-haired man with a Scandinavian-type accent" which not only brings to mind IX-777, but images of the classic Nordic style aliens as well.

Also my beach trip on the 13th allowed to get a photo taken of myself standing next to a bit of esoteric gimmickry at the Bigfoot's Pub 'n Grub in Seaside, Oregon.

I won't go into any details on who Bigfoot is since he's basically as well known as Santa Claus, and also has a 99% better chance of being real, which I'm pretty certain old Sasquatchy is.

Finally, I just wanted to rant because I'm incredibly frustrated by my blasted gluten allergy, mainly because it's preventing me from doing something I really want to do...join the military. Which seems odd for a guy like me who talks about UFOs and conspiracies, but for some reason I've always liked the idea of joining and despite the fact I know the answer is a big resounding "NO!" I keep looking into the idea anyways. It's especially frustrating since two close friends of mine are each in a branch. Heck I figured something like the Coast Guard, who spend probably around 90% of their time either at a base or on a boat could accommodate gluten allergies. Wrong. Heck, when I found the answer right away when I Googled it, and also found the most discriminatory thing ever mentioned about my allergy and military service "Serving is a PRIVILEGE, NOT a right." Now I understand why it's privilege and not a right, but just because I have a gluten allergy does not mean I'm not worthy of the PRIVILEGE!, but not eligible to serve due to health reasons, which I'm fine with (more or less...well not quite, but whatever), but you know, the guy who said that should have thought better where and when he said that because it came out a bit discriminatory in my opinion...phew...now that I got that out I'm off to find me a ship and a crew...and hat with a big fluffy feather! MUAHAHA! Ok...I'm living in the wrong time period...

Quick Random Update

Well, I wasn't going to post anything today seeing as I've been a bit exhausted today from my first hangover. Seems my piratey side likes 100 proof rum mixed with Coke and lime (my wife is good at mixing drinks) and I'm also a bit of a light weight...

My main reason for posting tonight however is this:

Take the test!

Now that I know that I can be a pirate, I just need a hat, a sword, a ship, and a crew...

Anyways tomorrow I shall finally have a good post for you all, which I'm sure everyone is looking forward to since I've not really posted much at all this last week or so.

Weird Owl Sighting in 2006

After dealing with kids having a tummy bug, getting it myself, and going to the beach on the one day no one was sick, I'm back. It's been 5 days or so, which is probably the longest I've gone without posting since October. Seeing as I really have nothing big to post about today however, I figured I'd share an odd owl sighting I had back in the winter months of 2006.

Well I guess there really isn't to much weird about seeing an owl normally, but it happened while I was in the middle of reading the book Communion by Whitley Streiber. For those who don't know, Communion is the first book Mr. Strieber wrote about his alien abduction experiences. Now one of the key features of the abduction experience mentioned in the book is that of a screen memories, or false memories put in place - by the aliens or whatever beings they are - of the abduction memories as an attempt to hide them. One of the most common things used to block these experiences, or so I've come across from a few different sources, including Communion, is owls or owl imagery.

Anyways, what made this sighting odd was that it happened while I was in the middle of Communion. I was outside at some apartments I used to live at, heading back in from taking out the trash. Suddenly I had this urge to look up at the sky and I saw something large and white that I couldn't make out and it gave me a bit of a start at first. As I watched it come closer I suddenly realized it was a large white owl. Don't get me however, I know this was no screen memory because I lost no time (one of the main signs of an abduction- unless of course they've mastered pausing time, which is probably a big impossibility), but the sychroncity of it was kind of funky and it was rather eerie at the same time.

UFO Magazine has a forum!

Lesley from The Debris Field threw together this awesome forum for UFO Magazine. So if you're a fan of the magazine or UFOs, head on over there!

UFO Magazine Forum

Follow Up on Last Post

I've been researching a lot into Oregon folklore and stuff this week to find some local Fortean phenomenon to post about here. In the process of my research I came across this page with some details I didn't find before on the Neahkahnie Mountain treasure.

Oregon Haunted Hotspots - Apparently they were pirates...well if the sources are accurate...Scroll down the page to Lincoln County.

Other then that, expect a new post sometime today after I've done some more research for it.

Update 7:27pm:

Well, no new post today. Finding a lack of data on what I was going to post about, so I'm gonna expand on the posts content. Tomorrow it'll be up for sure, so stay tuned!

Treasurey Goodness on the Oregon Coast

Arrr! Shiver me timbers, and swash some buckles, if The Goonies isn't the best movie to come out of the 1980s, then I don't know what is says I. You can't beat them scurvy land lubber kids (lead by a wee hobbit none the less) being chased by them felons that make even we pirates look decent. And all this on that luxurious Oregon Coast as well. I reckon them kids though would mighty fine pirates if it had been real, but alas, it be nothing, but piratey fiction. That means that even the fearsome One Eyed Willy and his excellent horde of treasure are as real as a mermaid. Fear not though weary web lubbers, for that does not mean that treasure does not exist on along the coasts of Oregon.

Aye, them scurvy knaves, the Spaniards lurked upon the Pacific coastline in their galleons from the 1600s to the 1800s, shipping great big piles of golden...beeswax...Ye heard me correctly. Beeswax. Seems people used it a lot back in the olden days. Local natives of the time told tales of how some these galleons even sunk to Davey Jones' locker, and to this day lumps of ancient beeswax wash up upon them sandy Oregon shores.

The scuttlebutt amongst locals since that time also tell a tale of more then just beeswax to be found. Legend has it that a vessel anchored near Neahkahnie Mountain. From there the scallywag crew set went ashore with treasure chest, buried it, and marked it with a...rock. Harharhar! You thought I was going to say X didn't ye? Aye, but they marked it with rock says I. One engraved with some sort of inscription or something. One of the filthy bilge rats also shot one their slaves and buried them with it (the treasure that is, not the rock. Wouldn't make sense to bury a marker now would it?). The poor swab's soul lurks there even now guarding the treasure from prying hands. Sort of a bizarre piratey form of insurance if ye will.

Arrranywho...till this day many a land lubber, archaeologist, and would be pirates still search near the Neahkahnie Mountain lookin for that there shiny treasure. No one has ever found it however, although evidence proving it's possible existence has been unearthed, only to disappear later. If ye want to know more however, I suggest one of the sources below...them lubbers have even more details to share...arr...time to practice me pirate roaring ARRRRR!

Sources and Further Reading:
Hidden Treasures of Neahkahnie Mountain
Scientists Search for Buried Treasure off the Oregon Coast
Find part of galleon's beeswax cargo
The Beeswax Wreck of Nehalem, Oregon

A rambling about conspiracy and government coverups - Warning: Contains goofy content

When delving into the subject of UFOs, it's impossible to avoid the inevitable conspiracy theories that often accompany the subject. UFOs and conspiracy theories go together like cream cheese and bagels. Sometimes they're the completely nutty ones, like David Icke's shape shifting reptilians and yet other times they're somewhat down to Earth, such as the general idea of the military covering up UFOs, which does make at least some sense...I think...I'll get back to you on that...

For the most part I really can't see the general government being to good at covering stuff up, especially considering how quick the media is to jump down politicians throats the instant they screw up or are caught being "scandalous". I mean in today's world, the media is everywhere...and I mean everywhere like that guy who occasionally peeps around the corner in my hallway. Man I really need to call an exterminator and get rid of him before he reproduces.

Now where they aren't (Well, excluding those in the UFO community, which is kind of like it's own media, who get thrills out of seeing how close they can get to the camo guys outside of Area 51 before they open fire.) at is within the military or other highly secretive organizations with seemingly unlimited military funding or backing, the "military industrial complex" if you will. See, these guys have the ability to do it, the funds to do it, and the scary guys with guns who shoot to kill. They also probably have ninja assasins (After all, who doesn't have any? I keep 5 in my closet just in case I need them.) as well, but by all accounts they are probably pretty good since no one has ever scene one...at least to my knowledge.

Anywho my point is these guys can do it. Afterall, they have all the funds they need, have covered up numerous things in the past, (like secret aircraft) and have the most advanced technology in the world. They have this tech half the time before the public even knows it exists, which fuels a lot of the UFO coverup stories. Makes sense in a way. Captured alien spaceship, military engineers reverse engineer it and leak it's tech to the corporate sectors and there you go.

Going deeper into conspiracy theories, you come across other things like the New World Order, Illuminati, or even household (and not just rumored) names like the Freemasons, who somehow get tied to just about everything. You could come up with a conspiracy about dairy farmers trying to kill the world through poisoned cheese and they'd probably get connected to it. Whether any of these aspects of conspiracy theories are real, I don't know. Although from what I see going on in the world, sometimes I wonder...sometimes I wonder...oh crap gotta go. My ninja assassins are trying to kill the media guy lurking in the hallway and I don't want any blood on the carpet...

Ouija Boards and Aliens?

Well it seems a weird mix since traditionally Ouija boards have been associated with spirits, demons, and other non-corporeal entities. However it seems that our Pleiadian buddy, IX-777 (Gotta love the number play there. 777 as opposed to 666...lucky number vs bad number. Speaking of which I was watching the Cartoon Network Show Ed, Edd, and Eddie today and in the background in this garage was a piece of tape that had "666 fil" written on it. Wonder what's up with that?) has a new post up with two other ones today none the less, about Ouija boards. Now he doesn't actually talk about contacting aliens with it, but just overall explains how the classic Ouija board or similar devices work. It did spark a memory about a story I read over a year ago about a group of people who did contact an alien using of all things a Ouija board. So for your reading pleasure I tracked down the story, although it's on a different page then the one I read it at originally, but it still is the same story:
Ouija Calling ET: Do you copy? Part 1 Each part has the link to the next at the bottom of the page.

Anyways now I'm off to go Google that 666 thing from that cartoon. I wonder if anyone caught onto that?

Update 1:55pm:

Ok, the episode of the cartoon was Flea Bitten Ed. I still have it on my DVR so I'll see if I can get a snapshot with my camera latter. Don't know why I'm making such a big deal about this other then the fact I find hidden messages and subliminal messages interesting, especially if they appear in childrens shows, or at least shows meant for children...anyways...sort of deviated from the entire point of this post...hmmm...maybe I should get a job working on childrens programming and throw in random Lovecraftian Elder God messages...like "Cthulhu Fhtagn" lunch boxes...ok...I'm leaving now before I break this post lol...

Some More Octopoid Weirdness for You All

Figured with all the weird octopus trickster stuff and synchronicity of the last week, (See subjects 1 and 2 or you can just skip to the main story: Octopus sets off flood at aquarium) I might rustle up some other tricky octopus stories for you all.

The first one is a bit about a guy named Otto, who fittingly is an octopus and a tricky one at that. Seems he has a thing for shooting ink at the light in his tank when he wants to either sleep or mope around in the darkness. Do octopuses mope?

Otto the octopus wreaks havoc!

Our other octo buddy for the evening likes to wrestle around with sharks and well...eat them.

Shark Vs. Octopus

Another New Post at UFO Magazine Blog

Told you so...but sorry have to run for our lives now
An attempt at asking how an honest to God alien invasion might affect the UFO community...

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum

Found this awesome Lovecraftian link at Calls for Cthulhu. It's from The Onion (a spoof news page for those that don't know) and is a blast for both Lovecraft fans, or those growing tired of the school and religion debate: Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum

Bit of Octopoid Sychronistic Weirdness...

Not only did I post the aquarium flooding octopus last night, but so did two other people in the esoteric blogging world.

First Richelle Hawks applied a bit of esoteric thought to the same news story over at her blog, Beamships Equal Love and then Regan Lee over at the Orange Orb responded to Richelle's blog post. This synchronicity stuff is kind of trippy...