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You CAN Explore Paranormal Habitat |
 By Robert A. Goerman
Weird happens.
But does weird happen on a regular basis in specific areas? Are certain landscapes naturally magical, sacred or sinister? Do portals to other realities truly exist?
We are not talking about those supposed spooky sites that are straightforward optical illusions. Advertised "mystery spots" and "gravity hills" have no vital connection to the so-called "paranormal."
We are examining locations reputed by researchers of various disciplines as having a much higher incidence of repeated mysterious occurrences.
This author prefers to identify these alleged areas as "ecosystems of the unexplained" or "paranormal habitat."
John "Mothman Prophecies" Keel coined the word "window and the concept of the "window area" to denote a fixed location with a history of recurrent unexplained activity. He discovered that "many of those reports are concentrated in areas where magnetic faults or deviations exist."
It has been noted that many of these locales can be recognized by the high incidence of place names with supernatural connotations (especially references to the Devil). This suggests that people have long experienced mystifying phenomena in these areas and acknowledged this when naming these locations.
If these windows exist, how accurately can they be pinpointed?
Can we explore them?
According to researcher Philip J. Imbrogno, while investigating UFO sightings and paranormal occurrences in the Hudson River Valley area of New York state, he noticed patterns as the data was plotted on maps. Much activity seemed to be centered around the little township of Kent Cliffs. High Strangeness Reports occurred in small, concentrated areas less than a mile in diameter. He dubbed these locations as "High Strangeness Areas."
Visiting these High Strangeness Areas, Imbrogno found, at every location, arrays of monoliths and stone chambers that he described as "carved and arranged in patterns indicating that whoever put them there did so with some idea in mind."
"We feel we have presented enough evidence to prove that the chambers are very old, and that a great deal of paranormal activity can be attributed to them," Imbrogno writes. "People continue to have otherworldly experiences in and around them, and the authors are no exception. We stated earlier that the chambers may mark doorways to another dimension. When this doorway is opened, objects or living things from this parallel reality may enter our world."
Can the terrain generate psychological and physiological effects?
The Gungywamp complex in Connecticut consists of paleo Indian sites, colonial sites, and "mysterious" sites that elude precise identification. One of the strangest areas of Gungywamp has little to do with the lithic remains, but rather with unexplained psychological and physiological effects. At a rock ledge called the "Cliff of Tears" is an area with evidence of ancient quarrying, nearby stone piles, and boat-shaped cairns. When hiking along this site, many folks become depressed and some start crying for no apparent reason. Others suffer nosebleeds and bleeding gums.
Andrew York and Paul Devereux published research in which the occurrences of recorded strange phenomena over a number of centuries were geographically mapped. Both archival accounts of meteorological anomalies together with reported UFOs were found to have had their greatest incidence over faulted regions.
Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist and geologist at Laurentian University in Canada, together with Gyslaine Lafreniére, fed information on thousands of reported anomalies (UFO sightings and "Fortean" events) into an IBM computer. When plotted on maps, all of the data seemed to form a series of patterns. These events corresponded to a seismic map of the United States picturing magnetic faults and earthquake zones. They hypothesized that "unusual events occur in the same locality, year after year" and that "clusters of these unusual events parallel similar clusters in other localities worldwide."
There may also be a connection with earth lights. Apparent paranormal phenomena are reported in areas experiencing periods of earth light activity. People report seeing bizarre figures. Voices are sometimes heard. Earth lights researchers argue that these are hallucinatory effects caused specifically by energy fields associated with light phenomena closely encountered and generally by the area that is producing earth energies affecting brain function of witnesses.
What if these are not hallucinatory effects?
A random sampling of ten other alleged "ecosystems of the unexplained" includes...
Superstition Mountains, Arizona There is an ancient archaeological site located in the Superstition Wilderness Area. The site is called "Circlestone" and consists of a large circular structure (6,010 feet above sea level) with a pit or ceremonial house located in the center. Few points tower above Circlestone in the area. The structure sits on a quartzite outcrop that inhibits any real excavation. Very few artifacts have been found within the structure itself. Numerous shards have been found that would indicate the Anasazi could have occupied the region at some time or the other. (Reported activity: UFO, reptilian humanoids, time and dimensional shifts, secret entry into a subterranean world. Those who claim to have penetrated the tunnel tell of the remains of ancient structures and a spiral staircase that leads down into the bowels of earth.)
Sedona, Arizona (Reported activity: UFO, spooklights, a portal or doorway to another dimension.)
Mt. Diablo-Diablo Valley east of San Francisco, California (Reported activity: phantom black panthers, mystery lights.)
Devil's Bake Oven near Grand Tower, Illinois (Reported activity: mystery animals and UFOs.)
Hockomock Swamp, Massachusetts The Bridgewater Triangle encompasses an area of about 200 square miles and includes the towns of Abington, Rehoboth and Freetown at the points of the triangle. Central to the area is the mysterious Hockomock Swamp, which the Native Americans called "the Devil's swamp" or "Place where spirits dwell." Within the triangle is a mysterious forty-ton trapezoid-shaped boulder known as Dighton Rock. It is on the bank of the Taunton River, 30 miles from the sea, directly across from the Grassy Island burial grounds. On one face of the stone is a dense mass of very ancient carvings. (Reported activity: UFOs, Bigfoot, huge black prehistoric-looking bird, phantom dog with red eyes seen killing two ponies, black panthers, giant turtles and snakes as thick as tree trunks, spooklights.)
North Salem, New York: "Balanced Rock" just off Route 116 (Reported activity: In the wee hours of the morning, strange cloaked figures have been seen surrounding the stone, only to disappear into thin air when approached. Photographs have reportedly displayed anomalies. Visitors report an odd sensation when touching a specific edge of the stone. Is this energy similar to the “tingle stone“ in Gloucestershire, which is said to discharge a shock like static electricity?)
Purchase, New York: A"standing stone" at the state university campus. (Reported activity: Witness near the monolith at night was forced to the ground with vertigo and claimed to see hooded dwarf-like beings suddenly appear and circle the stone. He blacked out and was alone when he regained consciousness.)
Croton Falls and Southeast, New York: Magnetic Mine Road / Reservoir Road. (Reported activity: UFOs. Spooklights. Dwarf-like hooded beings emerged from a portal, a shimmering circle of blue that appeared in an outcrop of rock following a buzzing sound. In another incident, two lawyers and their wives returning home from a Broadway show one night took a shortcut along Reservoir Road and encountered a triangular UFO and three little men with huge eyes and tight-fitting uniforms. The eyes of the beings glowed deep red in the dark when one of the witnesses shined his flashlight at them. Eyeshine is a biological trait of creatures adapted to seeing in low light.)
Big Thicket, Texas spreads across Hardin County and southwestern Louisiana. (Reported activity: Spooklights, some of which have been known to disable automobile engines and seem to exhibit intelligence, howling ape-like wildmen, attacks by phantom primitive Indians, unexplained fireballs that streak through darkened skies.)
Uintah County, Utah (Reported activity: UFOs, unusual balls of light, animal mutilations and disappearances, poltergeist events, sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures, living dinosaurs, and other unidentified animals, physical effects on plants, soil, animals and humans, strange ice circles, magnetic anomalies. Doorways to other realms or dimensions are seen as glowing tubes and random holes or rips in the sky.)
Let's face facts.
People have encountered unexplained lights, objects, creatures and entities since ever. One need not believe in such things in order to meet them. Anomalous phenomena are most often experienced by lone individuals in isolated locations and occur abruptly and can evoke shock and terror. Factors of perception such as duration of the event and distances involved come into play. Our sum total of knowledge concerning the "unknown" depends heavily upon the accuracy of excited eyewitness observation and memory.
Is it possible to dramatically increase the number of these encounters by sending prepared investigative teams into active hotbeds of high strangeness? Will increasing the frequency of experiences lead to more prolonged events where conditions are favorable? Will this lead to documented reports made immediately by well-equipped observers who remain relatively calm?
Readily available and affordable technologies have empowered us like never before. Video and photographic (digital and analog) capabilities, instant communications with cellular telephones, GPS and night vision, and personal computers and the internet can turn the amateur paranormal enthusiasts of today into ever ready explorers.
People spend thousands of dollars to visit exotic locales. A fistful of wealthy individuals has squandered twenty million dollars apiece for a few days in space. How once-in-a-lifetime is glimpsing an "alien" world through an open doorway right here on Earth?
Maybe outer space is not our "final frontier."
Passive investigations (recording anecdotal summaries of accidental observers) must be subservient to active investigations (deliberate hunting) of anomalous phenomena in their paranormal habitat.
You CAN explore this paranormal habitat.
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