Thursday, May 27, 2010

Archeologists look into the legitimacy of famous crystal skull

Crystal skulls have long had a fringe following, and the most famous of them is one named for the explorer-author Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges (see “Legend of the Crystal Skulls”). Mitchell-Hedges claimed to have found the skull somewhere in Central America in the 1930s, but his adopted daughter Anna later said she found it under a fallen altar or inside a pyramid at the Maya site of Lubaantún in British Honduras (now Belize) some time in the 1920s. Neither of their contradictory accounts is true. In fact, like all the other crystal skulls thus far examined, it is a modern creation, despite its nearly mythical place in the minds of devotees.

Full article: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/mitchell_hedges/index.html

Canadian cop prepares for UFO invasion across the Northwest Territory

Astronomers and police say that the flares seen across a 360km-long stretch of the Top End coast were probably caused by a meteor shower.  But highly-qualified UFO-ologists said they believed the bright lights were space ships on a pre-attack scouting mission.  Darwin-based UFO expert Alan Ferguson said the flares were obviously aliens. "This all sounds like UFO activity," he said.  "Meteors usually just flash across the sky and leave a tail.  "But UFOs will stay in the same spot and wobble up and down and side to side. Fast movements.  "That's how they work."

Full article: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/05/27/150751_ntnews.html

Blaine Keith Milam gets death sentence for beating girl friend's daughter to death during exorcism

Labeled by prosecutors as a “monster” who deserves “the ultimate penalty,” convicted murderer Blaine Keith Milam was sentenced late Thursday night to die by lethal injection for his role in the beating death of his girlfriend’s daughter.  Milam, 20, was convicted of capital murder May 17 for killing 13-month-old Amora Carson, the daughter of his girlfriend, Jessica Carson.  Amora Carson died from blunt-force trauma inflicted on her Dec. 2, 2008. Milam and Jessica Carson, both of Rusk County, said they repeatedly struck the toddler with an unknown object in an attempt to remove demons from the child during an exorcism. An expert during the trial said 23 of 24 bite marks found on Amora Carson’s body belonged to Milam.

Full article: http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/05/27/conroe_courier/news/milam052810b.txt