Identical Strangers: HuffPo catches up with an article published here over a year ago: 'I'm Not A Lookalike' Project Showcases Strangers Who Look Like Twins (PHOTOS)

'I'm Not A Lookalike' Project Showcases Strangers Who Look Like Twins (PHOTOS)



The real question about identical strangers is, when they are living a mile away from each other and belong to the same mothers' group, why didn't ANYONE at some point EVER say, "jeebus prison showering christ you two are identical!" huh?



Seems very odd no one would remark on it.



Nancy Lanza and Ann E Haddad for example.



I wonder if the whole doppelganger photo project is nothing more than case management to cover the use of lookalikes in intel operations- going back to the many Lee Harvey Oswalds and James Earl Ray lookalike who kindly provided him with a passport for his government funded overseas travel?

A gorilla by any other name, would smell as... sweet

I now have a theory that, of themselves, men never did
evolve from lower animals: but that, in early and plastic
times, a human being from somewhere else appeared
upon this earth, and that many kinds of animals took him for a model, and rudely and grotesquely imitated his
appearances, so that, today, though the gorillas of the Congo and of Chicago are only caricatures, some of the rest of us are somewhat passable imitations of human beings.

Charles Fort

Sinister Barrier - Eric Frank Russell

Sinister Barrier - Eric Frank Russell

"Swift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking," mused Professor Peder Bjornsen. It was a new slant, and a wicked one. He passed long, slender fingers through prematurely white hair. His eyes, strangely protruding, filled with uncanny light, stared out of his office window which gaped on the third level above traffic swirling through Stockholm's busy Hötorget. But those eyes were not looking at the traffic.

The fence and the warnings Sinister Barrier is Eric Frank Russell's first novel. It was quite a debut. The original version was chosen by editor John W. Campbell to lead off the March 1939 first issue of his legendary fantasy magazine Unknown, companion to Astounding Science Fiction. The novel is solid science fiction, with subtleties and even profundities that may not be obvious in the thrilling pace of the plot. Minutes after Professor Bjornsen's thought (above) that opens Sinister Barrier, the scientist is dead — apparently of heart failure. Other scientists in Europe and America with whom he has been in communication attempt to reproduce his experimental results, to see whatever Bjornsen saw. A couple of weeks later, Doctor Hans Luther agitatedly calls the editor of the Dortmund Zeitung, begins to explain with great urgency, "Earth is belted with a warning streamer that says: KEEP OFF THE GRASS!" Luther watched the stairs and sweated. "Ha-ha!" responded Vogel, without mirth. His heavy face moved in the tiny vision-screen above the telephone, bore the patient expression of one accustomed to the eccentricities of scientists. "Listen!" yelled Luther. He wiped his forehead with the back of a quivering hand. "You know me. You know that I do not tell lies, I do not joke. I tell you nothing which I cannot prove. So I tell you that now and perhaps for thousands of years past, this troubled world of ours ... a-ah! ... a-a-ah!" Luther dies, perhaps of heart failure, and whatever he was intent on revealing is not completed. Susceptible to what? Bill Graham is "a government liaison officer between scientists and the U.S. Department of Special Finance". When he sees a man he knows, phlegmatic Professor Walter Mayo, plunge to his death from a New York skyscraper for no obvious reason, Graham begins to get caught up in the mystery of the scientists' deaths. There's a parallel case the same day, another scientist — "The medical examiner maintains that he died of heart disease — yet he expired while shooting at nothing." Investigating this case, Graham meets police lieutenant Art Wohl. Together, Graham and Wohl try to track down why the scientists have died — what were they doing, what did they have in common? What information were they exchanging? What risky technique or dangerous insight had they learned directly or indirectly from Professor Bjornsen? One of the clues seems to be that some of the late scientists were experimenting with iodine, a substance found richly in seafood. Graham remembers obscure notes left by one of the scientists: Sailors are notoriously susceptible. Susceptible to what? [Graham wonders.] To illusions and to maritime superstitions based upon illusions? — the sea serpent, the sirens, the Flying Dutchman, mermaids, and the bleached, bloated, soul-clutching things whose clammy faces bob and wail in the moonlit wake? Must extend the notion, and get data showing how seaboard dwellers compare with country folk. (The scientist's notes are offset with italics, as above; the fine NESFA collection Entities unfortunately loses Russell's italicization.) Vision, courage, & persuasion Graham is an excellent Russellian investigator: intelligent, brave, and flexible. Iodine, mescal, methylene blue? Scientists and doctors specializing in optics who drop dead in unusual circumstances? Each matter-of-fact step in the investigation complicates the mystery, exacerbate the weirdness — until Graham and Wohl realize that they may be getting to know too much themselves. Sinister Barrier is a great scientific adventure in the true Baconian sense, fast-paced and thrilling. Later in the novel another courageous scientist, Professor Beach, points out to Graham that — "When Galileo peered incredulously through his telescope he found data that had stood before millions of uncomprehending eyes for countless centuries ..." And — "... the microscope ... disclosed a fact that had been right under the world's nose since the dawn of time, yet never had been suspected — the fact that we share our world, our whole existence, with a veritable multitude of living creatures hidden beyond the limits of our natural sight, hidden in the infinitely small. Think of it ... living, active animals swarming around us, above us, below us, within us, fighting, breeding and dying even within our own blood-streams, yet remaining completely concealed, unguessed-at, until the microscope lent power to our inadequate eyes." So in the most straightforward sense it is a question of vision; and as so often, of the courage and persuasiveness of pioneer visionaries. Charles Fort's facts & speculations Russell opens his Foreword to the 1948 edition with an odd and arresting statement: It would be idle to pretend and dishonest to suggest that Sinister Barrier is anything other than fiction. Some may regard it as fantasy because it is placed in the future and depicts certain developments likely in times to come. But I regard it as a sort of fact-fiction solely because I do sincerely believe that if ever a story was based upon facts it is this one. Sinister Barrier is as true a story as it is possible to concoct while presenting believe-it-or-not truths in the guise of entertainment. It derives its fantastic atmosphere only from the queerness, the eccentricity, the complete inexplicability — so far as dogmatic science is concerned — of the established facts which gave it birth. These facts are myriad. I have them in the form of a thousand press clippings ... In his Foreword, Russell credits three men with the "cumulative effect" that led to the story jelling for him. One asked, "Since everyone wants peace, why don't we get it?" The second, "If there are extra-terrestrial races further advanced than ourselves, why haven't they visited us already?" Until I encountered the third, Charles Fort, it didn't occur to me that perhaps we had been visited and were still being visited, without being aware of it. Charles Fort gave me what might well be the answer to both these questions. Casually but devastatingly, he said, "I think we're property." And that is the plot of Sinister Barrier. And so the title. Earth is effectively fenced, its self-proclaimed human masters are in fact themselves herded property of things unseen — at least, unseen by "normal people" in "normal circumstances". And what happens if a few people begin to see, and try to spread the news? Swift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking. Charles Fort (1874-1932) was the premier collector of documented oddities and reports of unexplained events. In the course of the novel Russell provides a small clutch of relevant and fascinating Fortean examples. Graham and others speculate a little about extra-sensory perception in general, what editor John W. Campbell later would call psionics. Russell also finds opportunity to mention mysterious appearances — Kaspar Hauser; and disappearances — Benjamin Bathurst. Russell was long involved in Fortean Society affairs. Things fall from the sky Along with Fortean acknowledgments in his Foreword, Russell thanks: John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of Astounding Science-Fiction and Unknown Worlds, for kicking me around until this story bore more resemblance to a story. And for the New York newspaper clipping — eight starlings falling from the sky in a group, dead without visible injury — that sets the initial tone for the novel: Julius Schwartz, editor of Superman, for providing the press clipping shown on a following page, and with it the spark-plug which got me going. And, flatteringly but sincerely: To thousands of science-fiction fans for being willing to enter the gates of hell — providing that they get in on the ground floor — and thus being willing to read this yarn. Whose is the barrier? Do we want to see, do we want to know, even if seeing the truth and knowing what it means changes our comfortable context and puts us into a kind of hell, or seems to? Toward the middle of Sinister Barrier, the title phrase occurs in an almost throwaway sense, as Professor Beach tells Graham: "The scale of electro-magnetic vibrations extends over sixty octaves, of which the human eye can see but one. Beyond that sinister barrier of our limitations, outside that poor, ineffective range of vision, bossing every man-jack of us from the cradle to the grave, invisibly preying on us as ruthlessly as any parasite, are our malicious, all-powerful lords and masters — the creatures who really own the Earth!" But this is another kind of barrier. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

© 2002 Robert Wilfred Franson ***  In an "Author's Note" at the start of the story, Russell says that Sinister Barrier is "as true a story as it is possible to concoct while presenting believe-it-or-not truths in the guise of entertainment". He cites a number of real-life sources behind the ideas in the novel, including Charles Fort's own speculation "I think we are property". In true Fortean tradition, Sinister Barrier is packed with odd little newspaper clippings... and in keeping with Russell's stated intention of presenting fact in the form of fiction, these are all real news items. As Russell himself says, "every back-dated press item mentioned in this story is absolutely authentic".

The Dragon and the Pearl

Charles Fort's legacy stolen, perverted and destroyed.

How did joyless shitpail cheapjack debunker fuckwits end up "owning" the Charles Fort legacy? Who let that happen?

The original term from 1946 through the late 1960s for what is now called "ufology" was actually "Fortean"- for example official American military documents from the 1950s talk about the need to silence Forteans and stop them from spreading the truth about UFOs (amongst other things).

So it is no accident that Forteana has been hijacked by the typical close minded, not very intelligent big mouthed fuckwits who spoil pretty much every modern pursuit for knowledge. These classic products of the modern social collapse and tenth rate education processes have turned Charles Fort and his legacy into just another dead end of clueless and creditless debunking of genuine mysteries, with the usual awful tone of- not skepticism, which is valuable- but rather debunking, which has been accurately described as a kind of immature schoolyard bully type psychological defect.

Charles Fort and his legacy needs to be totally revitalised, not left in the paws of these utterly irredeemable assclowns. He was once known and honoured for his outside-the-box thinking, and although his prose is purple to the point of incomprehensibility at times, his central tenet- that we cannot be certain of ANYTHING, and that ALL categories are arbitrary, contains a lot of common sense.

We need to fight to take back Forteana.

1952

Summer, 1952:

Forteana is hijacked by the debunker fuckwits who have controlled it and sidelined it ever since.

All part of CIA / DIA plans relating to UFOs of course.

Charles (Fort/Darwin)

Charles Fort on Charles Darwin:

"In mere impressionism we take our stand. We have no positive tests nor standards. Realism in art: realism in science-they pass away. In 1859 the thing to do was to accept Darwinism; now many biologists are revolting and trying to conceive of something else. The thing to do was to accept it in its day, but Darwinism of course was never proved:

The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest-
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.

There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness" then, is only another name for "survival".

Darwinism:

That survivors survive."


-Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, 1919, pp 37-38

Yonaguni Underwater Step Pyramid or Monument - Crystalinks

Yonaguni Underwater Step Pyramid or Monument - Crystalinks

Yonaguni Underwater Step Pyramid or Monument

The Yonaguni Monument is a massive underwater rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan. There is a debate about whether the site is completely natural, is a natural site that has been modified, or is a manmade artifact.

It is composed of terraces and steps, and has formations up for personal interpretation. It is perhaps part of an ancient civilization that lived on the planet millennia ago, almost looking like an ancient landing platform. This takes us to Ancient Alien Theory.

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The Monument consists of medium to very fine sandstones and mudstones of the Lower Miocene Yaeyama Group, deposited about 20 million years ago. Most of the significant formations are connected to the underlying rock mass (as opposed to being assembled out of freestanding rocks).

The main feature (the "Monument" proper) is a rectangular formation measuring about 150 by 40 m (490 by 130 ft), and about 27 m (90 ft) tall; the top is about 5 m (16 ft) below sea level. Most of its top surface consists of a complex series of terraces and broad steps, mostly rectangular, bounded by near vertical walls.

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Photos

Post Holes

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Interpretations of the Structures

The "Loop Road" is a 5 m (16 ft) wide ledge that encircles the base of the formation on three sides;

The "Totem" is a stone column about 7 m (23 ft) tall;

The "Gosintai" is an isolated boulder resting on a low platform;

The Turtle or Thunderbird is a low star-shaped platform

The Dividing Wall is a straight wall 10 m (33 ft) long

The Triangle Pool is a triangular depression with two large holes at its edge

The Stage is an L-shaped rock that Resembles a Dragon

The Stone Face is reminiscent of the Moai of Easter Island

The Ramps

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Artificial Structures The flat parallel faces, sharp edges, and mostly right angles of the formation have led many people, including many of the underwater photographers and divers that have visited the site and some scholars, to the opinion that those features are man-made.

These people include Gary and Cecilia Hagland and Tom Holden who went on underwater expeditions to study and photograph the site as well as Dr. Sean Kingsley, a marine archaeologist. These features include a trench that has two internal 90° angles as well as the twin megaliths that appear to have been placed there. These megaliths have straight edges and square corners. However sea currents have been known to move large rocks on a regular basis.

Some of those who see the formations as being largely natural claim that they may have been modified by human hands. The semi-regular terraces of the Monument have been compared to other examples of megalithic architecture, such as the rock-hewn terraces seen at Sacsayhuaman. The formations have also been compared to the Okinawa Tomb, a rock-hewn structure of uncertain age.

Other evidence presented by those who favor an artificial origin include the two round holes (about 2 feet wide, according to photographs) on the edge of the Triangle Pool feature, and a straight row of smaller holes which have been interpreted as an abandoned attempt to split off a section of the rock by means of wedges, as in ancient quarries. Kimura believes that he has identified traces of drawings of animals and people engraved on the rocks, including a horse-like sign that he believes resembles a character from the Kaida script. Some have also interpreted a formation on the side of one of the monuments as a crude moai-like "face".

Supporters of artificial origin also argue that, while many of the features seen at Yonaguni are also seen in natural sandstone formations throughout the world, the concentration of so many peculiar formations in such a small area is highly unlikely. They also point to the relative absence of loose blocks on the flat areas of the formation, which would be expected if they were formed solely by natural erosion and fracturing.

If any part of the Monument was deliberately constructed or modified, that must have happened during the last Ice Age, when the sea level was much lower than it is today (e.g. 39 m (130 ft) lower around 10,000 years BCE).

During the Ice Age, the East China Sea was a narrow bay opening to the ocean at today's Tokara Gap. The Sea of Japan was an inland sea and there was no Yellow Sea; people and animals could walk into the Ryukyu peninsula from the continent. Therefore, Yonaguni was the southern end of a land bridge that connected it to Taiwan, Ryuyu, Japan and Asia. This fact is underscored by a rock pillar in a now-submerged cave that has been interpreted as a fused stalactite-stalagmite pair, which could only form above water.

Kimura first estimated that this must be at least 10,000 years old (8,000 BCE) dating it to a time when it would have been above water.

In a report given to the 21st Pacific Science Congress in 2007 he revised this estimate and dated it to 2,000 to 3,000 years ago as the sea level then was close to current levels.

The existence of an ancient stoneworking tradition at Yonaguni and other Ryukyu islands is demonstrated by some old tombs and several stone vessels of uncertain age.

Has Heimdall begun to sound the Horn Resounding? Is Ragnarok upon us?

What Is Causing The Strange Noises In The Sky That Are Being Heard All Over The World?

John Keel: Disneyland of the Gods / Take a cue from Charles Fort

”Unknown, luminous things, or being,” he observed, ”have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else in our existence, but that others were lights on the vessels of explorers, or voyagers, from somewhere else.” 

For the first thirty-three years of the modern UFO epoch (1947-1970) the notion that those mysterious lights and objects belonged to ”the vessels of explorers, or voyagers, from somewhere else” was the most popular theory. A handful of cranks and wishful thinkers spread propaganda that extraterrestrial visitants were flocking to this mudball. But the great UFO wave of 1964-68 attracted a new generation of investigators and scientists. They soon realized that the extraterrestrial hypothesis was untenable for many reasons. So they fell back on the explanation that the objects came ”from somewhere else in our existence.” That ”somewhere else” could be as elusive as the fabled fourth dimension, or the ”other planes” of psychic lore. Fort himself had realized early in the game that the events he was studying were not unusual. They happened year after year, century after century. More importantly, they tended to occur in the same geographical locations. This strongly indicates that these events – be they fish falling from the sky or strange aircraft adorned with flashing lights – are inexorably linked with the earth. They are as much a part of our environment as clouds and bumblebees.

When a UFO wave develops (usually about once every five years), we can be sure that sightings at Loch Ness will increase sharply, that showers of stones (always warm to the touch) will start pelting isolated homes in suburbia, and that people will start to disappear everywhere. These manifestations are accompanied by magnetic storms and sharp, dramatic deviations in the earth's magnetism in certain locales, particularly in areas such as the famous Bermuda Triangle. In the 1950s, a Canadian named Wilbur Smith devised a special instrument to detect and measure the collapse of molecular structures during magnetic storms. All kinds of objects literally fall apart when magnetic conditions are just right. Volunteer airline pilots carried Smith's instruments around the world and he was able to make crude charts of the phenomena. Unfortunately, no one continued his experiments after his death.

Charles Fort perceived a truth that had been ignored by scientists and historians. Our world has twosets of natural laws. One set tells us stupidly simple things about gravity and nature. The other tells us that space and time are constantly distorted in our reality, and that we are all subject to the still undefined laws of that second set. We never know when we might step through that magic door thatwill suddenly transport us 10,000 miles away. We never know when we might encounter a beast of a being from ”somewhere else in our existence.” Fish may rain on us, or red snow, or clouds of insects that no scientist can identify. Flying saucers will continue to buzz our farms and swamps, just as they have for thousands of years. Science attempts to work with the first set of laws and theycome up with Black Holes. Magicians, occultists and psychics strive to manipulate the second group of laws. In the closing years of this century, science and magic are merging. 

When For tstudied the bizarre events of the super-spectrum (a spectrum of energy beyond the known and thevisible) he was obliged to ask, ”If there is a Universal Mind, must it be sane?”

Steamtown: Charles Fort