http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/keep-portland-paranormal/Content?oid=7645321 Comments On: Keep Portland Paranormal by Alex Zielinski en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Tim Riley]]> Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:18:54 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Will Radik]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:10:48 -0800 Portland Mercury
"Why Is Portland a Hotbed for Unexplained Phenomena?".
How about "Why do so many people in Portland believe in the paranormal?".

I'd wager for the same reasons so many people here believe in homeopathy, horoscopes and fluoride as a conspiracy. I've been on ghost hunts. I've chased UFOs. There's a lot more psychology, sociology and flat-out misinterpretation that takes place under heightened circumstances. It's not ignorance by any stretch, but it does go hand in hand with a poor understanding of the scientific method. And to be clear -- waving an EMF meter around a graveyard does not automatically qualify as scientific. Been there, done that.

When you start at your conclusion and work backwards, the tendency is to cherry-pick data to support your conclusions and see patterns that aren't really there. That method of investigation is as sloppy as this piece of journalism.

As for collecting evidence: we live in an age where virtually everyone is armed with a camera phone. If there were so many convincing cases of hauntings, alien encounters, hell, BIGFOOT... we'd have some decent photos or video by now. Thus far, nothing has passed scientific scrutiny.

As the maxim goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. At such time that something convincing is submitted, tested and tested again, the scientific outlook will adapt.

Just because something is "unexplained" doesn't mean automatically make it "supernatural" in nature. That's a big jump, and one that has yet to be proven.
Posted by groschopf]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:54:55 -0800 Portland Mercury Dedicated to the Collection and Dissemination of Objective UFO Data

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http://www.ufocenter.com/reportform.html

Hotline: 206-722-3000 (use only if the sighting has occurred within the last week.)

http://www.nuforc.org

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Posted by Tillamook Transplant]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:52:42 -0800 Portland Mercury http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRUDvPO4-Hc


Eastern Washington hole is shrouded in mystery
By Denise Whitaker Published: Feb 7, 2012

Eastern Washington hole is shrouded in mystery »Play Video
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- From Bigfoot to the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, the Pacific Northwest is full of mysteries. Another mystery buried deep in the hills of eastern Washington keeps resurfacing.

Ellensburg and its surrounding valleys and Manastash Ridge are beautiful in any season.

Some believe what lies beneath is a deep, dark hole with supernatural powers.

A man named Red Elk is one of the only people alive known to have ever seen the mysterious hole.

A Native American Shaman, or medicine man, Red Elk said his dad first showed him the hole in 1961.

"He said 'This is an endless hole,'" Red Elk said.

Red Elk's been back many times and said strange things happen every time he goes near it.

"People get it confused with what I call the devil's hole," he said.

Many locals claim to know about the hole, but it didn't become phenomena until 1997, when Mel Waters went on the Coast to Coast radio show with Art Bell.

"I brought the dogs with me." Waters said on the show. "They wouldn't go anywhere near the damn thing."

Waters said the hole had a three-foot stone wall around it.

It seemed bottomless to him, so he used an old shark fisherman's trick -- sending thousands of feet of fishing line down.

"What I did, was I sent down a roll of lifesavers," he said. "So when it hit water the lifesavers would dissolve."

But the lifesavers came back up whole -- no water -- so how deep was this hole?

Waters said he believed it descended miles into the earth and he heard strange stories about its powers.

"One guy claims that he threw his departed canine down into the hole," he said. "He swears the dog actually came back to him."

Red Elk said it was when Waters went public that the trouble began.

"Now I'm going public on this. And that could land me in a pile of junk," he said.

Red Elk claims the government has a secret base there.

"An underground base, a very small, underground base," he said.

That's how Red Elk explains the white boxes covering the area on some satellite images.

He also said he's seen "alien activity" in the area.

"A huge space craft, one, will appear and hover over the hole," he said.

That's what he said happens during Summer Solstice, when space men load and unload things at the hole before flying away.

At the Northwest Museum of Legends and Lore, Phil Lipson said he's heard the stories.

"Well, I believe there is a hole," Lipson said.

But Lipson's never seen the hole, even though he's led expeditions to find it.

"I think it's actually a true event just something that's never been totally uncovered," he said.

And to this day, no one's been able to find it, since that famous radio conversation.

Ellensburg Public Library Historian Milton Wagy said the story became a sensation after Waters went on the radio.

He said the phone rang off the hook with all kinds of stories about the hole -- some explainable -- some not.

He's still trying to solve the mystery of what happened to the library's file on Mel's Hole.

"Well it just disappeared, which lends itself to the mysteriousness of Mel's Hole," Wagy said. "Did Mel take it? Did it just kind of rise out of the locked file cabinet."You never know there might be a hole out there."

Now the question is, can anyone can find Mel's Hole and prove its existence?


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Posted by Tillamook Transplant]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:50:14 -0800 Portland Mercury http://www.eceti.org/Eceti.Testimonials.ht…

About The ECETI Ranch

An unprecedented event is unfolding in a small town known as Trout Lake, Washington. This event has the potential to change the course and destiny of Humanity and the Earth. The people of Earth are being offered a chance to join the rest of the universe in peace.

The technologies to end disease, clean up and restore the environment, fuel-less energy technologies, and the virtual keys to Utopia have been disseminated and are waiting for distribution and production. A whole new world is unfolding for those with the courage to accept it.

C5 Contact with spiritually and technologically advanced extra and ultra terrestrial off world visitors which we refer to as the greater family of man has occurred at the home of James Gilliland, known as the Sattva Sanctuary. ABC, Fox News, The History Channel, Evening Magazine, and other cable channels too numerous to mention have covered the ongoing contacts at the Sanctuary. Radio shows such as Coast to Coast AM with George Noory & Art Bell, Jeff Rense and many others have all covered this incredible verifiable event.

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Posted by Tillamook Transplant]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:43:01 -0800 Portland Mercury NASA has recently announced that they intend to make an announcement. NASA won't say what that unspecified announcement will be about, except that it has something to do with what Curiosity rover has found on Mars.

This is similar to how when NASA made an announcement of a scheduled press conference on another undisclosed subject, which at the press conference, turned out to be about a supposedly new life form, an arsenic eating bacteria, found in a polluted lake in the desert of California. This press conference coincidentally, eclipsed the news of the return to Earth of the secret X-37B which has been reported "missing", lost in Space, on a nine month long Mission, by the Airforce. A few days latter, scientists totally debunked NASASS' findings as fraudulent. We still don't know shit about the X-37B.

Where oh where can I ever find the retractions?

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/02dec_monolake/

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/12/this_paper_should_not_have_been_published.html

http://www.news.com.au/technology/us-air-forces-secret-space-shuttle-x-37b-goes-missing-again-rumours-of-possible-landing/story-e6frfro0-1225937846236

http://science.time.com/2012/11/20/a-mars-announcement-for-the-history-books/

Posted by Tillamook Transplant]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:43:20 -0800 Portland Mercury
http://www.twedescafe.com/

Just a few weeks ago, a UFO was seen dropping a shitload of orrange orbs into Lake Sawyer, in Maple Valley.

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2025&category=Environment
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