On 30th September 1955, James Dean was on his way from LA to Salinas, California. He was set to take part in a sports car race in his Porsche 550 Spyder - a car nicknamed "Little Bastard" when he crashed. The 24-year-old was rushed to hospital. By the time the ambulance reached its destination, James Dean was dead. Since then and so began the story of the curse of Little Bastard.

The first inkling came on 23 September 1955, from fellow actor Alec Guinness. Dean  was showing off his newly customised ride outside of a restaurant. Guinness was far from impressed. He said the car looked “sinister”. If that was too subtle a hint at what was to come he then told Dean: “If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week.” Seven days later, Dean was dead. Little Bastard would not only claim the life of James Dean. More were either injured or killed and here’s where things start to get creepy…

George Barris, who (allegedly) carried out the aforementioned custom job (and famously did the work on the original TV Batmobile), forked out $2500 for the wreck of “Little Bastard”. Shortly after the purchase it slipped off its trailer breaking a mechanic’s leg.

Before long Barris sold parts of Little Bastard to racers Troy McHenry and William Eschrid. The two were racing against one another, each in cars that had parts from Little Bastard, when of course things went wrong. The latter entered a turn when his car locked up and rolled over, leaving him seriously injured. Bad enough, but McHenry lost control and drove straight into a tree. He was killed instantly.

Two tyres from the accident which claimed Dean’s life were somehow untouched. Barris decided to sell them. Both blew out simultaneously forcing the new owner off the road. The bits of Little Bastard that Barris hadn’t sold caught the eye of two thieves. The theft, of course, went awry. The first thief tore open his arm trying to nab the steering wheel while his compatriot was injured attempting to remove a bloodstained seat.

California Highway Patrol borrowed the cursed wreck for a highway safety campaign. Misery followed. While being transported the truck carrying the car lost control. What happened next was truly bizarre. The driver fell out of his cab and was crushed by Little Bastard after it fell off the back. More disaster was to come. The garage that housed the car burned to the ground in a fire which somehow left the car undamaged. Highway Patrol hoped for more success at the next exhibition at a local high school. That ended abruptly when the car fell off its display. An unfortunate student was left with a broken hip. And speaking of “highway safety”…

In a cruel twist of irony, just weeks before his fatal crash, James Dean took a break from filming epic Western "Giant" to record a public service announcement. The announcement was to promote safe driving. During the message he uttered the fateful words, "Take it easy driving, the life you save might save might be mine."

Embellishment? Coincidence? Curse? You decide. I just know if someone asked me to get in a car that had anything to do with Little Bastard, I’d take the bus instead.

On the topic of my book Jane Doe: A Northwoods story, I’d like to share a quirky little synchronicity. I was listening to a podcast (re-listening actually. I’d heard it before and put it on again just for something to fall asleep to. The joys of insomnia!) and the topic was something I was familiar with, but I hadn't realised it may have subconsciously inspired my Jane Doe story. While there are plenty of YouTube videos on the topic, finding anything written on the subject is not so easy, so I’ll do my best to give you the nutshell version of one of the strangest phenomena in modern paranormal study - The Missing 411.

Retired police detective David Paulides was asked to look into strange missing person cases in US National Forests and Parks. According to the park ranger, they would talk amongst themselves about how often people would actually go missing and how nothing ever came of it. Not only that, the stories had similar connecting themes and bizarrely creepy circumstances. It took little digging for him to find instances of missing people were far for prevalent than anyone would care to admit.

Paulides reached out to the the various National Parks about these missing persons to ask for a list of current cases. Being a former police officer, he was familiar with police protocols for missing person cases, knowing you could walk into any precinct, ask for the information, and they’d be happy to hand a list over to you hoping to get a hand solving and therefore closing an open case. He was expecting the same for National Parks. He was wrong.

According to Paulides, he asked Yosemite for their data and they told him they’d be happy to put a list together. For $34,000…

In the end he filed a Freedom of Information request to get his hands on as much data from as many National Parks as he could. Fair enough. However, it was soon thereafter he received a call from a lawyer from the National Park service to tell him they don’t keep a list, but instead rely on the memories of their staff to keep track of these cases. They don’t keep files. They don’t keep lists of people who have gone missing in their parks. He can’t have a list because one doesn’t exist.

Now the dogged investigator was really interested.

Hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours later, Paulides found 411 cases of missing persons in US National Parks. And the rangers were right, some of the similarities were indeed creepy. Some of the people were never heard of again. Some came back. Their stories are stranger still.

Here are a few of these unusual cases…

STEVEN KUBACKI

February 1977. 24-year-old Steven Kubacki was cross-country skiing through the snow near Lake Michigan. Upon reaching the edge of the lake, he removed his skis for a short rest. When it came time to go, his tracks were gone and he got lost.

His footprints were found leading up to the lake and it was presumed he’d committed suicide in the icy waters. He had not.

Lost in the snow, the last thing he remembers is getting tired, dizzy, and blacking out. When he came to, he was in a grassy clearing in a forest in clothes that were not his. It was spring.

Baffled, he headed for the nearest town and asked a local where he was. The answer left him more confused. He was in Massachusetts. SEVEN HUNDRED MILES from where he’d gone missing. Perhaps more bizarrely, he knew the name of the town he was in. He had family there. An aunt. He went to her and she asked where he’d been. Steven had no answer. The aunt told him that he’d been missing for 14 months.

KEITH PARKINS

1952. Ritta, Oregon. Two-year-old Keith was playing outside his home in the Oregon winter. When he went missing, a search party was formed and, because it was winter, a trail was soon found. However, after a while the little footprints just… stopped. There were no animal or adult prints nearby, nothing to suggest the boy’s life was in any imminent danger, just… nothing.

Nineteen hours later, Keith was found, face down in the snow on a frozen pond. He’d been out overnight in the snowy winter weather, and yet, miraculously, the boy was alive. The pond was 12 miles from where he’d gone missing. 12 miles over two mountain ranges, fences and creeks. At night. A toddler.

JAMES McGROGAN

2014. Vale, Colorado. While split-snowboarding along a popular trail with friends, James disappeared into thin air. Equipped with GPS, James set off ahead of his friends and told them he’d meet them at the next stop. When they arrived at the next stop, James was not there. Nor was he at any of the other stops along the trail. What’s strange is, there were no prints leading away from the trail. (See “thin air” above.)

Five days later, over four miles away, at the bottom of a frozen waterfall, James McGrogan’s body was found. The area had been searched multiple times and despite the fact James was wearing a helmet, his skull had been crushed as if he’d been dropped from a great height. While he was still wearing his ski-suit, he was barefoot. His boots were never found.

DANNY FILLIPIDIS

February 2018. Danny told friends on a ski trip in New York that he wanted to go for one more run down the mountain before taking a lunch break. By 4PM, Danny had failed to return. Naturally, his friends were worried by this and alerted authorities. A search party of over one hundred people was hastily assembled but sadly, Danny was nowhere to be found.

Six days had gone by when his wife got a strange phone call. The voice was faint, the line muffled by static, but the voice was Danny’s. He was confused and after a short time and making little sense he ended the call. His wife quickly called back and pleaded with him to call 911. Thankfully, he did just that.

Unable to give information as to his whereabouts and only able to describe his surroundings, it took police a while to find where he was calling from. When they got there, they found Danny bewildered, still in his ski gear. He had with him a brand new i-phone, suggesting he could have called home at any time. In the intervening days, Danny had had a hair cut.

He was found in California. 3000 miles from where he’d gone missing.


Those odd stories are actually quite typical of cases from the files of the Missing 411. David Paulides noted a few similarities between the cases.

Many of the younger children among the 411 are found after days of failed searching, at distances miles from where they vanished, distances which they could never have traveled due to the terrain. The children showed barely any injuries and their clothes were strangely neat, even when the weather during the interval had been inclement.

Although in most cases people literally vanish into thin air and are never seen again, in the handful of cases where missing persons are found alive, they are in a state of numb confusion, at a great distance from where they had disappeared. In these cases they cannot account for where they have been or what they were doing for this lost period.

There is an overlayed map of missing persons and cave systems which does seem to line up pretty well, but that would only explain part of the mystery. Theories abound, from aliens, to Bigfoot, to space-time wormholes, but nobody, not even Paulides and his thousands of hours of study, has any real notion as to what is going on with the so-called Missing 411.

Since his initial study, the total of number of missing individuals is now over 1400.

But it was more than subconscious influence that drew my attention to this. After doing the research to write this post for you, I found similarities to my Jane Doe story I was previously unaware of.

Stranger than fiction indeed...

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On the morning of 19 April 1995, a Ryder rental truck packed with explosives was parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At 9:02am that bomb was detonated, killing 168 and leaving hundreds more injured. The powerful explosion blew off the building’s entire north face and the blast damaged or destroyed over 300 buildings in the immediate area.

Forensic evidence quickly connected anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh and co-conspirator Terry Nichols to the attack. McVeigh was already in jail, having been stopped a little more than an hour after the bombing for a traffic violation and then arrested for unlawfully carrying a handgun. Before he was scheduled to be released from jail, he was identified as a prime suspect in the bombing and charged. The same day, Terry Nichols, an associate of McVeigh, surrendered in Herington, Kansas. At least, that’s the official story…

One of the first responders on the scene was police sergeant Terrance Yeakey. He was nearby on a routine traffic stop when the explosion shattered the morning quiet. He raced to the scene, working tirelessly for three hours, dragging eight people from the aftermath, later receiving a key to the city of El Reno for his efforts. Yet his superiors were unhappy. Terrance had submitted a 9-page report of events that went against the quickly established narrative. A report that included multiple explosions and unexploded bombs. So who was right?

Discrepancies

Timothy McVeigh was arrested near the scene of the bombing roughly 90 minutes after. Why was he stopped? He was driving a car with no licence plates. If you imagine the planning this event must have gone through and this oversight seems baffling to say the least. Weak? There’s more. According to the official story, the target of the attack was the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who McVeigh blamed for the tragedy of the Waco Disaster, yet not one ATF agent was injured. That’s because, on the morning of the attack, they weren’t there. Well, two claimed they were, but with hindsight, that looks like a mistake.

Two men from the ATF claimed not only to be in the building, but to be heroes. Their story falls apart under little scrutiny. One of the “heroes” claimed that he was trapped in an elevator shortly after the explosion after it descended in freefall. Oscar Johnson, an elevator mechanic upon inspection of the buildings elevators said, “No elevators were in freefall. No possible way.” He also rubbished the claim that the agent climbed out of the elevator car to join rescue efforts saying that the locking mechanism had not been touched. If there had been anyone in there, they would have to be rescued just like everyone else.

Witnesses reported bomb squad vehicles parked across the road from the building at a church two hours previous, again lending credence to the idea of advanced knowledge.

Multiple witnesses reported seeing 2 or even 3 men park the Ryder Truck in front of the building, who left in a brown pickup. An APB was issued for said vehicle and more witnesses came forward saying whenever McVeigh was spotted before the bombing he was never alone. Sketches were made of a mysterious John Doe 2. In spite of all of this, after what was at the time the worst terrorist attack on US soil, the search for John Doe #2 was quickly abandoned.

One FBI agent admitted on record that all fingerprints collected at the scene were not run through databases and an OKCPD officer said that he and colleagues had been held back from assisting recovery efforts and saw, “men in FBI raid jackets dismantling video cameras off the side of the building”.

One of the strangest things in the whole story of the Oklahoma City Bombing was the recovery of a random leg. During the blast 8 victims lost left legs, yet a ninth was recovered. The owner of the leg was never found.

Multiple local news reports from the morning of the bombing reported more than one device - “another bomb” “other devices” “another explosion” - and even one scene where a truck was seen and discussed, the job of which was to, “transport the explosive device away from this populated area.” The rescue operation was even shut down for 20-30 minutes to account for this. Was it these devices Terrance Yeakey had seen during his own rescue endeavours?

By the afternoon, news media were changing their story. As if that weren’t enough to call the official story into question, there’s more…

The Bomb

According to the final report, one truck bomb was responsible for the devastating damage. That bomb changed from a 1200lb ammonium nitrate fertiliser and fuel oil bomb to 4800lb bomb, to 7000lb of fertiliser and nitro methane.

Even so, a truck bomb is essentially an air blast. This air blast was going up against 8 feet of reinforced concrete. The damage recorded was wildly inconsistent with similar or even much larger bombs of its kind. Another point raised was ammonium nitrate fertiliser bombs release a noxious nitrous oxide - breathing that cocktail in such large concentrations would have led to first responders being hospitalised. No such hospitalisations were recorded.

Furthermore, there was evidence of explosions inside the buildings. Footage from OK County Sheriff’s office minutes after blast shows the north side parking lot littered with paper and debris. The location of these papers meant they would have to have travelled against the blast wave. Debris from the Murrah Building was found on top of buildings on the other side of the street, and piled against the foot of the nearby records building, again, travelling against the blast wave. Could this have happened as part of the collapse of the north face? Of course. But when you look at the damage caused by an air blast, this seems unlikely.

Survivors reported explosions and shaking inside the building before the truck bomb went off. Three separate seismographs recorded 8-10 seconds of activity, suggesting the possibility of two blasts, and two separate energy spikes. A member of the OK Geological Survey stated the activity could not be put down to floors collapsing, nor could the last 5 seconds be the result of an air blast.

On 23 May 1995, barely a month after the attack, going against advice from structural engineers that it could be rebuilt, the Murrah building was demolished, despite body recovery being incomplete. Any remaining evidence was destroyed with it.

Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison in 2004. On June 11, 2001, Timothy McVeigh, at the age of 33, died by lethal injection at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. His body was cremated quickly - without autopsy, going against standard procedure for executed prisoners.

Sgt. Terrance Yeakey

On the morning of 8 May 1996, at 7am, Terrance Yeakey’s car was found. The inside of the car was full of blood, razor blades, and a knife. The car was locked, the windows rolled up.

Between 6-7pm that same day Terrance’s body was found. His wrists and neck had been slashed. He had rope burns on his neck and handcuff marks on wrists. He had sustained a gunshot wound to the head. An immediate search of the scene recovered no firearm.

His death was ruled a suicide.

According to the official story, Terrance had inflicted the wounds on himself in the car, locked it, walked a little over a mile, climbing a waist-high barbed wire fence in the process, and shot himself in the head.

But even the gunshot wound was called into question. The wound was at a strange angle, inconsistent with suicide. The bullet entered the temple region above his right eye and exited below his left cheek. There were no powder burns.

No autopsy was performed.

So What Happened?

We may never know. It is known the paperwork for the Whitewater scandal, a failed real estate investment venture involving then-President Bill Clinton, was stored in the Murrah Building. Shortly after the blast, a team in blue, unmarked jackets collected boxes of files from the wreckage. Could that simply be coincidence?

Another strange connection is links to the intelligence community. Operations were underway to infiltrate groups posing threat to the US government. McVeigh’s behaviour in the build up to the event bears the hallmarks of “Sheep-Dipping”, a term intelligence agencies use when they pretend to remove someone from the military, secretly turning them into a covert operative. If that sounds far-fetched, it’s worth keeping in mind his death certificate stated his occupation as “US Army”, that despite a 9-year gap since his military service and the fact he’d held other jobs since… and just to muddy those waters further is the involvement of Dr Jolyon West, dubbed “Mr Mind Control”. West has connections to Patty Hearst, RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan, and Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer Jack Ruby. West visited McVeigh on multiple occasions prior to him waiving all his appeals and requesting to be fast-tracked to federal execution.

Even without that twist, what with the numerous discrepancies between witness reports and the official story, and the tragic end of Terrance Yeakey, the terrible events of the morning of 19 April 1995 do carry the tell-tale signs of a false flag.

In 1994 and ‘95, the US Congress failed to pass an omnibus crime bill that would expand federal jurisdiction to crack down on the second amendment and create new agencies with the alleged aim of increased monitoring of US citizens. In the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing, the bill was repackaged as the “anti-terrorism effective death penalty act.”

The act was signed into law one year and five days after the attack.

Of the 168 killed that dreadful day, 19 were children in an employee day-care centre.

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This time: Simulation Theory

 WTF?
 
2015 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate,
American Museum of Natural History, New York. The annual science conference is going well; Neil Degrasse Tyson and other boffin types are all having a great sciencey time and laughing at Flat Earthers (rightfully) and religion (probably) when suddenly, Dr James Gates Jr. takes the proverbial floor and watches as his revered colleagues break out in assholes and shit themselves to death.
 
Why? He told them that the chances are we are living in a simulation. That everything around us isn’t actually real. It’s made up. They were all part of the Matrix. Just in shit clothes.
 
And I can hear you cry “Why didn’t the sciencey ones tell this dude to fuck himself?” The answer to that is, he didn’t tell them outright they were all part of the Matrix. He dropped them a little factoid and let the clever peeps work out the rest on their own.
 
So what did he tell them?
 
He’d been looking into string theory, the idea that all of the forces in nature can be described by one theory, that strings everything together.
In his research, he’d been studying pictures of equations related to string theory attempting to fathom the true nature of reality, and within said pictures he found codes. Computer codes. Computer codes like those you’d find in an internet browser.
 
If that freaks you out a bit, you might take a little comfort in knowing that after hearing this information Neil Degrasse Tyson spent a full three minutes trying to scoop his melted brain back inside his earholes.
 
That can’t be right though, can it? Over seven billions souls on Earth, how can it not be real?
 
Quantum computers. That’s how. In a nutshell, a quantum computer is like a regular computer, but instead of doing calculations one at a time, it does all of the calculations at the same time, much like a human brain. A computer powerful enough could pretend to be seven billion different brains. In fact, it’s actually more likely that we live in a simulation.
 
More likely?!
 
If you look at the first computer game Pong, it was two rectangle ‘bats’ sliding up and down hitting a square ‘ball’. Compare that with what we have today. Space explorer No Man’s Sky may not have been everything that was expected of it, but what was cool about the game was that the developers themselves hadn’t seen all of the worlds they had created. Because there were 18 quintillion of them. They put code into a computer, and it developed multiple worlds based on that data.
 
What we have to consider is this: If the pattern of improvement continues, at some point the future, we will reach a stage where computer games are indistinguishable from reality.
 
Enter Philosopher Nick Bostrum and his Simulation Argument. Bostrum reckons there are three distinct possibilities and one of them must be true.

1. Civilisation doesn’t reach the point where they can’t tell games and reality apart. The planet is destroyed by a comet. All life is ended by atomic war. The planet’s eco-system is fucked by idiotic reliance on fossil fuels. Evil pandas take over and replace technological advancement with bamboo farming.
2. Civilisation reaches the point where they can run realistic simulations, but they aren’t interested. They can’t be arsed about what happens in the future of their simulations. They are obsessed with celebrity weddings and sports results and fidget spinners.
3. IT’S THE FUCKING MATRIX!!! We live in a simulation. Deal with it.

 
Make Your Mind Up Time.
 
So if this is all a computer simulation, doesn’t that make it all a bit sad? We live in a computer-generated world, and nothing is real.
Actually, I don’t think it does. Think about it: if the sun shines, don’t you fell a bit better? If you drop a glass, does it not fall to the floor? And probably break? If you cut yourself cleaning it up do you not bleed? In the simulation, if you get hit by a train, it really hurts. You probably die. That’s if you’re lucky. If you kill someone, they stay dead, and you get caught, you go to jail. And perhaps get touched inappropriately by a 200-pound man named “Crystal”. Not good.
 
By the same token. If you fall in love, that spring in your step feels real enough, doesn't it? Real or not, it changes nothing. And if you do get the feeling that none of it matters because it’s not ‘real’, then why not throw caution to the wind and chase your dreams. Make good of it. Take a chance. Just make sure you’re not hurting anybody in the process. Basically, don’t be an asshole.
 
Are we living in a computer-generated simulation?
 
RATING: 1=Bollocks 2=Not convinced 3=Possibly… 4=Compelling stuff 5=Holyshittheskyisfalling

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This week: Stan Meyer’s Water Powered Car

WTF?
 
Ohio, 1998. Viewers of TV station WSYX are about to be presented with a most unusual news item. A local inventor by the name of Stanley Meyer claims to have invented a car that can run on water. More than that he claims that any old water will do: rain water; well water; tap water. He went on to say, “If you don’t have water, go ahead and use snow. If you haven’t got snow, use ocean water,” because Stan was not short on confidence. Then we see it. A water-powered dune buggy which Stan reckons can get from LA to New York on 22 gallons. That’s gallons of water, folks.
 
How has he done this? Stan claims to have invented a water splitting device that separates water into hydrogen and oxygen, using the hydrogen gas to power the car, hydrogen being a better fuel than petrol. Better than that, he also invented a splitting device that can fit right onto an existing gasoline engine modifying it so it too can run on nothing but good ol’ H2O.
 
You’re Kidding, Right?
 
He’s smoking something, right? The idea of splitting water into its component parts is nothing new. As far back as 1800, William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle did exactly that in the process known today as “electrolysis”. The thing with electrolysis is, it isn’t too efficient. The process requires three times more energy in, as is produced.
 
Enter Stan Meyer. See, Stan’s found a method of splitting the two elements 1700 times more efficiently than electrolysis.
 
Think about what that means for a moment. Engines that run on water instead of burning fossil fuels. No more air pollution, no more high energy bills, an end to oil spills. Why surely, Stan won loads of Nobel awards and the scientific community formed a massive queue and one by one dropped to their knees to fellate their new king?
 
Hold Your Horses!
 
Not quite. See, the scientific community has some laws that they get all pissy about, and our Stan has just violated one of them. Namely, The Law of Conservation of Energy, which states: “The total energy of an isolated system in a given frame of reference remains constant — it is said to be conserved over time.”
 
Essentially, it means that energy can’t be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. So when the bartender in an old-timey Western slides a shot of whiskey across to the hero we see kinetic energy in action. But of course the beverage slows down, eventually coming to a stop, making it look like the kinetic energy is lost. But it is, in fact, being turned into thermal energy through friction, warming the bar, the bottom of the glass, and the air around it.
 
Because of the law that Stan’s device is in direct violation of, it’s tough to get a ‘real’ scientist to back the idea. Such devices are viewed as heresy, and putting your name anywhere near such a device threatens not only scientific reputations, but also future research grants.
 
Make Your Mind Up Time.
 
According to Stan Meyer, he was offered billions to shelve his idea and never talk about it again. By whom? Middle-Eastern oil companies, that’s who. The government were also interested and Stan even claimed to have received death threats. So where is Stan now? Well, were all still using petrol powered vehicles, so presumably Stan’s living on his own personal tropical island getting his ears massaged by beautiful women. No such luck.
 
Stan was at a restaurant in a business meeting with his brother and potential clients when he suddenly stood from the table clutching his throat. He staggered outside, where he died. Before he did die, he managed to utter the words “They poisoned me.” His death was officially ruled as a brain aneurism.
 
So is it all bunk? Was he conning us all? He certainly seems genuine in the interview videos I’ve seen. We may never know. Is it really possible Stan Meyer was murdered because of the threat he posed to big oil? Remember, we are talking about the same industry where General Motors, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), and tyre company Firestone clubbed together and bought electric tramway systems in 45 US cities, and ripped them all up, so…
 
RATING: 1=Bollocks 2=Not convinced 3=Possibly… 4=Compelling stuff 5=Holyshittheskyisfalling
 
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