Paranormal Fascination

For as far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated with all things paranormal.  From ghosts to aliens, from Atlantis to Roswell, from Ouija boards to the Nazca lines.  There is something about these mysteries that ignites my fantastical thinking while also hoping for some evidence that these things do in fact exist.  I can get caught up in watching hours of "Ancient Aliens" on the History channel or watching movies like "The Fourth Kind" that further spark my interest. 

What makes these paranormal activities so interesting?  Is it something to do with my way of thinking and beliefs in the world that allows me to want some paranormal thing to truly exist?  I think it is a variety of factors and I may never truly know a full answer.  What I do know is that the human brain likes to have complete answers to problems and sometimes will fill in the blanks to form a solution, such as in this image below.

See grey dots?  Are you sure they are really there?

TV shows that claim to provide some type of evidence of proof get me hooked because I hope they start to fill that gap that is missing with many of these mysteries.  Here are some of the things that have nabbed my interest over the years and some links for more information about them. 

Nazca Lines
In Peru amongst the foot hills and mountains you will find a mystery that has many possible explanations and yet none that have definitively been proven, as far as I am aware.  The Peruvian people called the Nazcas who inhabited the area around 200 BC formed these geoglyphs which would have required numerous hours and people by the masses contributing their efforts.  The soil in this part of the desert is quite dense and yet one can easily shuffle their feet along the surface to reveal a different colored soil beneath.  This method is what was likely done by the Nazcas to create the images they decided were important enough to collaborate together on and devote time to. 

Minus the obvious bird, doesn't it look somewhat like a modern day airstrip?

 What is most concerning and interesting is why go to all of this trouble?  Most cultures that had some need to create art did so on a smaller scale that would be easy for others to see.  The Nazca however chose to create their art in such a place that only someone in the sky would truly be able to take in the full form of what they had created.  Another interesting thing to consider is how they would have such precision in their art on such a large scale without ever being able to see it from above for themselves? 

Ancient Aliens
The History Channel has blessed its viewers with some 20 plus hours of a fascinating show called Ancient Aliens.  The point of this entertaining piece of television is to provide "evidence", or at least opinions, about how aliens have been visiting earth long before the Roswell incident and in fact all throughout time.  One theory of the Ancient Aliens is that people have actually been an experiment of sorts that were planted on earth for study.  The suggestion with this theory is also that we are therefore descendants of aliens which is why "the greys" look so much like us. 

 

One of the great parts of this show is how emphatic the experts are in their opinions, as if there are no other solutions.  Having said that, I do think that many of their theories seem rather plausible and yet many are clearly not. 

 

Oak Island Money Pit

In Nova Scotia there is a place called Oak Island.  In 1795 a few kids were playing on the island when one of them noticed a spot on the ground that looked as if it were lower than the rest, as if there may be something beneath it.  So naturally, the kids decided to start digging.  What they found would lead to numerous men, millions of dollars spent and some lives lost to figure out the reason for something being there that clearly should not have been. 

 

 

What the boys uncovered was a pit that seemed to have no end and was man made.  Every ten feet they dug down they encountered a platform of logs that acted as a barrier from going any further and were wedged securely in the sides of the earth.  Nevertheless the boys managed to dig through some of these platforms before giving up.  Some 7 years later a wealthy man and his crew had heard of the myths of Oak Island and decided to find whatever was at the bottom.  They continued to dig and every ten feet the same oak logs blocked the path and eventually there were other things mixed in as well such as clay, charcoal and a fibrous material which turned out to be coconut fibers which are not indigenous to the area. 

 

 

Approximately 90 feet down a stone slab was found with strange engravings on them and was later determined to be a type of stone found almost solely in Egypt.  Around the 110 foot marker is when things really got odd.  The pit became entirely filled with water overnight.  Unbeknown to the diggers the pit had multiple shafts dug horizontally underground at various depths so that sea water from the nearby shore of the island would be yet another barrier to the bottom.  So far at least 6 people have perished from attempting to uncover this mystery and divers have gone as far as 235 feet into the shaft and still no one has figured out how to go any further or how to surpass the water trap system.  



Images taken from the following sites: http://braintricks.org/black_dots.php, http://earth-search.net/nazca_lines.html, http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/canada/rennes-le-chateau-refresher-16804/index2.html