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Our neighbors down I-81 may be dealing with that most secretive and manipulative of secret, manipulative organizations - the Illuminati.  Or, you know, a kid trying to get some experience points.

I’m going to have to guess the latter.

Apparently, police received a call from 25 year old Richard Smith, telling them that he was stuck in an air conditioning duct inside the Knoxville Museum of Art.  Surely mystified by the call, KPD arrived on scene and found a rope trailing down into an air duct on the roof.  Inside the duct, they found Smith, who promptly informed them that he had failed his mission and spilled the beans about being a secret agent for the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931.  He further went on to tell police that he had been sent on a mission by “Director Womack” that the police report says was to “Defuse and Confiscate a Soviet made MERV 6 SS-22AN war head with a 14.5 Kilogram of enriched Uranium and a Plutonium Trigger capable of delivering a 40 Kiloton yield.”

The nuke was supposedly hidden inside a blue cow sculpture in the basement of the museum.

Anyway, long story short, Smith says the mission was called off in mid-heist and he was informed by his Illuminati superiors that had made a mistake and the device was actually in a museum in Memphis.  I’m not sure about Smith, but I think at the point that my shadow government of choice couldn’t tell the difference between Knoxville and Memphis, I would begin to have serious doubts about their ability to govern the world.

Smith’s CH2 Huey that he supposedly repelled onto the roof from also failed to materialize, but police did find an ash tray pushed up against the side of the roof that they believe he used to climb on top from.  Smith was charged with aggravated burglary and taken to the clink.

Download the police report here.

I’m going to go far out on a limb here and guess that this kid was actually NOT a part of the Illuminati.  If he was, they’ve greatly decreased their standards of admittance since I last checked.  However, it does bring up a good point about secretive organizations - real and imaginary.  Have one that you love, or love to hate?  Want to talk about it?

Comments, folks!  Put them in there!

Posted by Aaron Littleton
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I know it’s been a while since we’ve had new content on the Paranormal blog, and I apologize.  We’ve been quite busy around the TriCities.com offices recently, which has been quite unproductive to my updating this blog.  I’ve got a couple of things on the boiler plate, but let’s start simple and slow as I try and get back into the groove with a UFO sighting.
This story is not overly local, but compelling enough to warrant a look and some discussion.  Admittedly looking a little like the old video game Asteroids, we now have a video of some thing flying around and shooting at a United States Air Force missile.  This video and story was presented recently on Larry King Live.  Take a look at the link below:
“UFO Shoots At Missile” Video
The man telling the story Bob Jacobs, Ph.D., former Air Force officer, claims that while performing a test on a new rocket, the Air Force captured video of an object that flew around the projectile, shooting beams at it.  Naturally, according to Dr. Jacobs, the commanding officer ordered a hush-up around the whole affair.  It is all very strange, but there is some video to look at, which is nice.
I’ll keep an eye on this and see if I can dig up some more information.
In the mean time, what do you all think?  Have you, or anyone you knew, experienced a government cover-up regarding UFOs or any other paranormal activity?  Let us know!  Leave a comment or send an email.

Posted by Aaron Littleton
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While it is not really worth mentioning in and of itself, I’d hate for the TriCitiesBlogs.com Paranormal Blog’s record of the Georgia Bigfoot to be an incomplete account of the event.  In case you haven’t heard yet, it was just a rubber gorilla suit stuffed with roadkill and entrails.
These sheisters, who briefly went into hiding, recently poked their heads back out to tell everyone it was a joke and that everyone should have known it was a joke.  Well, we all love a good joke, that’s for sure.  However, by definition, a joke usually ends with people laughing, or the joker pulling out before any real harm is done.  Calling a press conference and taking cheques for undisclosed amounts of money usually don’t factor into the equation.  In fact, you might call that a lie instead of humor.  In fact, I am.
I think it’s pretty safe to say that interest in the paranormal has hit a high recently - the success of TV shows like Ghost Hunters is proof enough of that.  I hope that a fraud like this perpetrated at a time of increased visibility doesn’t do irreparable damage to the real hunt for Bigfoot.  I’m not saying that I believe Bigfoot is real, I’ll believe it when I see it.  But I do hold it to be a small possibility; nothing is impossible.  The thing about Bigfoot is that Bigfoot is FUN.  Bigfoot captures the imaginations of people; he stirs those emotions that make you want to get out there and find something that no one else has.  Get out in the woods and tromp around a bit - look for Bigfoot.  Why not?  Even if you don’t find anything, you’ve still spent a nice day hiking.  It would be a real shame to see that fun diminished by a hoax.
I think I will continue the discussion about Bigfoot in general in the next blog post, but let’s not muddy the waters of that with this foul story.

Posted by Aaron Littleton

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“Is this a hoax?” jeered some unknown spectator at the Bigfoot press conference in Palo Alto, California today.
Tom Biscardi seemed buffeted, but stayed strong.  “This is as real as you’re standing right where you are, sir.”
Many in the audience were clearly unconvinced at the press conference, a bizarre spectacle thin on answers and thick with questions.  Even if by some miracle Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton’s Bigfoot find turns out to be the real deal, most will still believe it a hoax, considering how badly the whole thing has been managed.  The two Georgia men, dressed more like they were on their way to the local watering hole, and less like they were participating in an international press conference, seemed notably uncomfortable and stiff in front of the audience, as they attempted to explain away blunder after blunder with the discovery and preservation of the body.  For the most part, they claimed ignorance.
That, at least, was not hard to believe.
Two new photos of the creature were shown: a close-up of the mouth with the tongue hanging out, supposedly proving that the head was not a mask, and your standard long distance photo of the creature loping away.  Biscardi held these 8.5 x 11 prints up for the crowd to see, but promised copies to those who attended.
Sadly, I was not able to convince Media General to bankroll a plane ticket to California to attend a Bigfoot press conference, so you’ll have to get those elsewhere.
Perhaps more information will be forthcoming in the following days.  One thing the the trio did manage to do was leave my hunger for more information largely unsatiated.  I, like most, want to see this handled by the scientific community at large.  Get me a biologist notable in their field.  Get me a zoologist, a horse trainer, a dog groomer - anybody that might have the slightest idea about animals.  Get me somebody that knows to contact a university or a Federal Wildlife Marshall or at least someone that knows that putting a valuable scientific specimen into a freezer full of water isn’t the best way to preserve it.  Most of all, get me a decent photographer.  Get me somebody besides Tom Biscardi, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton.
Please.
I continue to be unconvinced,but I’ll follow this in case more developments of a slightly more believable nature come in.

Posted by Aaron Littleton

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Bigfoot websites have been thrown into a tizzy recently at the announcement of a possible bigfoot body being found in North Georgia.  Surprisingly clear photos (but with a touch of trademark Bigfoot blurriness) of the corpse have been circulating around, following a press release announcing the body’s finding and a subsequent press conference this Friday.
I’m not going to post the photos on the blog, due to some legal chest-beating by some groups over their exclusive ownership, but if one wants to see the photos, and one knows where to look, one will find them.
The press release states a few “facts” about the find, including:

• The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
• It weighs over five hundred pounds.
• The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
• It is male.
• It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
• It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot.

And what about Bigfoot’s titular feet?  They measure up at 16 and three-quarters inches long, close to a whopping size 27 in men’s shoes.
Naturally we have to be a bit skeptical about this find, but the level of excitement it is generating in the Bigfoot community is palpable.  Whoever has taken control of the body before the press conference also seems to be taking this very seriously, as reports of armed guards around the creature accompany discussions online.
There’s not a lot of hard evidence around currently - I suppose we’ll have to wait for the Friday press conference for more of that, but there’s nothing to keep us from speculating.  I am naturally inclined towards skepticism here, and the “press conference” (why in California instead of Georgia?) along with the nature of the press release (why is Searching for Bigfood, Inc. claiming they own all rights regarding this creature?) do nothing to alleviate my fears along these lines.  Those who keep up with paranormal happenings may remember a previous post-dated “press conference” earlier this summer regarding an alien video in Denver.  Not surprisingly, very little came of this press conference, but it did manage to stir up quite a bit of interest for a few days.
Of course, the photos are fairly impressive, and the idea of a Bigfoot finding so close to home is exciting enough to keep an eye on this thing.  I’ll make sure to get some info from the press conference and post more information on Friday.
What do you think?  Bigfoot or no?

Posted by Aaron Littleton
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