The sonic booms

Blasts and booms have been sounding since January 1 2011.. And this January, 2016, it's going wild.

New Jersey. New York. California.. Florida.. Pennsylvania.. most recently Connecticut. and other countries as well..

At the end of the week, the Navy said it was responsible for sonic booms of the Jersey coastline--those booms were felt so far and wide that the USGS asking for people to report information to them about the situation..

In November 2015, the HORROR REPORT told of booms that were very close to home. My part of Schuylkill County, PA, where I currently reside, was also the home to amazingly loud and boisterous booms that night in November.

A response to the November 2015 story came just yesterday when a reader in my county reported this:

About 7:00 pm., Thursday evening, in Pottsville,Pa.,heard loud sonic boom, shook our house, scared the crap out of us !!!!!

I blasted out a screen shot of the message on my Facebook page and got this response from a reader in South Carolina:

Uhhhh there was a sonic boom in Charleston Tuesday.

Nothing to see here, though, right?

I looked up the sonic boom story from Charleston and found an article from January 27 from WYFF:

Reports of a loud noise and shaking houses like the ones that have poured in across the Lowcountry are indicative of a sonic boom generated by an aircraft, according to a release from the College of Charleston.

I suppose this is all just ...'normal.'

Frost quakes!
Yea!! Frost quakes. Makes sense.
Right?

Frost quakes in Charleston with a high temp of 62 for the past few weeks..

The earth was shaking.

Cause the walls start shaking. The earth was quaking. My mind was aching. And we were making it and you. Shook me all night long

THE PHANTOM GIRL IN THE PICTURE

If you checked my Facebook feed earlier today, you may have seen a story I linked being reported by Russia Today.. It is bizarre to say the least..

Old photos have always caused me to pause and stare.. I so often wonder what the often expressionless faces in the photo-documentation of time were thinking.. But the story of the Siberian phantom girl sort of takes the cake in the creepy department..

As published in RT, some interesting story highlights:

Museum workers in Krasnoyarsk were astonished when they digitalized local photos from the early 1900s only to find an identical figure in all of them – a solemn girl, dressed in all white, striking an identical pose.

So far, the mystery girl has been found in at least 20 photos and four glass negatives, which researchers at the Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore believe were taken between 1906 and 1908, judging from the state of the buildings in the photos.

And if those two paragraphs don't systematically creep out your system and give you chills, I don't really know what will ..



THE LOGICAL IDEA.

As the story goes, she plays no obvious role in most of the shots she is in.. almost a background bystander, someone who is just there at the right place and the right time.. The museum studying and asking questions thinks the girl is related to the photographer in some way. That makes some logical sense.. the picture taker bringing his kin with him to go do photoshoots in old century Russia.

RT again:

The most logical start would be identifying the name of the photographer. However, most photos have no identifying text, while a few are marked with the initials F.E.A. Photography was only practiced by a select few at the time, but that signature does not match up with any of the city’s well-known professionals or hobbyists.

No one has come forward to explain anything about this girl.. no one has claimed credit or family history of knowledge of who she is..


From the SIBERIAN TIMES:

Some came to the museum from a collection of Nikolai Grigorovskiy, owner of a Krasnoyarsk bookshop before the Communist revolution.

A glass negative featuring the girl also came from renowned photographer Ludwig Yulyevich Wonago. Might he be the mystery photograher? Yet then why the initials F. E. A.? The feeling is that the photographer for whom the girl posed is an amateur - at a time when this was a hobby of the well-to-do - rather than a professional, but who was the hidden star? 

'We think that the girl could be the photographer's daughter, or his neice, but we do not know for sure, as we do not even know the photographer's name,' said Ilya Kuklinsky.

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THE MYSTERY

This is a mystery--and it is amplified by the creepy factor..

There seems to be a common thread in her garb: There is wealth. She is from wealth.. there are riches when she stands next to others who are dressed in garb of dire circumstances.. She obviously was 'seeing the world' in a sense just by the fact she ended up in so many places. One theory is that she may have been from a rich local family, which could have escaped eastward from the advancing Communist tyranny, and that the answer to the intriguing secret of her identity may lie abroad in Europe or America.

Being the internet and such, some are actually claiming the images are 'photoshopped.' Photoshop, being a useful product of recent times, was tougher way back before the 1917 revolution. Nonetheless, I suppose things like this are possible during the reign of Nicholas.
And there are paranormal theories, too.. she is a ghost.. she is a haunting figure because, well, she's not real! Maybe a time traveler!?  Maybe not.

 

THE TRUTH MAY BE SIMPLE AND SAD.

Maybe the truth is even sadder and more hopeless than any theory.. maybe the truth is this: She, and her family and whoever took these photos, were destroyed in time by the revolution that killed so many about ten years after the pictures were taken..? Maybe that's it. Period and done.

And the only thing left are stark reminders of innocence prior to bloodbaths.

But those eyes..
There is something seemingly haunting in those eyes. Like a 'knowing' of the misery to come..



 

THE WEIRD DOLL CRAZE IN THAILAND

Do dolls give you a bit of the creeps? Do their piecing eyes sort of delve deep into your soul? Does the expressionless face haunt you when you least want it to?

If the answer was yes to any of the above, avoid Thailand for a while.

According to media reports, the anxiety of economic despair and ruination after a coup in the country has caused an influx of enthusiasm for lifelike dolls. Reuters reports that the doll craze is sweeping the nation..

Thailand is predominantly Buddhist and has been modernizing rapidly over the past two or three decades but many people are highly superstitious, their beliefs co-existing with notions of animism, astrology and "black magic."

"I can see it in other people's eyes," said Natsuda Janbtim, 45, who has been raising her doll Nong Ruay Jung, or Pretty Rich in Thai, for 8 months. "I know some of them must be wondering why I am carrying a doll but I just don't care."

The plastic dolls, about the size of a real baby or an American Girl doll, are called "look thep", or "child angel" and cost between $40 and $800 USD.

But this part perhaps is the most chilling..

Devotees of the dolls lavish attention on them, often treating them like real babies, even taking them to be blessed by monks in the hope that benevolent spirits will possess them and bring good luck.

"My life has changed a lot, for the better," said Jantabtim, who lives with her daughter and owns a beauty salon. "When I hug her, I know it's love. I tell her I love her all the time."

A mental health expert quoted by the news agency blames the economic conditions of the country..



Mental health issues indeed..
The struggle in the country has brought out previous strange addictions to trinkets and charms. People attempt to find luck where ever they can get it, especially when times are rough. But tough times are bringing forth strange crazes..

Get this snippet from Reuters:

Some businesses are cashing in on the trend.

Thai Smile, a subsidiary of national flag carrier Thai Airways, said it would charge passengers who bring dolls on board and would serve them snacks.

But the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand said it would stop airlines selling tickets for dolls over concern they could be used to smuggle drugs.

There are a number of superstitions that have long existed in Thailand.. things such as not cutting your hair on Wednesdays, eating the final piece of food on a plate is lucky, seeing a lizard before leaving home is a sign you'll in peril..  One particular strange belief by some is that if you bend down and look between your legs you'll see a ghost.

The people of Thailand may harbor some of the most in depth set of superstitions on the nation.  The doll trend only amplifies that tidbit of paranormal..

A doll trend that is deeply creepy.

Quakes and booms across the world

It's a busy Friday night for quake watchers..

A major hit in Russia tonight.. Strong 7.2 but no tsunami threat.. 

  
In the mean time DUTCHSINSE has the most recent information on hits on California tonight .. 

That plus sonic booms in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. And stories making their way across the net about the ramifications of a big New Madrid fault zone quake...

Sleep well tonight..

Fear over the Zika virus

Worldwide fears are increasing that the Zika virus, one that primarily hits newborn children, will become a major pandemic over the coming months..

And this tonight developing in New York City: 

RSOE EDIS Event Report - A third case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in the Big Apple - in a pregnant woman who contracted the mosquito-borne infection while traveling overseas. City health officials, after revealing the new case Thursday, sought to calm fears by emphasizing that there's no risk of acquiring the virus in the five boroughs. The sickened New Yorkers all returned from countries in the Caribbean and Latin America struggling to contend with the rapidly escalating Zika outbreak. The mosquitoes suspected of carrying the disease are not found in New York, officials said. 

CREATIVITY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

This wll undoubtedly be a wild year of political strangeness.. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are toppling the norms and powers that be wtih big audiences, lots of attention, and potential victories in upcoming primaries..

But as usual with the HORROR REPORT, we like to point out the more bizarre and odd..

The odd can be found in Iowa, where a lone protester is making headlines for following Ted Cruz around and holding up a sign saying he likes Nickelback..

It's weird.
And really, who likes Nickelback?
Ted Cruz?
Maybe.. but not the protester.

As Joshua Fetcher writes, pointing out that the protester did not reveal his name to media at this point,

However, the band took the protester's jabs in stride in a Jan. 11 tweet, "NICKELBACK Employee of the Month. January 2016. #Election2016 #Nickelback4President"

But, when asked about his favorite Nickelback song, the protester told the Post, "I don't like Nickelback."

 

THE HORROR REPORT

I posted what I thought was an amazing story today about where I have been over the last month.. I discovered after posting it that it never actually posted..

THE HORROR REPORT is not going anywhere .. We never did.

We are here...

stay tuned..

THIS IS THE END OF NOTHING BUT THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING