LETTERS

Glen Harvey's Paranormal Inquirer

LETTERS

---November 24th---

Can you please tell me about MIBs (men in black). How do I know if they are after me? How can I join?

Batmanrock5000


Paranormal expert, Glen Harvey answers your question.

Dear “batmanrocks5000"

The Men in Black are nothing new, in fact, there have been tales of mysterious men robed in black walking the earth for centuries. Paintings from the period of the plague show unidentified men wearing black robes entering small towns and mysteriously disappearing, leaving many to wonder and assume that they had brought the plague upon them, In ancient Europe, it was believed that a mysterious race of people that lived in the center of the earth and dressed in black would often walk the earth in times of strife. Whether they cause the trouble or worked to end it was always a mystery. In ancient China, legends speaks of men who dressed in black robes, with their eyes covered with lenses made from dark or smoked glass, who would make mysterious appearances and then suddenly disappear. It was said these men came from a place called Shamballa. Buddhist priests say that Shamballa was located deep within the caves of the Himalayas, in deep subterranean passages. So it is not without coincidence that the characters in the movie The Blues Brothers and Reservoir Dogs were dressed in conservative black suit and tie, with sunglasses. They say the black suit is the uniform of the officers of Hell.

Most people think that the modern introduction of the Men in Black come from Albert K. Bender, the editor of a flying saucer publication called the "Space Review". In the October 1953 issue he claimed he had been contacted by MIB’s and told to keep his mouth shut. He later published a book called Flying Saucers and the Three Men in Black.

However, Aleister Crowley, the infamous occultist from the early part of the last century, also mentioned them. They were people from what he called The Black Lodge and their symbol was Eye of Horus.

   
 

Symbol of the
Black Lodge

 

"What I am out to complain of is what I seriously believe to be an organized conspiracy of the Black Lodges to prevent people from thinking." - Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears

In 1930, Morris Doreal founded the Brotherhood of the White Temple. He says that the entrance to Shamballa is far underground and that space bends around Shamballa, into a warp which leads into another universe.

In Modern times they are depicted as a mysterious group of men, dressed in the vague and faceless attire of a black suit, who show up to harass or intimidate witnesses of UFO sightings and related phenomena the government does not want the public to know about. They usually make ambiguous or specific threats to stop witnesses from talking. They confiscate any physical proof of UFO related sightings, such as photos, artefacts, or audio / video recordings.

They wear their trademark black suit and when chilly, said to add a black overcoat. The fabric of their clothing has been described as strangely "shiny" or thin, but not silky -- almost as if they have been cut from a new type of fabric. Some report that the MIB all look alike, and their often mechanical behavior has caused them to be described by some as being like robots or androids. Their voices are monotone like a computer and their faces emotionless. They usually travel in twos or threes, but sometimes alone. Some people believe the MIB are government agents. Some people believe that are extraterrestrials.


In anycase, no one wants to mess with the Men in Black.

Conspiracy expert Melvin Pinkster also adds.

Batmanrocks5000. The MIB’s are the last group of people you want to be involved with. You can buy all of Glen Harvey’s magic Voo-Doo talk if you want, but I sure don’t. Think about it, who do you know today that matches this description? Men dressed in black suites talking in monotone voices wearing sunglasses walking in groups, checking out people who may have photographic evidence of UFO’s? Ever see the President? Who is it you see walking with him? It’s the Secret Service, man! MIB’s are gov. agents who have found out you have taken pics of their latest stealth airplane, and want to make sure you don’t sell it for thousands. Tell me, what do you think is the most effective way in getting you to keep your mouth shut?....Don’t sell that picture for $10,000 because you must do it for your country? Or give me the picture or we will kill you and your family?

I had a run in with an MIB three months ago when I was coming home from Loggers, a bar down the road from me. I was driving my Chevy at 46 MPH through a school zone and clipped a mail box. Flattened it.

Suddenly, an MIB was after me, but he was driving a black and white car with a strange flashing red light on top. Possibly a laser beam. He kept telling me to “pull over” and that I was “under arrest.” But I didn’t fall for it. Unfortunately I had left my gun at home but I did have my cat with me. I picked him up and threw him at the MIB when he drove along side me. The cat flew through 2 lanes of traffic and landed on the MIB’s face scratching like crazy. it may be possible that cats hate MIB's. or perhaps MIB’s have a sort of allergic reaction to them, but anyway he began to scream: “MY EYES! HE’S SCRATCHING MY EYES!” This would suggest that;

A) MIB’s have a weakness to cats. Or
B) MIB’s have a weakness with their eyes.

In any case, he eventually crashed the car into a telephone pole, and I escaped.

---August 22nd---

Have you ever heard of a teacher of a school that died, and he was the dean of the school and the school took his dead body and mummified it? I heard that someplace. And I hear they take his body to all the really important school meetings. And he has no head so the body sits there with no head. Or the body walks around haunting the school. Is this true or an urben legend?
MM

Paranormal expert, Glen Harvey answers your question....

Well, you could be talking about a lot of people. There seems to be a lot of headless ghosts these days. As a matter of fact, there two down the road from me and frankly speaking, for headless ghosts they sure scream a lot.

But I think you’re talking about the late philosopher Jeremy Bentham. He’s looked upon with high esteem among philosophers. Which...lets be honest...isn’t saying much. In anycase, Bentham was a pretty creepy guy. Although he was born and raised in a very conservative family, Bentham was a sort of an 18th century Timothy Leary.

   
 
Jeremy Bentham: Philosopher. Dreamer. Zombie
 

Born in February 15th, 1748, Bentham was one of the originators of a form of philosophical movement called “Utilitarianism”. He Wrote Fragments On Government in 1776. He also was one of the founders of the University of London (UCL) in England (By the way, few people know that UCL invented the subject “English Literature” The college believed it was necessary for the generation of voters enfranchised by the 1832 Reform Act to be literate).

In his youth he was quite weak and sickly, and yet, somehow in old age was healthy and robust. During his last illness he asked his doctor from his bed to tell him if there was any chance of recovery. When his doctor told him there was none, he answered, “Very well, be it so; then minimize pain.” By “minimize pain” Bentham meant “shoot me up with the finest opium you have.” and the doctor did just that. He pulled out a needle and gave Bentham a magic carpet ride into oblivion. Bentham kissed the sky and died on 6 June 1832.

But Bentham had a hell of a wacky side to him without the drugs. For example he said that all punishment was evil...and yet he used to design prisons. And he made up some system where you could measure good and bad. He once said “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters; Pain and Pleasure”. And it was from these two masters that Bentham worked out a “Hedonic Calculus”. This was a system to measure the approval or disapproval of an action on the bases of the amount of pain of pleasure brought about. For example, good was measured in Hedons. So if putting a statue of a naked girl in the middle of town got a vote from a 1000 people, it would be 1000 hedons good. But if 50 people hated it then it would only be 950 hedons good. He called this his "Principle of Utility."

 

 
Bentham also designed a surreal prison that housed a round tower that was elevated in the center of the room, lined with prisoners in cages. He called it the Pan-Opticon. It was designed to produce the feeling of always being watched, even if the guard is facing the other direction. In Australia a Panopticon-style prison was actually set up at Port Arthur in Tasmania. It was called The Model Prison and not surprisingly, the prisoners all went mad.
 
The Panopticon. Hellish Prison?
 

Psychologists theorize that being strategically positioned in a place where one can keep a “panoptic” eye over a large group of people is the most superior, powerful position one can achieve, so I guess he was on to something, because since the eighteenth century this concept has been used to freak out people in schools, factories, hospitals, and most recently through spy-satellite technology.

Bentham dreamed of reforms in British prisons and management of the poor. He wanted Parliament to entrust the care of criminals, the poor, and the idle to a state-chartered, profit making company to be run by....Jeremy Bentham. Bentham modified his plan from time to time, but never could convince Parliament to go for it.

But the craziest thing about him is what happened to his body.

When Bentham died he left everything to the University, under the condition that his body had to be publicly dissected in front of his friends. He also demanded that it then be stuffed, dressed in his finest clothes, and mounted in his favorite chair, along with his best walking stick, "Dapple" which had to be in his hand. And there was one other grisly demand; His corpse must attend the annual meetings of the University's Board of Governors, and since his death in 1832, the dead corpse of Jeremy Bentham has attended every meeting. I shit you not.

Three days after Bentham died his body was dissected in a medical amphitheater at the Web Street School of anatomy in London and his organs donated to medical research. At the time this was illegal. Only executed murderers could be dissected. His skeleton was picked clean and upholstered with straw. His undergarments, working dress, walking stick and other trinkets completed the dead man’s posthumous outfit. Bentham's head, missing it’s brain and fitted with glass eyes he chose himself, was mummified and placed on top of the body. To this day the dressed-up corpse is kept in a special glass fronted mahogany cabinet at University College London, set rather unceremoniously if you ask me, in a busy hallway for all to see.

However, over the years the head started to get that “night of the living dead” look to it and started to give the students the creeps. I mean, think about it. You’re walking to class, or maybe hitting on that cute chick with the hot ass and suddenly to your left you see Zombie-Bentham crawling out of his grave at you, craving human flesh. Let’s be honest. That’s not a good study environment. So they took off his head and put a fake wax one on instead. They used to keep his head in a wooden box by his feet, but for whatever reason, people kept stealing it. One time Bentham’s head mysteriously turned up in the lost-and-found locker at Aberdeen station. Nowadays it is entombed in a refrigerated safe in the college vaults.

   
 
The dead corpse of Jeremy Bentham: Does his zombie-like body still walk the halls of the University of London late at night?
 

Today, Bentham’s dead body is regularly visited by scholars from all over the world. He once went to a beer festival in Germany and is placed at the head of the table once a year at the Annual Bentham Dinner. I’d like to meet the wizard who came up with the idea to sit a rotting dead man at a dinner table. And once a year he’s dragged out to the annual Board of Directors meeting. His presence is always recorded in the minutes with the words “Jeremy Bentham - present but not voting."

A few years ago, Bentham’s body was removed from public display after experts from the Textile Conservation Centre of Southampton University discovered an infestation of a beetles throughout the body, and a white dust called frass fell from Bentham's wide-brimmed hat onto his shoulders.

It’s said that Bentham's beetle infested, headless ghost is regularly spotted wandering the halls of the college...demanding human flesh from young teen aged girls.

---August 13th---

Hi!

I will back up to the beginning of this week. Friends of my parents lost their granddaughter (she was only five) after a nurse screwed up her heart surgery. This surgery was supposed to be very minor, but the nurse screwed up and forgot to give her this series of three shots (she only gave two). So this little girl has been on my mind all week and last night before I went to bed I started thinking about what they must have gone through. Of course I had a dream about it last night and it was very detailed. It was almost like I was there for everything. The weird thing is that in my dream, Cassie was holding my hand while we were going through everything (she was a ghost in my dream and we were watching everything that was going on with her right up until she died). Towards the end of my dream I wake up and my dog is FREAKING out, shaking and crying and he kept looking at the corner of the wall in my room. So I turn the light on and get up and he starts freaking out really bad. I let him out and he seemed fine after he came back in. I go back to sleep (after I got him calmed down) and woke up about a half hour later to the same thing. So I get up and look in my closet (just to make sure someone wasn't in there) and get him calmed down again and this time I make him sleep on the floor. Do you think she was there in my room while I was having this dream and that's why it was so intense and why my dog was freaking out? I told her to go away and that she needed to be with her family, not strangers. We only met her once and Hailey played with her and they got along really well. I think that's why it's affecting so bad. Any thoughts on this? It really has me freaked out!

So what is your professional opinion of this?

Thanks, Krys

Paranormal expert Glen Harvey, answers your question...

I would love to think that our dreams are real. I have had some rather amorous dreams involving Liv Tyler and Natalie Portman that have left me feeling rather sleepy and desperately hugging my pillow the following morning. Sadly, I don’t think they were really there. These dreams are merely fantasies.

However, dreams are fantasy to be sure. But is that enough to dismiss your question? Before we do, let’s define what a dream is and what we know of it.

Throughout the course of human history, many ancient cultures and even modern ones have interpret dreams as inspirations or divine signs. Prophetic visions, sexual fantasies, or even alternative realities. In 1900 Sigmund Freud explained in his book "The Interpretation of Dreams," his theory that dreams reflect an unconscious experience. He theorized that during sleep, thoughts underwent a primitive regression of the mind that let loose its primal desire. To Freud, repressed desires, specifically those associated with sex and hostility, were freed in dreams when the shackles of consciousness was diminished. However, one should keep in mind that Freud was a neurosurgeon, and much of the brain science of the 1890's that he founded his theories on are now obsolete.

   
 
Sigmund Freud
 

Today we know that dreams are part of a biologically determined sleep cycle. Through the register of brain waves and in neurophysiological and behavioral findings, several theories have been described....and frankly, they’re all rather boring. However, the most widely accepted one is that your brain is defraging as you sleep, much like a computer. That is, random bits of memory are being sorted out and erased, which would certainly lead to a strange and surreal tale as the cortex reviewed the assorted and incidental thoughts one has throughout the course of a day.

But I think you should consider this; Studies and experiments in dreams have proven that external events can influence your dreams.

In 1958, Dr. William Dement and Dr. Edmund Wolpert sprayed water on sleeping subjects after they had been in REM sleep a for few minutes and a few seconds after the spray, each subject was awakened. In 14 out of 33 cases, the water was actually incorporated into the dream report. As an example, the following comes from a subject who had been dreaming he was in a play:

I was walking behind the leading lady when she suddenly collapsed and water was dripping on her. I ran over to her and water was dripping on my back and head. The roof was leaking...I looked up and there was a hole in the roof. I dragged her over to the side of the stage and began pulling the curtains. Then I woke up (Demant and Wolpert, 1958, P. 550).

My friend, this is scientific fact. So this leads one to wonder, if this is true...then could it also be true that just as the water caused an influence on the subjects dream, that perhaps the spirit of the little girl caused some influence on yours? And added to this, is it merely a coincidence that your dog chose that night, of all nights, to bark so wildly? It’s been documented that external stimuli can become part of a dream, so then if there are spirits, it seems reasonable to assume that they too can also become part of a dream as well.

Another thing to consider is this. You say that you told the little girl that “she needed to be with family, not strangers”, but I wonder if it really was the family that truly needed comforting. You did say that this little girl had been on your mind all week. Even more interesting, you also said that she was holding your hand, not that you were holding hers. One gets the picture that the spirit of this young girl walked you through the troubling experience, through every tumultuous detailed aspect, holding your hand as if to comfort you. As if to show you that, throughout this distressful experience, she was okay, and you should be too.

Perhaps the family has accepted the loss and this little girl felt that you needed to accept it too. You being the owner of the dog that she was so fond of in life. I would think she is she’s happy and at peace, but felt that it was you needed some comforting and should come to terms with what has happened.

Glen Harvey’s Paranormal Inquirer
Reporting the Strange and Bizarre since 1798

 
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CHLOROSIS
The Green Disease

pale complection
weight loss
and fatigue
A fatigued woman with Chlorosis
 
Thalassamia
Phthisis
Anemia
and Tuberculosis
all had similar symptoms.
A physician overlooks Chlorosis
 

 

Later,
people who had other diseases
were simply told they had Chlorosis.
Now everybody has this new disease
 

 

1554 Johann Lange investigates;
Calls it Morbis Virgneus (virgins sickness)
Doctor prescribes love
(and plenty of it)
Johann Lange. Famous Physician (and skull)
 

 

1615 The verbose Jean Verandal names it Chlorosis

1683 The dialectical Thomas Syndenham describes it in detail.

1731 The wily Friedrich Hoffmann gives clinical definition.

Famous German Physician Friedrich Hoffmann
 

 

Mid 1800's
Red-blood-cell counts and
hemoglobin content results in laboratories show lack of iron.

Doctors now offer iron (But no love).

A Physician from the Industrial Revolution proposes "Iron" instead of "love"
 

 

Particularly susceptible to chlorosis were young females;

- Reaching adolescents
- Entering age of menarche
- Experiencing sudden growth spurt
- Restrictive clothing.

A young girl entering adolescence
 

 

The Feminist View.

- 19th Century mistreated woman because of gender.
- Only women were inflicted.
- Restrictive clothing

A woman who has
Chlorosis
 

 

However

- Treatments based on poor understanding of physiology.
- Male sexual condition were also mistreated
- Males made 42% of all cases.

This robust man has
Chlorosis
 

 

The Marxist View.

- A disease of the poor and malnourished
- A class disease
- Poor could not afford proper treatment

These poor Dickensian children have Chlorosis
 

 

However

- Both rich and poor were affected
- Dietary habits forbidding meat, eggs and milk affected rich as well.
- Upper class women more likely to wear restrictive clothing

This rather wealthy woman has Chlorosis
 

 

1969 Listed as one of five major categories of hypochromic anemia

Still listed in modern medical dictionaries as
an iron deficiency anemia of young women.

Dr. T. E. Brown. A “social” historian
 

 

 

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