Ha ha ha! Someone in Redding California did a search for "fat guys in bib overalls" and guess whose blog they came to? Ha ha! That's great!

The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

Representatives at Fermilab in Illinois and at Europe's CERN laboratory, two of the defendants in the case, say there's no chance that the Large Hadron Collider would cause such cosmic catastrophes. Nevertheless, they're bracing to defend themselves in the courtroom as well as the court of public opinion. read more at msnbc.msn.com

After enduring howls in the night and creaking staircases for the past three years, an Italian family is preparing to sue the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted.

Gaetano Bastianelli, 57, and his wife Stefania paid €120,000 (£94,000) for the modern home in the Umbrian town of Spoleto in 2005 - encouraged by the fact that all the furniture and fittings were left by the owners, right down to the coffee cups. "We considered it the deal of the century," said Mr Bastianelli. read more at telegraph.co.uk

On the evening of Tuesday April 8th, the 12% crescent Moon will graze the Pleiades star cluster. The sight of the conjunction is best enjoyed through binoculars or a small telescope, but the naked eye works, too. Don't miss it!

Whew! What a workout! It's hard to believe that Adams, Friendship, Necedah, Sprague, and beyond got so much less snow than I did. After what I saw yesterday - those places not really having any snow on the ground - I thought maybe I was imagining the amount of snow I have. Nope. I tried to go out in the woods on my Hawkeye again. Made it a little farther, but only because I got off and walked/struggled along beside it. I'm not shitting you - the snow is still knee-deep here! Once I got out there, then I didn't know if I could make it back. Wow, I'm still sweating!

I'm really getting sick of it. I want to go out and cut a little wood and generally bomb around in the woods. I don't like to walk the dogs down the road either, so it would be nice to be able to walk in the woods again. They're talking heavy rain and thunderstorms tomorrow, so hopefully that will take care of all the snow I have yet. Then maybe I'll be able to see the ground again like the other places around me!

The next few times that the International Space Station will be passing over:

04/01 08:04:30 pm NNW

04/05 09:31:33 pm NNW

04/07 08:40:20 pm NNW

Global anti-Warming

From ice rinks to tubing hills, officials responsible for running winter venues reported one of the longest seasons they've had. In Wood County, Powers Bluff Park took in more money from fees this year than the last three years, said Ron Arendt, Wood County Parks administrator. read more at wisconsinrapidstribune.com

Another beautiful Spring day! Perfect for an ATV ride. As usual when I'm riding my ATV, had a great time. Sandy couldn't make it today, so Dale had fun picking on Lynn instead. Poor Lynn! She says she'll get him back.

One thing that was kind of rare today was that my wife actually went with! Holy cow! My Hawkeye is just over one year old now, and this is the first time she's went riding with me since I got it. We rode double quite comfortably and the Hawkeye handled it very well. I can't think of one complaint about it from today.

Pictures coming soon to the picture page.

No International Space Station tonight. It's cloudy. Maybe sometime next week.

One thing I noticed today about the snow cover is Adams and all the way into Necedah and beyond has nowhere near the amount of snow on the ground yet as I do. Even the fields just south of Adams already don't have much, if any snow on them. The fields here are still almost completely covered. Apparently my end of the county got more snow than farther north did. Weird.

International Space Station - BRIGHTNESS: visual magnitude -3 (super-bright)

The International Space Station is the biggest, brightest object orbiting Earth. The station's solar arrays span 240-feet from tip to tip, almost as wide as a football field. The ISS outshines Venus; only the sun and Moon are brighter. read more at nasa.gov

Tonight (March 29) at 8 p.m. local time, join millions of people around the world in turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund. read more at earthhour.org

Wow, that was cool! JR, Brittany, Karen, and I ran outside at 8:00 last night and watched the International Space Station go over, followed two minutes behind by the Jules Verne cargo ship. JR thought it was cool too! The ISS was so bright that it almost hurt your eyes to watch it. And it's getting really big too. You could sort of make out it's shape with just your eyes. You could definitely tell that it was no ordinary satellite.

The Jules Verne was considerably dimmer. It did look more like a regular satellite, but it followed the same path that the ISS took two minutes before.

They are both going over again tonight (the ISS at 8:30 and the Jules Verne at 8:37 from the west). They have been maneuvering the JV around, so that time may change a little, but the ISS will stay the same.

Tonight is the last night for a couple, but check out Spaceweather.com's Satellite Flybys feature to find out when they will be going overhead again.

Day 120 - with snow on the ground:

There's still too much snow to make it out in the woods on the Hawkeye. 18 +/- on the ground in most places where the sun doesn't hit directly. The dogs and I were finally able today to walk out as far as the snowmobile trail, only because we stayed on top of the crust most of the time.

The snowmobile trail was hard as rock, like it's paved. I probably could have kept my woods trail open as far as that all winter, but what good would it have done? Most of the snowmobilers nowadays are stuck-up snobs that are not willing to discuss ways to share even a few select trails with their recreational brothers. Way different attitude than when my dad, family, and friends built the first marked snowmobile trails in the state, right here in these woods.

Sky watchers in Wisconsin and Michigan report seeing auroras last night. The solar wind continues to blow and more geomagnetic storms are possible tonight. I didn't see them last night. I got interested in an old Sherlock Holmes movie and forgot all about looking for the Space Station. If I had remembered, I probably would have seen the northern lights too.

Start looking tonight at 8:00 in the southwest sky for the International Space Station (8:08) and the Jules Verne (8:10). Then turn around to face north and maybe you'll see auroas!

While I was out in the woodpile loading the trailer this morning, my gas man drove by. He smiled and waved. I smiled and waved. If everything goes like normal, I won't be needing him until the week after the 4th of July, when the gas is at it's cheapest (which is still too much).

Anyway, seeing him while hauling wood reminded me of a conversation him and I once had. He told me that at first he couldn't believe the people in this area could even afford to heat their homes without the use of wood. Then he said he began to realize that most of them were wealthier than they pretended to be.

I laughed and told him that he was probably right. Even though Karen and I make far less money than anybody else we know, it's not important. We're still happy.

While I'm thinking of it, I want to thank everyone again for posting events on my calendar! I see April is filling up fast. (G-ma, I hope the displayed dates/days have corrected themselves.)

It's time to haul my month's worth of wood up and clean my chimney again. I guess I really wouldn't need to haul any wood up, but take it out of the main woodpile daily as needed. Although, it is nice to have a supply of wood under cover just outside the door. Beats hauling it across the yard in the snow everyday. Plus I use that as a gauge for when it's time to clean the chimney. When the month's worth of wood is gone, then I clean the chimney. I probably wouldn't need to clean the chimney that often, but I'm paranoid about chimney fires. When I was a kid we had chimney fires quite often. They never worried Dad much, but they scared the hell out of me. That feeling has stuck with me all my life.

Depending on the weather, maybe this will be the last time for the season. I doubt it though. Most likely there will be one more time between now and the middle of May. Every year the last day of fire for the season is Memorial Day weekend. It just works out that way, Memorial weekend is the last cool/cold days. Then no fire until late August, when there is usually one or two cool nights. Then a few more cool nights in September, plus a couple cool days. By the end of October, it's back to burning 24/7. So, the "off season" doesn't last very long. Global Warming.

I added up my snow totals for the season and it comes to 109 inches as of today. More expected tonight and tomorrow. Global Warming.

Remember Windows 98? Remember the way you felt about Windows 98? This excerpt from the South Park movie expresses how we all felt about Windows 98!

The electric hybrid Aptera (greek for "wingless flight") is a 3-wheeled motorcycle registered with DOT and the California DMV. The production model will go 85 mph and get 300 mpg, the company states. read more at livescience.com

Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky technology to beef up their fight against crime.

A small pilotless drone manufactured by Honeywell International, capable of hovering and "staring" using electro-optic or infrared sensors, is expected to make its debut soon in the skies over the Florida Everglades. read more at reuters.com

University of Queensland researchers have unlocked new evidence that could help them get to the bottom of our most common phobias and their causes.

Hundreds of thousands of people count snakes and spiders among their fears, and while scientists have previously assumed we possess an evolutionary predisposition to fear the unpopular animals, researchers at UQ's School of Psychology may have proved otherwise. read more at sciencedaily.com

Go outside tonight at 10 minutes before 9:00 and watch the WSW sky. At 8:54 pm the Jules Verne cargo ship will rise and cross the sky. 4 minutes later (8:58), the International Space Station will follow the same path. Let's hope for a clear sky!

Castle Rock Family ATV Club Membership Meeting Reminder:

Dear CRFAC Members and Interested parties:

The CRFAC Membership Meeting will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 1200pm at the Vets Hall in Necedah. Ride to follow, weather permitting.

For the Board of Directors
Roger

In 2006, Stadnik was officially measured at 8 feet 5 inches tall, surpassing a 7-foot-9-inch Chinese man to claim the title of the world's tallest person.

His growth spurt began at age 14 after a brain operation that apparently stimulated the overproduction of growth hormone. Doctors say he has been growing ever since. read more at ap.google.com

It’s ironic that in March 2008, a TV network such as FOX in New York City and the cable distributor, History Channel, would finally do reports about the strange, aerial, dragonfly-shaped craft that first showed up in 2007 photographs – a whole year after events without doing any substantive research. Their sarcastic reports have left viewers with the false impression that the photos were all from California and most likely CGI/Photoshop creations. Neither conclusion is true. read more at earthfiles.com

One day after the official start of Spring, a storm dumped more than a foot of snow across southeastern Wisconsin. Waukesha County got 15 inches of snow, Milwaukee County got 14 inches and Ozaukee County got 12 1/2 inches. Locally, WRJC studios north of Mauston recorded 7.5 inches of snow as of 9:30pm Friday night. That brings this winter seasonal snowfall to 83.6 inches.

The last time Easter was this early was 1913. On this day in 1913:

The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 flooded Dayton, Ohio and the surrounding area with water from the Great Miami River, causing the greatest natural disaster in Ohio history. The flood was created by a series of three winter storms that hit the region in March 1913. Within three days, 8-11 inches of rain fell throughout the Great Miami River watershed on frozen ground, resulting in more than 90% runoff that caused the river and its tributaries to overflow. The existing series of levees failed, and downtown Dayton experienced flooding up to 20 feet (6.1 m) deep. This flood is still the flood of record for the Great Miami River watershed, and the amount of water that passed through the river channel during this storm equals the flow over Niagara Falls each month. read more at wikipedia.org

More on March 19th's incredible gamma ray burst:

"It was a whopper," says Swift principal investigator Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "This blows away every gamma ray burst we've seen so far."

Very Large Telescope in Chile and the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas measured the burst's redshift at 0.94. A redshift is a measure of the distance to an object. A redshift of 0.94 translates into a distance of 7.5 billion light years, meaning the explosion took place 7.5 billion years ago, a time when the universe was less than half its current age and Earth had yet to form. This is more than halfway across the visible universe.

"No other known object or type of explosion could be seen by the naked eye at such an immense distance," says Swift science team member Stephen Holland of Goddard. "If someone just happened to be looking at the right place at the right time, they saw the most distant object ever seen by human eyes without optical aid."

GRB 080319B's afterglow was 2.5 million times more luminous than the most luminous supernova ever recorded, making it the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe. The most distant previous object that could have been seen by the naked eye is the nearby galaxy M33, a relatively short 2.9 million light-years from Earth. read more at science.nasa.gov

Holy Haleakala! Yesterday, a gamma-ray burst went off that was so bright that had you been looking at the right spot in the sky you could have seen it with just your own eyes!

It’s difficult to put this into the proper context. GRBs are monumental explosions, the exploding of a massive star where most of the energy of the catastrophe is channeled into twin beams of energy. These beams scream out from the explosion like cosmic blowtorches, and for thousands of light years anything they touch is destroyed. Happily for us, GRBs always appear hundreds of millions or billions of light years away.

Let me put this in perspective for you. Imagine a one megaton nuclear weapon detonating. That’s roughly 50 times the explosive yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Devastating.

The Sun, every second of every day of every year, gives off 100 billion times this much energy. That’s every second. A star is a terrifying object.

In the few seconds that a gamma-ray burst lasts, it packs a million million million times that much energy into its beams. In other words, for those few ticks of a clock the GRB is sending out more energy than the Sun will in its entire lifetime.

There is, quite simply, no way to exaggerate the devastation of a gamma-ray burst. read more at badastronomy.com

Time travel to the future is possible and has been experimentally verified millions of times. If an astronaut were to travel near the speed of light, it might take him, say, one minute to reach the nearest stars. Four years would have elapsed on Earth, but for him only one minute would have passed, because time would have slowed down inside the rocket ship. Hence he would have travelled four years into the future, as experienced here on Earth. (Our astronauts actually take a short trip into the future every time they go into outer space. As they travel at 18,000 miles per hour above the Earth, their clocks beat a tiny bit slower than clocks on Earth. The world record for travelling into the future is held by the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev, who orbited for 748 days and was hence hurled .02 seconds into the future.) So a time machine that can take us into the future is consistent with Einstein's special theory of relativity. But what about going backwards in time? read more at telegraph.co.uk

This is really cool! Check it out:

NEW! SIMPLE FLYBYS: Spaceweather.com has a new tool for US and Canadian readers: Simple Satellite Flybys. Just enter your zip code and it tells you about satellites due to fly over your area in the nights ahead. There are hundreds of spacecraft in Earth orbit; we cut through the confusion by narrowing the list to a half-dozen or so of the most interesting. At the moment we're monitoring the Jules Verne robotic cargo carrier, the International Space Station, space shuttle Endeavour and the Hubble Space Telescope.

For reasons of dizzying complexity, involving ancient councils and ecclesiastical calendars, the Paschal Moon's arrival on March 21st has triggered an unusually early Easter.

Easter changes dates from year to year, as everyone knows, but few grasp the intricacies of its calculation. To remove some of the mystery, we called the folks at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., who know about astronomy and calendar stuff.

Here’s the question they’ve been getting: “Why did you guys make Easter so early this year?”

Geoff Chester at the Naval Observatory wants everyone to know this: “It’s not us.”

The church long ago devised the computation for Easter, Chester said, and it’s not really mysterious. It’s certainly not random. The explanation, however, can get complex. read more at kansascity.com

arrrrrggh! It's snowing again! Snowing hard too. It started at 5:00 this morning and within a few minutes it was really coming down. Now, 2 1/2 hours later, we already have 3 inches. Next year when the groundhog pokes his head out of his hole, I think someone should holler "PULL" (you trap shooters will know what I mean).

I'm so sick of these global warming people. Don't you believe a word of it. Yesterday I was reading an article about how the cherry trees at the capitol are getting ready to bloom at the end of this month (March) when 30 years ago they didn't normally bloom until April 5th. That's a sure sign of global warming. No it's not - it's bullshit. First of all, the "end of March" is so close to "the beginning of April/the 5th" that it makes little difference to the cherry trees. You can't say that they always bloomed on the 5th of April until global warming came along. That would be a lie. They also don't mention how many years the blossoms were killed by a late frost.

Take my crocuses for instance. They're always the first to bloom in Spring. Some years I've had crocuses blooming already in February. Some years not until May. You just can't use the day some plants blossom as an indicator of anything, other than current Spring's weather. Al Gore and his global warming people dream up the craziest shit. I could go on and on, but I won't. People like us with a brain know that you can make up anything as a theory to prove anything else, but that doesn't make it fact.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to detect methane — the first organic molecule found on an extrasolar planet. Hubble also confirmed the presence of water vapour in the Jupiter-size planet’s atmosphere, a discovery made in 2007 with the help of the Spitzer Space Telescope. read more at physorg.com

With a few genetic alterations, hens could soon be 'pharmed' to produce cancer-fighting drugs. The egg proteins are rich in expensive drugs that can fight cancer and other diseases, with each egg containing enough medicine to treat a handful of patients each year. read more at telegraph.co.uk

Well, that ended my attempt at a ride in the woods. I am really starting to hate snow. Just too damn much of it yet! I got down into the valley behind my house, but I couldn't get up the other side.

Couldn't turn around, so had to back up all the way. Good thing for my reverse override overrider! I'd sure like to meet the safety engineer that invented that thing. I'd make an imprint of it on his forehead!

Uh oh! Couldn't reverse back out of the valley the way I came either! What to do? Fortunately there wasn't too much snow under the old cedar tree, and I was able to turn it around.

Damnit! Still can't get back up the hill!

I revved and roared and tilted and wiggled and went back and forth (thanks again for my override overrider).

And ta-da! I made it back to the driveway. Holy shit.

The Elroy-Sparta State Trail is the property of the State of Wisconsin and is part of its State Trails System.

It is located in Hidden Valleys Country and passes through a portion of the unglaciated areas of Wisconsin exemplifying the natural beauty of our State.

The trail is 32 miles in length on the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railroad bed and passes through three rock tunnels. The Kendall and Wilton tunnels are ¼ mile long and the Norwalk tunnel is ¾ mile long. The trail is covered with limestone screenings and provides a smooth riding surface. The bridges are covered with planks and are guarded with railings.

The trail may be entered at the Elroy Commons in Elroy or ½ mile northwest of Elroy on Hwy. 71, or continue on Hwy. 71 to the Village of Kendall - the Trail Headquarters is at the old Kendall Depot, or enter at Wilton or Norwalk on Hwy. 71, or southeast of Sparta near Hwys. 16 and 71. read more at elroy-sparta-trail.com

- 416 GALLONS OF GAS
- 34 DAYS
- 10 NEW TIRES
- 7 WESTERN STATES
- 1 MAN ON A 5,000 MILE ADVENTURE

Nathan Beck discovered the American West alone with his quad and trusty 1600AL ATV Wagon. He lost his dog twice and checked into a hospital due to hypothermia one night in Idaho. Some may think he is crazy. We think he is an inspiration. Freedom and fun is what it's all about. Explore Nathan's journal and prepare to be inspired at atvwagon.com

It must be almost that time of year again - JR is thinking about a new bicycle! Speaking of which, so am I:

Mrs. Reverend and my future bicycle? Maybe.

If you're looking for a cheaper alternative to the name-brand oil and oil filter for your Polaris single cylinder ATV (the twin cylinder engines take a different filter), look no further than your local Wal-mart or Farm and Fleet stores. Usually about half the price of the Polaris dealer, and most likely the same stuff without the Polaris name. The only problem I have had with Wal-mart, is some stores will have the filter and not the oil, while others are just the opposite - oil but no filter. Farm and Fleet so far has always had both.

The oil is Mobil 0w40 fully synthetic. My Hawkeye manual says to use only 0w50, but when I tried to get it from my Polaris dealer, he said they don't even carry it. All they use is the same stuff that my Sportsman called for, 0w40.

The Fram PH6017A filter is identical to the Polaris stock filter. It is a little bit longer than the original Hawkeye filter, but once again the dealer told me they use on the Hawkeye the same thing as the old Sportsman filter. Which is ok with me - since it's a little longer than the original it has a greater capacity. More oil for the engine to work with is always a plus.

Mobil Fully Synthetic 0w40

Fram Oil Filter For Single Cylinder Polaris ATVs

Being police officers, we decided to investigate this phenomenon. Each of us quickly untied our ropes and jumped back into the boat. We made it across the lake in about five minutes, tops.

As we docked the boat on a friend’s dock, who was away at the time, we looked in the direction of where the light was – approximately 300 yards away. It was now pulsating and no longer a steady glow. It was just behind the old silo and so we walked in that direction quite cautiously, yet very excited and quick.

When we reached the silo, suddenly the glow became solid again and stopped pulsing. The three of us, walking side by side, each with a pocket knife in hand, made it around to the other side where the light was coming from.

What we saw then was something I have never seen, or even could have fathomed…read more at paranormal.about.com

Urban astro-nerds, rejoice! The smog and lights of the city will obscure your view of the heavens no more. And your star photography will twinkle. Now you can go online to access high-quality scopes at dark-sky sites worldwide and order them to take photos for you — cheaply or for free, and at decent resolution. read more at wired.com

Because neither of our neighboring planets has a global, protecive magnetic field, the solar wind is free to interact directly with the planets' atmospheres. Solar radiation energizes atmospheric particles so that they accelerate and escape from the planets. Earth is spared from the brunt of solar radiation by its protective magnetosphere.

"These results really highlight what a special place Earth is and how lucky we are to have an atmosphere protected by a magnetic field," read more at space.com

Private eye T.K. Davis has worked his share of oddball cases. Once he tracked down a one-armed woman wanted for child endangerment. He staked out a backyard to catch a guy throwing dirt clods into a pool. When you make your living answering life's mysterious questions at $100 an hour, you take a few calls out of the blue.

He works the streets of this suburban town near Santa Cruz, where dog-walking mothers and aging hippies compete for beach time. Oh, sure, it might seem innocent enough, but it can get a little creepy if you let it. People might see things -- unusual objects in the sky, for instance -- and not say a thing for fear of being ridiculed.

At times like that, a private eye comes in handy. He can look around, ask a few hard questions -- even if it means risking his reputation built over 30 years as a deputy sheriff.

That's more or less where Davis finds himself now, behind the wheel of his blue Ford Explorer, with his partner Frankie Dixon. They're cruising down streets, looking at utility poles and trying to figure out: Is that the one in these three pictures, the pictures with the unidentified flying object? read more at latimes.com

Go outside after sunset tonight, locate the Moon (you can't miss it), and note the golden star beside it. That "star" is Saturn.

A man ran naked across frozen Silver Lake on a $30 bet this week, but the cold streak cost him much more when he was busted by a Kenosha County sheriff's deputy watching from a nearby boat launch. read more at jsonline.com

Yep, the trivia question is a little tougher this time! Next one will be something easier, I promise.

Finally! Overalls that fit! Just ask for the 'KENTUCKY CUT' - Thanks Rich!

In January 1979 Jean Hingley had just seen her husband drive off to work when she noticed a large orange sphere hovering near the driveway.

She rushed back to the house and said three tiny winged figures, wearing goldfish-bowl helmets, flew past her into the living room and started shaking the Christmas tree, dislodging the fairy from the top.

The strange beings told Mrs Hingley they came "from the sky" then talked about Jesus and Tommy Steele.

She offered them a tray of mince pies and they took one each before flying off to their ship, which then lifted up in the direction of Oldbury or West Bromwich. read more at birminghammail.net

A mountainside house being auctioned in Tennessee is perfect for anyone tolerant of gawkers and fascinated with outer space: It's built like a flying saucer. read more at cnn.com

Application of the scientific method can prove false many purported UFO sightings. Some are hoaxes. Some are funky atmospheric things. Some are optical illusions. Some are unclassifiable — the anomalies. The government, since its initial acknowledgment of the Roswell incident, has maintained a strict, “nope, can’t be” attitude to all UFO incidents. It apparently figures that it made a big, big, big mistake once that it doesn’t want to repeat. Whether that mistake was to tell the truth or to spin a wild science-fiction tale, that’s never been cleared up to the full satisfaction of all concerned.

Are we alone? Mathematics tells us it just can’t be. With millions upon millions of stars in our galaxy, and millions upon millions of galaxies in the universe, the sheer weight of mathematical reasoning holds that, even if life exists only on one-one-trillionth (a wildly liberal number) of the planets that are out there, the universe is falling over itself with life. The Big Empty isn’t. read more at ldnews.com

The leprechaun, a classic example of a solitary fairy, is often called "the fairy shoemaker" because in the folktales they are often discovered by the gentle tapping noise they make with the tiny hammers they use to make their tiny shoes. The one who discovers their hiding place usually finds only a few tiny tools and the tiny shoe that the leprechaun had been working on just before their discovery, however, as leprechauns usually manage to escape just in time before being spotted. But if one is "lucky" enough to actually spot a leprechaun, he can be forced to reveal the location of his treasure, which usually consists of not only the stereotypical "pot o' gold", but may also contain all kinds of ancient, magical items of great power and worth that the leprechaun has managed to acquire (steal) over the centuries. read more at ireland.mysteriousworld.com.

Today is the day! Mrs. Reverend and I have been married for 17 years! In our 21 totally faithful years together, we have slept apart only two nights. Once when she was in the hospital after having our daughter, and once when I was in the hospital with pneumonia. And after all those years I can honestly say that we still love to fight! Ha ha!

The Newlyweds! 3-16-91

An American woman who levitated, demonstrated paranormal psychic powers and spoke foreign languages unknown to her was clearly demon possessed, according to a board-certified psychiatrist and associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College. read more at worldnetdaily.com

An unidentified flying object caught the attention of some Pasco County residents early Friday.

Many described the object -- a rotating triangle of three white lights plus a flashing red light that stayed put -- as a UFO.

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says some Wesley Chapel residents called 911 around 6:25 a.m. wondering what was up -- literally.

A deputy's report says it was a balloon, but doesn't get more specific than that. read more at myfoxtampabay.com

For the eighth day in a row, a solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and causing high-latitude geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should remain alert for bright auroras.

A blond is speeding and gets pulled over by a blond state trooper. The trooper asks to see her driver's license. She rummages around in her purse and car - finds cellphone, pen, tissues, etc. but no license. Opens her makeup case and sees her face in the mirror. She thinks; "Ah ha! Here's my picture, this must be my license."

Hands it to the trooper. Trooper takes one look and she says; "If I'd have known you were a state trooper, I would have never pulled you over!"

Access Rights to Public Lands Issue



Time is running out, over 55% or 107,000,000 acres of your public lands have already been closed to most uses. Over 55 acres a minute will be closed based on this year’s Wilderness proposals, all without public involvement. Help stop these massive land closures.



To put it simply there is a vocal minority of people who want to lock you out of your own public lands.

They have been very successful & will continue to be successful until more people stand up & speak out.

The problem we are facing with the public land access issues today is it’s a very small group of people that are well organized with a lot of political influence in that simply put, put their very selfish wants ahead of others.

They claim to be environmentalists, better know as Green People or Tree Huggers, pretending that their main objective is to protect the land from others who will destroy it.



These people have only one objective. They want the public lands to be open only for themselves and their fellow silent sports advocates (the hikers, back packers & primitive campers). These people want no one else on these public lands except their kind. They hate it that other user groups, they don’t care for, are allowed on these multi use public lands. Not only don’t they want any motor sports recreation on these public lands, they don’t even want mountain bikers or horseback riders on these multi-use public lands, just walking. To win their objective they spread false propaganda about the user groups they are opposed to and they scare the public into believing that the land and the animals that live on it will be completely destroyed if the trails and roads are not closed and the bad people (mountain bikers, horseback rides & motor sports trail users, etc.) are not kept out.

We pay our taxes, the public lands are our land, we (taxpayers) should all be able to use these lands as shared recreation land and the majority of us should not be locked out. The land should be for everyone to use and enjoy, in an environmentally friendly way and yes we need to protect it for future generations. But closing the trails, roads and lands down to the majority of the public is not the answer, conservation and good land management is.



There are times when those of us in the motor sports community need to speak out and write, email or call our elected officials, Representatives, Congressmen & Senators and let them know that the majority of outdoor recreational people will not idly stand by and let a small group of a few selfish people take away what is rightfully ours. Now! Is one of those times,.



Over 56,000 of your fellow OHVers have already woken up to the fact that they needed to take part in government or be ruled by laws they disagree with.
If you have not done so already, please sign the Advocates for Access to Public Lands (AAPL) petition so your voice is heard & hopefully you can get your local elected officials to sign a resolution go to: http://access-advocates.org/take_action.htm

Wilderness bills like S493 (a land access closure bill) most definitely affects trails by closing them. This is legit & there are many other bills just like it. None of them require a vote.

Congress will approve these anti-access bills unless more people speak up.

You can read more about & read the actual S493 bill at http://access-advocates.org/issues.htm

Just yesterday (3-13-08) your Congressmen voted on HR 2016 the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) bill,. They voted 3/12 on putting national park like regulations on over 26,000,000 acres of multiple use land. The National Landscape Conservation System passed out of the Resources Committee by a vote of 24 to 13. It will now go to the floor of the House for a vote. You still have a good chance to stop this bill by contacting your own district Congressman today:

Baldwin, Tammy, Wisconsin, 2nd District


Kagen, Steve, Wisconsin, 8th District

Kind, Ron, Wisconsin, 3rd District


Moore, Gwen, Wisconsin, 4th District

Obey, David R., Wisconsin, 7th District


Petri, Thomas, Wisconsin, 6th District

Ryan, Paul, Wisconsin, 1st District


Sensenbrenner, F. James, Wisconsin, 5th


It is very important that your Congressman know you are watching and paying attention to how he votes. So please go to the Action Items below and make your calls. This will help you with your credibility with your Congressman in the future.



Trails In Trouble is a video that is accurate & I hope you will take the time to watch it and follow the program as outlined at www.TrailsInTrouble.org to show the video to your Congressman's office. Contact (call, write or email) our Congressman today, let them know you oppose the closing of access to our public lands.


Advocates for Access to Public Lands (AAPL) was created to help people like yourself speak up quickly & easily to help keep trails & public lands open.
Please consider joining supporting AAPL & donate to help fund their cause to help people take action against public land closures.

Advocates for Access to Public Lands; www.access-advocates.org, Also check out these another access right to public land originations, Blur Ribbon Coalition at www.blueribbon.org and the American Land Rights Association; www.landrights.org



There are some things you just cannot put a price on; the annual family camping trip to that remote spot at the end of the forest road, mountain biking with your friends in the backcountry, ATV riding on primitive forest trails, horse back riding in the vast woods, fishing with your child at your dad’s favorite spot, 4x4ing up that old logging road to your secret hunting camp, winter snowmobiling through the National Forest.

Of course the key to enjoying all these special times is access to your public lands.

Get involved & take action, contact your Congressman today.



Thanks for your time and efforts,



Fox Valley All Terrain Vehicle Association (FVATVA) &

East Central Wisconsin ATV Alliance (ECWATVA)

President
Scott L. Siebert

Scott L. Siebert

After sunset tonight, look south and see Mars right beside the Moon.

When I had the dogs out for our daily walk an hour ago, we saw two Robins. Won't be long now, hopefully, and this stupid snow will be gone! I sure haven't been able to get in the woods much this winter. I can't remember the last time I cut any firewood. I think it was just before Mom's funeral, back in September. I've been itching all winter to get out there and cut some. If it keeps this up, in a day or two I might be able to get the Hawkeye to go on the woods trails finally! I can't wait to ride my bike again too. Mrs. and I might buy a tandem bicycle this spring.

Sure am glad JR, Brittany, Stumpjumper, and I were able to go on our ATV ride last Sunday. Besides it being the last weekend before the BRF trails closed, it was also perfect conditions for a final winter ride! Couldn't ask for a better winter ride. Usually our March ride is cold and wet and sloppy and raining or snowing or all of the above! I'm sure the trails would be plenty wet and sloppy today.

Something to look forward to:

3/9/07: 54F degrees
3/10: 50
3/11: 55
3/12: 60
3/13: 62
3/14: 60
3/23: 67
3/24: 67
3/25: 77
3/26: 82
3/27: 71

It's coming - my house number sign!

Do you like spaghetti, baked goods, gardening, Easter eggs, riding ATVs, saving lives, and more? Then March is the month for you!

Such is the interest in Enceladus that Nasa has directed its Cassini spacecraft to pass just 50km from the Saturnian moon on Wednesday.

The flyby will take the probe through the plumes of icy particles emanating from the enigmatic cracks at the south pole dubbed the "tiger stripes".

The flyby occurs just after 1900 GMT on Wednesday. read more at news.bbc.co.uk

A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and causing high-latitude geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

I did something yesterday that I thought I would never do in a million years. I became the owner of bib overalls! Yep. You heard me. Bib overalls! An old farmer like me and I've never in my life had a pair before.

You see, instead of getting hand-me-downs from dead people or clothing gifted to me, I shop for and buy all of my own clothes. Therefore, I can be choosy about what I wear. My wardrobe consists entirely of frugal necessities.

Aside from overalls being considerably more expensive than jeans, I always felt they were mainly for old fat guys. Well, over the last few years I have become an old fat guy. When the Pamida sales flyer came in the mail, and they had bib overalls for only $22, hence - bib overalls!

If civilisation is wiped out on Earth, salvation may come from space. Plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon containing the essentials of life and civilisation, to be activated in the event of earth being devastated by a giant asteroid or nuclear war.

Construction of a lunar information bank, discussed at a conference in Strasbourg last month, would provide survivors on Earth with a remote-access toolkit to rebuild the human race. read more at timesonline.co.uk

On Sunday, March 9th, Europe put a new spaceship in Earth orbit--the Jules Verne. Also known as the ATV (short for "automated transfer vehicle"), Jules Verne is an unmanned, robotic spaceship able to carry almost 8 tons of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). This is its maiden voyage. For the next few weeks, Jules Verne will perform a series of test maneuvers in Earth orbit, approaching and following the ISS and finally docking with the station after space shuttle Endeavour departs on March 25th.

My last dry cow freshened yesterday. The barn holds 33 and I have no empty stanchions. I'm milking all 33, for now. I'm making extra money for somebody. Wish it was me! The cow that had a calf last night had twins! One bull and one heifer baby. Both healthy so far. The milking and chores that I could do in two hours or slightly less when I was milking 20 cows and feeding a couple babies, now takes 3 hours or more with 33! Twice a day.

New pictures will be uploaded today on my home page, if all goes well. Maybe even a new movie.

Today was actually a pretty good day for an ATV ride in Black River Falls. Jr had a little trouble with a trailer tire, Brittany had some engine problems with JR's old Sportsman, and Stumpjumper had some electrical malfunction with his Sportsman, but JR will give the details on his blog, if he wants. We didn't have to tow anybody back to the trucks, and we didn't need to call a wrecker! The malfunctions could have been worse, but we're pretty good with a piece of wire and a pair of vicegrips.

The trails were mostly smooth and not icy. Nearly perfect, like the wintertime trails usually are. We unloaded at Milston, rode through town, and the longer way into Black River Falls. Ate a little lunch, then back down to Milston. We met about an equal number of snowmobiles as we did ATVs. Probably a couple dozen or so of each. There were enough people riding that we met other machines regularly, but not so many as to be too crowded.

The Hawkeye ran like a clock. It likes cold, dry air. In the summer, when it's really hot and humid, it gets a little boggy and sluggish sometimes. Not today. It responded crisply when I'd open the throttle. Even got up to 47 mph crossing the interstate before I had to back off!

Now no more Jackson County trails until they open again in May. Darn. Pictures tomorrow.

Newly-discovered asteroid 2008 EZ7 flew past Earth last night at a distance of only ~100,000 miles. Normally, an asteroid as small as 2008 EZ7 would attract minimal attention. Even if it hit Earth, the result would be little more than a bright fireball and a sprinkling of meteorites across some uninhabited stretch of our planet. 2008 EZ7 may prove to be more interesting, however; rumor has it that a second space rock provisionally named "BJ19377" is following 2008 EZ7 in a similar orbit and will soon make its own close approach. Could this be a twin asteroid flyby?

Sky watchers should be alert for auroras tonight. Earth is entering a solar wind stream and this could cause high-latitude geomagnetic storms.

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A small asteroid discovered just yesterday and provisionally named "8E4BDB1" will fly past Earth tonight at a distance of only 100,000 miles.

Must see Bigfoot video! Go to Hunt TV and watch the video titled "Unusual footage caught on stealth cam" on the front page!

Our contact is a highly decorated career US military officer, working in the Pentagon in the Dept. of the JCS {Joint Chief's of Staff} and is now assigned to the State Department as a Military Liaison diplomat. He reports to BOTH the Joint Chiefs and the State Department. Bona fide credentials and other documentation were presented to me for review, which I examined and accepted as authentic and they satisfy my concerns. I find him credible and I respect this courageous gentleman, who in accepting this mission from top Pentagon leaders has also accepted some great risks to fulfill his mission.

During the last year, pressure from foreign governments, Britain, France, Belgium, the Washington DC National Press Club UFO Conference in November and the Stephenville UFO flap with the embarrassing performance of the USAF (bold face lies) has shaken up the longstanding, official UFO policy in the Pentagon and new people are in charge. The US government has also been given a timetable for disclosure by the ETs to prepare our people for open contact by 2017..."or else."

Britain, France and Italy will stand with US but their attitude is "You go FIRST!" But Germany, Spain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are adamant and hostile to the US plan to Disclose. read more at ufodigest.com

Brr. -15 below zero this morning. I think our below zero days are numbered for the rest of this winter though. The sun has a lot of power in it now and it warms up quickly in the morning.

Looks like we'll be going to Jackson County for an ATV ride tomorrow! I need some new pictures, and I'm getting a serious case of cabin/barn fever. It will probably just be JR, Brittany, Stumpjumper, and I. A lot of people nowadays don't ride anymore just for the fun of riding, but we still do. There's nothing simpler and less controversial than a plain old just for the fun of it ride!

This morning, at 5:42 a.m., a fireball exploded and burned up in the atmosphere directly overhead.

It must have been a large meteor, a small asteroid, or a big piece of space junk. I was walking back to the barn after feeding the heifers when suddenly the ground, the buildings, the trees, all lit up a very bright blue. My first thought was lightning, but at -10F below zero and a clear sky, I realized that was impossible. Just as I looked up, after the really bright blue flash was already over, the last few pieces were burning out. It was traveling from northwest to southeast and burned out completely just slightly after it had gone directly overhead.

I thought maybe I would hear a sonic boom, or some sound from it, so I listened for a few minutes afterward but heard nothing. And so far I haven't heard of anyone else seeing anything.

Castle Rock Family ATV Club Newsletter

The great battery race
Dramatic developments in stored-power technology make electric cars more viable than ever.

Aside from escalating gas prices and concerns about global warming, the changing attitudes toward hybrids is being driven by rapid developments in the batteries used to power them. Not long ago, batteries seemed trapped in the 19th century, a mature technology that wasn't progressing very quickly. But both established battery makers and ambitious startups are pushing battery development at once unimaginable speeds.

Replacing nickel-metal hydride batteries, the kind that are used in the Toyota Prius, are lithium-ion batteries, first designed for such applications as laptop computers and cell phones. Lithium-ion batteries provide twice the power, energy density, and cycle life of nickel metal-hydride, but less than half the weight and size, and half the cost. read more at cnn.com

Binary 'deathstar' has Earth in its sights

"Viewed from Earth, the rotating tail appears to be laid out on the sky in an almost perfect spiral. It could only appear like that if we are looking nearly exactly down on the axis of the binary system," said Tuthill.

This means we are peering down the barrel of the gun, as when binary supernovae go off, all their energy is focussed into a narrow beam of wildly destructive gamma ray radiation that emanates (both up and down) from the poles of the system.

"If such a gamma-ray burst happens, we really do not want Earth to be in the way," he said. "I used to appreciate this spiral just for its beautiful form, but now I can't help a twinge of feeling that it is uncannily like looking down a rifle barrel."

Sterilising effect

Though the risk may be remote, there is evidence that gamma ray bursts have swept over the planet at various points in Earth's history with a devastating effect on life.

A 2005 study showed that a gamma-ray burst originating within 6,500 light-years of Earth could be enough to strip away the ozone layer and cause a mass extinction. Researchers led by Adrian Melott at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, U.S., suggest that such an event may have been responsible for a mass extinction 443 million years ago, in the late Ordovician period, which wiped out 60 per cent of life and cooled the planet. read more at cosmosmagazine.com

This sounds kind of cool! But, I'm sure with my BackWoods Internet connection it would be excruciatingly slow and probably not work at all for me:

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When I walk down to the barn in the morning, it's still pitch black out. But by the time I walk out back with the grain for the heifers, there's a nice glow in the east. This weekend the time is going to change again and I won't have the nice glow anymore. It will be pitch black until 7:00 again. Yuck. The cows don't like time changes much either.

I wish they would just make up their minds and leave the time alone. If the time we are changing to this weekend is the one that supposedly saves us money, then let's change to that and leave it there. After all, we're only on standard time for 3 months now anyway so why bother with the change. Stupid BS.

Sand Dunes Thawing on Mars
What are these strange shapes on Mars? Defrosting sand dunes. As spring now dawns on the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, dunes of sand near the pole, as pictured above, are beginning to thaw. The carbon dioxide and water ice actually sublime in the thin atmosphere directly to gas. Thinner regions of ice typically defrost first revealing sand whose darkness soaks in sunlight and accelerates the thaw. The process might even involve sandy jets exploding through the thinning ice. By summer, spots will expand to encompass the entire dunes. The Martian North Pole is ringed by many similar fields of barchan sand dunes, whose strange, smooth arcs are shaped by persistent Martian winds. from Astronomy Picture of the Day

"We didn't see them from the back end of the train for several minutes after they went away to the east and turned. But the boys in the engine were still seeing them. I got back on the radio with Bridge. He was watching them right then. They must have circled the train and gone north of us, real low, because the next time we saw them they came rushing up the tracks right in back of us. They were coming a lot faster this time - a lot faster than they had come back over the train the first time.

"They were just above the tree-tops along the right of way, and they had changed their way of flying -- their formation. This time they were sort of flying on edge. Two of them were on edge - the two in the middle. The two on the outside were tilted at an angle both in the same direction. The four of them flew like that up the tracks behind the train - a tilted one on the east, two of them straight up and down, then the one on the west tilted just like the one on the east.

"When they first came back over the train we could see that they were round things - circular shaped on the bottom. Then when they flew up the tracks in back of us we could see - Sosbey and I - that they were about 40 feet in diameter and maybe 10 feet thick. The two flying straight up and down were approximately over the edges of the right of way and about 200 yards in back of the caboose. If they had been flying flat down instead of edgewise. They would have just about have touched edges so they must have been somewhere around 40 feet across the bottom." continued...

The cows have been kicking a lot lately. He feeds their bale to them in the pasture in the same spot, day after day, no matter how much I say he shouldn't do that. The cows then lay where they eat their bale, in their shit and piss over and over again. Then they get covered with shit, including their tits. Their tits then get chapped and split and bloody and sore, just like chapped lips do. Then they kick me. But I guess it only matters to the one that does the milking, me.

Anyway, I get kicked in the hands and arms every morning and every night and occasionally my feet get stomped on. Sometimes I get kicked in the legs. A few times per year I get kicked in the back from the cow next to the one I am working on. But, this morning was a first. I was putting the milker on #11. The moment that I'm putting the milker on is the worst possible time that they can kick, because I am not able to hang onto anything and block their leg with my arm. Just then, she kicked. She got her leg past my arm, and kicked me square in the chest! Never been kicked in the chest before.

And all this for less than minimum wage! Yee haw!


Here is #11's hoof print on my shirt.

Here is what happens sometimes when I get kicked in the leg. (my skin color is normally white)
And people preach to me about not wearing a helmet when riding my ATV? Ha ha! Wear one if you want, but don't try to force your perception of danger on me. My ATV does not frighten me.

Important Message from Adams County Sheriff, Darrell Renner
I realize it's been a number of years since we last had this amount of snow in a season. Everyone is tired of shoveling and snow plowing. The last thing we need to think about is to shovel around our house numbers.

However, to assist the Sheriff's Department, Fire Departments, and EMS in locating your property in a time of emergency, we ask that you keep these signs clear of snow.

Oops, guess where my house number sign is!

Some researchers say the low volcanic dust levels in the atmosphere over the last dozen years could be contributing to global warming.

During a lunar eclipse, Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon directly. But some sunlight still gets through, refracted through Earth's atmosphere. The amount varies, depending mainly on how much dust from volcanic eruptions is floating around at high altitudes.

Because dust can block sunlight from passing through the atmosphere, more dust makes for a darker Moon during lunar eclipses. "All the big dimmings of the Moon during eclipses can be attributed to specific volcanoes," says Richard Keen of the University of Colorado in Boulder, US.

Keen and his collaborators have charted the brightness of eclipses back to 1960 and for a few years around the time of the 1883 eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa volcano.

They are using the eclipse data to track changes in the opacity of Earth's atmosphere. While most of the light deflected by particles in the atmosphere is just temporarily diverted and eventually reaches the Earth's surface, the effects of atmospheric dust can have a significant, if temporary, impact on the climate, Keen says. continued...

Longyearbyen, originally a coal mining town named for the American who founded it a century ago, is in total darkness from mid-November through January. During the first part of November and in February, when the sun is well below the horizon, daytime is only indirect light, a brief period of bluish twilight.

But now, with the sun climbing closer to the horizon, each day is 20 minutes longer than the day before, and noticeably brighter. On Saturday, direct sunlight, with shadows and warmth, will arrive, starting with an actual sunrise. continued...

The fear of ridicule prevents some would-be witnesses from coming forward, said Berghorn. For this reason, the organization does not disclose the names of witnesses who file reports, unless the witnesses are willing to go public, he said. The national organization estimates that only one in 10 UFO sightings are reported, a number that Berghorn thinks is a little high. Continued...

I should have went riding yesterday. It was a really nice day for it, actually. Oh well, the forecast for next Sunday is similar.

I went shopping instead. Bought a new TV for the den. Even though it's only 19 inch, it cost more on sale than the 27 inch in the family room! It's one of those flat ones that hangs on the wall like a picture. Kind of cool. Someday I will have a big one like that for the family room.

I retired the old 13 inch non-digital den TV and the oldest DVD player to the bedroom. Mrs. Reverend sometimes likes to watch movies in bed late at night, and she was using the little portable DVD player. By comparison, the 13 inch TV seems like a big screen! Not much else goes on in there these days anyway, except for maybe some snoring and a little farting.

I don't know, they're still forecasting crappy weather for today, but right now it's beautiful! I almost think I should have went to Jackson County today. I don't like getting caught in wet winter weather though. Maybe next Sunday, since it's the last chance. That way it will also give my sore, cow-kicked shoulder another week to heal.

I really like JR's new snowmobiling pictures! I do miss snowmobiling sometimes. Most of those pictures look like they are from my area. Let me see if I can guess.

March1b, not sure.

March2b, Barbican Bluff? They used to call it Rocky Rock!

March3b, Ernie's of course!

March4b, crossing 82 by B?

March5b, that's the little rock back behind the old chicken egg farm. We used to call it Dinosaur Rock because it looked like it had a cave painting of a dinosaur on it.

The 6th one doesn't load.

March7b, hey, is that Clifford? And it looks a lot like you are right behind my house! About at the half-way point in the woods actually, near my old deer stand.

March8b, cool jump! Not sure. The field on the top of the bluff maybe?

A third peace officer in the Stephenville, Texas, area has gone on the record publicly.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 31, he saw something very unusual from his bedroom window. more...

I just took this picture yesterday of my house.
At least it looks a lot like our house! Probably built by the same guy. Anybody care to guess whose house it actually is? Ah, a future trivia question maybe?

I would say that March came in like a lamb today. Warmish, a little sunshine, not much wind. Make a note of that, and we'll see how close the old wives' tale is on the 31st.

The barn is full, not a single empty stanchion, and only one dry cow. That's a first, since I started doing this full-time 10 years ago and part-time before that. Went from milking 20 cows just a couple weeks ago, to milking 32 now. Takes quite a bit longer for me to get done. 10 years ago, there was no less than Darin, Travis, Lee, Kevin, Larry, Bob, and Bill helping out besides. Now there's me. Working alone might not be so bad when you own the place and it's your farm. It's not my farm, I do not own it. Even minimum wage would make it feel a little better, but that hasn't happened in 10 years. It will never happen.

A student was left shocked when she checked her tourist snaps of the London skyline - and spotted what looks like a flying saucer.

University Of Exeter academic Karolina-Slavka Mueller was in London for the weekend, when she took some shots with her camera phone of the sights.

But when she looked back at the January 19 night time pictures of Tower Bridge and the London Eye, she was shocked to see an apparent UFO.

And experts claim it is the real thing. read more

Bigfoot? At Berkeley?

Hold your fire, if not your skepticism. In the equivocal spirit of sightings of Bigfoot himself — according to folklore and a handful of so-called cryptozoologists, a towering, humanlike hominid that roams the dense forests of the American Northwest and British Columbia on two legs — casts of what may or may not be the creature’s footprints are now on view at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Whatever they are or aren’t, though, they are most definitely a conversation piece. The plaster casts were created by the late anthropologist Grover Krantz, a one-time Berkeley grad student and Hearst Museum preparator who went on to become one of the world’s best-known researchers of Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch. (He hypothesized that the species was part of a surviving population of Gigantopithecines, an extinct ape.) The prints, allegedly, are from tracks made by an individual called Cripplefoot and found in the snow by a local butcher near a Bossburg, Wash., garbage dump in 1969. Krantz donated the casts to the museum in 1970. read more

Families living in Lilieci reported windows broken, bicycles flying through the air, objects moving on tables and candles blown out when there is no wind.

When they complained they were being hounded by evil spirits to police they were laughed at.

But after officers saw the evidence with their own eyes they filed a report saying that ghosts were to blame.

Mircea Hadimbu, 68, who says his house has now been completely wrecked, said: "The windows started to break one by one. I saw two bicycles moving through the air on their own."

His sister Melentina Bocancea, 78, who lives nearby, added: "There were cups flying around the house and candles I lit were blown out as soon as I put a match to them even though there was not a breath of wind in the house."

A police spokesman said: "There were bottles and things flying around. I did not know what to dodge first. We can find nothing to suggest it was anything other than what the people claim." read more