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Top 10 People Shrouded in Controversy
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Pejoratives are words or phrases that bring out contempt or distaste in the human
psyche. The words elicit a specific emotional reaction in people. Some good
examples include the words liberal, punk, hacker, fascist, extremist and conspiracy
theorist. In the 20th century, the phrase conspiracy theory began to be used for any
accusation that is fully unsupported by conclusive evidence and scientific fact. This
includes any suggestion that does not follow the commonly accepted beliefs of
society. In modern times, the world is full of people who have published books, and
dedicated their life to the study of conspiracy. These individuals provide some
interesting and bizarre claims. This article will examine ten conspiracy theories and
the people who made them popular.
10
Phil Schneider
Conspiracy Theory: The alien agenda.
Phil Schneider stands out in the world of alien conspiracy. In 1995, Schneider began
to give public conferences describing the history of human and alien interaction on
the planet Earth. Many of his speeches given during 1995 can be viewed on YouTube.
Phil claims that he was an ex-government structural engineer, who was put in charge
of developing secret underground bases around the United States. He says that the
United States has been aware of extraterrestrial life on Earth since the early 20th
century, but has kept the evidence secret. In 1979, Schneider was involved with an
underground project in New Mexico. He was the lead engineer in creating a large
American base.
During the construction, the group of builders stumbled upon a large nest of huge
Grey aliens. The workers became curious after their drill bit was being sabotaged.
Phil Schneider describes a situation in which he traveled underground in a powered
basket in order to check out the bizarre occurrence. Upon reaching the area, he was
accosted by a huge Grey alien. Phil immediately pulled out his gun and shot the alien
dead. In response, one of the creatures rubbed its stomach and emitted a deadly
beam that completely removed three of Phil’s fingers, and his toe nails were blown
off. Schneider’s life was saved by a military friend, who repelled the basket back to
the surface of Earth. During the incident, Phil Schneider claims that 66 men died in
an underground battle with the aliens.
He then continues to discuss the alien agenda. Schneider says that, in 1954, the U.S.
government entered into a pact with three alien species. Since that time, the aliens
have deceived high government officials and infiltrated the human population.
Schneider claims that the New World Order is the same thing as the alien agenda,
with the ultimate goal of world dominance. The alien agenda is the complete
decimation of the human population and takeover of the planet by 2029. Phil says
that there are nine alien species living underground and that they are hostile. The
aliens see the human population as a bag of food. However, the creatures don’t eat
the flesh of humans, but instead use our glandular secretions as a drug to get high.
Schneider says that several world governments are aware of the alien threat, and
that they are actively fighting the creatures. He talks in length about a material called
Corbamite, which Schneider says is element 140 on the periodic table. He claims the
material is impregnable and that the technology was given to humans by a collection
of friendly aliens, who are helping humanity fight. Phil has estimated that 28% of the
United States budget is being spent on the creation of underground bases. He
continues to mention a number of conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York was produced by a nuclear
explosion. On January 17, 1996, Phil Schneider was found dead in his apartment.
9
George Bush (biblical scholar)
Conspiracy Theory: The implementation of Christian Zionism.
This entry is not about the former United States Presidents, but rather a different
George Bush, who lived from 1796 to 1859. He is the great-grand uncle of George H.
W. Bush. In the 19th century, George Bush was a prominent American biblical
scholar, pastor, abolitionist and Christian Restorationist. Christian Restorationism is
a movement with the goal of returning the Jewish population to the Holy Land. It
was a popular theme in the 19th century. The idea includes a set of political and
religious motivations for the habitation of Jews in the area around Israel. In the
context, it is suggested that Jews shall achieve national independence in the Land of
Israel, and return to Judea, as prophesied in the Bible. The book continues to discuss
the Second Coming of Christ, which is an attitude known as Christian Zionism.
In 1844, George Bush, who was a professor of Hebrew at New York University,
published a book titled The Dry Bones of Israel Revived. In the text he denounced
“the thralldom and oppression which has so long ground them (the Jews) to the
dust,” and called for the elevation of the Jews to a rank of honorable repute among
the nations of Earth. The majority of controversy surrounding George Bush has
come as the result of his first book, titled The Life of Mohammed: Founder of the
Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens. The book was the first
American biography written on Muhammad. In the text, George Bush refers to
Muhammad as “a remarkable man” and “irresistibly attractive.” However, for the
most part, he questions everything about Muhammad’s life and the history of Islam.
The book takes a dim view of the state of Christianity during Muhammad’s age. The
Life of Mohammed by George Bush has been out of print for a long time. In 2004,
clerics at Egypt’s Al Azhar University obtained a copy of the book. They were
appalled by the text. Riots began in Egypt, and the state department was forced to
put out a notice indicating that the book had not been written by the then current
U.S. President Bush, and “has nothing to do with the attitudes of President Bush,
who is respectful of Islam as one of the world’s great religions.” Towards the end of
his life, the 19th century George Bush became a strong advocate for The New Church
(or Swedenborgianism), which is based on the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, and is
connected to freemasonry.
8
Andrew Basiago
Conspiracy Theory: Teleportation and the existence of life on Mars.
Andrew Basiago is a conspiracy theorist. He is the inspiration behind a large number
of bizarre accusations and claims regarding teleportation and the existence of life on
Mars. Basiago has stated that, in the late 1960s, he participated in a secret United
States program that examined the concept of time travel using a machine that was
developed by the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla. Basiago has claimed that he was
chosen and trained to become one of America’s first time travelers. He has suggested
that the United States government has achieved quantum access to past and future
events. According to Andrew, he was sent back in time to watch the Gettysburg
Address, and his presence was captured in a photograph.
In his most controversial suggestion, Basiago claims that, in 1971, he was sent to the
year 2013 in order to view the U.S. Supreme Court building. He describes it as being
totally underwater and covered with algae due to the events of 2012. He then talks in
length about the Denver International Airport conspiracy theory. Basiago is probably
most well known for his 2008 paper, The Discovery of Life on Mars, in which he
attempts to prove that Mars in an inhabited planet. After publishing the paper,
Basiago founded the Mars Anomaly Research Society (MARS). The possibility of life
on Mars remains an open question in the scientific world. Evidence has been
discovered that water could exist on Mars. In 2003, it was revealed that Mars has
methane in its atmosphere. Methane is an unstable gas, so its presence indicates an
active source.
In February 2005, it was announced that the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS)
on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter, detected traces of
formaldehyde in the atmosphere of Mars. It has been speculated that the
formaldehyde could be the byproduct of the oxidation of methane and could provide
evidence that Mars is either extremely geologically active or harboring colonies of
microbial life. These facts are interesting. However, Andrew Basiago has suggested a
government cover-up in order to hide evidence that Mars is inhabited by a wide
variety of humanoid and alien creatures. Basiago has claimed that NASA photograph
PIA10214 shows evidence of life on Mars. For this reason, the image has become
highly controversial.
PIA10214 was taken in November of 2007, by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
The picture shows a westward view of the West Valley of the Columbia Basin in the
Gusev Crater of Mars. The image captured a large portion of the Martian landscape
in panorama view. After examination of the photograph, Basiago has claimed that a
large collection of bizarre organisms are visible. The most famous is a humanoid
looking creature that has since become known as the Martian Bigfoot. Baslago
claims that the picture shows evidence of humanoid beings, animal species, carved
statues, built structures and dead bodies. He has suggested a large number of
strange findings in the picture, including a collection of people in blue jumpsuits,
huge ground worms and human-like insects.
7
Frank J. Tipler
Conspiracy Theory: The resurrection of the dead.
Why People Believe Weird Things is a book that was written by Michael Shermer
and published in 1997. In the text, Shermer explores the psychology of scholars who
have given up their careers in order to pursue paranormal beliefs. Shermer suggests
that smart people can be more susceptible to believing in weird things. In part 5 of
the book, he discusses Voltaire’s character Pangloss, and relates his personality to a
man named Frank J. Tipler, who is a mathematical physicist. Shermer does this in
order to show how intelligent people can deceive themselves. Frank J. Tipler is a
physicist and cosmologist employed in the Department of Mathematics and Physics
at Tulane University.
He has authored books and papers on a hypothesis called the Omega Point, which he
claims is a mechanism for the resurrection of the dead. Frank Tipler is also an
advocate for intelligent design, which is a concept that “certain features of the
universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an
undirected process such as natural selection.” The Omega Point is a term used to
describe a cosmological state in the distant proper time future of the universe. Tipler
has suggested that a future society will be able to resurrect the dead by perfectly
emulating the entire multiverse sequence from the Big Bang.
He identifies the Omega Point singularity as God, citing the views and characteristics
attributed to God by most all of the traditional religions. Critics of the Omega Point
say its arguments violate the Copernican principle. Many feel the hypothesis doesn’t
apply to the laws of probability. As you would expect, the idea of resurrection has
been labeled pseudoscience. In the magazine Nature, George Ellis described Tipler’s
book on the Omega Point as “a masterpiece of pseudoscience … the product of a
fertile and creative imagination.” In his later publications, Frank J. Tipler has put
forth a theory of everything using the Omega Point and a Standard Model of
subatomic particles. He remains a controversial figure in the world of science.
6
Alexander Litvinenko
Conspiracy Theory: The 1999 Russian bombings.
Alexander Litvinenko was an officer who served in the Soviet KGB. After the
dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the internal security agency of Russia
became known as the Federal Security Service (FSB). In November of 1998,
Alexander Litvinenko and several other FSB officers publicly accused their superiors
of ordering the assassination of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky. The following
year, Litvinenko was arrested on charges of exceeding his authority at work. He was
acquitted, but eventually forced to flee Russia. Alexander became part of a group of
exiles known as the London Circle, including Akhmed Zakayev, Alex Goldfarb and
Boris Berezovsky. Alexander Litvinenko settled in London and, in 2002, published a
book titled Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within.
The text alleges that the Russian apartment bombings and other September 1999
terrorist acts were committed by the Federal Security Service. It accuses the Russian
government of creating a false flag operation intended to justify the Second Chechen
War and in order to bring Vladimir Putin to power. After a Russian investigation
into the 1999 terrorist activity, it was determined that the attacks were ordered by
Muslim terrorists Ibn Al-Khattab and Abu Omar al-Saif. A Russian man named
Achemez Gochiyayev was implicated in organizing the terrorist activity. Gochiyayev
claimed that he was framed by an FSB officer, who asked him to rent the basements
at four separate locations where the bombs were later detonated. Achemez
Gochiyayev remains a wanted fugitive.
After the release of Litvinenko’s book, the Russian Interior Ministry seized many
copies of the text. In response to this action, the authors granted the right to
distribute the book in Russia to “anybody who wishes”, free of charge. In 2006,
Alexander Litvinenko published another book titled Lubyanka Criminal Group. In
the book, it is claimed that Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and other FSB officers
have been involved in organized crime, including several political murders and drug
trafficking from Afghanistan. Upon release, the text was withdrawn from sales in
Russia by request from the FSB. The International Foundation for Civil Liberties
responded with the quote, “By banning this book for the first time since the Soviet
times, FSB threw down a challenge to the society.”
In Lubyanka Criminal Group, Alexander Litvinenko writes about ordered
assassinations and criminal activity on part of the FSB. On November 1, 2006, while
living in London, Litvinenko fell ill and was hospitalized in what was diagnosed as a
case of poisoning by radioactive polonium-210. He died on November 23. The
British investigation into his death has suggested that a Russian man named Andrey
Lugovoy is responsible. Lugovoy remains at large. The Russian government has
denied all accusations in the books of Alexander Litvinenko and accused him of
creating a conspiracy against Vladimir Putin. The same has been said for the follow
up text written by Alexander Goldfarb titled Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of
Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB.
5
Bob Lazar and John Lear
Conspiracy Theory: The existence of aliens and unexplained flying objects.
Bob Lazar is a man who claims he once was a physicist at S-4 (Sector Four), located
near Groom Lake, Nevada, next to Area 51. According to Lazar, S-4 serves as a
hidden military base for the study of aliens and the reverse engineering of
extraterrestrial flying saucers. In November of 1989, Bob Lazar gave an interview to
an investigative journalist named George Knapp. In the footage Bob discusses Sector
Four. He mentions unexplained aircraft and their method for propulsion. Lazar
claims that the atomic Element 115 can serve as a nuclear fuel. Element 115
(nicknamed Ununpentium) reportedly provides an energy source that will produce
anti-gravity effects under proton bombardment, along with antimatter for energy
production.
These claims are actually the most interesting aspect of Bob Lazar’s interview,
because Element 115, Ununpentium, wasn’t discovered until 2003, which is fourteen
years after Lazar mentioned it. Bob Lazar claimed that if you amplify the nucleus of
Element 115, the resulting large-scale gravitational effect can distort the space-time
continuum and shorten the distance traveled. Bob claims that he was given an
introductory briefing describing the history of extraterrestrial beings on Earth for
the past 100,000 years. The beings originate from the Zeta Reticuli 1 and 2 star
systems, and are therefore referred to as Zeta Reticulians, popularly called Greys.
Bob Lazar has stated that he has college degrees from the California Institute of
Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1990, he pled guilty to
felony pandering charges and declared bankruptcy.
In 1993, the Los Angeles Times conducted research into Bob Lazar’s background and
found that there was no evidence to support his claims of schooling. In the year
2000, Lazar started United Nuclear, an amateur scientific supply company operated
in Laingsburg, MI.
John Lear is a conspiracy theorist. Lear is a skilled and experienced American pilot
who has operated over 160 different types of aircraft. His father is Bill Lear, who was
the founder of the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. John Lear
has many theories, but we will examine only a few. He believes that the U.S.
government is hiding the existence of numerous alien species. Lear claims that the
creatures are living underground on Earth in secret bases. He continues to suggest
that there are over 150,000 of these aliens under New York alone.
John Lear says that the aliens regularly hunt, abduct and eat thousands of humans
every year, with the majority being children. He introduces a stance on the statistics
of child abduction in the United States, which is actually quite shocking.
Approximately 850,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. every year. This is
one individual every 40 seconds. A huge percentage of these reports are missing
children. Some of John Lear’s most talked about conspiracy theories are related to
September 11, 2001. He has suggested that it would be impossible for the most
skilled pilot to crash a Boeing 767 directly into the World Trade Center. His ideas
have been highly contended and John Lear’s Wikipedia page has been removed
because of his views.
4
William Campbell Douglas
Conspiracy Theory: AIDS is a man-made biological weapon.
Dr. William Campbell Douglas II is a man who publishes a newsletter titled Daily
Dose. The ideas presented in his writing are extremely controversial. William
Douglas refers to himself as “the conscience of modern medicine.” Let’s examine
some of his most famous suggestions. William Douglas has written that the modern
day cancer treatments are harmful. He says that the drugs used in chemotherapy are
“ineffective” and “unacceptably toxic.” Douglas claims that mammograms are not
good. He has suggested that they are causing the mass disfigurement of American
woman, while not reducing the spread of breast cancer.
William Douglas has written that the current test for prostate cancer is practically
worthless, and can lead to impotence, loss of urinary control and surgical
complications. He is against biopsies for cancer detection and says the government is
hiding a non-invasive screening method. Douglas challenges the mainstream belief
that skin cancer is caused by sun exposure. He doesn’t like Brita water filters and has
some harsh words for vegetarians. William Douglas has said that fiber in your diet is
useless and that coffee is a natural miracle. He has frequently discussed the healthy
aspects of cigarettes, and suggested that the world population is experiencing an
unexplained outbreak of lung cancer in non-smokers.
William Douglas has written about the chemical compound Dimethyl sulfoxide,
claiming the substance has painkiller properties that are being suppressed from
release. He has attacked the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine that was approved
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 8, 2006, for use in the
prevention of certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). The drug has been
riddled with complaints and been connected with a series of unexplained deaths. As
of February 2009, 40 million doses of Gardasil have been distributed worldwide. In
2007, medical groups, politicians and parents began to complain after the drug’s
manufacturer began a campaign to get state legislatures to require 11 and 12-year-old
girls to get a three-dose vaccine of Gardasil as a requirement for school attendance.
The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, issued an executive order mandating the use of
Gardasil in children, which was later overturned by the Texas legislature. In 2003,
William Campbell Douglas published a book titled AIDS and Biological Warfare. In
the text he claims that AIDS is a man-made biological weapon. He has suggested
that following the expansion of the virus, a smoke screen of misinformation was
developed in order to cloud the issue. William Douglas is a controversial character
and his ideas are not supported by medicine or science. Many feel he is taking
advantage of people with cancer and looking to profit on absurd claims.
3
John Coleman
Conspiracy Theory: The New World Order.
John Coleman is an author and analyst of world affairs. He claims to have been a
British Intelligence Officer for MI6. Coleman has published a large collection of
books that examine controversial topics. He argues that a small collection of people,
whom he calls The Committee of 300, constitute the world’s ruling elite. Coleman
has suggested that the group is attempting to form one-world government, or a New
World Order. In the text, The Committee of 300 (The Olympians) is a group founded
by the British aristocracy, in 1727. The goal of the organization is to influence
politics, commerce, banking, media and the military, for centralized global purposes.
Coleman has suggested the group is possibly headed by the Rothschild family of
international financiers and a collection of Royal Families.
John Coleman argues that the Muslim Brotherhood is a secret Masonic order
created with support from T. E. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell and St. John Philby, to
“keep the Middle East backward so its natural resource, oil, could continue to be
looted.” The Society of the Muslim Brothers is the largest political opposition
organization in many Arab states. At various times in history, the group has used
violence and been banned in Egypt for attempting to overthrow Cairo’s secular
government. Since the 1970s, the Egyptian Brotherhood has disavowed violence and
sought to participate in Egyptian politics. In 2011, the Brotherhood took an active
part in the Egyptian Revolution. Afterwards, the Muslim Brotherhood announced it
would set up the Freedom and Justice Party to contest post-revolutionary
parliamentary elections.
John Coleman has criticized a large collection of private organizations, including the
Club of Rome, the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Interreligious Peace Colloquium and
the Tavistock Institute. The Club of Rome is “a group of world citizens, sharing a
common concern for the future of humanity.” The organization consists of current
and former Heads of State, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians and government
officials, diplomats, scientists, economists and business leaders from around the
globe. In 1972, the Club of Rome raised considerable public attention with a report
titled The Limits to Growth. In the paper, five variables are examined to predict
exponential growth. It concludes that humanity will experience an economic and
social collapse in the 21st century. Upon the papers release, a large collection of
economists, scientists and political figures labeled the text rhetoric, with insufficient
evidence.
2
Gary McKinnon
Conspiracy Theory: The existence of aliens and free energy suppression.
Gary McKinnon is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker, who has been
accused of what the United States claims is the “biggest military computer hack of all
time.” McKinnon has been accused of hacking into 97 United States military and
NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002,
using the name Solo. The compromised networks are owned and operated by NASA,
the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force. Gary
McKinnon has been accused of deleting critical files from the operating systems,
which subsequently shut down the U.S. Army’s Military District network of 2,000
computers for 24 hours. He has also been accused of deleting U.S. Navy Weapons
logs.
Gary McKinnon has denied the charges, arguing that he was only searching for
evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity. Gary claims that
he found evidence indicating that the U.S. government has been hiding information
regarding extraterrestrial life and free energy. He has indicated in many interviews
that it was easy for him break into the U.S. governments highly secure networks. He
accomplished this by writing a Perl script that tied together people’s programs and
searched for blank passwords. This enabled him to scan 65,000 machines in just
over eight minutes. He looked for computers with a high ranking status and if the
system didn’t have a password, McKinnon was able to hack the default and gain
access.
Gary claims that during his time in the network, he identified multiple IP addresses
that were hacking into the U.S. system. He discovered a group called the Disclosure
Project, which he suggests is a collection of 400 expert witnesses that have identified
UFO activity. McKinnon says that he read documents indicating that there is alien
technology and that it has allowed scientist to create anti-gravity devices and free
energy. He claims that the U.S. government has captured a spacecraft and reverse-
engineered it. McKinnon said he discovered that NASA regularly airbrushes
unexplained aircraft out of high resolution satellite imagery.
Gary found evidence of a file named “Non-terrestrial officers” and described off-
world cargo operations in space. Since 2002, Gary McKinnon has been banned from
using a computer with access to the Internet. In late 2005, the United States began
an extradition process against McKinnon. On July 20, 2010, President Barack
Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron said that they have discussed the Gary
McKinnon issue and are working to find an appropriate solution. If he is extradited
to the United States and charged, Gary could face up to 70 years in prison. Many
people feel that Gary McKinnon discovered a large collection of secrets that he has
not announced to the press.
1
Anatoliy Golitsyn and James Angleton
Conspiracy Theory: The Soviet Union and the CIA.
Anatoliy Golitsyn is a Soviet KGB defector and author of two books about the long-
term deception strategy of the KGB leadership. During his time in the Soviet Union,
Golitsyn worked in the strategic planning department of the KGB with the rank of
Major. On December 15, 1961, under the name Ivan Klimov, Golitsyn defected with
his wife and daughter to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) via Helsinki, Finland.
Upon arrival he was interviewed by CIA counter-intelligence director James Jesus
Angleton. Golitsyn provided information on many famous Soviet double agents
including Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess and John Vassall. He
claimed that Harold Wilson (then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) was a
KGB informer and agent of influence.
Golitsyn accused the KGB of killing British politician Hugh Gaitskell, so Harold
Wilson could take over the Labour Party. Anatoliy Golitsyn successfully convinced
CIA director James Angleton that the CIA had been infiltrated by numerous KGB
agents. Golitsyn claimed that the KGB was using a campaign to learn how the CIA
analyzed information, which was then used to manipulate America into helping the
Soviet Union in its objectives. In response to this, James Angleton suspended the
careers of multiple CIA officers who were under suspicion. Under most
circumstances, the FBI and CIA did not support James Angleton or Anatoliy
Galitsyn. In a notable account, Anatoliy Golitsyn suggested that the Sino-Soviet split
was a deception plan to push America into the Vietnam War.
James Angleton went so far as to speculate that U.S. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger might be under KGB influence. In response to Angleton’s actions, a man
named William Colby was put in charge of reorganizing the CIA. He officially
relinquished the influence of Angleton and Galitsyn. James Angleton accused
numerous foreign leaders of being Soviet spies. This includes Canadian Prime
Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme,
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson and
members of the United States Congress. James Angleton’s resignation was
announced on Christmas Eve of 1975.
In 1984, Anatoliy Golitsyn published a book titled New Lies for Old. The text
describes a series of predictions about the future of world governments. In the text,
Golitsyn predicts the collapse of the communist bloc. He warns about a long-term
deception strategy designed to lull the West into a false sense of security, with the
result being an economic crippling and diplomatic isolation of the United States. The
book claims that “as early as 1959, the KGB was working up a plot to manipulate
foreign public opinion on a global scale.” In an interesting twist, a large collection of
the predictions made in Anatoliy Golitsyn’s book have become historically accurate.
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Coast to Coast AM Caller
Art Bell is an American broadcaster. He is known primarily as one of the founders
and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM.
On September 11, 1997, Art Bell received a call from a frantic person during an Area
51 themed program. The caller gives a disturbing message before the show is cut off
the air due to “satellite failure.” “I am a former employee of Area 51 that was let go
on medical discharge a week ago. I have been running across the country and I don’t
know where to start. They’re going to triangulate on this position really soon.” Art
jumps in, “so you can’t spend a lot of time on the phone, give us something quick.”
“Ok, what we are thinking of as aliens Art, they’re extra-dimensional beings that an
earlier precursor of the space program made contact with.
They are not what they claim to be. They have infiltrated a lot of aspects of the
military establishment, particularly the Area 51. The disasters that are coming, the
military, I am sorry, the government knows about them. There are a lot of safe areas
in this world and we could start moving the population, but they are not. They want
the major population centers wiped out, so that the few that are left will be easier to
control.” The call is lost after this statement. The audio recording is chilling. The
man’s voice is clearly distraught and he sobs during the conversation. He is a great
actor and this is an incredible hoax.
Top 10 Scariest Filipino Monsters
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I mentioned in a comment in 15 Bogeymen from Around the World that a list could
easily be made of just Filipino monsters and mythological creatures. Time to put my
money where my mouth is (or rather put my fingers where my keyboard is) and
submit this list! Here are, ten of the most scary and unusual monsters in Filipino
mythology.
10
Aswang
The aswang is probably the most common of Filipino monsters since there are so
many different kinds. In general, they are shape shifters who are human by day and
then at night turn into a dog, a pig, a bat, cat, snake… the type of animal depends on
the regional lore. They break into funeral homes and steal recent corpses. They are
also known to enter homes to drink human blood and can turn people into aswang
by tricking the human to bite them in return. The aswang are especially hungry for
human fetus so some of the more superstitious stories include neighborhoods
patrols set up in front of the home of a pregnant woman to protect her from
wandering stray animals in case they are the aswang in disguise.
9
Matruculan
The Matruculan is one of many Filipino creatures who attack pregnant women. This
particular creature first impregnates a virgin before coming back later to kill the
woman and eat the fetus (although some stories say that both mom and baby are
eaten). Some stories claim that the woman is not a virgin but rather married and
already pregnant. To protect the mother and child, the husband must swing a
balisong (pictured above), or butterfly knife, above the woman’s belly while she is in
labor. This leads one to wonder: which is scarier, an invisible mythological creature,
or the father of your unborn child brandishing a knife above your abdomen?
8
Kapre
These are hairy giants with glowing eyes and a cigar that never burns out. They can
usually be found sitting atop of trees waiting for nightfall to scare naughty children
who are outside of their homes late at night. The Kapre is a unique Filipino monster
because he doesn’t steal fetuses, eat people or cut them up. The Kapre simply enjoys
scaring children… and I suppose laughing at them for being scared. Some stories
claim they are actually very friendly beings who can grant wishes if you find their
magical white stone. One can assume a Kapre is nearby when trees sway while there
is no breeze or you see faint smoke from high above, probably from the Kapre‘s
cigar..
7
Duwende
These are tiny human-like creatures that live underground. There are two main types
of Duwende: the duwende puti who are supposedly kind creatures who bring about
good luck, or the duwende itim who are mean folk that like to play pranks on
humans. They generally keep to themselves and only interact with humans when
their homes are disturbed. For example, a kindly farmer who takes care of his plot
may be rewarded by the duwende puti with a greater abundance of crops than usual.
However, someone who kicks an anthill on or near the home of a duwendi itim will
be punished with a myriad of ailments from twisted mouth to swollen testicles. The
best way to avoid Duwende of any kind is to say “Tabi-tabi po” aloud before entering
what might be their space.
6
Tiyanak
The tiyanak is similar to the Greek mythological siren in that it lures its prey with its
voice. A person hears a baby cry from deep in the woods and then follows the sound
to rescue the baby. Some stories say the person wanders aimlessly in search for the
baby and becomes hopelessly lost. Other stories claim that the person eventually
finds a baby in the middle of the woods. When it is picked up, the baby then shape-
shifts into a monster with large, sharp teeth. It then eats the person and transforms
back to a baby to await its next victim. With either version, the story ends with “…
and he was never found again.”
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Sigbin
Depending on region and storyteller, the sigbin resembles either a hornless goat, a
reptilian crow, or something vaguely along the lines of the Chupacabra. What is most
common with all accounts is that its head hangs between its forelegs which are much
shorter than its hindlegs. Whether because of physiology or because it makes the
sigbin seem scarier, it is also known to crabwalk backwards. The sigbin also has a
long whip-like tail that emit’s a foul stench and two grasshopper-like legs on its neck
that enable it to jump far distances. They wander around at night in search of
children to devour but they keep the hearts to make amulets. Most stories and
sightings originate from the Cebu region. However, although it is some distance
away, in 2005 scientists in Borneo discovered a “cat-fox-like carnivore” with hind
legs longer than forelegs giving it an awkward gait and physical appearance that
somewhat fits many of the descriptions of the sigbin (e.g. long tail, short forearms,
can jump far distances, carnivorous). No conclusive evidence has been found yet to
link the two together. [Image Source]
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Tikbalang
The tikbalang is described as having the head of a horse, the body of a man and the
hooves of a horse where human feet would be. In northern regions, the tikbalang is
considered a nuisance but generally harmless. They enjoy disorienting weary
travelers and making them imagine things that don’t exist. Travelers can easily stop
the pranks by turning their own shirt inside out and asking the tikbalang to stop
bothering them. The stories of tikbalang from southern regions paint the creature as
a much more sinister monster. He has glowing red eyes, a large cigar and smells of
the stench of burning hair. When angered (and he angers easily), the tikbalang will
stamp you to death. To tame the beast, the person must pluck the one of three
unusually long hairs found in its mane. After that, the tikbalang is your slave.
Folklore states that when the sun shines through the clouds while it is raining, a pair
of Tikbalang are getting married.
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Kumakatok
In the middle of the night, a knock will sound at the door and outside are three
hooded figures, one a pretty, young woman and two elderly men. There are no
stories of how the group was formed or where they originated but tales about them
have popped up all over the Philippines and with more frequency around the time of
outbreaks. Legend has it that a visit from them is an omen that someone in the
family will soon die. There are no paintings or hangings that can keep them at bay.
Leaving the door unanswered does not help either. They simply knock and leave and
then someone would still die shortly thereafter.
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The White Lady / Kaperosa
The White Lady is a specific kind of Multo, or ghost. Most multo tend to be family
members who come back to certain relatives to take care of unfinished business but
the White Lady is unique in that she doesn’t appear to only her relatives or even to
specific people she knew when alive. Many sightings have reported her in empty
buildings, near forests and on cliffs. However, she is most commonly reported seen
along Balete Drive in Quezon City. She was a young lady who was raped and killed by
two Japanese soldiers during WWII. While there haven’t been stories of the White
Lady being a purposefully malicious being, she has been the reported as the cause of
more than a few car accidents by drivers who look in their rearview mirror and see a
young lady in the backseat wearing a white dress. Sure, some strange, unknown lady
sitting in your backseat is bad enough but the White Lady is also said to have no face
or a face covered in blood.
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Manananggal
The Manananggal is sometimes considered to be a special breed of the aswangs.
They are sometimes referred to as “Tik-tik” because of the sound it makes while in
flight. To confuse its victims, the tik-tik sound becomes fainter as she nears. These
creatures generally take on the form of a beautiful woman with large, leathery bat
wings. The lower half of her body takes root to the ground while the upper part
detaches as she flies in search of food. The manananggal has a taste for human blood
and a particular craving for the hearts of human fetuses which it retrieves with its
long, proboscis-like tongue. Like the Western culture’s vampire, the manananggals
hate garlic and salt so hanging garlic or placing a bowl of salt near the window is the
best way to keep them away. To kill a manananggal, one must find the lower body
and spread salt or ashes on the open wound. That prevents the two halves from
joining and transforming back to human form when daylight breaks
10 Long Awaited Conspiracy Theories
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This is our third place winner in the Listverse launch competition. This list looks at
10 more conspiracy theories that may, or may not, link to various theories Listverse
has already covered. By popular demand, here are 10 awesome examples of
governmental cover-ups, global cataclysms on the verge of occurrence, and
supernatural shenanigans that defy explanation. Read, if you dare, but keep an eye
over your shoulder: Someone may be watching…
10
Amelia Earhart
Everyone knows about Earhart’s ill-fated voyage around the world. She intended to
be the first person to circumnavigate the globe at the equator, which would be the
longest such trip (about 29,000 miles). After a failed first attempt, she departed
with one of her best friends, Fred Noonan, from California to Miami. After leaving
Miami, Earhart’s last stop before the Pacific was at Lae, New Guinea, on June, 29,
1937. She and Noonan departed from there on July 2, making for Howland Island,
2,556 miles away, a tiny island in the middle of nowhere. However, they never
arrived at Howland. All that is known is from Earhart’s radio transmissions,
attempting to find Howland. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Itasca, picked up her
voice and attempted to reply to her, but never got through. The Itasca records them
as having made it to the immediate vicinity of the island around 7:58 a.m., on July 3:
“We must be on you, but cannot see you — but gas is running low. Have been unable
to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.” The fact that the Itasca could not
get through to her makes no sense.
No one ever saw her or Noonan again. The various theories as to what happened to
them have run from the most plausible “pilot error and exhaustion of fuel, landing in
the sea,” to “crash-landing on another island controlled by the hostile Japanese, who
killed both, or forced Earhart to become the Tokyo Rose, the friendly American
demoralizer of WWII,” to the most extreme, “Earhart flew through a temporal rift.”
That’s a rip in the fabric of space-time, and mathematics now states that such
“wormholes” are possible, although mathematics cannot yet answer whether or not
they exist in Earth’s atmosphere. The Bermuda Triangle is the most infamous area
where conspiracy theorists say these wormholes are.
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Project Phoenix
Project Phoenix is an independently-funded foundation, intent on the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Many separate organizations, foundations and
even individual people, are involved in finding out if we are not alone in the
universe. Phoenix, so the theory states, is secretly in charge of all the major
organizations searching for alien signals. They are based out of Mountain View, CA,
and went online in 1995. They use the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere,
the Parkes radio scope in New South Wales, Australia. They do not scan the whole
sky, but only those systems within 200 light-years of ours, totaling about 800
stars. So far, there have been no signals, or so we’ve been told.
In fact, the Project is a cover for a secret communications link between Earth and
some alien intelligence out there. Now that the aliens know where we are, they are
on their way, and they may not come in peace. Project Phoenix has no intention of
telling anyone, of course, and has brokered a deal for the survival of its members
(who usually include all the most powerful people in the world) by giving away the
weaknesses of our military organizations. No announcement will be made to the
public until the alien arrival is complete, in order to avoid a panic for as long as
possible. This point ties in with #3.
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The Death of Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have been the most naturally gifted genius, in any
field of human activity, that the world has ever seen, or shall see. His memory was
like a tape recorder. He wrote down Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere from memory, after
only one hearing, at the age of 14, when on a visit to Rome. He went, later that day,
to the second performance and made a few minor corrections. His music is as
perfectly fresh, light and brilliant to listen to today as it was in his lifetime.
But every genius has his competitors. The film Amadeus follows the theory that
Antonio Salieri poisoned him because he could not stand being second best (even
though he was far below second place) to “a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile
boy.” All that is known of Mozart’s death comes from correspondence that has
survived to be scrutinized by modern doctors. He fell suddenly ill, while conducting
the premiere of La clemenza di Tito, in Prague on September 6, 1791. He died on
December 5th aged 35, and in the prime of his life.
This has given rise to the theory that he was poisoned, and Salieri, who made no
secret of his disdain for Mozart’s character, seems a plausible scapegoat. However,
Salieri also made no secret of his love for Mozart’s music, and it seems unlikely that
he would have ended such genius. Mozart had, however, other enemies. There are
about 120 different diagnoses floating around concerning his death, from poisoning
to overwork, cirrhosis or alcohol poisoning. Even trichinosis (which is usually
acquired from consuming undercooked pork) has been suggested. The most
common theory is rheumatic fever. The official cause was recorded as “severe
miliary fever,” which could be anything.
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Apricot Pits Cure Cancer
Apricot pits, like many fruit seeds, contain cyanogenic glycosides, which are similar
enough to cyanide to kill you, if you eat a large quantity of them. These glycosides
also have a chemical in them called laetrile (LAY-uh-trill), which the presented
theory states can not only prevent cancer, but can actively seek it out in the body and
destroy it with extreme prejudice. The American Cancer Association currently has
no such drug in its arsenal: chemo-therapy and radiation therapy are, supposedly,
the best we can do at present, and they are woefully inefficient, often poisoning the
patient to death.
The theory states that laetrile is the cure the whole world has been looking for,
throughout the 20th Century, but the ACA and the American Medical Association
refuse to let this knowledge out, because once the cure is available, the cancer
industry will go out of business. There is factual documentation that apricot pits
were used in the 1950s in Europe, to reduce the size of tumors, and the
documentation states that it worked. But, rather than cure people, as per the
Hippocratic Oath, the doctors involved in this cover-up choose to treat people
indefinitely, prolonging life for a few years, while the bills, and their paychecks, rack
up astronomically. To this end, the AMA and ACA have issued public service
announcements defaming apricot pits as an extremely dangerous food to ingest: you
have to crush the pit just right to extract the laetrile with only a minute quantity of
cyanide, so you do not poison yourself. This is true, but the two organizations
maintain that it impossible to do this and that laetrile does nothing for cancer, even
though both statements are verifiably false.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
A lot of time has passed since Louis XIV was the King of France. So, here are the
facts concerning a prisoner arrested in 1669, during his reign. His name is given as
Eustache Dauger, and he was transferred from prison to prison, all over France, for
the next 34 years. It appears as though the authorities didn’t know what to do with
him. He was held in the Fortress of Pignerol, then in the Bastille, and for a time, he
was fitted with a padlocked steel mask over his entire head, with slots for his eyes,
nose and mouth. For most of his incarceration, he was masked with black
velvet. Correspondence from the Marquis de Louvois, one of the king’s secretaries, to
the warden of Pingerol, indicated that the prisoner was to be housed in a special cell
with multiple iron doors, so that no one outside could hear him. The prisoner was to
be instructed that if he ever said anything other than “food” or “water” he was to be
killed on the spot.
It seems strange that such pains should be taken to ensure a prisoner’s silence and
solitude for 34 years. He mercifully died on 19 November, 1703, in the Bastille, and
was buried the next day, under the name “Marchioly.” Theories abound as to his
identity. The fact that he was not simply killed implies that he was of the royal
lineage, and Louis XIV had to honor the law that no person of royal blood be
murdered. However, if he was happy to put this man in prison for 34 years, he
obviously had no problem circumventing the law in the first place. Dauger may have
been a twin brother of the king, and thus a challenge to his throne, in which case
Louis could not bring himself to have his own brother killed. Voltaire believed that
he was the king’s illegitimate half-brother. Alexander Dumas Sr. used this theory in
his famous book, on which most of the films have been based. He may also have
been a general named Vivien du Bulonde, who acted in a cowardly manner at the
siege of Cuneo, and infuriated the king. But then, why the mask? France had many
generals. There are many other candidates, including the son of Charles II of
England. Who was that masked man? Pictured above is the view from the real cell of
the Man in the Iron Mask. [Image source]
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Barcodes
One of the more chilling moments of Saint John the Divine’s Revelation from God, at
the end of the Bible is Apocalypse. 13:16-18, which says “And he shall make all, both
little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their
right hand, or on their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, but he that
hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is
wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is
the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.”
This was written at a time before global communication was feasible, but now, at a
time when it has been worked out to an exact science, Christian fundamentalists and
Apocalypse enthusiasts are more scared than ever. They fear anyone attempting to
“communize” the world with commercial implants: barcodes in the forehead or
hand, designed to facilitate buying and selling. Such implants have not yet appeared,
but the theory states that the moment is close at hand, when all the UPC codes that
are printed on packages will be removed and one UPC per person will be used,
scanned directly from that person’s body, and that we will not have a choice about
using them.
To this end, the theory goes on to say that the barcodes on packages, credit cards,
debit cards and even personal checks are secretly hiding a 666 somewhere on them.
The theory is only corroborated, however implausibly, by the fact that barcodes did
not come about until 1948, the same year that the Jews finally got a home to call
their own. According to the theory, Bernard Silver, who invented barcodes that year
after overhearing the president of a local food chain asking for a system to read
product information, via machine, in a grocery store, was deceived by supernatural
forces into inventing them: the president of the food chain was actually Satan.
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The NSA
The national Security Agency does exist. Their headquarters are located in Fort
Meade, Maryland, fifteen miles southwest of Baltimore. The parking lot has 18,000
spaces, most of which are filled during the day, and Interstate-295 South has an exit
solely for those employees, with a road sign that reads, “NSA Employees Only.” The
NSA works in tandem with the CIA and FBI, but its activities are so top-secret that
no one in the entire planet, except for a handful of high-ranking NSA supervisors,
knows what they are doing. They are officially “responsible for the collection and
analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, which involves
cryptanalysis.”
Whenever you see the word “crypt” in a conspiracy theory, some wonderful fun is
going to come about. What no one realises, not even the President, is that the NSA
knows the truth behind every single conspiracy theory ever put forth. This is because
they have the entire world’s information at their fingertips, and control the Internet
more diabolically than Stalin controlled the Soviet Union. The conspiracy theories
about the NSA either blame it for, or accuse it of withholding information
concerning: the 9/11 terrorist attacks; the alien landings at Roswell, NM, and
Rendlesham, UK; all UFO sightings; the location of the Ark of the Covenant; the
identity of the antichrist, who is alive and well; the Kennedy assassinations (both of
them); the protection of high-ranking Nazis after the war, including Hitler; the
Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk Project; the date for the end of the world,
according to the Mayan long count calendar; the location of the asteroid that will hit
us; and just about anything else you could dream up.
That’s how this theory works: once you set it up with an all-powerful, secret
government organization, it can effectively link to any other conspiracy theory.
What’s most mysterious about it is that Harry Truman founded the NSA, in 1952, 5
years after the founding of the CIA, which was also courtesy of Truman, who was a
33rd degree Master Freemason. The NSA have a special handshake, the very same
one the Freemasons use, or so the theory states. The CIA is on the books as having
“no police or law enforcement functions, either at home or abroad,” including
“sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures…subversion [and]
assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation
movements, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened
countries of the free world.” The NSA has no such requirements on its books. No one
can control them because no one knows what they’re up to. They are not even
thought to go by the name “NSA,” but instead by “National Security Council,” which
is actually a White House cover to make it appear that the President is in control of
them. Conspiracy theorists lovingly refer to them as “No Such Agency.”
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Star Wars
No, not the film, but the Strategic Defense Initiative. The brainchild of the late, great
Ronald Reagan, who insisted on staying one step ahead of the Soviets, was going to
be comprised of particle beam weapons (á la Tesla’s Death Ray), electromagnetic
railguns (á la the Schwarzenegger film Eraser) and X-Ray lasers that would shoot
down nuclear ICBMs. America was skeptical, in case you don’t remember, and the
whole project was eventually scrapped, because of the impossibility of maintaining
such a wide array of satellite orbits, communications, computers and so on. Even
after American scientists told Reagan it was impossible, he refused to give up on his
dream. Once his presidency (or reign of terror, as some might say) was over, the SDI
faded into obscurity. But why, in the world, was he so obsessed with it? Anyone else
would have given up along with the scientists. Especially considering that the SDI’s
main task was to deal with a Soviet nuclear bombardment. And yet Gorbachev
offered, in 1986, to eliminate all nuclear weapons in the world within 15 years, which
would have been the crowning achievement of Reagan’s career. But he said no.
The theory states that Reagan knew of an impending extraterrestrial attack on Earth,
just like H. G. Wells depicted. Only Reagan and a very select few knew of it, and did
not want to terrify the world’s population. So, he tried to cover it up, while preparing
for it in true Reagan style: don’t beg for mercy–fight back. The most convincing
evidence that aliens are on the move right now, and perhaps not far away, comes in
two parts: firstly that George W. Bush tried his best to reinitiate the SDI, and it was
dubbed “Son of Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back.” Dubya refused to listen
to the protests of anyone, even the UK, which was where he intended to build part of
the SDI system. The second part is a remark Reagan made to Steven Spielberg at the
1982 White House screening of “E. T.: the Extraterrestrial.” He leaned over to
Spielberg and said: “You have no idea how damned close to reality this is.”
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Earth Is Hollow
This is one of the lister’s personal favorites. For centuries, people believed that the
earth is hollow in the center, that it is not a superheated mantle spinning around a
solid iron core, but is in fact a hollow sphere of crust, like a gumball. How thin this
crust measures is up for grabs, but the theory centers on what might be residing
down there. Edmond Halley, the namesake of Halley’s Comet, theorized, in 1692,
that the Earth is a shell, 500 miles thick, with concentric rings inside. Inside there
would be a solid core, and between the rings there would be various atmospheres of
fluorescent gases. When these gases escape at the poles, they create the aurora
borealis and australis.
By the 20th Century, it had reached the mainstream, been argued against by
scientists and caught the attention of Adolf Hitler, who sent a mission to the South
Pole to find the entrance he was sure was there. It would lead to the underground,
where Hitler believed a subterranean race of 12-foot-tall, super intelligent
humanoids lived. He intended to convince them to come up to the surface and fight
for Nazi Germany, or at least give the Nazis some futuristic firepower. Whether
Hitler sent this mission or not is part of the theory, but if he did, it never came back.
This was due to either having been killed by the subterranean race, or Antarctica.
He was a madman when it came to occult theories like this, sending missions to
Tibet to find Shambhala, and yes, he actually attempted to find the Ark of the
Covenant. Admiral Karl Donitz is on record as stating that the Fuhrer could be
protected by the Kriegsmarine with “an invisible fortification anywhere in the
world.” He also stated at the Nuremberg Trials that this invisible fortification was
“in the midst of eternal ice.” Once Nazi occultism got into the mix, this theory really
took off. It became a worldwide governmental cover-up, the true source of all the
UFOs ever witnessed and photographed, and the secret hideout of many high-
ranking Nazis after the war, including Hitler, Himmler (the corpse was a double),
Josef Mengele for a time, and many others. It is said that the subterranean race has
the power to keep people alive forever, which means Hitler is still doing fine and may
be on his way back to the surface someday.
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Tom Ogle
You have probably never heard of him. Tom Ogle invented a vapor-fuel intake
system, in 1977, for all automobiles. His system could be affixed to any existing car
engine, and would enable the car to travel 100 miles on one gallon of gas. He
claimed that the emissions were clean enough that you could dry your hair with the
exhaust. He astounded the auto industry with his invention, and was, in fact,
approached in 1978 by a representative of Shell Oil, who offered him $20 million, on
the spot, for the patent and plans to his invention. He refused, stating flatly that
Shell would simply shelve the idea and it would never see the light of day.
Tom Ogle was found dead from an apparent overdose of Darvon and alcohol
poisoning on 19, August, 1981. He had been known to drink, but never so heavily
that he had to go to the hospital. The Darvon is the weakest link to the report that
his death was an accidental suicide: Darvon is an opioid painkiller. It does nothing
else, and Ogle had no history of using it. He also had no immediate history of pain
requiring an opioid analgesic. The theory states that he was murdered by a Shell-
hired assassin, who made it look like a suicide. He actually got his fuel system
patented, on 11 December, 1979, with patent number 4,177,179. He was shot and
wounded outside an El Paso, TX, bar earlier in the summer of 1981. He claimed that
people were after him for his patent. Three months after his death, his original
schematics and blueprints went missing from the Patent Office in Washington, DC.
Some of his schematics have turned up on the Internet, but not enough have
surfaced to actually build his device