Earlier in the year, Infinity Explorers website ran an article which caught this writers interest, regarding the ‘top ten unexplained mysteries of all time.’ While there may be robust debate on which mysteries should constitute a definitive top ten, it was as good a place as any to start. Two additional mysteries have been added at the end, which hopefully will be of interest. At the outset, let this writer be clear in that they do not profess to having all the answers for each one. In fact, a couple had not been heard of before. Readers are welcome to share information if they have helpful knowledge or insight. Likewise, if there is a particular mystery a reader was interested in, this writer would be glad to investigate and respond. 

I. Taos Hum

The first unexplained mystery is the enigma of Taos Hum, a picturesque town nestled in the heart of the state of New Mexico. There is a ‘faint, low-pitched sound of unknown origin’ which haunts the air. Yes, the town’s name is an intentional pun and does reflect the sound which only two percent of the population can hear. Though each hearer intriguingly hears the hum at a different frequency, somewhere between 32 hertz and 80 hertz. Most people can hear between 250 Hz to 6,000 Hz. Those without any hearing loss can process sounds anywhere between 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. Thus the two percent of the inhabitants in Taos Hum are certainly in a younger minority. The hum is described as a ‘faint droning sound, similar to a diesel engine idling in the distance.’ It never stops and interferes with sleep for it is more noticeable indoors and at night. 

The hum surprisingly is not restricted to Taos Hum in the United States, where it first appeared in the 1980s and was later reported in the 1990s. While a Hum was first documented in the late 1960s in Bristol England, How Stuff Works claims that ‘starting around the 1950s, people began reporting the hum globally.’ The hum has since been heard in Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Germany.

According to Grunge: ‘Dr. Glen MacPherson, a Canadian high school teacher with a Ph.D. in education and a penchant for data collection, created the World Hum Map and Database Project. The website documents global instances of the hum. MacPherson hopes that researchers will one day use the data to find the hum’s source and, even better, a solution, reports Discover Magazine. Purple dots, representing hum reports, scatter across Dr. MacPherson’s global map, highly concentrated in the U.S. and Western Europe. For now, the data goes mostly unused.’ 

Live Science reports: 

‘The town of Taos, in north-central New Mexico, has been home to many famous residents including Julia Roberts, Dennis Hopper, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and Donald Rumsfeld. It’s a small, laid-back artsy community… Joe Mullins, a professor emeritus of engineering at the University of New Mexico, conducted research into the Taos Hum. Sensitive equipment was set up in the homes of several of the “hearers,” measuring sounds and vibrations but after extensive testing nothing unusual was detected. The research revealed, however, that there was not a single identifiable Taos Hum but instead several different ones that people reported; some describe it as whir, hum or buzz. The fact that not everyone heard the same thing was puzzling, and suggests that they may have been reporting subjective experiences instead of objective sounds.’

So because it can’t be explained objectively, it must be subjective and imagined in the hearers own head. Grunge warns about the potential health implications for the hearers: 

‘Locating and eliminating the source of the hum could be lifesaving for the 2% of the world’s population that hears it. Low-grade sound can be dangerous. For example, while humans stop hearing at 20Hz, listening to 19HZ prevents listeners from seeing straight. It’s the frequency at which eyeballs vibrate. Even scarier, lower frequencies can damage internal organs. Not surprisingly, those who hear the hum experience a range of illnesses, including nausea and fatigue. Others report memory loss and headaches, says Discover Magazine.’

Live Science adds: ‘A variety of theories have been offered as an explanation, ranging from the mundane to the fantastic, the psychological to the paranormal. Stoned hippies, secret government mind control experiments, underground UFO bases and everything in between have been blamed.’

While Grunge offer: 

‘An associate professor of engineering specializing in acoustics at the University of Windsor, Colin Novak, told Discover Magazine that he thinks the global hum may have an underground source. He suggests the movement of tectonic plates or volcanic activity causes the hum. Novak notes that because few credible scientific studies have looked into the hum, conspiracy theories run rampant. Online forums claim the hum is a sign of impending doom, ghosts, or the breaking of the seventh seal.’

Which is ironic for when the seventh seal is opened:

‘… there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.’ (Revelation 8:1, ESV)

Grunge: ‘Unfortunately, the prevalence of conspiratorial ideas scares serious scientists away from the hum. They don’t want to be associated with pseudoscience and internet kooks. This fear keeps credible research at bay, reports Discover Magazine.’

Astonishing Legends offered:

‘Giovanni Maria Agostini Justiniani was a known holy man and traveler in the mid-1800s. He stayed in the mountains and wrote in his journal about the singing waters of the sacred mountain. Could the mountains be the source of the hum? Perhaps the tone just settles from El Salto when it reaches Taos?’

Two thoughts came to mind while compiling this information. The first follows on from Novak’s comment about an underground source and plate tectonics. As the beginning of reports began in the 1950s, this coincides with the testing of nuclear devices. As a number were tested in North America and the former Soviet Union, it may explain why the hum is prevalent in the Northern Hemisphere. That’s if the testing of these devices was authentic – refer article: Nuclear Nefariousness. 

The other, is the fact that the physical Universe is defined by vibrations of sound which manifest everything from planets to humans – refer articles: 33 and Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are. This leads to the fact that there’s an inexplicable worldwide hum which isn’t tied to a single region.

Strangely, there has been at least one occurrence of an unusual global hum. This particular hum began in May 2018, when thousands of small earthquake tremors were detected off the coast of Mayotte, an island near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The hum wasn’t audible by human ears, ‘but it had a strange, machine-like quality: It was “like a fine-tuned bell,” ringing at a single ultra-low frequency’ says Grunge.

They continue: 

‘… this ultra-low hum then circled the entire planet, which would have been bad news if it wasn’t for the fact that apart from Mayotte, it went entirely without causing the usual effects that come with seismic events. As this barely perceptible ninja hum-wave made its way around the world… scientists got curious about its frankly absurd nature, and started tracking down its root cause. What they found was somehow even weirder than a global stealth earthquake: A stealth volcano. A giant, 3.1 miles long and nearly a half a mile high underwater volcano had formed near Mayotte, and it appears that all those global seismic hums were merely the “rumblings” its magma reservoirs made as they crept from deep under the ocean floor to their new destination.’ 

Infinity Explorers listed Taos Hum as the first unexplained mystery. They did not offer any suggestions to its riddle. Regardless, it would seem that Colin Novak might be correct in including volcanoes and magma as sources for Earth’s enigmatic humming; while traveller Giovani Justiniani may just have been onto something.

II. Cryptid Creatures

A cryptid is ‘an animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated.’ On a personal note, this is one of this writer’s favourite unexplained mystery genres, for growing up I was absolutely enthralled with Bigfoot. I remember when I was very young during my school holidays going to see a film about Sasquatch in 1976 called Sasquatch: The legend of Bigfoot. I attended by myself as I was an only child with grown up sisters and sometimes I liked to see a serious film without the distraction of going with other kids. The film left an indelible mark and fuelled my passionate interest in not just the Yeti (the abominable snowman), but all mysterious entities. 

The movie included the famous clip of a Sasquatch filmed on October 20, 1967 in Northern California by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin. Authentic or not, it influenced many in the world into accepting Bigfoot as real. It did for me and it still haunts me to this day, with the Sasquatch’s long strides and spookily turning its head to look back at the camera. 

With the passing of the years, the footage has assuredly become more suspicious in my view. But at the time and probably due to my age… I believed. I was entranced with this creature which was neither primate or man, yet looked somewhere in between. Maybe it was the missing link, but even when young I was too well informed to fall for the deceit of evolution; regarding mankind at least – refer article: Chance Chaos or Designated Design?

The possibility of Bigfoot being other than wholly physical escaped me until years later. Till then, I was both incredulous and impressed that Bigfoot could leave footprint evidence, yet remain so elusive as to never be captured or allow its dead remains to ever be found. As I grew older I pondered if Sasquatch in North America and the Yeti in Asia was a tangible physical being; a shape shifting spirit; or a hologram-like phantom? – Article: Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are.

The other well known unexplained creature, is the equally mysterious Loch Ness monster in Scotland. This creature is just as illusive and while attempts have been made to search underwater for it they remain fruitless. The image on the right of the frame below is the most famous, taken in 1933 by a London surgeon. Though I recall it may have been debunked as a hoax and really a small model drifting close to the shore, due to the way the water ripples.

The frame on the left could be anything. A large fish or piece of debris.

The images above and below are both interesting but certainly don’t prove the existence of a primordial sea creature, only that not surprisingly, big fish dwell in the large freshwater Loch.

This doesn’t preclude a mystery type Plesiosaur, for this strange underwater creature (below) allegedly washed up on the shore at Wolf Island in Golden Isles, Georgia in 2018. It was only five feet long, but may have not been an adult. It has yet to be identified. 

A rendition below of an extinct Plesiosaur

It is worth noting that the first recorded sighting of ‘Nessie’ the aquatic monster was on August 22, 525 CE. It was claimed that it had tried to gulp down a local farmer. It was in 1933 that the legend was revived with the most famous photo to date. According to Historic UK, ‘in 1951, Lachlan Stuart, a forestry worker who lived beside the loch, also managed to photograph the monster, if that is indeed what it was. He saw three humps in the water appear in line and ran back to his house to get his camera. After taking one photograph his camera shutter jammed, but his photograph got wide publicity as further proof of the existence of Nessie.’ 

It may have no relation on one hand or considerable bearing on the chimera of Loch Ness on the other – to include the history of Boleskine House, a manor on the Southeast side of Loch Ness, just north of Foyers. Its dark macabre history is outlined by an online encyclopaedia – emphasis mine: 

‘The area has a history of strange happenings… The parish of Boleskine was formed in the 13th Century. A Kirk and graveyard were built in the parish around this time. A succession of Ministers ran Boleskine Parish and would travel the area on horseback or on foot in all weather conditions. Minister Thomas Houston (1648-1705) was said to have had the task of hastily laying animated corpses back in their graves after a devious local wizard had raised the dead in Boleskine graveyard. Boleskine House was built on the site of the kirk which, according to legend, caught fire [1] during congregation and killed everyone inside. The house was constructed in the 1760s by Colonel Archibald Fraser as a hunting lodge. The original hunting lodge was expanded continuously by the Fraser family until c. 1830.’

‘All the rooms were situated on one floor, with 4 bedrooms, a kitchen, servant’s “attic bedroom” (above kitchen), lounge, drawing room, and a library. There is even a tunnel linking the house to the graveyard.’

The grounds circa 1900

Note the entire congregation died in a fire on the same site that the house was later constructed, before the ‘most wicked man in the world’ bought the property.

Aleister ‘Crowley purchased Boleskine House from the Fraser family in 1899 [‘by paying twice as much as it was worth’]. The House at that time was known as the Manor of Boleskine and Abertarff after the name of the local parish. Crowley believed the location was ideal to sequester himself to perform a series of operations known as the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, taken from a grimoire called the Book of Abramelin. According to Crowley, in his book The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, in order to perform the operations “the first essential is a house in a more or less secluded situation. There should be a door opening to the north from the room of which you make your oratory. Outside this door, you construct a terrace covered with fine river sand. This ends in a ‘lodge’ where the spirits may congregate.’

The house in 1912

‘The purpose of this ritual is to invoke one’s Guardian Angel. It requires at least 6 months of preparation, celibacy and abstinence from alcohol. However, it also includes the summoning of the 12 Kings and Dukes of Hell, to bind them and remove their negative influences from the magician’s life. Whilst Crowley was in the process of performing the lengthy ritual, he was called to Paris by the leader of the Golden Dawn. According to legend, he never banished the demons he had summoned, leading to strange happenings occurring in and around Boleskine House.’

This is confirmed by Crowley in chapter twenty-two of his Confessions, where he states: 

“… there were numberless physical phenomena for which it is hard to account. While I was preparing the talismans, squares of vellum inscribed in Indian ink, a task which I undertook in the sunniest room in the house, I had to use artificial light even on the brightest days. It was a darkness which might almost be felt. The lodge and terrace, moreover, soon became peopled with shadowy shapes, sufficiently substantial, as a rule, to be almost opaque. I say shapes; and yet the truth is that they were no shapes properly speaking. The phenomenon is hard to describe. It was as if the faculty of vision suffered some interference; as if the objects of vision were not properly objects at all. It was as if they belonged to an order of matter which affected the sight without informing it.”

The twin masonic columns are reminiscent of the prominent Boaz and Jachin pillars in Solomon’s Temple. The black and white tiles are an ancient mosaic pavement pattern used in Solomon’s Temple as well as in Masonic Lodges.

‘Crowley became infamous for stories of conducting black magic and various other rituals while residing at the house; one of his pseudonyms was “Lord Boleskine”. His lodge keeper, Hugh Gillies, suffered a number of personal tragedies, including the loss of two children. Crowley later claimed that his experiments with black magic had simply got out of hand. Crowley described the house as a “long low building. I set apart the south-western half for my work. The largest room has a bow window and here I made my door and constructed the terrace and lodge. Inside the room I set up my oratory proper. This was a wooden structure, lined in part with the big mirrors which I brought from London.”

‘He left the property in 1913, moving to a modest cottage for sometime in Dennyloanhead near Falkirk.’

One wonders why after fourteen years, Crowley left the property? 

Bolskine House circa 1900 – it is ranked in the top 100 most haunted places in the world

‘After the Second World War the house was owned by a Major Edward Grant. In 1965, Grant committed suicide in Crowley’s bedroom with a shotgun. After this a newly married couple moved into the house. The wife was blind, and after a month the man walked out, leaving the woman wandering around unable to see. In 1969 Kenneth Anger an experimental filmmaker with an interest in the occult, learned that the house was on the market and rented it for a few months. When Jimmy Page [from Led Zeppelin] heard about this, he bought the house in 1970.’

‘Jimmy Page was a collector of Crowley memorabilia who “had read a lot of Crowley and… was fascinated by his ideas”. At the time Page bought the house it was in a state of decay, but he felt it would be a good atmosphere in which to write songs. However, after arranging for the house to be restored he spent little time at Boleskine, leaving things in the care of his friend Malcolm Dent (1944-2011). When asked why he was chosen, Dent explained “Jimmy Page caught me at a time in my life when I wasn’t doing a great deal and asked me to come up and run the place. I never did establish why he fixed on me.” When Dent moved into the house “it was a wreck… It had been more or less abandoned. There’d been at least one fire [2] there, parts of the building were missing and it had been badly patched up. The grounds, which at one time had been very nicely laid out were gone to hell.”

‘Although Dent was a sceptic of the paranormal he soon started to experience strange occurrences. After a few weeks, he heard strange rumblings from the hallway which stopped when he investigated, but resumed after he closed the bedroom door. After researching the house he discovered the rumbling in the hall was supposedly the head of Lord Lovat, even though he was executed in London. Dent explains “above Boleskine there’s a place called Errogie which is supposed to be the geographical centre of the Highlands. Boleskine was then the nearest consecrated ground to Errogie and it’s thought his soul, or part of it, ended here.”’

‘Dent also experienced the “most terrifying night of my life” at Boleskine. He awoke one night to hear what sounded like a wild animal snorting and banging outside his bedroom door. It went on for some time and it was not until morning that Dent dared open the door, and there was nothing there. Dent added “whatever was there was pure evil.” Another friend who stayed at Boleskine awoke one night claiming she had been attacked by “some kind of devil”. 

Other occurrences, such as chairs switching places, doors slamming open and closed for no reason and carpets and rugs rolling up inexplicably, failed to deter Dent from staying. Dent met his wife at Boleskine and raised his family there. Although Jimmy Page never spent a great length of time there, he did everything he could to return the house to how it would have looked during Crowley’s ownership. For example, he commissioned an artist, Charles Pace, to paint some Crowley-esque murals on the walls. These were based on the murals in Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema in Sicily discovered by Kenneth Anger in 1955.’

‘The house was put on the market for £250,000 in 1991. It was purchased by Ronald and Annette MacGillivray in 1992. According to Mrs. MacGillivray, when they bought the house it was in a very bad state. The MacGillivrays “spent a lot of money stripping it back to the bare walls and re-roofing it. It had four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a huge drawing room, dining room, library and various smaller rooms”. The house was then converted into a hotel. Ronald MacGillivray died in 2002. He was said to hate any reference to the house’s dark past when it was home to Crowley. When asked whether she had experienced any mysterious occurrences at Boleskine House, his wife states that she experienced “absolutely none. I am a non-believer and didn’t listen to all that rubbish. We had a great time there.”

‘Following Ronald MacGillivray’s death, Boleskine House was put up for sale again. The new Dutch owners converted the house back into a private residence and used it as a holiday home. In 2009, a 1.9-acre (7,700 m²) plot on the former estate was put on the market for £176,000 with plans to build a three-bedroom log house. The sale also included 140 feet (43 m) of foreshore on Loch Ness.’

‘At approximately 1:40 pm on 23 December 2015, a motorist on the A82 road reported flames [3] and smoke coming from Boleskine House. When fire crews attended, it is estimated up to 60 percent of the building had already been incinerated, with flames rising up to 20 feet (6 m) high. The firefighters concentrated on the west wing of the house, as the rest of the building had been severely damaged.’

‘The owner’s business partner and daughter had gone shopping and returned to find the house ablaze. The fire was thought to have started in the kitchen, however nobody was believed to be in the house at the time of the fire and there were no casualties.’

‘The interior of the house was almost totally destroyed by the fires.’ 

‘Part of the roof and the outer walls survive, but the former owner, Mrs. MacGillivray, has said that since the extent of the damage is so bad it “is unlikely it will ever be rebuilt unless there is someone out there with an interest in the occult wanting to spend a lot of money.” 

‘The ruins and 22 acres of land were put on the market for £500,000 in April 2019.’

‘They are now owned by the Boleskine House Foundation SCIO which will restore the house and gardens to their original form and then open the estate to the public’ – first tours, only of the grounds, opened on May 23, 2023; for the House is still under re-construction and renovation.

‘A further fire [4] was started on 31 July 2019 in two buildings on the estate at the same time in a suspected arson. The fire destroyed the remainder of what was left inside Boleskine House and as of December 2019 work is underway to clear the fire damaged material and prepare the building for a new roof.’

Rendition of proposed new building 

One would be tempted to think the House has not departed from an accursed path after multiple deaths and fires. The BHF are intrepid souls indeed in wishing to invest the time, effort and money in keeping such an evil legacy alive. We come full circle with a mural depicting numerous images of black magic, the occult and demonolatry. Notice Aleister Crowley and his wand conjuring the leviathan that is the Loch Ness monster. Jimmy Page sitting on good ole Nessie and fellow devotee of the occult, Robert Plant riding a white horse, trampling a serpent – refer Chapter XXXIV Dan: The Invisible Tribe. All an amazing coincidence, perhaps?

Another creature with an increase in sightings in the United States, Great Britain and Australia, is the black panther. Now these cannot all be escaped animals from zoos and so an anomaly like this points to something beyond the physical. As Infinity Explorers admit, ‘the absence of tangible proof’ for Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster and their ‘extraordinary ability to evade human detection’ lends convincing credibility to a preternatural explanation. The ability of angelic beings or in modern parlance aliens, to shape-shift in a specter-like manor is well established – Article: Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are. Applying the principle of occams razor – that says that if you have competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simplest one – means a paranormal solution is less ridiculous and more rational than believing these mystery creatures presence in our physical world is normal.

III. Intuition and Sixth Sense

Infinity’s third mystery is the ‘enigmatic power of intuition or sixth sense.’ They have chosen to place together as the same thing, though this writer would call them two different aspects of our mind. Intuition is the ‘faculty of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof’, whereas a sixth sense is subtly different in that it is an ‘intuitive faculty giving awareness not explicable in terms of normal perception.’ It goes beyond intuition the same way that a sixth sense about something or someone goes beyond the fives senses of taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing. 

For a sixth sense can include extrasensory perception (ESP) gained from paranormal ability, such as exhibited by the young boy Cole Sear, in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense, where he sees and hears the ghosts of dead people. As impressive as it is in humans, animals have a heightened sixth sense as evidenced by birds and pets who sense the onset of a disaster such as an earthquake before humans do. 

A similar phrase relating to intuition is to follow ones gut, as in gut instinct or a gut reaction, which means, ‘an instantaneous reaction made without thought.’ The without thinking element is important. This type of intuition could be the result of all our life experiences in our subconscious memory and consciousness. Hence a feeling or decision could be reached immediately without thinking per se, because it is part of us already. Call it a type of understanding or wisdom. Another input of information for making a decision without thinking is the detection of negative or bad energy from someone or something.  

A sixth sense on the other hand can be demonstrated by stories like this true incident shared by a friend. When they were a child and travelling on a bus with their mother; the child had a strong premonition to move away from their seat and swap to the other side. No sooner had they moved and sat down, the window next to their hastily vacated seat shattered, with glass falling all over the seats. This experience was beyond simple intuition and is not explicable from a mere rational perspective.  

IV. Mysterious Disappearances

Infinity Explorers: ‘The phenomenon of people going missing occurs with disconcerting frequency across the globe… Some individuals choose to escape their lives, while others fall victim to accidents, crimes, or abductions… the majority of those who vanish are eventually found. However, a perplexing subset remains [of] those who disappear in the most mysterious and unexplained manner.’

There are numerous examples of individuals and groups of people disappearing under mysterious circumstance. Well known cases include: the lost colony of one hundred and twenty people on Roanoke Island, North Carolina sometime between 1587 to 1590; the ten people aboard the Mary Celeste sailing vessel in the Atlantic in 1872…

… and Aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. 

While disappearances at sea are not unusual and invariably the result of pirates, storms and ship wreaks, the disappearance of say the colony on Roanoke is another thing. If they had merely moved to another island or to the mainland, why did they not turn up somewhere else. If Indians had murdered them, or they had died from a plague, where was the evidence of bodies or graves?

Most disappearances whether sinister or not, have a logical explanation. If they don’t, it is this writers opinion that abduction of a non-physical nature could be the answer. If people have been taken, where are they now? Is time travel involved or jumping from our dimensions to others? Of course, the first mystery is what happened to people in these instances. Though even more frustrating, is why did they disappear? For what purpose? This is an unexplained mystery which may never be fully resolved. 

V. Ghosts and Spirits

This is a pivotal and profound mystery, with critically an answer. Yet, spirits themselves have performed a great job in confusing humanity with deception and falsehood. The 1990 film, Ghost a supernatural romance, perpetuates the timeless belief that people don’t really die when they, well… die. The major christian denominations all participate in the error by teaching that when a person dies, their spirit continues on living, either going to heaven, hell or a halfway house called purgatory. None of which is in the Bible – refer articles: Heaven & Hell; The Seven Churches – A Message for the Church of God in the Latter Days; and DEATH: A Dead End or a New Beginning?

The other way the deception is maintained is through mediums who are themselves deceived by the very spirits they channel. These claim to be dear, dead departed ones but who really are demonic entities who themselves are discorporate beings and are the real ghosts – refer articles: Nephilim & Elioud Giants I & II; and Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are.

The Bible records in the first book of Samuel how the disobedient King Saul went to the Witch of Endor. She was a medium and necromancer – I Samuel 28:7-15.

The account records how the medium sees a spirit ascending from the Earth. Notice, not a righteous angel from above, but a dark spirit from below. When the witch describes the spirit as an old man, Saul assumes it is the prophet Samuel whom he seeks. The spirit takes on the role and personalty of Samuel, even saying ambiguously, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” 

That is the simple answer regarding ghosts and spirits. They are not dead or departed human beings, but rather demons masquerading as such. The following photos eerily show their unseen presence just slightly beyond our dimensional perception. Beings who only marginally vibrate higher than ourselves, which photographs seem able to capture. The first photo is of the Waverly Hills Ghost. Waverly Hills is ‘notorious as one of the most haunted places in America. The abandoned sanatorium in Kentucky has been the subject of many ghost hunts, and with pictures like this one, seemingly showing a ghost woman, you can understand why.’

The second photo is the Amityville Ghost Girl.

‘You’ve heard of the supposedly true story, later turned into multiple movies, about the Amityville house, right? Well, check out this photo taken during the actual investigation, when no one was actually in the home. Take a close look, and let us know when you see it, and try not to wet yourself.’

The photo above is the Arm Grabbing Ghost. ‘Hey look, it’s just a couple of friends, posing for a photo while out on the town. What could go wrong? Well, maybe a mysterious, blurry specter could come out of nowhere and grab one of them by the freaking arm. That’s a pretty good buzzkill for a night of partying if you ask us.’ 

‘In case you had trouble spotting the Amityville Ghost, here is an expanded view, yikes.’

VI. Deja Vu

This is a fascinating phenomenon and described by Infinity Explorers as: ‘Deja vu, a term derived from the French language, literally means “already seen”’ and is ‘a mental state in which an individual experiences a strong sensation that they have previously encountered a similar situation or have been in a specific place before.’ 

Despite scientific study, a definitive answer remains elusive. Logical theories have been presented such as a ‘temporary hiccup in the brain’s memory retrieval process… when the brain encounters a new situation or environment that shares similarities with a  stored memory, momentary confusion arises, leading to the false impression of familiarity. This… implies… deja vu may be a result of miscommunication within the brain’s intricate network responsible for memory recall.’ 

Another is that ‘deja vu may be linked to the brain’s processing speed and the interplay between perception and memory… the brain may process… information at an accelerated rate, causing a temporary overlap between the perception of the current experience and the retrieval of related memories… this overlapping sensation gives rise to the feeling of having already experienced the present moment.’ 

Deja vu is reported to occur on an occasional basis in 60 to 80% of people around the world. Apart from an association with memory, other explanations for the phenomenon include, prophecies, past life experiences, clairvoyance, or a ‘mystic signpost which could indicate a sense of fulfillment of a predetermined condition in life.’

The burning question to these hypotheses then, is what is causing this glitch in the first place for the brain to be short-circuiting so-to-speak? Jake Horsley addressees deja vu in the context of The Matrix film – refer article: Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are* – emphasis mine.

“The means by which the sorcerers crew realize they’ve been set up is via Neo’s sense of ‘déjá vu’: he sees the same black cat twice.

As Trinity says, ‘Déjá vu usually means something’s been changed in the matrix.’ This is nonsense, of course, since people don’t experience déjá vu by seeing the same event twice in succession. Déjá vu is rather the disturbing sense that one has been here before, said exactly this in the exact same way at some other time, or seen and done a given thing in some unknown, unremembered other place. It is, above all, the sense that one has dreamed all of this, before it ever happened. In which case, déjá vu would be extremely pertinent to humatons [plugged in humans], and perhaps the most prevalent feeling within the matrix. It would be a clue as to the true nature of existence. 

The idea of déjá vu as a ‘glitch in the matrix’ is an intriguing one, since the idea of a glitch suggests not so much that the program has been changed, but that the program is breaking down. At which point, humatons [plugged in humans] must start breaking down too; remembering each other’s dreams, perhaps, confusing their identities with one another, getting caught in time loops, all manner of collective madness that would quickly turn the matrix into a wonderland to make Lewis Carroll, or even Dr Seuss, green with envy. Once again, we expect the sequels to exploit such potential to the full, and to owe more to Messrs Buňuel and Fellini than to John Woo or James Cameron. Otherwise, it will just be another case of déjá vu.”

Constant readers will make sense of the preceding quote and understand what we are driving at, while apologies are extended to those readers left scratching their head. Regrettably, Horsley’s prediction about the sequels was accurate in that they did not touch upon the insightful themes introduced in the first film; but rather were spewed out drivel, only intended as mindless sci-fi action entertainment for the masses with no inclination to provide further profound whistle blowing for the un-indoctrinated to grok. 

It does bear considering that deja vu while a physical manifestation of neurones malfunctioning, could be caused by a disturbance in our individual programming*. This could be the result of a deliberate manipulation of some kind or simply a break down in code sequence. Either one reveals that humans are not as in control as they think and that free will is a constrained version rather than fully granted and entirely unrestrained.

Another possible explanation which mirrors the Matrix explanation is that parallel universes and the deja vu phenomenon are mysteriously connected.

Ancient Code, describes the reality of a parallel universe and how it may explain deja vu.

‘… Scientists might have spotted another universe sitting next to our own. According to astronomers, light spotted in outer space might have ‘spilled through’ from another universe very close to our own. The bright patches could be in fact leftovers from another universe that began in the vicinity of our own according to scientific study. Scientists believe that they can actually get a peek at one if the said universe started out close enough to our universe, so the two were able to ‘touch’ which would then leave a viewable signature in our universe.

In order to find these signatures, scientists have compared a map of the cosmic microwave background (which are leftovers from the early universe) with a picture of the entire sky taken by the European Space Agency’s Planck telescope. What they found… left researchers mesmerized. After they had subtracted one from the other, they saw an eerie patch of light in the sky, a patch of light that could be explained as being the remains of collisions with other universes.

According to Dr. Michio Kaku, an American futurist, theoretical physicist and popularizer of science, Parallel universes can explain the mysterious phenomenon and states that quantum physics actually provide the necessary details which suggest déjà vu might be caused by your ability to “flip between different universes.”

The idea that other universes (multiverse theory) exist has been supported by several scientists, among them Professor Steve Weinberg, a theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner. According to Professor Weinberg, it is possible that in the same room an infinite number of parallel realities coexist with us.

“Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg likens this multiple universe theory to radio. All around you, there are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car or living room is full of these radio waves. However, if you turn on a radio, you can listen to only one frequency at a time; these other frequencies… are no longer in phase with each other. Each station has a different energy, a different frequency. As a result, your radio can only be turned to one broadcast at a time. Likewise, in our universe, we are “tuned” into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality.

But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot “tune into” them. Although these worlds are very much alike, each has a different energy. And because each world consists of trillions upon trillions of atoms, this means that the energy difference can be quite significant. Since the frequency of these waves is proportional to their energy (by Planck’s law), this means that the waves of each world vibrate at different frequencies and cannot interact anymore. For all intents and purposes, the waves of these various worlds do not interact or influence each other.”

All of this means that it is quite possible that, at the exact moment you experienced a ‘déjà vu,’ you are in fact ‘vibrating in unison’ with another parallel universe in the cosmos.’

Perhaps we can leave the last words to Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler in season 12 of The Big Bang Theory (Article: 42).

Sheldon: “Amy, you’re a neuroscientist. You know the latest research into déjà vu suggests it’s nothing but the frontal regions of the brain attempting to correct an inaccurate memory.

Amy: “You telling me stuff I already know is definitely déjà vu. 

VII. UFOs

As with the previous six unexplained mysteries, Infinity Explorers lists them without offering much by way of answers. On this topic, the more challenging subject of who are the occupants of UFOs has been addressed in other articles – Chapter XXII Alpha & Omega; and article: Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are.

In this writer’s mind it is clear that many sightings can be explained by natural occurrences. It is also palpable that there are sightings which go well beyond natural phenomena and are obviously other worldly. There is significant documentation in support of their reality and the fact that there is considerable suspicious material available surrounding the United States government; the US Airforce; NASA; and installations such as Area 51; should leave readers in no doubt on this subject. 

VIII. Clinical Death and Life after Death

This isn’t just one of the top unexplained mysteries of all time, but philosophically one of the most profoundly key questions there is – if not the most important.

There are three momentous questions about humankind and they are:

a. Where did people come from? (How did they get here?)

b. Why is mankind here? (What is the purpose of man?) and

c. What happens to a human when they die? (Where does a person go when they are dead?)

It would seem neither science or religion satisfactorily answers these stupendous questions. Yet would not all wish to know the answers? 

The truth about death and the afterlife is found in the scriptures, yet christianity does not teach the truth. We have touched upon the answer when discussing ghosts and spirits. We will not labour the point here, though for the answer to what genuinely happens at death, the following articles are recommended: Heaven & Hell; and DEATH: A Dead End or a New Beginning? If sincerely interested in the origin and true purpose of humankind, Chapter XXII Alpha & Omega seeks to add understanding on the topic.

IX. Psychic and Extrasensory Abilities

Like number eight preceding, the subject of death and the afterlife is linked to number five, ghosts and spirits; so too are psychic and extrasensory abilities with number three, intuition and the sixth sense. They are heightened brain functions; albeit moving into Stephen King territory, such as the telekinesis of Carrie; the telepathy of John Smith in The Dead Zone; and the pyrokinesis of Charlie McGee (Drew Barrymore below) in Firestarter.

The opinion of this writer is that these gifts are not physical or natural to the human condition but rather inspired by a supernatural source. This is why they are next to impossible to scientifically quantify or document. 

X. The Connection of Mind and Body

We arrive at number ten, another profound enquiry. The simple and short answer which will be forever illusive to science for they disregard what is beyond their senses and our four dimensions (including space and time) is that the brain is an organ of the body like any other and is physical.

The bridge between the brain and the mind is the nervous system and the mind itself is the manifestation of the God given spirit which animates all life – whether it is a star, a single cell organism or a plant. 

The Bible is clear that animal life possess a distinctive spirit of their own, while humanity has a different spirit which sets it apart as more than just another animal – Chapter XXI The Incredible Identity, Origin & Destiny of Nimrod. Scientology teaches that humans are spirits within a physical body or shell. This is accurate in part.

Where they fall short as does mainstream christianity, is to claim that the spirit is immortal. For of and by itself it is not, though that potential is available for humankind and those who seek it according to the Eternal’s plan, as outlined in the scriptures. Those souls who seek the same course via occult principles or New Age practices are doomed to failure – Articles: The Establishment: Who are they… What do they want?; and Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are.

This is Infinity Explorers top ten unexplained mysteries, now explained. There are a number of lists online and many interesting mysteries. Selected, are an additional two as concluding unexplained mysteries.

The first (which follows) was not even known by this writer, though its sinister connotations – in relation to the subject matter investigated in recent articles – was recognised.

The second mystery is extremely popular and an enduring one in the public’s imagination; which this writer believes has already been solved. Perhaps this article will be able to strengthen its case. 

XI. The Georgia Guidestones 

The Georgia Guidestones, referred to as the American Stonehenge was a granite monument erected in rural Elberton in Elbert County, Georgia (the granite capital of the world) on Saturday March 22, 1980. The stones were engraved in eight different languages, including: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian, with each relaying ten new commandments for an ‘Age of Reason.’ The stones lined up with certain astronomical features.

The word was is deliberately used in the past tense, as the stones suffered a mysterious explosion on July 6, 2022 and the monument was fully dismantled later the same day. The monument did not contain any encrypted messages and its purpose and origin remain shrouded in mystery. The stones were commissioned by a man who has yet to be definitively identified.

Ten Commandments of the Antichrist: The Georgia Guidestones, Joseph Laycock, 2009: 

‘The monument consists of four 16-foot-high slabs of granite arranged around a central column and topped with a capstone weighing 25,000 pounds. Carved onto the face of each slab is a list of ten precepts for creating a better society, written in eight modern languages. On the four sides of the capstone are written the words, “Let These Be Guidestones to An Age of Reason” in Sanskrit, Babylonian cuneiform, Classical Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The central column and capstone are also equipped with holes, astronomically aligned so that the Guidestones can serve as a compass and clock.

The popular consensus is that these stones were meant to survive a global apocalypse and aid survivors in creating a new, enlightened society… in the last ten years the Guidestones have garnered the attention of conspiracy theorists, who see their message as anti-Christian and a call for a global government. This new reading of the Guidestones ultimately led vandals to deface the monument sometime in December 2008. 

The official story of the Guidestones’ origin is that Joe Fendley Sr., president of the Elberton Finishing Company, was contacted in 1979 by one “Robert C. Christian” to commission a monument [costing $100,000]. Christian was a pseudonym used by someone representing “a small group of loyal Americans who believe in God.” Fendley has since died, but Randall Sullivan of Wired interviewed Wyatt Martin, the president of Granite City Bank and the only living man who allegedly met Christian. As the project’s banker, Martin allegedly learned Christian’s true name but will not reveal it. Martin claims he received letters and phone calls from Christian until “around the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks” and assumes Christian is dead; though some believe Christian never existed.’

Cleaning and sizing the granite during the construction of the Guidestones

‘According to Jim Miles (author of Weird Georgia), shortly after the Guidestones were unveiled, a local minister stated his suspicion that “Mr. Christian is not a Christian” and that the monument was designed for the worship of the sun as well as the devil. Contemporary Pagans, UFO buffs, and New Agers were naturally attracted by the mystery of the site. New myths were created that the monument was built upon a “power-nexus” or a place sacred to Native Americans. One legend holds that visitors who point both arms at the monument (one palm up, one palm down) will receive a psychic message from the stones. Another Guidestone admirer, Yoko Ono, composed a three-movement score entitled “Georgia Stone.” 

In 2000, Dr. Reagan R. Davis, a Christian minister, visited the stones and concluded that the Guidestones may well describe the ten commandments of the Antichrist.’

The New Commandments are as follows:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature
2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity
3. Unite humanity with a living new language
4. Rule Passion – Faith – Tradition – and all things with tempered reason
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials
8. Balance personal rights with social duties
9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite
10. Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature…

We will dissect the commandments to interpret what they really mean. On the surface numbers two to ten appear harmless enough. The first one though is blatantly controversial. Many have taken it to be a license to cull the human population down to the specified number.

‘Particularly upsetting were the precepts to “Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature”… Davis interpreted these messages as a call for a world government, a policy of state-sponsored eugenics, and the culling of billions of people. This new interpretation elevated the Guidestones from mere local curiosity to the subject of national notoriety among conspiracy theorists and Christian dispensationalists. 

Conspiracy buffs were quick to point out the similarities between the pseudonym “R.C. Christian” and Christian Rosenkreuz, the legendary founder of the esoteric Rosicrucian Order. (Documents attributed to Rosenkreuz were signed “Frater C.R.C.”). Christians added that The Age of Reason is also the title of a book by Thomas Paine, which challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Through numerous Web sites and talk radio programs, a narrative eventually emerged in which the Guidestones (along with ancient esoteric societies like the Masons, eugenics, perceived anti-Christian hostility, and globalization) were all part of a single monolithic entity known as the “New World Order.” 

The goal of the New World Order is the creation of a single world government and the destruction of national sovereignty and religion. A significant number of Christian dispensationalists subscribe to this view and believe that the New World Order was foretold in the Book of Revelation. 

In 2005, Mark Dice (using the pseudonym “John Connor” in reference to the Terminator film franchise) organized a Christian group opposed to the New World Order called “The Resistance” and began a campaign to have the monument destroyed. In 2007, radio personality and filmmaker Alex Jones released a documentary entitled Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, outlining a plan by the Bilderberg group and other global elites to exterminate eighty percent of humanity [6.4 billion out of 8 billion]. The Georgia Guidestones are cited as primary evidence of this plot. 

The short history of the Guidestones has parallels with the history of other mysterious messages and prophesies. It seems plausible that whoever invented the name “R. C. Christian”… had some knowledge of Rosicrucianism. (Fendley was active in the local Shrine Club where he could have been exposed to Rosicrucian lore.) There are interesting similarities between the Guidestones and the origin of the Rosicrucian legend.’

The Guidestones were not rebuilt and the County voted to return the five acres of farm land to its previous owner from whom Christian had purchased; while donating the granite remains to the Elberton Granite Association. Originally, Robert C Christian had approached the Elberton Granite Finishing Company on behalf of ‘a small group of loyal Americans’. Christian explained the stones would function as a ‘compass, calendar and clock’ being able to withstand a ‘catastrophic event.’ The monument was inspired by the British Neolithic Stonehenge. Christian had drawn ‘inspiration from the structure after he paid a visit… However, he said that while it was impressive, Stonehenge had no [obvious] message to communicate’ – refer article: Monoliths of the Nephilim. 

Carl Teichrib describes the astronomical aspect of the guidestones: 

‘… the intimidating monument stands over nineteen feet high and contains 951 cubic feet of granite. The Guidestones are comprised of four upright slabs, one center stone resembling a squared pillar (called the Gnomen stone), a flat capstone, and five base pieces. Each of the four upright stones weighs 42,437 lbs., and the combined weight of all the stones is approximately 119 tons.

The four upright blocks are “oriented to the limits of the migration of the moon during the course of the year.” Drilled through the center pillar is an eye-level, oblique hole going north to south through the Gnomen stone “so that the North Star is always visible, symbolizing constancy and orientation with the forces of nature.” A slot is also cut through the Gnomen stone, aligning with the rising sun at the winter and Summer Solstices [with] more astronomical features are built into the monument.’

Christian ‘claimed that he represented a group which had been planning to construct the guidestones for 20 years and wanted to remain anonymous.’ Mark Dice claimed R C Christian belonged to a ‘Luciferian secret society’ working for the New World Order. Jay Weidner believes that the pseudonym of the man who commissioned the stones resembles Rose Cross Christian or Christian Rosenkreuz, founder of the  Rosicrucian Order. ‘Others who agree with Weidner point to the Rosicrucian’s first manifesto written in 1614, which states “The word R.C. should be their seal, mark and character.”

Regarding the ten new commandments, they perhaps really were envisioned as a blueprint for a world desolated by a nuclear holocaust during the Cold War – article: Nuclear Nefariousness. This may explain the admonishment about keeping the population low and protecting the environment. Even so, as one reads them and takes them in, one can’t help but read between the lines; sensing a sinister agenda which would not be out of place in a Global Elite meeting – Articles: The Secret Covenant; and The Establishment: Who are they… What do they want? These rules remind of an amplification of the Seven Noahide Laws – refer Chapter XXXIV Dan: The Invisible Tribe; and article: The Calendar Conspiracy.

Therefore each commandment could be read as the following:

1. Reduce the Earth’s population by any means necessary for a greater share and longevity of Earth’s resources.

Refer article: Covid 19 Injection.

2. Eugenics is desirable and requisite in conceiving only acceptable humans according to their race, attractiveness, talent and intelligence quotient.

3. Turn back the clock to the time of the Tower of Babel and the one world government led by the demagogue Nimrod. In the process devising an invented language, artificially constructed.

Refer article: The Pyramid Perplexity; and Chapter XXI The Incredible Identity, Origin & Destiny of Nimrod.

4. Science and rational thought to rule over faith and belief, whether the truth or not. 

5. A one world government of international law and punishment which supersedes national law and justice – much like the twenty-seven nations of the European Union on a global scale.

6. Individual nations possessing no real sovereignty, surrendering power to a global federal bureaucracy  – much like the fifty American States on a worldwide scale. 

7. Less laws and representatives of the law, thereby leaving the administering of the new simplified law much more open to interpretation and abuse by the very people who do not have your interests at heart – much like Fascism extended internationally.

8. Personal rights and freedoms will cease to exist in order to serve the state as it dictates and sees fit.

9. God is in all things – rocks, plants, animals, water, fire, air, space and people. Because God is all, you too are therefore a god.

The infinite is not the Creator, but rather the Architect worshiped by the Establishment. One would not want to be in harmony with this being. Refer articles: Asherah; and Principalities & Potentates: What they want… Who they are.

10. Humankind acts like a virus on the planet, rather than as a mammal. Put nature and the planet first.

This would lead to nature being embodied as a pseudo-god and worshipped by inferior humanity.

The Georgia Guidestones ironically built to withstand a devastating calamity only lasted forty-two years and four months and were easily destroyed. A mere blip in the history of the World – refer article: 42. With hindsight, the benefactors donating the guidestones perhaps should have erected them in a location less isolated and better guarded. Regardless, do not be surprised as the agenda of the Establishment and NWO inexorably marches on and these ideals presented in the ten new commandments eventually become mandates for the citizens of planet Earth. 

Nota Bene

The original section which followed concerning Jack the Ripper has been removed. The material is reproduced in its entirety in the article ‘Jack the Ripper’ and is now available there for the interested reader.

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