Sue Darroch and Matthew Didier's Paranormal Blog

The BBC is reporting on a very interesting medical case. Apparently a hobby shop owner who sliced off a finger in a freak accident involving a model airplane propeller has regrown the finger with the help of a powder made from a pig's bladder.

The BBC provides an in-depth look at this medical miracle. Here is a snippet:

In every town in every part of this sprawling country you can find a faceless sprawling strip mall in which to do the shopping.

Rarely though would you expect to find a medical miracle working behind the counter of the mall's hobby shop.

That however is what Lee Spievak considers himself to be.

"I put my finger in," Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model aeroplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."

Full BBC Article Here

The BBC site also include a video clip. Very cool!

What are your thoughts? Medical miracle, do you think this will be routine in the future?

People from the beginning of recorded history, through various cultures have adorned themselves with tattoos, and body jewelry for beauty, for uniqueness, as a badge of honour etc. Despite what you may think, these practices are quite ancient, and not at all new.

What is new of course is the ability to sit at home or at work, and conveniently shop for wholesale body jewelry online.

Can you believe this gorgeous Titanium ring with dragon design is only $3.85! I'm not kidding! The is of a ring that is manufactured by Acha Co. Since they are the makers of these different jewlery pieces you can really save huge bux with them!

They are definitely worth checking out, particularly if you are thinking of setting up your own small business. They do accept PayPal, and offer live chat as part of their customer services.

Over the weekend I shared some vintage UFO reports from the Ottawa Valley, Canada area with you. These were sent to me by a fellow researcher. Today I will share a few more from you that are originally taken from newspaper clippings:

An equally bizarre apparition jumped across valley skies the following spring. Driving from Chalk River, James Turcotte and his family saw a fireball streak across the car's windshield. It had a green light and discharged a multitude of colours before fading away. He suspected it was a military aircraft, as they were nearing Camp Petawawa.

On the outskirts of Pembroke, Orville Wasmund's wife noticed the object from her kitchen window. She thought it was silver, and promptly alerted her neighbour, John Murack, who described it as a "big ball of light." On Chamberlain Street, Shirley Corrigan saw this spectre, which was shooting particles and emitting a greenish glow. It abruptly disappeared somewhere over the Ottawa River. Scientists observing the same object from Ohio determined it was probably a meteor travelling at an orbit 80 miles above the earth.

Were meteors the answer to all these sightings? Possibly. But then how to explain away what Leo Chaput saw? One night in May, 1969, the 54-year-old mill worker was sitting in his summer kitchen when he saw a white light soaring above the Wabush Line. The "machine," as he called it, landed in the field behind his Chapeau farm house. Chaput investigated the next morning and found three crop circles burned into the grass. The rings were 27 feet in diameter. The needles on a nearby pine tree appeared singed off and there was no indication of carbon deposits. Chaput professed he got a good look at the UFO.

"I was standing near the field and watched this bright object travelling below the tree-line," he explained to a horde of skeptical reporters. "The front of it had two large red eyes. I watched it for about 10 minutes, then it disappeared."

The most serious close encounter occurred weeks later in Petawawa Village. In the early morning hours of July 13, a woman ran into the Arrow Taxi stand with an incredible story. She was in a hysterical state but calmed down long enough to recount what she saw to the on-duty cabbie, John Chesson. She had been driving down Black Bay Road when a huge light swooped down from out of nowhere. It hovered over the car for a couple of minutes, lighting up the roadway. What terrified her was the UFO then followed her for a few miles before bolting from the scene. Chesson stepped out to see for himself. In the far distance, he caught a glimpse of what he described as a "bright star" sailing through the sky.

Meanwhile, panicked phone callers flooded the police switchboard. Others had seen the entity. Provincial constables Jack Mackay and Grant Chaplin were dispatched to investigate. Entering the village, the officers suddenly stopped their squad car. There in the sky was the UFO, moving slowly in a south-easterly direction. The officers were soon joined by a small crowd of 12 other disbelieving motorists who had pulled over to watch the anomaly. Mackay figured the object was cylindrical in shape, hovering some 1,500 feet above the ground. What puzzled Mackay was it had no solid body or form. From the main gate of the base, three military policemen also watched the object in amazement. The UFO moved in a slow, continuous orbit for another 40 minutes before it disappeared west of Pembroke.

While the Petawawa incident garnered national media attention, this incredible night was all but forgotten a week later. Every person on the planet with a television set was watching American astronaut Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the moon.

Chilling .... particularly the Petawawa Village incident. To be honest I am not sure what my reaction would be to such an event, but i can say that I too would have been terrified under those circumstances.

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Any Canadian interested in a dynamic assessment of where the planet stands in its current fragile plight must view the video of Mr. Hellyer’s keynote address at the Washington DC X-Conference on Saturday April 19, 2008.

Mr. Hellyer’s speech is a finely orchestrated narrative about how and why we are being lied to about an Extraterrestrial presence and what we need to do about it.

Each of you who choose to listen to this historic speech will be convinced that an immediate investigation must be launched into what military and non-elected government personnel have been hiding from us for over 60 years and how our duly elected representatives have be kept out of the loop; in Canada, in the United States and beyond our borders internationally.

Not only is the truth being withheld, democracy itself has been abrogated by an invisible elite determined to control everything from access to proper and just health care, economic autonomy, to the price of oil and who on the planet becomes educated.

Exopolitics Toronto and its Director Michael J. Bird who was in attendance at this historic event urges all who are in receipt of this message to view Mr. Hellyer’s speech and decide whether or not action is required to allow for an open dialogue about the presence of Extraterrestrials and… the TRUTH.

Exopolitics Toronto is of the belief that no one can take a position on this delicate issue off-handedly unless they are informed and aware of the issues involved. Exopolitics Toronto remains accessible to any journalist, broadcaster or politician who wishes to discretely inquire, in total confidence, about the larger complexities of this matter.

The decision is yours.

Mr. Hellyer’s speech may be viewed here

The text of the speech is here

I am curious to find out how many of you have seen or plan to see the movie 21 with actor Kevin Spacey? The movie is based on the book Bringing Down the House which I did read, but you know what they say about books, and movies, and I was just wondering if it was worth checking it out. Let me know what you think.

For those unfamiliar with both the book, and/or film it is about a group of students from the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT for short that figured out a card counting scam that beat the odds in the Las Vegas Casinos. I put the word scam in italics because I'm not really sure what they did should be considered a scam.

The film is making the rounds, and an online backgammon site has decided to see if their own system can be beaten by the ultimate brain test in the spirit of this movie.

The site is BackgammonMasters.com, and they have long been known as a very popular online resource for backgammon games for newbies, as well as
backgammon for money, and high stakes. They are also very popular for their 21 Blackjack game, which is going to be put to the test by incorporating a new, and innovative basic Blackjack strategy calculator. All Blackjack enthusiasts are being encouraged to test the system, and BackgammonMasters is offering "tell-a-friend" bonuses.

Will be interesting to see how it turns out!