By Tim Binnall
Ancient catastrophic events, Kenneth Arnold's iconic flying saucer sighting, and the brain merging with technology were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about a possible ghost photographed by a trail camera, a potential 'lake monster' spotted in Mexico and a mythical creature in France that turned out to really exist. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Kenneth Arnold's legendary 1947 UFO sighting, which led to the popularization of the term 'flying saucer,' was revisited on Monday night's program by his granddaughter Shanelle Schanz. She detailed how he had been flying over Mt. Rainier in search of a lost military plane on that fateful day when he saw nine unidentified craft flying in formation. Arnold subsequently reported the sighting because he thought that the UFOs may have been missiles, she explained, which led to the pilot's story becoming an international sensation. Schanz also recounted his later friendship with FATE magazine publisher Ray Palmer and an odd incident in which he believed that the entities from the craft actually came to visit him at his home.
Something of a new 'lake monster' burst onto the scene this past week by way of a puzzling photograph shared by officials in a Mexican city. Posted on social media by the government of Atizapán de Zaragoza, the odd image purportedly shows a mysterious creature that, they claimed, residents had reported seeing in the waters of the community's Madin Dam. Amazingly, they went on to note that local legend states that an aquatic dinosaur akin to Nessie lurks at the bottom of the location and indicated that, in response to requests from the public, police were stepping up their patrols of the area in search of the yet-to-be-named monster of the Madin Dam.
Ancient Earth changes and catastrophic events took center stage on Wednesday night's program as renegade scholar Randall Carlson discussed his research into planet-altering cataclysms. He pointed to massive boulders found throughout North America as evidence of a meltdown of the ice sheets which once covered the continent. Positing that this occurred in a series of cycles around 11,600 and 14,600 years ago as the Pleistocene epoch was coming to a close, he suggested that the melting may have been caused by impacts by celestial bodies such as comets. Randall also noted how a spike in global warming leading to a rise in the sea level has been detected in ice core evidence from around the same time that it s claimed that Atlantis fell.
In a remarkable story which should give hope to cryptozoology enthusiasts, the French Office for Biodiversity announced this week that a scientific study had confirmed the existence of a feline creature that had previously been considered a myth. Known as the Ghjattu Volpe, or 'cat fox,' the animal had long been a part of local lore on the island of Corsica, though it remained up for debate as to whether or not it was real. That question was finally settled following an exhaustive scientific study wherein researchers were able to capture some of the creatures and, upon studying their genetic makeup, determined that they were a feline species wholly unique to the island.
Could the current trajectory of technology and medicine be headed towards a future where the smart phones of today are integrated into the human brain? On Thursday night's program, data analyst Scott Snair expressed concern that just such an uncanny scenario is unfolding and noted that the development of the Neuralink device is indicative of how there is research underway towards that end. While acknowledging the benefits of such technology, he warned that it could be disastrous if the proverbial 'brain phone' winds up being adopted by the general population in light of the various security risks which would come with it.
This past week saw one of the eerier ghost photos we've seen in quite some time cross our desk by way of trail camera in New York state. The chilling image, which was shared with C2C by Jesi Grandall, was captured as her husband and daughter were out hunting in the woods on their property in the community of Savona. Only recently noticed when they were going through their trail camera photos from the past few years, the image shows the duo being followed by what appears to be a third member of their hunting party in the form of a translucent figure that went unnoticed by the pair at the time and may have been the ghost of a former owner of the property who passed away years ago.
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