Skeptics and believers alike, nothing gets people talking and debating like a good old urban legend or ghost story. What’s even better, is when there is no definitive answer as to whether the event happened or not, and why. Here at Paranormala, this is our modus operandi.. to bring to you, our beloved reader the most interesting and sometimes ridiculous unexplained phenomena.
So without further ado, here is the first half of our favorite unexplained, mysterious and just plain weird happenings:
10. The Klerksdorp Spheres
Much debate has arisen over the origin of these small, spherical or disc shaped objects found near Ottosdal, South Africa. Alternative researchers and reporters claim these are “anomalous, out of place artifacts” and had to have been developed by intelligent beings, either human, or of alien origin.
A Grooved Klerksdorp Sphere
Geologists rebut that these little nuggets of weirdness are a result of natural processes, coming from 3.0 billion year old pyrophyllite deposits.
Whatever the case may be, these grooved spheres are monumentally interesting artifacts.
9. Angel Hair
There are a number of accounts of this fiberous substance observed to have fallen from the sky, often believed to be a result of UFO phenomenon. An interesting account reported by USA Today and the AP details twenty UFOs seen over Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia, dropping down Angel Hair on the ground as they passed. It is said that any attempt at collecting it results in the material completely subliming and disappearing.
An Illustration Of Angel Hair From UFOs
It should be noted that Angel Hair has also, appropriately been associated with sightings of angels.
8. The Dropa Stones
The Dropa, according to legend, are a race of dwarf-like extraterrestrials that purportedly inhabited the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of China. A 1938 archeological expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei into this region led to the discovery of a series of artificially carved caves containing the Dropa Stones.
Each stone, or disc rather, is said to be around 12,000 years old, roughly 9 inches in diameter, has a small whole cut in the center and is etched with a spiral pattern of hieroglyphics. It gets weirder. The hieroglyphics apparently tell a tale of the Dropa coming from outer space and crash landing in the mountains. Allegedly, Dr. Chi Pu Tei’s team also found several neat rows of tombs with 4 ft 4 inch skeletons, big classic alien heads and all, buried inside them.
Photo of the Alleged Dropa Stone Discs
Historical evidence or hoax, the Dropa stones are of great interest to researchers and skeptics alike.
7. The Miracle of the Sun
The Miracle of the Sun is an alleged miraculous event witnessed by 30,000 to 100,000 people in 1917 near Fatima, Portugal. Many sources attempt to explain the event using known phenomena such as clouds, stratospheric dust, or a “sundog“, but it is most often associated with biblical “endtime” prophecies and UFO lore.
A Newspaper Scan Showing Fatima Viewers
Here is a summary of events from Wikipedia:
“According to many witness statements, after a downfall of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sun appeared as an opaque, spinning disk in the sky. It was said to be significantly less bright than normal, and cast multicolored lights across the landscape, the shadows on the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to have careened towards the earth in a zigzag pattern, frightening some of those present who thought it meant the end of the world. Some witnesses reported that their previously wet clothes became “suddenly and completely dry.”
Estimates of the number of witnesses range from 30,000-40,000 by Avelino de Almeida, writing for the Portuguese newspaper O Século, to 100,000, estimated by Dr. Joseph Garrett, professor of natural sciences at the University of Coimbra, both of whom were present that day.
The miracle was attributed by believers to Our Lady of Fátima, an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young shepherd children in 1917, as having been predicted by the three children on 13 July, 19 August, and 13 September 1917. The children reported that the Lady had promised them that she would on 13 October reveal her identity to them and provide a miracle “so that all may believe.”
According to these reports, the miracle of the sun lasted approximately ten minutes. The three children also reported seeing a panorama of visions, including those of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of Saint Joseph blessing the people.”
6. Morgellons Disease
Morgellons Disease is an infectious condition where reported symptoms include crawling, biting, and stinging sensations; finding multi-colored fibers on or under the skin and persistent skin rashes or open sores.
The scientific community has all but shunned Morgellons sufferers, stating that Morgellons isn’t a new disorder, but instead a combination of known medical conditions, including delusional parasitosis.
Members of the Morgellons Research Foundation and several Morgellons patients have successfully gotten the U.S. government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) to investigate their condition.
Morgellons Sufferer Showing Hand Lesions
According to Wikipedia:
The CDC states that while it is not known at present whether the condition represents a new disease entity, or whether persons who identify themselves as having Morgellons have a common cause for their symptoms, share common risk factors, or are contagious, it has begun an epidemiological investigation of the “Unexplained Dermopathy”.
The CDC’s Morgellons website can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/unexplaineddermopathy/
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How could anyone claim the Klerksdorp spheres are natural phenomenon?
That is such an intriguing topic- please focus on what you’re writing- the end result sadly leaves much to be desired. My hat is off to your attempt and approach, but dude…
@Jamie,
Thanks for the comment. What I didn’t write in the article is that all 10 are going to be turned into full articles in the near future.
I heard a tale several years ago about an incident in Vicksburg, MS involving a strange object in the sky that produced “spiderweb-like” material for hours. Caused quite a stir at the time..I believe it was in the 50’s. The UFO was odd-shaped and the material was white and flowed from it, eventually blanketing the area. Samples were taken..and of course that was the end of it.
The Dropa stones are interesting. If I were of alien origin and stranded on earth I would certainly try to document the whole thing in a way that would last a long time. I wonder if the Dropa stones are a sort of history of what happened?
Great post. The Dropa stones really interest me for some reason… bookmarked and can’t wait to see the top 5.
angel hair=cotton candy from the sky; dropa stones=elaborate value added weights or tie downs; fatima=sunstroke induced delusions that reflect religious beliefs; klerksdorp spheres=fancy beads prolly used as currency, morgellons disease=herpatic cancers.
But people just can’t resist the temptation to accept that these things must come from space or mad doctors. Whatever…
Those who do just CANNOT accept that ancient humans were great storytellers, were great artists, had economic systems and had wonderful other entertainments. And that seemingly disparate people can share the same psychosomatic reactions to cancers, herpes and simple skin diseases…whatever…
I believe it is entirely possible and entirely likely. Maybe these Dropa individuals did come to this planet from some other. Let’s say their ship crashed and they were stranded here. Gosh, I certainly hope that they intermarried with the humans because if they did, there may still remain some Dropa blood on earth today, perhaps in any of us!
I read one thing long ago about the Dropa, that they were terrible looking, ugly looking to the people around them, and they may have been attacked by the people around them. Well if that is the case, our only hope for a Dropa today is if they went underground, some of them, hid and reproduced. And lets consider for a moment that lifeforms from another planet might not be able to reproduce with lifeforms from this planet. It might be just impossible. Maybe some are and some aren’t, maybe these Dropa were not!
I mean all I’m saying is, I’m thinking out loud here, would I like to live next door to a Dropa? Well yes, the answer is yes! If I had a chance, would I go and live with a “Grey alien?” Yes, the answer is most definately yes. I mean I’m just someone who lives alone and nobody much calls or comes by, so yes. Yes I would. Just to learn and maybe even to teach. I mean maybe the Dropa and the Greys don’t have money, or greed, or war. Let’s face it, it wasn’t the Dropa who killed six million Jews in World War II, that was us ourselves. It wasn’t the Greys who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan or fought a war with Viet Nam, that was us.
I mean I’m just saying that there have been some who claim to have been abducted, but they’re not dead and or left for dead. betty and barney lived on and on. Only human beings kill other human beings in convenience stores over a little bit of money in the register so they can get some crack!
Maybe, just maybe, just in my opinion and mine alone of course, maybe we all, ought to try and aspire to be, a little more alien like!
the Dropa stones really do not belong here–they are a fully admitted hoax. Good work otherwise.
The Observer; So basically you’re dumbfounded like the rest of us… certainly you’re not claiming to have been around when these objects were created nor to having witnessed the solar phenomenon?? Having said that… unwrap your arms from that tree, pull your head out of the sand and accept that your opinion is just that… your opinion.
Most of those are very interesting. But …Dropa stones? Really?? FAKE. And it’s a well known fake I thought.
Our Lady of Guadalupe would be another phenomena.
These lists are always completely subjective, I don’t mind that. In fact, I expect it. In the end they end up revealing more about the person listing them than anything else, and I for one find that insightful.
Morgellon’s and the Klerksdorp Stones are pretty obscure, but undeniably interesting, but the others?
The Dropa stones are a well-known and firmly-established hoax.
Angel Hair is nothing more than dust particles in the atmosphere bound together by static electricity (One reason why they seem to evaporate so easily- deprived of the original electrical or electromagnet fields which created them, they lose cohesion and once again become free-floating dust). Surely the propulsion systems that created them in your examples are the greater mystery.
The “miracle of the sun” is also a known atmospheric phenomena, albeit a rare, and in your instance, a peculiarly coincidentally timely one. Basically cloud layers can refract the light of the sun, making it appear to shift and move, or shimmer and ripple similar to how it would appear if you were underwater.
As a case, however, Fatima is certainly an interesting one, and may not represent what many may suspect.
I hadn’t actually heard the the Klerksdorp Spheres were considered natural artifact, that’s an interesting concept. Certainly I’ve seen far more artificial-looking natural formations than those (The Giant’s Pillars or Devil’s Tower, for example), to make that seem plausible.
7. Miracles of the sun
FYI: that happened in the philippines too, during the mid 80s. it was all over the news, and its been recorded on video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie-wqVOHofE
it looks to me that the morgellan disease is akin to leprosy
Excellent post and article as while the Micropaedia is the smaller one with shorter articles that are usually less than 250 words, just digged it and stumble it up so your blog post will get more popularity on the search engines.
Great Info ,
Andy Colleman
Another interesting tidbit about the Miracle of the Sun was that there were TWO suns…
Another thing which I go by when trying to determine the validity of what I am reading:
if I am being told it is a definite fake then I am inclined to believe just the opposite.
It seems, to me, that many of these things are just what they appear to be and not some elaborate hoax. It’s just logical, in my eyes, that we have been visited by others. There is SO much evidence to support that.
Morgellons is so interesting. Thre is a lot of information out there worth reading. Make your own decisions. Don’t let others sway you with their tales of elaborate hoaxes and such. Common sense and logic can deduce the truth. We are not alone, there are others,
and that is a great thing.
Edgefree wrote:
<How could anyone claim the Klerksdorp spheres are natural phenomenon?
You might be interested in this explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerksdorp_Spheres
Well the Dropa might be a hoax, and maybe not. They always find something, and then no matter what, a week or two later, someone is in behind it to call it a hoax. First the Roswell people said it was a UFO in the newspaper, then they later said something different. It’s always like this and people remain as a result not ever knowing what the actual truth is. Well I hope that the Dropa are real and WANT TO BELIEVE THAT ALIENS ARE REAL.
I want to lift my hands up in the air and shout, “Come to me my space friends, visit me my alien family and stay as long as you want because I believe in you!” I want a free spaceship ride, and I want to be their friend here on earth.