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Join us at the First Anomaly Archives Meetup of 2010 this Saturday at the Austin History Center from 3-4pm.(See end of email for venue details)

Sponsoring this meetup and venue is the local Austin Mufon chapter headed by Anomaly Archives board member Mike DeGroff.

The monthly Austin Mufon meeting is 1-4pm the first Saturday of most months.

As this is our first official “MeetUp” we’ll be answering questions about the organization, its mission, projects and goals, etc.

We may watch a video or two, talk about books we’re reading, and generally talking about a wide variety of anomalous subjects.

We’ll also be giving away a couple of books to some lucky attendees. Kind of like a door prize. Details at the meeting.

Also, after the meeting, if there’s enough interest, perhaps we can retire to some comfortable outdoor eatery for “conversations over saucers” with coffee, tea, beer, etc.

Finally, we’re pleased to announce that the Anomaly Archives will be hosting British Fortean Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes the afternoon of Saturday, March 20th. Details to follow shortly.

Thank you for your support. We look forward to seeing you all at the Austin History Center this Saturday.

- SMiles Lewis

Founder & President
www.AnomalyArchives.org
AUSTIN HISTORY CENTER
810 Guadalupe, Austin, TX 78701

Anomaly Archives Meetup this Saturday – Austin Anomaly Archives (Austin, TX) – Meetup.com.

Discovery Channel’s GhostLab Investigator Brothers, Barry and Brad Klinge.

Fans of paranormal investigations and ghost hunting reality tv shows set your itineraries for Beaumont, Texas’ Civic Center. On March 13th the Texas Society of Paranormal Investigators (TSPI) is hosting the Texas Ghost Show which is set to feature authors, researchers and reality tv personalities including:

• Brad Klinge of “Ghost Lab”
• Brian Harnois of “Ghost Hunter” and Ghost Hunters International
• Cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard
• Father Andrew Calder from “Paranormal State” 
• Ericka Boussarhane, the “Oprah of the Paranormal”
• Dash Beardsley, the “Ghost Man of Galveston”
• Author Dr. Rita Louise
• Emcees Brian and Anna Marie

Penny LeLeux of TheRecordLive.com did a brief but interesting Question & Answer session with Ghost Lab investigator Brad Klinge in which she asked some interesting questions like “What effect has reality TV had on your investigations” and “What’s the most unusual or startling piece of evidence you’ve recorded to date“:

 Brad: Everything is startling in its own way.  Obviously, the Gettysburg soldiers were the most vivid.  We have caught photographs of solid human forms as if someone was in the room with you such as what we call “The French Guy” at the Institute of Texan Cultures in SA or “the bartender” at the Harlequin Theater in SA.  We have clear, vaporous shadow forms of children moving in and out of a bedroom at the Myrtles.  We caught a chair moving on video.  We caught a shadow person on thermal that allowed us to study the temperature phenomenon associated with paranormal activity.  Our library is quite extensive.

Details: Tickets are only $20. The doors open at 8 a.m. Presenters speak from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.  The Beaumont Civic Center is located at 701 Main St., Beaumont. A special room rate of $79 is available at the MCM Elegante’ with code TXSPI. For more information call Don Dennis at (409) 553-4456 or go to txparanormal.com

Read more of Penny LeLeux’s Q&A with Ghost Lab’s Brad Klinge at the link below:

TheRecordLive.Com: Paranormal investigators converge at Texas Ghost Show.

Jon Downes and his wife Corinna of the Centre for Fortean Zoology will be visiting Texas next month.

They will be joining Richie and Naomi West in an investigation of what CFZ terms “Texas Blue Dogs” – what the mainstream media and local folks often call Chupacabras.

RICHIE AND NAOMI WEST: CFZ EXPEDITION TO TEXAS

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A woman in southeast Texas has discovered a small family of hairless canines (referred by the CFZ as the Texas Blue dog) living behind her back yard. She has been feeding them and wants the CFZ to film them.

Naomi and I will be going down to that location next week to install day/night video cameras to film these creatures in action.

When Jon and Corinna arrive, we will be going there to further investigate them. The word from the family who discovered these creatures is that they have very unusual habits not normally associated with canines. Jon and Corinna will be accompanied for part of their trip by a team from a London TV Company who are following the CFZ for 8 months for a feature documentary for BBC2 and will be including the blue dog research in their documentary. We are excited as this will be a big story in the Fortean world. This picture was taken of the creature by the woman in southeast Texas.

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Jon is planning to make a few appearances at local MUFON groups.

- Richie and Naomi West: CFZ Expedition to Texas

CFZ (Centre for Fortean Zoology) – cryptozoology, mystery animals

LOWFI Texas will keep you posted as we learn of when and where Jon may be speaking locally.

- SMiles

Who’s Pranking Whom? Why Ireland and Why Triangular UFOs?

AUSTIN - It’s like déjà vu all over again … remember back in October 2008 when we broke the story of how someone in Ireland’s media had been convinced that a then recent UFO sighting flap (which featured an apparent triangle ufo with a red laser caught with cellphone video footage) was connected to this amazing footage of a triangle ufo with red laser darting about but which turned out to be reused footage of an award winning model from a UFO hoax contest? Well it appears that someone has yet again pulled the wool over the media’s eyes.

Read all about it here…

Anomaly Magazine EXCLUSIVE: Another “Dublin UFO” Hoax Underway Against the Media?.

Chicken deaths near Horizon City spark talk of Chupacabras

HORIZON CITY — The legend may be back, just as mysterious and dark, to stalk the unsuspecting.

Until last weekend, Cesar Garcia and brother-in-law Juan Miranda saw their life near Horizon City as secluded and peaceful.

They moved to the area from Chicago three years ago, but have suddenly been beset by strange and unexplained occurrences.

Their rabbits went into hiding, their cat spent the weekend on the roof of their house, their roosters didn’t crow, and their dogs didn’t bark.

And at least 30 of their chickens were killed by an unknown interloper.

The brothers are hesitant to say what they think spooked their animals or killed their chickens.

But when pressed, they said it: El Chupacabras.

Chicken deaths near Horizon City spark talk of Chupacabras – El Paso Times.

Hat tip Caitlin MacKenna of Paranormal Dimension…

El Chupacabras Fear In El Paso County, Texas

Shots fired at the TX capitol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiAxuj_YRA

Suspicious Shooting at Texas Capitol Results in Lockdown
www.infowars.com/suspicious-shooting-at-texas-capitol-results-in-lockdown/

Man in custody after firing shots at Texas Capitol Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012102642.html

Questions surround Capitol shooting suspect KVUE
www.kvue.com/news/Questions-surround-Capitol-shooting-suspect-82300027.html