ParaSept23

Issue date: Saturday, September 23, 2006
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P A R A N O R M A L I N S I D E R
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Hi Readers!

I've had a fun week of paranormal research and
I've come up with some very interesting stories
about celebrities and the unexplained. I hope you
enjoy today's article about John Lennon and I'll
have some other goodies for you in the upcoming
weeks. I do want to save some space for some of
your amazing and wonderful stories too so scroll
down to check out the Readers Mailbag section.

All is fairly quiet on the homefront in terms of
paranormal activity, except that a visitor and I
heard some very strange bumps and bangs coming
from above our heads while sitting in my dining
room a week or so ago. A couple of days later,
while we were watching TV, one of my guitar's
strings snapped, scaring the wits out of both the
pets and us! It had been rather humid, so I will
put this incident down to the moisture bending
the guitar out of shape a bit, but it certainly
was eerie. A box of empty bottles in the front
room also collapsed late one night scaring my s/o
half to death, so we've been having our giggles,
that's for sure:>)

I shouldn't forget to mention a very interesting
incident that just happened yesterday. A group
of us had arranged for a psychic channeler to
conduct a group reading at my home and the
readings started with me. About 10 minutes into
my reading, as we all sat there in a
semi-darkened room, one row of pot lights above
me suddenly went out, with the other row flaring
bright for a moment and then going back to
normal. The lights that had gone out remained
that way throughout the rest of the session.
Everyone was a bit freaked out by the lights
going funny like that. Afterwards I went to
check the dimmer switch and everything was okay
and the lights that had gone out came back on as
usual. Just thought that was interesting...
especially as those lights have never acted funny
before.

Well, on with today's column - and if you have
any comments or questions, please post them to
our forum at: Paranormal Insider Forum .

If you wish to send me your stories for
publication, please email me at
paranormal@zsuzsana.com.

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Lennon's "Lost Weekend" Sighting by Zsuzsana
Summer

It happened back in August of 1974. John Lennon
was in his "Lost Weekend", an 18 month episode
in which he was separated from Yoko Ono, and
living with his personal assistant/girlfriend,
May Pang, when the pair witnessed a UFO over
John's New York penthouse apartment.

Accounts of the incident differ slightly in
detail. Accord- ing to some, John, relaxing at
home and, nonchalantly naked, had stepped out
onto the terrace for a smoke when he spotted the
silent, circular craft floating less than 100
feet away. John called urgently for May to come
out to the rooftop and look. The couple watched
for a while in amazement, with Lennon snapping
several pictures and even setting up a telescope
at one point for a better view, while the UFO
mysteriously disappeared but then returned for
another fly-by. The astonished witnesses phoned a
local newspaper to report the sighting and were
told at least seven other people had seen the
UFO. In total, it is reported that there were
over 400 people calling various media sources
about the sighting that night.

Other reports quote May Pang, from her out of
print book "Loving John" on the incident. May
wrote:

"We had just ordered up some pizzas and since it
was such a warm evening, we decided to step out
on the terrace. There were no windows directly
facing us from across the street, so John just
stepped outside with nothing on, in order to
catch a cool breeze that was coming in right off
the East River. I remember I was just inside the
bedroom getting dressed when John started
shouting for me to come out on the terrace.

I yelled back that I would be right there but he
kept screaming for me to join him in that
instant. As I walked out onto the terrace, my
eye caught this large, circular object coming
towards us. It was shaped like a flattened cone
and on top was a large, brilliant red light, not
pulsating as on any of the aircraft we'd see
heading for a landing at Newark Airport. When it
came a little closer, we could make out a row or
circle of white lights that ran around the
entire rim of the craft - these were also flash-
ing on and off. There were so many of these
lights that it was dazzling to the mind. It was,
I estimate, about the size of a Lear jet and it
was so close that if we had some- thing to throw
at it, we probably would have hit it quite
easily."

May also said in another interview that they
started to watch it drift down, tilt slightly,
and it was flying below the rooftops.

"We often had helicopters flying above us but
this was as silent as the night and about
seventeen stories above street level. The light
was so brilliant coming from the craft that no
additional details could be seen. We did take a
couple of pictures but they turned out
overexposed."

John and May, in the meantime, had phoned
photographer Bob Gruen who arrived quickly and
was there throughout the latter part of this
incident. Gruen later developed the 2 rolls of
film taken throughout the lengthy sighting - it's
unclear whether one of the rolls were snapped by
him, but in any event, there was apparently no
useable evidence captured on any of the pictures
taken that night.

"We even called the police," May says, "that's
how excited we were, and they told us to keep
calm, that others had seen it too." During what
was left of the evening, John kept saying, "I
can't believe it... I can't believe it... I've
seen a flying saucer!"

Lennon is said to have discussed the experience
with several other close contacts, including
Yoko Ono, Elliot Mintz, Ray Coleman; Uri Geller;
David Bowie, Ava Cherry, Bebe Buell, his son
Julian, his housekeeper Fred Seaman, and his
astrologer.

Lennon's album, Walls and Bridges, released in
the Autumn of 1974, has a notation on the
booklet that came with the record, reading: "On
23 August 1974 at 9 o'clock I saw a UFO J.L.".

The sighting was also memorialized in his song,
"Nobody Told Me": Everybody's smoking and no
one's getting high Everybody's flying and never
touch the sky There's a UFO over New York and I
ain't too surprised Nobody told me there'd be
days like these Strange days indeed, most
peculiar, mama...

John is said to have yelled out for the UFO to
come and take him. Let's hope that he has had a
magical interplanetary ride on the other side.

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Hi,

I just read your latest edition and everything in
it was something I had experienced myself.

About seeing triple or quadruple numbers on
clocks, that happens to me a lot when, for some
unknown reason, I will glance at a clock. They
are random, like 3:33, 5:55, 2:22, but most
often it's 11:11. Your explanation was enlighten-
ing. I was always grateful there wasn't a time
such as 6:66 because I've had too many personal
dealings with Satan and his demons that even
seeing his number creates a wave of darkness
over my soul.

I played with a ouija board as a teenager. It
told me the first and last name of the man I
would marry, but I've been married twice and yet
to meet anyone with the name I was given. But
it was awesome how the words and answers were
spelled out without any effort on our part.
Later I learned that this activity involved the
other side and not all spirits are nice, so I
never touched a ouija board again.

As for lights going out overhead, that happens to
me so much, it's become a known part of my life
with friends and family. Once I was at a
department store with neon lights over the
entire ceiling. It was a super big store. As I
was looking at greeting cards, I heard a buzzing
and crackling sound. I looked up. The light
above me (about a 3' x 1' area) was blinking,
going on and off until it just went out with a
pop. Every light in the ceiling was on and
working fine except the one right over my head.
Another strange occurrence was when I was
cleaning the dining room table and the light bulb
overhead exploded in a thousand pieces. I
wasn't cut, but it was a nerve racking moment.
Then there are the usual at home bulbs going out
way too often when I'm near them. It's not the
wiring in the home, because this has happened on
a regular basis for the last 5 homes I've lived
in.

I have a lot of stories about ghosts, but the
details will have to be in a later email, since
there are so many. I've lived with a ghost and
seen a ghost and I know they exist.

There is something else I haven't seen in your
newsletter that you might invite responses to.
Actually 2 things. The first is hearing a word
or phrase either on TV or the radio or from
someone not talking to you, immediately after
you say it. That happens a lot. My brother
noticed it and mentioned it to me first and I
had experienced it so much, I just thought it
was cool. The second thing is when I fall
asleep watching TV and wake up, just as I'm
coming out of sleep, I'll open my eyes and see
words on the TV screen that are not part of the
show. It's very much like subliminal messages.
Usually they are gone before I can read them
plainly since I leave the unconscious state into
wakefulness so quick. Once I was able to read
the words because they were big and few. It
said "KILL ALL KINGS". I have no idea what that
means. It was showing on the screen over top of
the actual show which was something as innocent
as Three's Company. As soon as I'm "awake", the
words disappear or they are still there but I
can't see them consciously.

Well, that's all for now. I just had to get all
this out after reading your newsletter, which I
think is fantastic! You are welcome to use any
of my comments in your newsletter if you want.

Thanks, Joy

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One night a few weeks ago, I was sleeping rather
soundly when I felt my body being spun and
dragged around my bed. I opened my eyes,
realizing somehow I couldn't move. Standing over
my bed was the shadow of a man wearing a top
hat, and I could not move, even if I wanted to.
The thing came closer, and I continued staring
at it until it was close enough to touch. It
reached for me, and I stared at it, and flatly
asked what the hell it thought it was doing; I
was having a nice sleep until the stupid thing
decided to bother me. At hearing me, the shadow
drew back and disappeared. I don't know if I
scared it off, or it just realized that I wasn't
afraid of it. It didn't feel evil, however.

If any of your readers can help me understand it,
I'd be very appreciative. I still have a feeling
it's around. Especially when my room is dark and
the door is shut. I would really appreciate your
advice. Thank you in advance.

Joey

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Hi.......love your site ! Now my musings: A new
home (no previous owners or tenants) I and my
family moved into in 1966 on Long Island , N.Y.
had some seriously strange occurrences. The
first was a bedroom in the basement....it had a
distinct circle of cold air in the center of the
8X12 room, approximately 1 foot from each wall
began the cold. This was my newborn son's room
and we had to dress him warmly at night as no
amount of raising the heat in the house would
warm up this room. Shortly after moving in we
were all awakened by a baby crying. My room was
attached by a door to my son's room and I went
in and checked on him. He was sound asleep and
yet the crying continued. It seemed to float
into the small hallway. That is when my parents
came down and asked WHY HADN'T I PICKED UP THE
BABY? Then I showed them, as we were still
hearing the cries, my son fast asleep ! The
cries then floated into a large den area and we
all followed it......until it seemed to
disappear through the far wall and became silent.
There were many, many other instances of
paranormal activity, but I won't go into them at
this time. This, among other scary occurrences,
led my brother (a teenager), my mom and myself
to pick up the Ouija board we had stored away. We
asked it if our home was occupied with others
than the living.....it said yes. We asked how
many spirits or ghosts were there.... it spelled
out the number 11. We were not convinced, so we
asked it what time our dad would come home from
work that night (he worked different shifts and
that night he was due in around 12:30
a.m.)...the Ouija spelled out 11 p.m.. Now, my
dad never came home early - ever ! When he
walked in at 11:00 pm we could not believe it
and it rattled us so much that we threw away the
board and never replaced it! I do believe that
house was haunted by spirits, even though it was
newly built.....it was rumored that Indians had a
burial ground some where in the area this new
neighborhood was being built. A friend 1 block
away also confided that there were strange
happenings in his house also. Living in this
home was, to say the least, a challenge. Even a
cross I had placed on my bedroom door was flung
across the hall- way, after I'd heard it spin
very quickly first. The other comment I wanted
to make was on the seeing of the numbers,
repeatedly. I have that happen to me now on a
daily basis....all different numbers in sets of
3 of the same (i.e.., 555, 666, 888 etc.) as I
use a hand counter to do pool exercises and will
on occasion, glance at the counter and perhaps 7
times out of 10, I'll see a 3 digit repeat.
Thank you for your column and thank you for
letting me tell part of my story here.

- CJB

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