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Case Files Episode 14 – An English Orb and Who Are These People?
Released: 20 January 2019
Duration: 65 minutes
A silent, truck-sized sphere zips past a startled Englishman; common tricks of the mind MAY explain weird creatures; API Training and Public Outreach videos await you at our website!
Two recently closed Case Files are discussed: Marsha Barnhart presents an investigation that included an interesting early morning encounter in Suffolk, England, and Savannah Dollison dissects a case that proved both elusive and illusionary. Plus, Paul Carr outlines the array of training videos and public outreach informational videos now available on our website.
Links:
Case 18-023 Suffolk, England
Rendelsham Forest UFO Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident
EMP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
Case 18-027 Pensacola, Florida
Pareidolia and Apophenia
http://59ways.blogspot.com/2012/01/apophenia-and-pareidolia_09.html
Come hang out with us on Facebook
We’ve started a new Facebook group, and we’d like you as a member. Just knock on the door, and we’ll let you in.
You can also hang out with us on Discord, or reddit, or follow us on Twitter – we often follow back on Twitter when the profile page is sufficiently informative.
We don’t just want you to use these platforms to keep up with what we’re doing (you can do that here better than anywhere else), but to let us know what you think, and what questions you have – about our investigations, our podcast, our video, or anything else. Really good questions or comments made in these forums will end up on the podcast.
Conversation 15 – Kenny Biddle and Solving Mysteries
Recorded: 13 January 2019
Released: 13 January 2019
Duration: 54 minutes, 49 seconds
Transcript of this Conversation
Kenny Biddle experimenting
Kenny Biddle has investigated hauntings, cryptids, and UFOs for years, and has solved many of these cases. He is persistent, patient, and creative, just like any good field investigator. We talked about some of the principles he applies to his work and he gives some examples, from ghosts to Elvis Presley. These principles apply broadly to solving any mystery. Our topics included EVP, photography, and serial experiencers.
New Training Video: Ethics
The title pretty much says it all. This video is mandatory viewing for any prospective field investigator, and is all about our ethical policies:
The new Prezi for our Ethics Training Module
Please feel free to have a look at our Ethics Training Prezi. If you have any questions or comments, we’d be happy to hear them. As always, this materil is Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike, so if you’d like to tailor it for your own organization, we’re OK with that.
We ask for sketches, and here is some scientific support of that practice
We encourage our witness to make sketches as soon as possible after their sightings – before they contact us, and certainly before they discuss any details with other witnesses. This is true regardless of whether there are photos or videos. Now, some new research at University of Waterloo in Canada lends some scientific support to this practice. They found that drawing is superior to other memory retention techniques. So, not only does making a sketch help us understand what witnesses saw, it helps the witnesses retain their memory better.
We hope this will be followed up by more research that will help us understand in more detail how the sketch reinforces or affects witness memories.
Questions for paranormal investigator Kenny Biddle?
Kenny Biddle
Update: the Conversation with Kenny Biddle was recorded on 13 January 2019
Veteran paranormal investigator Kenny Biddle will be on API Conversations soon, and we would like to ask him some of your questions. You can learn more about Kenny by watching some of his YouTube series. We imagine that this may be a bit controversial, since Kenny has debunked many frauds over the years, and not everyone is happy about that.
See if you can stump him, or ask him what he thinks of your favorite cryptid or ghost hunting TV show.
Please get all questions in before 26 December 2018, as we expect to record the Conversation after the Christmas holiday. You can leave your questions as comments to this post, or use the contact form. If you want us to use your name, please state this and provide any guidance we may need to pronounce your name. You can also leave your question in audio form by calling (240) 233-1253.
Conversation 14 – Justin Bamforth
Recorded: 24 November 2018
Released: 3 December 2018
Duration: 70 minutes, 1 second
While researching his book, Justin reached out to Marsha in an attempt to get detailed information on API case 12-001. The Witness in this case was the night manager at a hotel on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. On October 14, 2008, both he and the hotel night time security manager were outside talking when they saw a large Triangular UFO rise up from the Horseshoe Falls and silently glide over them.
The most unusual aspect of the case occurred in the early afternoon of May 10th 2009 when two men dressed in black came to the hotel looking for the Manager. Hotel Lobby Security cameras captured a short video snippet of these two men. This footage, made available during the original investigation, is perhaps the ONLY known case of genuine MIB captured on video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xwUUlQMkOE
Justin has written the most complete accounting of this case covering not only the original UFO sighting and the accounts supplied by the hotel employees who interacted with the men in black, but also in-depth information gathered directly from the Witness detailing a long series of unusual paranormal and anomalous experiences. And this fascinating story is but one in a book filled with unusual and provocative true, first-hand accounts of weirdness.
During this podcast, Marsha and the author discuss his book, The Spectrum, and examine a wide range of topics encompassing UFO’s, anomalies, and paranormal experiences.
Justin works in Marketing and Design and lives in the Philadelphia area. He writes a blog and maintains a website, Normal Paranormal.
Redacted Report of Investigation (ROI) for Case 11-002 in Columbia, Maryland
Case 11-002 was a CE-1 case in Columbia, Maryland in September 2011. This is one of our earliest investigations, and officially remains unresolved.