If you missed last night’s episodes, they’re on tonight. However, I would consult your satellite guide rather than the TNT website because there seems to be a confusion in the show’s time. If I hadn’t tried to set a reminder on my TV at 5:30, I would have missed the show, which wound up starting at 6pm instead of 9pm.

That rant aside, I’ll tell you what I thought about the premiere episodes. Battleground was interesting in that there was no dialogue at all from Jason Renshaw (William Hurt). I’m going to have to lug out my copy of Nightmares & Dreamscapes to see if the guy shouted at his nemiseses. Hurt grunted a lot and let out one war cry. That grew tiring real fast.

Crouch Inn was better. The story is about a newly married couple who finds themselves lost in the worst part of England. The acting seemed contrived, and the monster near the end didn’t impress me. The cinematography was good, though.

The thing about Stephen King movies is that they are great (The Shining-original) or they suck (Maximum Overdrive). I’m not going to say that Nightmares & Dreamscapes is terrible, but it definitely got off to a weak start. I’ll commit myself to two more segments in the hopes that each show gets better.

I’m just as fascinated with the crop circles as the UFO theorists, although I’ve always been highly skeptical that UFOs were the actual cause of these elaborate field designs. I’m more apt to believe that these sightings are the creations of artistic pranksters, who wish to remain anonymous.

This latest sighting is located in a corn field in Oxfordshire. Its three-dimensional, 360-feet design has wowed experts.

Steve Alexander, a crop circle photographer of more than 15 years, said: “I thought it was a groundbreaking formation. We have not seen anything like it before.

“The floor lay and the way the design appears to weave in and out has never been seen before, certainly not that I am aware.

“It is the first of its kind and is a very, very powerful thing to look at.

“There is a lot of symbolic number play at work here. The square in ancient times represented the material world.

“The move from a two-dimensional square into a three-dimensional cube might indicate that these patterns emanate from a dimension of reality we cannot access.

“Of late the crop circles seem concerned with the moving of one dimension into another. This is perhaps one of the most striking and overt expressions of that idea to date.

“The crop circle community is very excited about this event.”

Source: Daily Mail

Asylum – The Definitive UFO and Alien Abduction Experience is written by Anthony R. Mallin. The book is based on the story of a real person, Clive Powers, who as a boy in 1960 was groomed by the aliens when they touched down in Syston five years earlier.

According to Powers, 40 people were abducted in Grantham on November 9, 1965. However, their memories have been erased. His memory is working fine evidently, because he was able to help Mallin write this book.

Quoted from Grantham Today

When the Grantham landing happened in Green Lane, Powers suffered the torment of abduction while ‘drawn’ out to the site with his mate.

He was sent to Rauceby and thence to an asylum in Croydon where his memory was agonisingly unravelled by a mysterious psychiatrist.

Based on the article I read (see link above), this book is a little too shrouded in mystery to be credible. Why is it that Powers can remember the abduction while nobody else can? I’m thinking that this “mysterious psychiatrist” played mindgames with this poor guy.

But I could be wrong. Photos of these alleged aliens are included in the back of the book.

Available at Amazon UK!

Quoted from PRAVDA.ru

The Beloye Lake in the Vachsky District of Russia’s Nizhni Noggorod region disappeared overnight last spring. Researchers speculated the lake’s disappearance to karst collapses. However, skeptics ruled this out because the collapse would have happened gradually.

Reactions varied with the villagers. One immediately blamed the US, stating that we have special technology to vacuum up water. Another villager blamed extraterrestrials.

Where did the water go?

According to researchers, this isn’t the first time Beloye Lake has vanished. In 1600, a church stood on the land, which appeared solid. Then, one day, the church was sucked underground. Two decades later, a lake suddenly appeared where the church used to be.

Senior research fellow with JSC Anti-karst and Coastal Guard Vladimir Tolmachev says that return of the lake is a natural phenomenon akin to a huge bathtub.

‘When we want to pour water out of the bath we take out a stopper and the water goes out. As for the lake, the water easily flew away as some hollow appeared in the karst layers. Now, a huge stopper is forming of sand and clay there. So, it is highly likely that the lake will come back.’

It’s all a matter of when and where.