First spotted on April 21 and 22, 1977 by seventeen year-old William Bartlett, the Dover Demon has gained international notoriety in the paranormal community. Today, you can find reference to this strange creature on websites and in books. About.com lists the demon among its “Top 10 Most Mysterious Creatures of Modern Times.”

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Architect, Jonathan Rivers is devastated when he loses his wife in a tragic accident on the day she finds out that she’s pregnant. Just as he is leaving for work, he sees a man sitting in a parked SUV across the street. He ignores the man and goes to work, only to see him sitting on a bench in front of his office. The man identifies himself as Raymond Price, who found peace when he contacted his deceased son via EVP.

Raymond stops following him, and Jonathan tries to return to his normal life. One day, he is showing a building to one of his firm’s clients when they get stuck in the elevator. The lights go out, and then Jonathan’s cell phone rings. The caller is from Anna, his deceased wife. Her cell phone is lying in his dresser drawer at home, inside the plastic “personal effects” bag that the police had given to him.

The incident sends him to Raymond’s house, where he is shown video and voice recordings from dead people who had allegedly contacted his clients. At first, Jonathan is overwhelmed by the possibility of communicating with his wife. Then he becomes obsessed with the idea to the point where this obsession begins to take over his life. The bizarre incidents that take place help keep his obsession alive, despite warnings from a psychic and from Raymond.

“Not every spirit is nice,” Raymond had said.

Jonathan tries to piece together what is happening around him, while still searching for Anna. Raymond’s words fail to register until the explosive climax. Everything was tied up at that point, but the last scene is somewhat open-ended, suggesting a sequel of some sort.

I enjoyed this movie very much. Keaton did a great job portraying a grieving and obsessed widower. Although I didn’t like the static in the beginning of the movie, I thought the producers did a good job with the cinematography. There were plenty of spooky scenes and elements to make this a satisfying ghost story. Highly recommended.

Steve Alten’s book “Domain” about six years ago, which was based on a race against time to prevent the Mayan’s 2012 apocalyptic prophecy. It was a great read on both the fictional side and Alten’s research about the prophecy, which is supposedly set to occur on December 12, 2012. In reality, this date is not too far into the future.

Similar to the Y2K, the public is beginning to take notice, thanks to publishers who are releasing books on this subject. “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” is perhaps the most popular book in the group, selling about 40,000 copies since it was released in May 2006. Other books have followed, ranging from scientific interpretations to doomsday hysteria. You can read more about them here.

In 1979, NASA captured an image of what appeared to be a face on the Cydonian plain surface of Mars. Former NASA scientist, Richard Hoagland became obsessed with the idea of this anomaly as being an architectural ruin, left by aliens. When NASA and the US government refused to examine his theory by exploring and taking more shots of The Face, he accused them of a cover-up. They and the media retaliated by ridiculing him.

Despite this, he and his team continued to pursue this story until NASA relented and took some more pictures of The Face and its surrounding structures. Hoagland claims that this new image revealed girders, windows, and walls.

Excited by this possibility, I went to the University of Arizona website and downloaded the 300mb image to my computer. Then I downloaded Express Viewer because my standard software programs couldn’t handle the sheer size of this file. I zoomed in on the image to try and find what Hoagland was talking about and failed. I could zoom in only so far before the image became a mess of pixels.

However, I zoomed in on the upper left corner of The Face and found that it was shaped in a 90º angle. I’ve never seen anything in nature shaped like that. This has me intrigued and wishing that NASA had taken some ground pictures because this one is too high up to see anything definitive.

I thought I would also share this image of the five-sided pyramid, a shot taken during the 1976 expedition. You’ll find more images and diagrams at The Enterprise Mission.

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