http://www.msnbc.com/news/793179.asp?pne=msn SHANWA, India, Aug. 12 — It comes in the night, a flying sphere emitting red and blue lights that attacks villagers in this poor region, extensively burning those victims it does not kill. At least that’s what panic-stricken villagers say. At least seven people have died of unexplained injuries in the past week in Uttar Pradesh state. “A MYSTERIOUS flying object attacked him in the night,” Raghuraj Pal said of his neighbor, Ramji Pal, who died recently in Shanwa. “His stomach was ripped open. He died two days later.” Many others have suffered scratches and surface wounds, which they say were inflicted while they slept. In the village of Darra, 53-year-old Kalawati said she was attacked last week and displayed blisters on her blackened forearms. “It was like a big soccer ball with sparkling lights,” said Kalawati, who uses only one name. “It burned my skin.” “I can’t sleep because of pain,” she said. ALTERNATE EXPLANATIONS Doctors dismiss the stories as mass hysteria. “More often than not the victims have unconsciously inflicted the symptoms themselves,” said Narrotam Lal, a doctor at King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, the state capital. The police have another explanation: bugs. “It is a 3½-inch-long winged insect” that leaves rashes and superficial wounds, Kavindra P. Singh, a superintendent of police, told the Press Trust of India news agency. Police drew this conclusion after residents of one village found insects they had never seen before. VILLAGERS WORRIED Villagers are unconvinced. In the most affected area, the Mirzapur district, 440 miles (700 meters) southeast of New Delhi, people have stopped sleeping outdoors despite the sweltering heat and frequent power outages. Villagers also have formed protection squads that patrol Shanwa, beating drums and shouting slogans such as, “Everyone alert. Attackers beware.” Some accuse district officials of inaction and failing to capture the “aliens.” One person died Thursday in nearby Sitapur when police fired shots to disperse a 10,000-strong crowd demanding that authorities capture the mysterious attackers. “People just block the roads and attack the police for inaction each time there’s a death or injury,” said Amrit Abhijat, Mirzapur’s district magistrate, who claims he has captured the UFO on film.
I watch animal planet a lot. A while back, I saw a special on these crazy child murders in a village in India. All the villagers say it was this man in all black clothes, with huge red claws and red eyes that glowed in the night. He would stealthily go into the huts and drag the children away...then days later, they would find the bodies, half eaten. Very sad. They had interviews with the villagers, and one of them even stated, "I saw it, it was a man, not a wolf or a lion, I know what a man looks like." Well............ As it turns out, a local American that specializd in Wolves got involved, and searched, monitored, and stalked some wolves locally. As it turns out, he found one particular female wolf that had entered a village one night, very late, and tried to drag a child away. The man shot and killed the wolf, lo and behold, the child killings stopped. Villagers must have a very active imagination, or that was onehell of a coincidence.
interesting... does anyone remember the Indian "monkey man" sightings? Villages were in an uproar and they even had 'militia' type groups trying to hunt this thing? link to CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/06/18/india.monkey/
that "monkey man" story was going on at the time i was going to india on vacation a few years ago... all of my friends told me to be careful... when i got to india and told my relatives about the news they all laughed... they said that even in India, the monkey man story was considered a joke created by a bunch of overactive imaginations... the media blew it WAY out of proportion... anyways, i decided to have some fun with my friends... while visiting a relative in a remote part of the country, i came across a monkey in a tree... i took a picture of it and when i got back to the US, i "photshopped" a random face onto the monkey and emailed to my friends telling them i had come across the monkey man... 50% believed it, to which I laughed hysterically, the other 50% said it was pretty hilarious joke and that i should get a life.
Get your waterhoses and baseball bats ready! They are coming! Sounds like a bunch of bull$h!t to me...
