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69Swiss watch found in 400 year old Chinee tomb
A Swiss watch ring has been found in a Ming dynasty tomb in China.
Two archaeologists were excavating a Ming dynasty tomb believed to have been undisturbed for 400 years when they disturbed a piece of mud jit the ground with a metallic ring. When they cleaned the object off they found it was a watch ring with the word “Swiss” engraved on the back. Apparently the watch is about 100 years old and was encrusted with mud. It had stopped at 10:06. The extrapolation to 10:06am is not justified as far as I can tell from the Photo in Fortean times. The time could also be 4:36
Three possible explanations for this out of place artefact are
1.Hoax
2.Time travel by the watch (how appropriate) or a wearer
3.It was lost outside the tomb and an animal brought it in
For now I will favour (3). But the results of a full examination of the watch would be interesting.
Anomalies
1.A watch ring is not easy to lose unless you take it off
2.It would be unusual for the watch to have the word “Swiss” in English on the back.
“Suisse” would be more likely
Right now all the information seems to be coming from the same sources with no new developments.
More information here
At least this seems better documented than the alleged 123 Million year old map of the Urals that I discussed earlier
Pennine Pterodactyls
An article by Richard Freeman in the latest Issue of Paranormal Magazine reports a flap (!) of apparent pterodactyl sightings in West Yorkshire between 1982 and 1985 and on the other side of the Pennines in 1999, plus a sighting on a house in Liverpool in the late 1990s. This led me to wonder if the Brentford Griffin was actually a pterodactyl.
Or whatever.
More details when I get anything solid
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I predict the swiss watch mystery will quietly be ignored. The pterodactyl flap ties into a a number of other reports, not all believable or verifiable as other than urban legend
I did some research on the pterodactyls yesterday. I already had some information, but it was all 10-15 years old. Do you have information on migratory objects? It is a theory I have heard of, but found very little on.
In what context did you hear of migratory objects?
A quick google on the phrase revealed 90% of the uses of the term are to do with parallel and multi-threaded programmin, 5-8% referred to areas of the humanities , possibly sociology and about 1% use in art.
My first thought was that migratory objects are ones that can migrate in space and time. This would relate them to apports.
I will keep digging on this. Thanks
As to pterodactyls I recall the tale of the pterodactyl released from a block of coal that died soon afterwards. There are a lot of tales of entombed animals. And now I am thinking of the Ctulhu mythos.......
I first came across the idea of migratory objects in stories. Then I experienced it. My sister loaned me a book. I put it on my bookshelf for later reading. When I went to read it, I couldn't find it. I called her, to let her know I had lost her book. She found it, back on her book shelf. It was one on time travel, by Micheal Crichton.
very interesting...maybe someone found the tomb and left it there to prove that someone had been there before. I have no idea but this is very neat!
I had a sweatshirt of my fiance's (deceased) and I saved it for years in my closet. One day I was at the gas station and out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of someone who looked exactly like him, in that exact sweatshirt. When I blinked he was gone and no one was around. I went home and searched for my sweatshirt and it was gone....I have no idea what happened to it. But it was weird!!!
Migratory objects look to me to be relatied to cases of pixillation, where things vanish. Apparently asking the pixies if they would return the object has a good success rate.
Quite a few such cases are explained by assuming the object has been migrated by mundane means by someone who forgot what they had done.
L'Amatodora's experience is indeed strange. I must incubate few ideas.
http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Pixie
May be relevant to th emigratory object topic.
It may be a while before I can check my library for more information
The Montauk Monster is back
The Huffington Post reports a new decaying corpse washed up on the shore. No, it is not the credibility of the banking system, that died long ago, but a globster with no distinguishing marks to help identification.
The photo of the original monster looks suspicious to me as does the fact that the alleged discoverer of the previous monster is not dislosing the location in which they buried the monster.
There have been a numbeer of identifications of the original monster as a decomposed furry animal, a dog or racoon. I am no expert but, from the photograph, the skin looks to me like that of a pig, but there are no indication of scale though looking at what coul be a shell suggests a size it is about 2 feet long
Provisonal diagnosis: A decomposed animal or a hoax in the original case and a decomposed seal in the second.
These Globsters are notoriously hard to identify. Any input from an expert who has touched the real thing would be nice. At present there is no hard information on the web
Ivorwen says:
8 months ago
Interesting! I look forward to more details. Now, to follow those links.