Bus beheading similar to Windigo phenomenon

Well look at this.....

CANOE -- CNEWS - Daily Feature: Bus beheading similar to Windigo phenomenon:

"Nathan Carlson has barely slept since July 30.

'Ever since it happened, I haven't been able to get it out of my head,' Carlson says haltingly. 'I just don't know what to think of it, quite frankly.'

The Edmonton ethno-historian is one of the world's leading experts on Windigo phenomenon, and the recent horrific beheading and alleged cannibalism on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg from Edmonton rocked him to his very core."

Man who beheaded bus seat mate defiled body, police tape says

Man who beheaded bus seat mate defiled body, police tape says
TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/02/canada.bus.stabbing.ap/index.html

Police catch man after he beheads girlfriend on Greek island
Police shot a man five times after he allegedly killed and beheaded his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini on Sunday.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/03/greece-beheading.html

So why am I posting this here?
Well internet rumor has it that the Canadian incident was mind control.
Maybe as Bob Geldof sang in " I Don't Like Mondays".....
"The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload."
You know it's always struck me as odd that he mentions that in a song written in 1979 or thereabouts.

Or maybe the beheader was possessed by a Wendigo.
" The Wendigo is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquin people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans. Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo."

" The latest sighting in Ontario (that I know of) of such a creature was back in 1997 by an American trucker near St-Catherines. So maybe all the Windigo is, is an eastern relative to Sasquatch? Again, we might never know."
http://www.bigfootmuseum.com/bigfoot/aka_windigo.php

As far as Santorini goes, a friend of mine took his honeymoon there and as he finished booking it, his travel agent said, " Have fun, but watch out for the Vampires."
" Greek folklore abounds with tales of the undead, the vrykolakes who are said to be particularly prevalent in the area around the volcanic island of Santorini, called by some the "Island of the Vampires"...when it's not being claimed as the site of sunken Atlantis!"
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/santorinitravel/a/offbeatgreece.htm

So what is it?
Mind control, Wendigo, vampires or just plain nuts?

Project Magnet

Project Magnet was an unidentified flying object (UFO) study programme established by the Canadian Department of Transport (DOT) on December 2, 1950, under the direction of Wilbert B. Smith, senior radio engineer for the DOT's Broadcast and Measurements Section. It was formally active until mid-1954, and informally until Smith's death in 1962.

The ultimate goal of the project was to apply any findings on the subject of geomagnetism to the possibility of exploiting Earth's magnetic field as a source of propulsion for vehicles. Smith and his colleagues in government believed that UFOs, if real, might hold the key to this new source of power.

A small-scale undertaking, Magnet used DOT facilities, with some assistance from personnel at the Defense Research Board (DRB) and the National Research Council. Smith eventually concluded that UFOs were probably extraterrestrial in origin and likely operated by manipulation of magnetism.

Smith had been interested in UFO reports for since about 1947, when, according to a friend, he first claimed to have received "mental messages from space people."

While Smith attended a radio engineer's conference in Washington D.C. in September 1950, two books on UFOs came out, one by Variety magazine columnist Frank Scully called Behind the Flying Saucers, about crashed New Mexico saucers and recovered alien beings, and another by U.S. UFO researcher Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers are Real, accusing the U.S. Air Force of concealing vital information about flying saucer reality. Smith had some theories about how the saucers might obtain their energy and propulsion through magnetic means, but before committing any time or money first wanted to know if the saucers were indeed real. Smith contacted the Canadian embassy and asked them to conduct inquiries into the matter. An interview was arranged by the embassy military attaché with Dr. Robert Sarbacher, a U.S. physicist, missile expert, and consultant to the Defense Department's Research and Development Board. In Smith's notes and a later memo summarizing Sarbacher's briefing (plus possibly other unnamed sources), it was stated that:

The saucers existed
The substance of Scully's book was correct
The matter was the most highly classified subject in the U.S. government, ranking even higher than the H-bomb
It was considered of tremendous significance by the government
A small group headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush was looking into the "modus operandi" of the saucers
Other aspects of the saucers were being investigated, including possible "mental phenomena"
This led Smith to lobby his agency for funding to study UFOs. Smith's memo of November 21, 1950, also said he had discussed the matter with Dr. Omond Solandt, head of the Canadian Defence Research Board, who agreed the work should go forward as rapidly as possible, and offered full cooperation of the DRB.

This development led in turn to the creation of Project Magnet, which was formerly approved on December 2, 1950, by Cmdr. C.P. Edwards, with two major goals:

Collection and analysis of high quality data to draw conclusions about UFOs;
Application of any data recovered to practical engineering and technology.
In June 1952, Smith issued a preliminary report arguing that UFOs likely came from intelligent, extraterrestrial sources, and almost certainly manipulated magnetism for flight. A 1953 report reiterated these same conclusions.

In late 1952, Project Magnet released a large weather balloon with a bright magnesium flare attached, to see if it might be reported as a UFO. It was not.

Also in April 1952, the Canadian government established Project Second Storey, a parallel UFO research project, with Smith also involved. It consisted of a group of scientists and military officers who met periodically to consider the UFO question and to recommend government action. Smith reported to Second Storey on some of Project Magnet's findings and conclusions.

The Shag Harbour Incident, Part 2

Evidence later emerged from various military and civilian witnesses of a highly secretive military search involving a small flotilla of U.S. and Canadian ships about 30 miles to the NE of Shag Harbour near Shelburne (see map above), site of a top secret submarine detection base. According to one military witness, he was allegedly briefed that the object had been originally picked up on radar coming out of Siberia. After crashing in Shag Harbour, it traveled underwater up the coast and came to rest on top of the submarine magnetic detection grid near Shelburne. The ships were anchored there for a week, apparently in an attempt to recover the object. A barge was hurriedly brought in on which to place the object, with a likely cover story printed in the local newspaper to explain its presence there. (See press coverage immediately below.) Many photographs were taken by divers and some foam-like debris brought up. One American diver named "Harry" stated that the object wasn't from planet Earth. Another military witness claimed that there were actually two objects, one perhaps trying to assist the other. The naval search was suddenly called off on October 11. Coincidentally or not, that night a seemingly identical UFO was seen departing the area by witnesses near the original Shag Harbour crash site.

In the most recent History Channel documentary about the incident, which aired on August 10, 2006, investigators reported that one of the divers involved in the Shag Harbour search did come forward during the mid-1990s, refusing to allow his identity to become known publicly. Once the researchers verified that the man in fact had served as a diver during that search, he recounted his version of what had happened at Shag Harbour.

According to the diver, by the time they reached Shag Harbour, they already knew that nothing would be found there, because the target had already been located off the coast at Shelburne. He went on to further say that the Canadian military and the United States Navy monitored the "unknown objects" by radar and sonar, and that the objects were underwater. This monitoring continued for at least three days, until a Russian submarine was observed entering allied waters to the north. With that, the navy departed to intercept the submarine, and by the time they had returned, the "unknown objects" had evidently departed. There so far has been nothing to substantiate the divers claims, with the exception of archived records that do indicate a substantial amount of search and monitor activity in the Shelburne area during that 10 day period.

Unlike the event at Shag Harbour, no official documentation has yet emerged to support witness stories of a second search near Shelburne.

Today, no known RCMP reports of this sighting remain. The Department of National Defence has identified this sighting as unsolved, and the only documentation that is known to exist is a DND memo.

The Shag Harbour Incident

http://www.ufocasebook.com/shagharbormuseumopen.html

The Shag Harbour Incident was the purported crash of an UFO in Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia in October 1967.

On the night of October 4, 1967, at about 11:20 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, it was reported that something (later referred to as a UFO) had crashed into the waters near Shag Harbour, on Nova Scotia's South Shore. At least eleven people saw a low-flying lit object head down towards the harbor. Multiple witnesses reported hearing a whistling sound "like a bomb", then a "whoosh", and finally a loud bang. Some reported a flash of light as the object entered the water. Thinking that an airliner or smaller aircraft had crashed into the Sound next to Shag Harbour, some witnesses reported the event to the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) detachment.

The unknown object was referred to as a "UFO" in official Canadian government documents. A Canadian Naval recovery effort immediately followed, perhaps aided in part by the U.S. military. The event is sometimes compared to the Roswell UFO incident and Kecksburg UFO incident, two other events alleged to be military crash-recoveries of UFOs.

The initial report was made by Laurie Wickens, a local resident, and four of his friends. Driving through Shag Harbour on Highway 3, they spotted a large object descending into the waters of the harbor. Other residents had seen the descent and agreed the object was about 60 feet long, angled downwards at 45 degrees, and initially displayed four or five flashing and glowing amber lights.

Attaining a better vantage point, Wickens and his friends could see an object floating 250 to 300 meters out to sea. Visibility was good – clear with no moon. At that time, the object only had a yellow light shining from its top side.

Wickens contacted the RCMP and reported he had seen a large airplane or small airliner crash into the Sound. Subsequent calls were received from Mary Banks on Maggie Garron's Point reporting similar information. Other residents also called in to report the incident, adding details about loud whistling noises and bangs. RCMP staff were dispatched to the site.

Assuming an aircraft had crashed, within about 15 minutes, three Mounties were at the scene along with multiple other witnesses, and observed a pale yellow or white light bobbing on the surface of the water. Concerned for survivors, the RCMP contacted the Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax to advise them of the situation, and ask if any aircraft were missing. Before any local effort at rescue could be made, the object started to sink and disappeared from view.

A rescue mission was quickly assembled. Within half an hour of the crash, local fishing boats went out into the Sound to look for survivors. At the location at which the object had sunk, an oily, yellow foam was observed on the surface, about 80 feet wide and half a mile long. Oddly enough, this foam could not be picked up with nets, as a witness to the scene tried to examine some of it by running his fishing net through it. When he pulled his small net up, there was no trace that he'd pulled it through anything. Bubbles rose from from beneath the surface of the water to surround the boats. There was a smell of sulfur in the air. No survivors, bodies or debris were located, either by the fishermen or by the Coast Guard vessel, which arrived about an hour later.

By the next afternoon, it had been determined that no planes were missing. Still searching, the captain of the Coast Guard vessel received a message from the Rescue Coordination Center that all commercial, private and military aircraft were accounted for along the eastern seaboard from Atlantic Canada down into New England.

Two days after the crash, the Rescue Coordination Center had assembled a team of Navy divers, who for the next three days combed the bottom of the harbor looking for the object. One local fisherman said he saw them bringing up aluminum-colored metal debris, although it was unclear if this had been actual crash debris. The final report said not a trace of the crash object had been found.