FAMOUS
CASES
The "Real" X-Files
As much as I love Mulder and
Scully, or at least the IDEA of an X Files
division where agents avidly chase the paranormal and unknown, I have to admit
that I could find no evidence that the FBI actually has a department dedicated
to investigating these types of cases. However, the FBI HAS studied unusual
occurrences and has submitted reports of their findings on such topics as
spontaneous human combustion, UFO sightings, cattle mutilations, and even
Project Blue Book. Links to see actual copies of documents and reports are
below:
(Information source:
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/xfiles.html.)
CATTLE MUTILATIONS:
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/cattle/cattlereport.html
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/cattle/cattlereport2.html
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/cattle/cattlereport3.html
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/cattle/cattlereport4.html
ROSWELL:
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/roswell/reports/roswellreport.html
PROJECT BLUE BOOK:
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/bluebook/bluebookreport.html
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/bluebook/bluebookreport_1.html
http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/bluebook/bluebookreport_1.html?
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http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/bluebook/bluebookreport_1.html?
currentPage=0003
The FBI also studied such cases
as spontaneous human combustion. In 1951, one of the most famous cases was
that of Mary Hardy Reeser, a 67 year old widow. On July 1st, Reeser is
believed to have spontaneously combusted while sitting in her own home in her
easy chair. Her body was discovered the next morning by a neighbor, who went
for help when they went to open the door and found the doorknob felt hot.
The remains of Reeser were contained in a circle about 4 feet in size.
The easy chair had been reduced to a few blackened seat springs. All that
remained of Reeser's body was approximately 10 pounds of ashes, a piece of her back vertebra, her skull which had shrunk down to the size
of a baseball. The only other remains, laying just outside the circle, was
one foot, undamaged and still wearing it's slipper. Before death, Reeser had
weighed 175 pounds.
A medical examiner claimed that
it would have taken temperatures of 3,000 degrees to consume the body to the
extent in which it was found, and should have destroyed the apartment.
However, although the walls and ceiling were covered in soot, there was very
little damage to the building. It was suggested in the police report that
Reeser may have dropped a lit cigarette on her nightgown, which
was made of flammable rayon, but the amount of heat needed to
reduce her to ashes made that theory weak. No chemical cause for the fire was found.
The FBI apparently found the
spontaneous human combustion theory to be merely rumours,
and dismissed them as such, even though the local police department was
stumped by the macabre case.
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