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Miami Circle

Gisela Ermel

Mysterious cult city holds its breath - speculation about strange "chance find"

In: Mysteries, No. 8, March / April 2005, Basel 2005



summer of 1998. dig among picturesque skyscrapers and the blue sea of Biscayne Bay a few archaeologists and volunteers on a demolition site of the city of Miami in the earth for Indian artifacts.





Archaeological excavation site in Miami



The excavators, led by Robert Carr, director of the Miami-Dade County Historic Preservation Division will not be disappointed. Numerous fragments of pottery, charred wood fragments, beads, animal bones, flints, and much more they can carry the light of day. But then it's over with the rest.

On one of those halcyon days that is making Ted Riggs - amateur archeologist and former residents of the apartment building from the late 50s here demolished had been - an unexpected find. Just in the place where you want to create a hyper-modern two-tower high-rise complex, he found some strange rectangular holes in the limestone bedrock.

Riggi supported. These holes were actually arranged like a bow? If they form a large circle around a whole? After he made his "bosses" on the discovery of attention, a shovel his metal claws digging into the ground, had always taken along the red line, the rigs with fluorescent paint.

feverishly working on it and comes across a strange 12 meter diameter circle measured from about 20 to 30 more or less rectangular holes.



heritage of a lost people?

What we had as excavated? Who had created these holes? Natural or man-made? Did you do the remains of a mysterious prehistoric monument found? Perhaps even the legacy of a lost people?

Ted Riggs was later in interviews, keep telling him what was then going through your mind: "That looks like a negative instead of Stonehenge stone pillars - holes!"





Mysterious Fund: circle of holes in the limestone bedrock



The archaeologists did what they always do when they make a puzzling discovery: contact by phone, fax and internet all of their colleagues around the world to exchange views with them on whether it had ever been somewhere gegehen a similar or identical Fund. Results: There was no comparison.

In winter 1999, it was definitely with the rest at the excavation site over, when Ted Riggs addressed the media. On 20 December cabled the TV channel CNN the message in all the world: "Mysterious stone circle on the banks of the Miami River dug!"

The archaeologists, it was said, were divided about the origin and meaning of this mysterious Stone Circle. The assumption that, due to the artifacts found to do rather with an old Tequesta Indian settlement, have moved more and more into the background.



aligned astronomically

Instead, soon made another round of speculation. The Cirlce is a calendar of astronomical sky! Ted Riggs explorers have found that the circle had been created in North-South direction and the holes were once well-include stone pillars. The plant was in his opinion, the Maya once served as an observatory, read it soon after the "Miami Herald".







Ted Rigg's Mayan theory appeared in several newspapers



The media reports mobilized the whole city. Were particularly interested in reporters for two stone axes, which were found in the Circle. Axes, as was known otherwise only from the Maya of Central America.

Soon onlookers flocked in droves to the excavation site at Brickell Point. Every day seemed self-proclaimed experts with new theories, tourists, businessmen and office workers from the nearby high-rises. Even high school students showed up - with the desire to help or the least bit sun-darkened "Relic Hunter" watch at work.

The overwhelming enthusiasm eventually received a painful shock, as most of the "Miami Herald" 17 January 1999 declared: "Past is in danger!"

Only now it was revealed that within a few weeks, the bulldozers of the property owner the "American Stonehenge", as it had already been baptized a few busybodies, would bulldoze.
Neither the landowners nor the City of Miami seemed willing or able to stop the bulldozers. In an act of despair tried a hired by archaeologists sculptor, to make a cast of the formation while was at his side, and the excavators been speculated excited about an ancient UFO landing pad, as well as about Mayan Indians, or about sacred Indian temple.
visitors to the enthusiastically plundered Plaztes the waste pile to take souvenirs. The press reveled in headlines and enthused: "America's youngest metropolis, a city without history, has now suddenly an older and more interesting story than anyone ever dared imagine!" The archaeologists had to get used to the interviewed, filmed and photographed to be.
Final was the world famous Miami Circle in late January 1999 when the popular radio show by Art Bell on the "American Stonehenge" and reports that ushered in a battle to save the plant.
The bombardment of calls, faxes and e-mails angry Circle savior was overwhelming. When then did another Delegation of Seminole Indians visited the excavation site, let the property owner to shut off the excavation site with a fence. Before that was cursed, meditated, prayed and watched - very Miami seemed to be on his feet. counter

The logo of the "Save the Circle" campaign

To this mass of assumptions, theories, observations and speculation, was in February 1999 convened a meeting, make known to the archaeologists their findings and opinions should. Prior to the last one standing room occupied room and a forest of cameras and microphones archaeologist Richard Carr first tried once to describe the circle.

sketch of the Miami Circle

He pointed out that, in and around the main circle of hundreds, apparently randomly distributed small holes were found. All of these holes had obviously been created with prehistoric tools. What is most remarkable, however, was the perfect arrangement of the main round holes.

euphoria and restraint

What had once served all the holes? And how old were they? As one listener pointed out to the astronomical alignment of the holes, Ted Riggs was in his element. The circle is - is evidence of four very large and deep holes that go beyond the normal circle edge - directed cardinal, and also marked a series of small holes in a point on the horizon, which refers to a midsummer date.

Archaeologists themselves held back with their opinions. You still have to inaccurate and too little data. Instead, they reported the Tequesta Indians, who had been in the "Miami Herald" already presented as "the lost people of Florida".

was remarkable that they had not yet found anything yet that the Tequesta Indians were made of stone. Even had the two stone axes from the Circle "introduced" have been, because the necessary equipment for this purpose it was only in distant areas.

Could the Tequesta be so general was the architect of the Circle? Or had they found the Circle and then only used for ceremonial purposes? Also relevant is, according to Robert Carr explained that the Tequesta had practiced no agriculture. So why would an astronomical calendar - when was the Circle at all because of - to serve?

How old was it but now the circle? Robert Carr announced at the meeting that the artifacts found reference to a time before 1000 to 2000 years - but that say nothing about the origin of the circle.

26.7 million U.S. dollars!

On 29 September 1999 surprised the "Miami Herald" his readers with the message, finally, that the property owner and the County had to agree to a purchase price: 26.7 million - over a million dollars a Circle-Hole!

The Miami Circle, in the background the statue of a Tequesta Indians on a column

There was still not clear what the Circle, then, was sent a team of state archaeologists to Miami. And so in October 1999, excavations began under Dr. Ryan Wheeler of the University of Florida. With modern equipment on one side and altbwährter muscle force on the other should the puzzle are revealed finally to the Circle.

Mechanical auger blade and special drills were used as well as a radar device that had to search for underground features and should identify where the earth still slumbered other surprises.

increasing number of small holes were discovered and more and more artifacts come to light which have all been dated to an approximate age of 1500 to 2000 years.

After the Circle was now saved, returned to the excavation site at last quiet again. No TV helicopter, no more Reporter schools - the public's interest waned gradually. However, new theories have been proposed. For example, maintains an archaeologist, all the holes were once been post holes for piles, grouped around the chief House - the Circle.

New tourist attraction

War solved the mystery of the Miami Circle with it? But here was no American "Stonehenge", no modern sewage system, as skeptics speculated and no UFO landing site, as others had hoped for? Nothing was clear - everything is open. The plant was saved, but not its mystery solved.

is now the Miami Circle as self-evident to the tourists attractions like a trip to the Everglades. Since the beginning of 2003 can finally admire the excavated artifacts. The Historical Museum of the city they are proud to announce visitors.

The Miami Circle - a never ending story? Still take to the research. And so the circle of what he was from the beginning: a puzzle of facts, Hypthesen, conjecture and speculation.

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Gisela Ermel

Mysterious Miami Circle

On the trail of an archaeological mystery

Bohmeier-Verlag, Leipzig 2003

ISBN 3-89094-400-0

86 pages, with illustrations

Content:

Summer 1998: The discovery

Winter 1998/1999: The sensational news

February 1999: The first meeting of the Circle, The Tequesta

February 1999: First emergency plans and a radio experiment

February 1999: The Steinmetz action

February 1999: Demonstrations and speculation

February / March 1999: A first small victory

April 1999: The sewage plant scandal

Summer 1999: The Circle - a prehistoric astronomical system?

Intermezzo I: American Stonehenge

Summer 1999: The basalt axes - The end of the Mayan theory?

Intermezzo II: The Circle is saved: the fantastic Moundbuilder

Autumn 1999: The "spittoon" theory

Fall / Winter 1999!

2000: New excavations and even a theory

2001 to today: New plans, new finds and tourists everyday

Nice Words For Baby Born

Mysterious Moundbuilder

Gisela Ermel

lecture maintained at the one-day meeting of the Research Society of Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI, Munich, October 2007



Before moving on to my real issue - the Moundbuilder - come to speak, I want to say a few words about the phenomenon of cultural leap. What is a cultural leap? According to the archaeologists something that should not even exist there. A people can not just leave out so a few stages and go on a much higher level. Unless it comes into contact with advanced culture purveyors.

Yet exactly this - the suddenly available know how in high-level of culture - there was in prehistoric North America, and indeed already from a time nearly four thousand years ago. To get straight to get to the point: the Moundbuilder as a common culture does not exist. This is very different cultures, especially had one thing in common: they built with earth.

roamed around 4000 years ago small groups of hunter-gatherers of the North American continent. There was a time of nomads, with no parent organization, a time of temporary mobile homes, the stone tools and spear points.



Poverty Point

But then something mysterious. Someone brought together hundreds of these primitive hunter-gatherers to a preplanned and laborious to have major project to carry out. What happened here now, the archaeologists call "cultural big bang": practically from one day to the other people built a structure have been as available to the high standing Knowlegde needs such as logistics, control and organization at a high level.



Artist's reconstruction of Poverty Point (Jon Gibson)



The central structure of Poverty Point - so that archaeological sites in Louisiana today named - was a semi-circular complex consisting of six ring walls with the center star-shaped outgoing transitions. At first, archaeologists were surprised that these programs were not created perfectly symmetrical, and early sketches of the site silently corrected the mass, to simulate a non-existent symmetry.

older drawing of Poverty Point

But the results of modern excavations and surveys clearly show that this structure was planned and everything is just right there where you wanted it.

Since the 1970s we know that the entire system of Poverty Point on the basis of a sophisticated geometrical and astronomical layouts designed was planned and built. One of the courses, which cuts through the walls ring out, for example, exactly - from the center of view - the point on the horizon, at which time the sun rose on the day of the winter solstice. Another pointed to the passage of the summer solstice. Two mounds were together on another solstice line, and three other Mounds of the plant formed a north-south line that ran right through the large mound. All this could be a coincidence.

Poverty Point fit is simply not the model of evolution that says that a culture is slow, stable and secure further developed, from simple to complex forms. The archaeologist Kidder once said: "According to conventional Doctrine, it is likely Poverty Point type at all! "

The purpose of this system is our completely unknown. A giant calendar? But why hunter-gatherers would have a precise calendar used?

While some brought dragged diligently basket to basket Earth to build the facility, there were other people in a number of workshops in how to produce on an assembly line of thousands upon thousands of items: jewelry, tools, weapons, stone pipes, and much more, as high-quality, stylized miniature pearls in animal form

. Beads of Poverty Point

puzzling the archaeologists found the objects looking like sinkers and the so-called Poverty Point Objects of clay, whose purpose you do not know to this day. There was even more distant outposts workshops, in which such items were also mass produced. The material was summoned to the part of up to 2,500 kilometers away, in order to be processed. Strangely enough, most of these artifacts were buried deliberately underground bulk depots. Everything was made in "unreasonable" amounts without the people of Poverty Point trade or export operation.

Just a mystery how it all began, it stopped too. The end was sudden and inexplicable to us. The plant was like the Field offices workshops simply abandoned and deserted. Was the project finished, completed the master plan? When everything built, later made all the artifacts and all deposits were buried, people went from there to henceforth again for centuries as a simple hunter-gatherers to roam the land.

And so it remained until the next Big Bang many hundreds of years later. Meanwhile, members of the so-called Adena culture now and then built a simple round burial mound, while in other places still attracted the hunters and gatherers of their ways. North America remained still on a stone age level.

The Hopewell culture

But then - about 2000 years ago - there was again an inexplicable cultural leap. Reassembled someone many people in order to have carried out a gigantic construction project. This time in and around the area of today's Ohio State. Where did all the necessary labor came, one can imagine, for the archaeological research has shown that at the time when this cultural leap took place, many of the Adena settlements were abandoned at once.

were built many Erdwerkstrukturen This time, consisting of walls, surrounded the large free inner surfaces, combined with mounds, roads and other structures. Everything was run according to a complicated, pre-planned layout. The individual Erdwerkanlagen anywhere in the rivers Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi were composed of various shapes and structures, all interconnected, zusammenghörigen each a whole.

sketch of Erdwerkanlage of High Bank Works, drawn by Squier and Davis 1848

The explanation for the importance of these forms came from a relatively new branch of research that Archaeoastronomy. The researcher Ray Hively made the discovery that the Octagon of Newark represented an accurate lunar calendar, matches well the time before 2000 years, indicating the points at the horizon of the so-called Great and Little Moon turning of the cycle lasted 18.6 years.

The Octagon of Newark: an accurate lunar calendar

The Archäoastronom Romain could add later that as the basis for the layout of the entire system was the line to the northernmost rising of the moon ran on the horizon - a point that reaches the moon just once every 18.6 years.

The astronomical orientation given by Newark

After understanding of the octagon from Newark, the researchers identified all places other astronomical and geometrical orientations. It is now known that all these facilities were built not only for a precise pre-planned layout, but that each plant were just part of a plan together, an invisible network of lines that the entire area of this culture that we now call Hopewell to a single coherent whole system combined. All this would be only from the air was clear. As have been here in Poverty Point has measured very accurately. Everything was placed with precise coordinates, were each and every Mound earth dam built on previously calculated exactly square. Everything was connected to everything.

For example, the distance from the square in Marietta to the center of the octagon in Newark corresponds exactly to the earth's circumference divided by 365, the number of days in a year. It's just unfortunate that so much data were lost because of the time were destroyed in the first white settlers more mounds and earthworks, obtained as we were.

But where had these stone age people the great knowledge of astronomy, geometry and engineering technology? Remarkable is the fact that the Hopewell inhabited these plants. The homes were still the simple, primitive dwellings as ever and were outside the enclosure. Why all the facilities were built, is completely unknown.

As if the worker had to do was not enough to build all of the complex installations, the other groups did it once again to produce items such as on an assembly line. And to an extent that some archaeologists believe that their production is the main purpose of the Hopewell culture was. And all to once again almost everything in deposits buried under ground or under mounds. There were also a few burials, which is taking home rich grave goods, but this was apparently only a marginal phenomenon. All these thousands of artful goods were not produced for its own use - but not as commercial objects.

Many of the Hopewell produced and then buried objects, we still do not know what they really represent. Since there are buttons, discs, plates, rods, rings, alleged sinkers (again!), Artificial noses with breathing tubes, metal antler-like objects, breast plates, and more of iron, copper, stone, mica, etc. from in depot-level balls pyrite , double copper rings, discs, combinations of rod and ring, circles, squares and half circles of copper and meteoric iron.

mica artifacts from the Turner Mounds

Many artifacts make a more technological impression that the jewelry. Archaeologists define this all too hastily away by the bank as ceremonial objects. There were workshops that were specialized in the production of goods for some material, such as an investment in the Paint Creek, camped alone more than 10,000 artifacts made of obsidian, mica, and more than 30,000 from more than 8,000 round disks made of flint stone in depots.

Artist's reconstruction of the flint wheel depots under a Hopewell Mound

provide for the archaeological deposits - also known as altars or sacrifice - one big puzzle dar. They existed in practically all Hopewell systems. The Hopewell seem to have tirelessly articles of mica, copper, meteoric iron, stone and other materials produced, brought into the plant and then buried carefully and systematically. Many artifacts have been artfully arranged before the burial, sometimes colorful mixtures of very different objects, as if we have here a representative cross-section of the craft arts want to show. But who? All of these deposits: were the stock? Hiding? A victim? For when and for whom?

stone disks from meteoric iron from a Hopewell Depot

copper artifacts from the Turner Mounds

Mysterious object made of copper, Turner Mounds

chlorite-ring of a Hopewell Depot

Man buries things really only two reasons: either want to hide something - or you want something safe for later or for someone store. But obviously the things that someone has not picked up. To all the speculation about altars and sacrifices I do not believe it. If the Hopewell, the so high astronomical facilities built and a combined master plan, had not these deposits have very practical reasons?

Two systems of Hopewell, whilst being out of line, but fit well in the big picture: the Great Serpent Mound and the Alligator Mound. At the Great Serpent Mound, we know now sure that he is not really a snake, but a complex astronomical calendar, the Alligator Mound is already suspected this, but needs to be verified yet.

The Alligator Mound

The Great Serpent Mound was created by the way just on the edge of a crater, the one about 250 million years to earth impacting final celestial bodies had caused, as we know only a few years. Was the selection of this site design or just a coincidence?

aerial view of the Great Serpent Mound

The astronomical alignments of the Great Serpent Mound

As was the case at Poverty Point, it was also the end of Hopewell Culture mysterious and abrupt. Why could hear this high culture simply to exist? Why no other facilities were built more? Why no other objects made of? Was a project completed? The Hopewell left simply the sites and jobs, and returned more or less back to their culture level at which they had held prior to the cultural leap. Stayed no master planner more of them who gave them orders? Were the bearer of culture after the completion of this major project went away, leaving people about yourself?

Effigy Mounds

But Kulturspringerei should go further. Again a few centuries later began a new and unique construction project, this time with the Center Wisconsin. Here, suddenly began to Stone Age nomads, how to build an assembly line pictures mound of earth, and this in a Order of tens of thousands of which has unfortunately survived until today only a fraction.

They built mounds in the shape of various animals in human form, but also linear, cross-shaped, round and combinations. In many cases, like the "Looks-like" method of the modern researchers have certainly led to misinterpretation.

Effigy Mounds, sketch of Squier and Davis 1848

Almost always these different mounds were arranged into groups. Once again basket was dragged to basket earth to - what to do? A large region in a recognizable only from a bird's eye view huge picture to turn? No one knows exactly why suddenly all these Effigy Mounds created, why were people gathered once again to have them run a labor-consuming and impractical actual construction project. It was not until very recently, archaeologists begin to sense that there seems to be even with the Effigy Mounds an astronomically-geometric background. In some early cases already have lunar and solar alignments are confirmed. But here, the research is still in its infancy.

One of the bears of the Marching Bear Group, Wisconsin: Modern High Tech unveils magnetic properties

The Effigy Mounds also pose another surprising secret. 1999 a team of five archaeologists Marching Bear Group of Mounds in Wisconsin with modern high tech. It turned out that the material from which the pictures hills were built, was strongly magnetic. No one had any idea what it all meant. To chance it could be, not the soil material was carefully selected and then been accumulated. You do not know yet whether this feature on many others - perhaps all? - Effigy Mounds is true as well. These pictures hills and linear structures, which are themselves out of the air is very difficult to see from the ground almost did not look, would certainly excellent for remote objects Sensing technology on board an aircraft or satellites.

One distinguishes the Effigy Mound Culture of Poverty Point and the Hopewell, this time there was no mass production of goods and not a creation of underground deposits - as far as we wissesn so far! But at one point there is a parallel: the culture stopped as abruptly as the previous one. Almost from one day to the other hills were no images created everything, and it went back as hunters and gatherers of the road.

The Mississippian culture

Before the first whites came to North America and sparked a very modern cultural leap, there was still once an unexplained Big Bang. In the area around the Mississippi and its tributaries were housed just over 1,000 years ago Stone Age farmers simple. But out of the blue also began her how to build on the drawing board designed mega-cities of earth, once again, after exactly vorgeplantem layout on astronomical and geometrical basis.

The size of these cities and the number of mounds and structures put anything before seen in the shadows. Once again, someone had numerous people versannelt for a major project and the former small settlements were abandoned almost all of them.
As in Poverty Point and the Hopewell also laid the representatives of the so-called Mississippian culture enigmatic material depots at. Pound here were beads, arrowheads and other buried.

And just as Poverty Point, the Hopewell and Effigy Mound culture also heard the Mississippian culture on us inexplicably to exist abruptly. Whether any of the Indian tribes that the first "White vorfanden then in this area, the successor to this culture is unclear. Never again were astronomical and geometrical Erdwerkanlagen or urban construction.

The most important question at this enigmatic culture revolves around their jumps unknown cause. In modern times there are examples of new religions that were formed after the contact of so-called primitives with them higher standing visitors such as the cargo cults of the South Seas. Such a thing is also available in North America. Towards the end of the Mississippian culture was established a new religion, called the Southern Cult. Archaeologists speculate about the reason for the beginning of this cult, because nothing was found, from which he could have developed. He was virtually out of nowhere in the final phase of the Mississippian culture.

is striking geometric designs often against the side of the so-called Birdman, the bird people. Time and time again these people were from humanoid figures, which represent a mixture of man and bird, usually equipped with wings, sometimes with bird-like head, the archaeologists also alternatively and vaguely interpreted as "long-nose god." What this should mean motive is unclear.

A few examples of "Birdmen" of the Mississippian culture

Decorated shell discs, both of Hopewell and the Mississippian culture show strange hybrid creatures and feathered serpents, is speculated wildly about their importance under the archeologists .

puzzling are the numerous figurines that show an abnormal elongated skull, like it exists anywhere on the planet in kind. Such figurines are of Poverty Point, the Hopewell and Mississippian culture. Sorry is me from this picture not yet available.

Striking parallels

remarkable is the fact that the Olmec began in Central America, figurines, monuments including produce, which are langschädligen these people, precisely from the aftermath of the sudden flood of cultural leap around 1200 BC . with the following geometric-astronomical scale sites, the mass production of objects, the creation of underground material deposits and the equally abrupt end to the culture. Also in Central America from the time were the cultural leap "Birdmen", "feathered serpents" strange hybrid creatures and Landschädler to main motifs in the performing arts.

There is a clear parallel. Around the same time as the Mississippian culture made over in the southwestern United States today the Anasazi Indians, an abrupt jump from the stone age farmers to high culture and began virtually from one day to the pre-planned with the construction of stone Great Houses and calendar systems. The gigantic construction project transformed almost the entire territory of present-day Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico in a network of invisible astronomical and geometrical lines, representing an overall master plan. Surprisingly, it seems, no archaeologist had the idea, even at the intersections of these invisible lines and those such as the Hopewell to dig.

The Anasazi began the mass production of goods which are then by all sides to the center, the Chaco Canyon, brought here and stored, if were not buried as in the Moundbuildern underground. The archaeologists say in this case by the "Black Hole" hypothesis. And this civilization ended as abruptly as that of the Moundbuilder cultures.

After the end of the Anasazi culture - and only then! - Formed a new religion, first as a display image on rock art and ceramics, then the time of the first white settlers fully trained with ceremonies, myths and rituals around the so-called Kachinas, to which even the modern Pueblo Indians (the regions around the former Anasazi inhabited area) to remember as heavenly teachers who came from somewhere to the people and then disappeared again sometime somewhere. The most important feature of these Kachinas: puzzling "headdress."

enigmatic head wear jewelry and the so-called Foxman of Poverty Point, figures of Hopewell, some of the humanoid Effigy Mounds and "horned creature" engraved on shells in the Mississippian culture.

Enter this presentation motives may be clues to the unknown cause of all the mysterious culture jumps, unknown to the master planner? I want to leave this question as in space, maybe they are indeed one or the other under them food for thought.

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abduction 200 years ago

Gisela Ermel

Parallels to the modern UFO phenomenon in North American Indians

In: Magazin2000plus, No. 4 / 180, Special Issue "UFOs and crop circles", Marktoberdorf 2002
+ lecture, held on 20 March 1999 in Würzburg: Fiebag seminar "paleo-Kontak - Journey to the Gods from Space"

In the late summer of 1855 stayed the ethnologist and explorer Johann Georg Kohl at Lac du Flambeau, a lake in present-day Wisconsin, USA. A tribe of local Ojibwa Indians had received him kindly, and a French interpreter carbon supported in his efforts, material on the habits, the religious beliefs and activities of daily living to collect these Indians. "Pale faces" these Indians had received relatively rarely seen, but it was cabbage - after many setbacks, and sometimes amusing misunderstandings - to win their trust. His notebooks were filled gradually with interesting information, and he kept in his hut with a loving collector's pride one or the other Indian-prop, very pleased with the every Ethnology Museum in Europe would.





the ethnologist and explorer Johann Georg Kohl

One day the Indians told him of a loner, known Kagagengs (little raven), in the village as a kind of curious fellow that was in constantly walk around outside and sells, with herb collecting or idleness time. He was regarded as an outsider, and the Indians in the village thought he was the oldest man in the settlement community. He lived somewhat apart from the other, a hut on the reeds, and as coal met him, he found him actually in high old age. Whether he was really a hundred years old, left to prove, of course. Every Indian in the village knew that little raven at birth had been regarded as a bizarre child who had learned to talk very much ahead of other Indian children, and he reportedly has an exceptionally good memory. He did - and that Kohl was very curious - as a boy had an extraordinary experience that was formative for the rest of his life, and he almost never speak, even if you speak to him on it, he just go like this in silence.

It took many days to the tireless efforts by the interpreter and the ethnologist, the confidence of the aged Indian win. And to speak as carbon dared then Kagagengs on this boy experience, this is resisted hatrnäckig tell you about it.


part of an Ojibwa village


Kohl later wrote about this moment: "When I had all the old man made it clear what I wish he was completely silent and sat like a statue there. He said not a word ... "patiently and carefully Kohl walked on toward his destination. He felt that he could get to hear an extraordinary and unusual history when he hired only right. After much cajoling Kohl assured the ancient Indians, If this belief that he pull himself through the communication of that experience a disaster, so he stood on his request and only after Kohl said to the old time. "By the way, we are here among us ..." (Kohl, receiving oral Interpreters and Kagagengs sat alone in front of the Red Indian hut, and were actually quite disturbed) "... you can up knowing that I'll talk to anyone about your people or your kindred in the village about this ... "- only then broke the tongue of the old man and he was ready." unpack "but he was astonished about the fact that a white at all for his experience'm




Typical Ojibwa lodge


And then began Kleiner Rabe to tell of. "I was a boy, so big that when I got up and my father on the mat sat, we both were equal. It was autumn ...."

listened spellbound the two white men and still had no idea know what a fantastic and bizarre story here should.

Assuming that Kagagengs counted 70-100 Lenze and his experience as old as the decade has been, one can assume, for the period of the events he described the years between 1765 to about 1795, using as The starting point is the year 1855, entrusted in the Little Raven as a very old man his boyhood experience of the explorer Kohl.

The period for this experience is a time when no one had ever heard of unknown flying objects, abductions and encounters of one kind or another, a time some 200 years before the so-called first UFO sighting in 1947 by the American pilots, Kenneth Arnold and above the so-called first kidnapping of the couple, Betty and Barney Hill in 1961, is located. Meanwhile, we have learned, both sightings dated unknown flying objects and abductions by alien beings much further back than is commonly done.

Let us back over 200 years and the experiences of the Little Ravens subsequently witness.

at Lac du Flambeau was the mother of Kagagengs died and according to ancient rites have been buried. Registered days later ...

Kleiner Rabe's sad. He wants to be with his grief for his dead mother alone so early. The boy secretly sneaks out of the Indian village, which succeeds easily because his father and uncle to a smoke-road company, and his sisters are busy. Little Raven runs into the nearby forest, as far and as fast as he can. At last he can let his emotions run wild, and he cries aloud. Finally, he climbs a tall tree, quite beside himself with grief and mourning.

of a sudden he heard a voice beside him. He is very frightened, for he is sitting up in a tree! To his astonishment, he discovered his immense a black human form, the zuschwebt through the air towards him.

"Who are you and why are you crying?" He hears the mysterious figure to ask him.

"I am an Indian boy, and I cry for my mother," he replies.

The shape of it looks at her and asks him: "Come, follow me!" She takes the Indian boy by the hand and leads him away through the air. Over tall trees away it goes, Kleiner Rabe know hardly happens, what with him. Twice he looks at the trees tremble and bow down, but the voice admonished him repeatedly: "Do not be afraid!" Finally they reach the summit of a high mountain.

"Do you know the mountains?" asks the mysterious black creature that he believes is a woman. When he denies, he said his companion, "It the mountains are the heart of the deer. "

Kleiner Rabe is astonished, but he too knows that this mountain for three whole days' journey away from his village. He is surprised that he so quickly (it seemed to him like three steps), many forests, meadows and prairies has crossed. At a wave of the hand of this being a black entrance opens into the mountain, and surprises Kleiner Rabe looks down a long corridor, illuminated at the other end of a bright light. The form asks the boy to get in with her, and both floating weightless as the other side of the aisle. A bright light welcomes the Indian boys, he is completely blinded. As he carefully umherblinzelt, he looks a bit like a hut in the middle of the gloss are. An opening is formed, and the form asks the boy to enter.

is Again Little Raven surrounded by bright rays of light, so dazzling that he pulls his cloak over his eyes. He trembles with fear and in anxious expectation of things to come. From the back of the room he calls on a voice, to look around a bit. This is for little crow after a little accustomed to the bright light. At first he saw nothing but a kind of lamp in the middle of the room, which emits a powerful light on its own. So bright that Kleiner Rabe says it's the sun. Nothing else, then it knows it can still shine as bright! Scheme liability He sees a figure in the background, he considers the absence of other possible interpretations for the personification of the sun. Or is it a ghost? the little raven asks confused. He is very upset and do not know where he is and what happened to him. The shadowy person in the background of the clear space he now asks: "Look down!"

Little Raven is doing it, and paralyzed with fear! By a kind of opening or window in the room, he looks far, far below trees, forests, mountains, great lakes and finally "all round the world". He can not get enough of the fascinating sight!

"Look now hinaut "him, the voice asks. Kleiner Rabe looks up and sees a kind of window innumerable stars, so close he could touch them. He is carried away completely, something he has never seen before! As the voice tells him . to look straight ahead, he must tear himself away by force by the fantastic view of the starry sky, he looks ahead -! and is scared to death Terrified, he stares at his own likeness That's me he thinks As is the case. possible? The voice now speaks reassuringly to him, and what will explain to the bewildered Indian boy, is this not make sense.

"See," the voice says, "you are always with me. I wake up every day and I see you about. I look at you and knows what you do and if you are sick or well "

But it will still get a lot smaller now Rabe looks fantastic next to his own image four Indians said the voice..." These four are in you. They will come from you. There are your four sons, you'll have time ... You yourself but will live so long that your hair will be white as snow. "

Kleiner Rabe feel a great joy rising within him, joy of his prophetic sons, whom he would one day get, and joy be as long life . He almost regretted leaving this bright and adventurous space again to have, but the voice of the person in the background tells him, now go home. Outside the room the figure of hope in him, which have accompanied him here. leave

When the boy has the bright spot and the black character floats back to earth, it seems the height from which they glide down, immeasurable. And to achieve as both the forest, had started from where Kagagengs' mysterious journey, the boy is placed in the branches of a Christmas tree. He noticed a surprise that it is early morning now and the sun just peeks out with half its disk above the horizon. Little Raven had not noticed that now the rest of the day and a whole Wr night passed. He is still more than confused. The mysterious companion adopted now by her protégé and thinks about this..

"It will now come almost four people to pick up following them but not if they want you to touch with bare hands, you will be leaves of the linden trees pick near there and protect use when they touch you. they do, then follow them. you Remember this well! Live Well, little raven. "

And now is gone the black character, and the boy is alone. It does not take long, and he hears voices among themselves. Little Raven feels totally at a time exhausted. He is too dull to turn the head to the side, to see who was well down there. Suddenly he heard a cry: "What is it up there in the tree A man Yes, yes, it's him, Come, sisters, we've found it?!"

Now Kleiner Rabe acknowledges that down there are his four sisters, who had set out to find him. And they really pick on his request, linden tree leaves before they touch it and bring it down from the tree. They take him home to the village, put him on his bed and take care of loving him. Little Raven needs to be maintained, for he is so weak and ill that he can not eat for three days.

"But then," said the old Indian finished his stunning report, "I began to gradually return to power as the other and lived with the people who thought often of my experience ... Also, all came true, which I was promised at that time. I have married and have four sons, and my hair has turned white. I am now a hundred years old. "



Ojibwa Indians


As JA Kohl 1859 in Bremen, his research and his experiences with the Ojibwa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau published in his book was for him the story, only the "dream of an Indian boy." What is this story for us Today, some 200 years later? We have now know that the experience of having little raven many parallels to the experiences of today's witnesses, who claim to be abducted by aliens, and this is usually on board of an unknown flying object.

Let's look at the "Fall Little Raven" again in detail at, and he is worth a closer look. First there is the statement on this black figure hovering and hovering with it. In the course of many years of exhaustive UFO research has, among other things revealed that numerous witnesses hovering alien beings want to have observed, indeed, were floated even to this together through the air - often on a flying object in which they were then admitted.

In 1988, a dedicated and pioneering study was published over 300 UFO-abduction cases, entitled "UFO Abductions - The Measure of a Mystery". had commissioned this study by the Fund for UFO Research in Maryland, and author Dr. Thomas E. Bullard, a folklorist, who did his doctorate at the University of Indiana about UFOs and their interactions, it came to the conclusion that it happened in many cases that the witness a strange thing to the door to an unknown location (often of an unknown flying object), guided float - and the witnesses, also pending, brought back to the floor.

We see that Kleiner Rabe with his experience as regards the aspect of floating and floating being, is in good company. Where

may have brought the mysterious black figure the Indian boy? It would be premature, the claim that Kleiner Rabe was out of this bright room looked down on the ground to close, he had found on board a flying object. Too many other explanations are possible, but I feel the stay on board a flying object is not the question.

makes very thoughtful and that part of history, in which Kleiner Rabe reported that he and his future children were shown a picture of himself, combined with the declaration: "I see you every day and watch over you. I look at you and knows what you do and if you are sick or well." If representatives of a foreign intelligence to the life of this Ojibwa boys have monitored and tracked? If so - why Kleiner Rabe? Many other questions occur to do, questions to which there is currently no all-explanatory answers.

Another aspect of this report is striking: the large Abgechlagenheit and fatigue after the end of the experience of Kagagengs. For three days, he claims that he was practically in need of care. If we are here dealing with a so-called Post-abduction symptoms, have the Dr. Jacobs, a professor of history at Temple University in 1975, lists in his thesis? Meant that the typical effects of the abduction experiences in the UFO phenomenon, the medical in nature and of remaining scars of pain, skin burns and other sequelae to extreme fatigue are rich.

And what may be behind the bizarre details of the story of Little Raven, which says it had not been naked with, should be touching bare skin? We do not know. May be found in future an explanation for this aspect of the Indian experience, when the UFO research has made further progress. After all the

can say is: Why should Little Raven's alleged "dream boy" just follow a pattern that would emerge 200 years later in the course of the UFO research as typical? Kleiner Rabe also mentioned the ethnologist carbon compared with not a word, slept and dreamed to have. No, let us admit it: this so bizarre and fantastic account of a very old Ojibwa Indians is based on a real experience.


The Fourth Meeting of the nature of the Ojibwa Indian Agab-Gijik

During his stay in the village of Ojibwa Indians in 1855, the anthropologist learned the old coal-Indians know Agab Gijik that appeared there one day as a visitor . The translation the name of this Ojibwa Kohl wrote to as "The End of the Projecting Cloud = The end of the sublime cloud", and the length of the name because he spoke in his book, later simplified to "cloud". This elderly Indian was much more talkative and more accessible than small raven.




Ojibwa Indians in canoes


The researchers used carbon residence of "cloud" in the Indian village to tell of him can be an experience he had as a 14-year-old boy. Both Indians - Kleiner Rabe and cloud - were shown not to influence each other and knew very likely not even the fact that they had had both an experience some of the amazing parallels. Besides these similarities there are also striking differences, which I will discuss below. Let us hear first what the anthropologists reported that Indian coal.

Cloud went to a lonely spot in the woods and made a camp in a large spruce tree. The Indian boy was fast for a few days to get to "his dream". As a boy pulled out, he would then return to the village as a man and thus enter a new phase of life. But what came next was not a dream, but an entirely unexpected encounter with the unexplainable.

In the night, Cloud told the attentive audience, "I suddenly heard a noise and contractions in the branches. It was as if a serious bear or moose broke through the bushes and forests. Came over me a great fear. I thought it would be too many of them, a lot, and I wanted to make preparations to flee. But he who approached me, guessed my thoughts and saw my fear even from afar, and he therefore allowed by all to me, hovers near, room, and quiet approach, and he was gentle and mild on the branches of my tree I at the head down. "

Here we are dealing with an approach that is floating being that, as with Little Raven shows up unexpectedly from the air. Wolke not a description of this figure more closely, said to coal only vaguely of a "spirit". Striking here is the mention of noise and whispering in the trees at the approach of the mysterious being. Both - the sound when you get closer to floating cloud and the in-the-hand grasp of the little raven by a strange figure - suggests a physical presence and therefore real being.

Cloud went on. "Then began the mind, to talk to me, and he asked me

'Are you afraid, my son?"

'No.' I said, 'now no more. "

'Why are you here in this tree? "

'fast to order. "

'Why are you fasting? "


'To gain strength and to know my life. "

The Spirit, 'This is good because it is excellent along with what is now happening elsewhere just for you. It is entirely in harmony with the commission, which I have for you ... I am instructed to invite you so that you make and look vernähmest. Come, follow me '. "

At this point interrupted carbon speech flow of the old Indian, he asked him:" Said the spirit of it, according to "

About this thrown in the matter to the anthropologists now after more than a hundred years, surely every UFO . researchers are grateful, because the answer can anyone who knows a little with the UFO phenomenon listen attentively, answered

cloud: . No. It was no ordinary conversation, and I do not believe that I said aloud We watched the two interact, and guessed the heart and saw each other's thoughts.. "

should definitely be mentioned at this point that what a remarkable number of today's UFO witnesses, that the alien beings with whom they were confronted communicated with them. They had but heard no voice but the words "in their head" for an answer. One witness described according to the UFO researcher Raymond E. Fowler the way to communicate with foreigners "almost as if you think something in your head." Other witnesses again described it this way: "The eyes of the creatures said to me ...", while others concerned "knew what to think the essence." One witness in Utah said this form of communication with the mysterious figures in the following manner: he was so happened, as if "the little creatures with their heads me . thought "Betty Andreasson, one of the most famous kidnap victims, testified:". talk to me, but micht with her mouth "

The Indians cloud of the same form of communication described thus very obvious and well when he described Kohl, he and the "spirit" would have looked each other in the heart and sees her thoughts.

The aforementioned study by Dr. Bullard about 300 kidnapping cases came to the following Result: "Of 124 cases with closed communications 98 (79%), telepathy, thought transference one, or the witness could understand the nature or they hear, without moving their mouths or provide no apparent auditory performance."

But back to Agab-Gijik, the Indians cloud, and his exceptional experience that has yet so topical. What writes Fowler about the typical Zuammentreffen an interested party with one (or more) of alien creatures could not fit better Agab-Gijik. As soon as kidnappers and kidnap victims are facing, "begins the first communication, in some cases it takes place when the Kidnapped by the aliens outside of the vessel meets. Is that so, then the aliens calm usually the witness and ask him to follow them. "

today no longer speak, we so self-evident of" extraterrestrials "because we know less than ever, to whom it is these representatives of a foreign intelligence works, that keeps us so effectively contact, but the fact remains that certain sequence pattern repeated many times in many independent witnesses, and this pattern is also evident in cloud:

A strange thing hangs cause: first contact, then equal to the communication (in this case in the kind of telepathy) then the mandatory Calm the witnesses at Kleiner Rabe by a "Fear not!" in cloud - perhaps telepathically causes? - "Are you afraid, my son?" - "No, not now!". And then follow the prompt. Like all other abduction victims to cloud obeyed this call. He further told the ethnologist Kohl

"When he told me to follow him, I rose from my bed and, without my help and without my will, easily and almost automatically, like a spirit, which arises from the grave , and followed him through the air. The Spirit moved me forward to the East, I think of it. While we were floating in the air, but as sure as I went on a firm Earth, and it seemed to me as we walked into a high mountain ascended higher and higher and higher eastward "

This last statement is more than a mysterious floating through the air -.. And yet the Geühl as stride (or I?) is on solid ground -. see have what could cloud meant as certain we the described only that both are obviously up, up, were moving simultaneously in the east

What does this reveal, is probably even more the annoying " limits of language. "We have to consider that for the impression that an event makes to a witness or a kidnapping victim, his location is essential. This is meant in the first Line of his spiritual location, its world view, his horizon of possibilities of thought in which he perceives the experience. This intellectual position is the language in which you live and is expressed together closely, which is the ability to express feelings and impressions into words and to interpret perceptions (eg, a bright light as the "sun" as in Little Raven) and that therefore the horizon of the world experience in which one lives, to classify. Under this aspect is carefully to the story from cloud to approach. We should keep this in mind when another boy's description of his experience.

"When we arrived after a long time on the summit, and found there a wigwam built, into which we entered, "continued the old Indians. He did not say that they reached the summit of a mountain, only spoke of arriving at a summit. On the summit of what? We know that both in east were up floated. What was that which indicated cloud as a wigwam built? Did he perhaps hanging in the air flying object in front, he interpreted only from his perspective out to be a "wigwam"? What was it Anyway, it sounds After a massive object can be inside the body. Let us tell Cloud what he found there and experienced.

"I initially saw nothing but a white stone that lay in the middle of the wigwam. When I but a little sharper looking, I saw four men sitting around the stone. They invited me to take on the white stone in the middle seat. "

What followed now, sounds like a rather bizarre and unbelievable, but we must try to" trace things behind things. "The Indian boy had little on this "white stone" established as confused him a very strange feeling. At first he thought the "stone" beneath him begin to wane, and it seemed to him as though he would sink along with the Indian boys in the soil. The sounds quite then to get as if the Indian boy, the movement of a flying object at the first hand feel. Naturally we do not know whether this assumption is true, it is not impossible in any case. Remember the feeling that one has in an elevator when it goes!

One of the men let up briefly and cloud covered the "stone" with a kind of white cloth (the Indian boy compared it with a weissgegerbten Rehhaut).

"When I again settled on, held it firmly like a tree, and I was sitting good."

And then came the old Indian in a moment of his experience, which suggests once again that he might have experienced a flight launch. "One of the four took the floor and ordered me to look down. When I did, I saw below me the whole . Earth, deep, deep and wide, spread out far in front of me "

The banned eavesdropping anthropologist raised a question:"? ".

answered cloud." It seemed you around No, they had four corner "

This is indeed an extraordinary response -. unless, cloud had looked through a rectangular viewing screen or a monitor that has the look down appeared on the earth the other hand, we know that many Indian tribes the Earth constitute a square, and this view may later . narrative of the Indian influenced

cloud was now, like Kleiner Rabe, permitted a view of the sky: "Then another took the floor and ordered the Four I look up. I looked up and saw the whole sky above me, very close. It was a delightful and gorgeous to look superb. I looked long, long ordered up and almost forgot where I was. "

One of the four people now the Indian boys to climb. He pointed to the back of the hard seat behind the cloud, and this looked stunned that it was grown and immeasurably extended in the air had.

"There were paragraphs in it," he reported, "and I could climb up on them as on a ladder. I got up and klimmend climbing higher and higher, higher and higher, and finally I came to a place where around the pillar surrounded by four old men dressed in white sat in the open air. A dazzling shiny dome arching over them. "

The Indian boy felt strangely" easy "and would prefer to climb higher and higher. The four floating in the open air figures taught now cloud over his future, he predicted, a capable hunter to be, and a long life.

"I then rose quickly back down the long stone at my head," continued cloud. "I had to hold but hard to notice because I want them to disappear under my feet started and fast, like an icicle melted away by the fire. When I sat down again on my stone seats, the same had its previous dimensions again assumed. "

hear all this at surprisingly logical, if it is assumed that the Indian boy on board a flying object was, the flying object of a superior alien intelligence. This remarkable growing hard wire, the self-feeling light of the boys, in the open air floating figures and the back together shrinking head: all this sounds like a well-observed and true to the memory stored on real experience for this remarkable conductor would you suggest most any technological interpretation We have here a typical abduction experience.. before us, which seems rather to fit the present day, as the 18th Century! And yet it is so far back!

This case still holds a surprising end for us. On his return told Cloud succinctly: "I let down in my nest or camp on the red pine I found that three days had passed over it.."

narrated his experience but for now fills less than three days! Here we are dealing with a typical abduction side effect: the lost time. Mysterious time gaps in the experience of the abductees today beinabe are already on the agenda. Dr. Jacobs is one of the motif of "missing time" to the above mentioned Post-Abduction-symptoms (PAS). Today we are able through hypnosis return the secret to some time gap in UFO abduction victims resolve, but with the Indian boy cloud, we grope in the dark. What he noticed at all that three days had passed? Kohl noted in his book, nothing.

What is missing at first glance, in comparison with the modern abduction at Kleiner Rabe and cloud, is the sighting of a flying object by the witness. Whether behind the "Wigwam," floated up to the cloud with the aliens, and behind the light radiating area in the Little Raven got into it, in each case hiding an unknown flying object, we can not know. To our regret, of course, could the anthropologist Kohl guess not then, with questions which we would have liked asked of him - we would bombard today Kleiner Rabe and cloud with a whole range of issues that must unfortunately remain forever unanswered.



floating canoes and light cone as a "path to the top: to learn the experiences from Round wind and small spruce
more about country and people, has left coal the Ojibwa village and traveled in the company of some Indians and its interpreter in the residential areas of the adjacent Sious Indians. There he met the Sioux Round Wind know him - after a mutual trust was established - something extraordinary was willing to share. What had happened to wind round about twenty years ago (ie about 1835), never let him go again, and he carved details of his experience in simple images on his pipe, he performed the foreign proud paleface. And then he told ...
one day walked into a strange wind round building, he thought it was a kind of medicine wigwam or a temple. Astonished, he saw sitting around in the room many wise old men. Round Wind imagined if it were warriors and chiefs from time immemorial. The characters were called the Indians welcomed and asked him, next to a big strange rock in the middle of the room to sit down, carried on his stir to drum and sing to the glory of the Great Spirit. Wind round saw in this room are something like a large tree, about "big peace pipe decorated with feathers" one.
far, a harmless, everyday history, one might think. But what happened next was anything but ordinary. During Round
wind among these old men sat outside, he saw through the opening of the "wigwam" approach something strange hovering in the distance through the air. At first he could not see to what an object, it was there, but gradually he came to the conclusion it would probably be two canoes, for a different way compared he had not. The startling thing was that they then float above the ground in the open air - something round wind had never seen before. When the two objects were moved closer, the Indians recognized in both two figures with black faces. The two objects were flying very close to the entrance of "medical wigwams' float approached, and then looked round the wind, as the ground suddenly opened up under the flying objects in a wide hole and split. The two strange canoes floated down into the opening, which turned immediately thereafter again closed over them, and laid round wind perplexed that the ground had swallowed the flying canoe before his eyes.
And then a new fear: a moment later round wind alone - the strange "medical Wigwam" was, with all its occupants disappeared without trace, as never been there.


The drawing of the Indian Round Wind: above the floating canoe down the medicine wigwam and in the middle of the hole in the inside flew the floating objects (Nachzeichnun by JA Kohl 1855)

For the ethnologist Kohl was even no question, of course, could be the experience of the Sioux Indian's only a "dream" was! So easily we make ourselves any more. Against the interpretation of events as a dream speaks as follows: Round wind had - like every human being - countless dreams of living in The course of his life. But just this experience it seemed so extraordinary that he immortalized in his pipe. None of his dreams, only this incident presented in pictures dar. With not a word mentioned Round wind that he had fallen asleep before his experience.
is remarkable, in fact, the abrupt end of this event. Kohl put it - out of his former point of view - like this: "A moment later the whole dream has vanished." But there are
- Looking at the whole thing from the perspective of modern UFO research - quite different explanations. Even today, it happens to many kidnapping victims that they suddenly find their experience at the exit point without to know how they got there. Thomas E. Bullard speaks of the so-called "door-amnesia" and knows cases in which witnesses a meeting of the Fourth Art experienced a blackout when entering or leaving an unknown flying object, or a mysterious alien village. Here again comes the aspect of the aforementioned "missing time" to light.
Could it not be with Round wind was so well? He apparently did not know how he got into this strange "medical Wigwam" and as little as he left again. Against the interpretation of a dream still speaks the following: An Indian who dreams dreams of flying things, more of eagles, birds and things from his cultural Radius - short of things to him are from his everyday life and from his familiar world out. Sure there are, as in any dream bizarre and illogical elements - but an Indian who "dreams" of floating canoe, flying in an opening and closing the bottom opening - that falls out of character. A fortiori, if this was not a dream! We should rightly ask: Did Round Wind a sighting of unknown flying objects, linked to an encounter of the close kind? We should not be too quick to answer this question in the negative.
The special cases of the "Little Raven", "Cloud" and "Round Wind" is the fact that they are based on the report at first hand. Kohl spoke to the Witnesses to the events in person. We are not dealing so long with traditional Indian myths. Even if it accompanied the French interpreter, Kohl, admits some inadvertent errors in translation, we are dealing with authentic but reports that have been passed not only from generation to generation. Just four years after Kohl's stay at the Lake Superior and adjacent areas, he published his book in which he published his carefully written down research results, and these Indians reports. It may be that anthropologists just thankful that he is except for huts, food supply, clothing, language, craftsmanship of the Indians, etc. also for The exceptional personal experiences interested. What this means for us with valuable first-hand reports "!
Let's go back to the Lac du Flambeau. Some Ojibwa Indians showed carbon one day the grave of a large, wide-famous chief named Shinguakongse - Small spruce. Small spruce was the son of an Ojibwa Indian woman and a Scottish officer, and Kohl had the good fortune to meet some of the descendants of the Indian chief. Proudly told them episodes from the life of the famous ancestors, and one of those experiences back in the days when a boy of small spruce about ten years ago. We can only assume that this event to the rather informal, possibly for decades took place earlier than was the startling adventures of Little Raven and cloud, because the settlement at Lac du Flambeau built shortly after the 1745th Kohl told the following by the descendants of the Indian chief:
It is a cold, stormy winter night. The wind roars with power around the camp, and small spruce is shivering and trembling mother in the hut. Suddenly he felt as if were speaking a gentle, sweet voice to him. He looks anxiously around at the cabin, but can see no one. He is very uneasy.
"Poor Shinguakongse," the soft voice whispers to him, "You are miserable, come to me!"
looks back anxiously at little spruce, but the cause of this mysterious voice nowhere to be seen. In this moment, the Indian boy deeply shocked. He maintained a kind of luminous light path that starts in his bed, and from the lodge entrance leads out - up obliquely upwards into the air. An inner voice tells him that this was the path he should walk. How forcibly rises the Indian boy and noticed how bright it in this light cone higher and higher up, floating. High in the lofty sky, small spruce discovered is a sort of "house", where he is a human figure, dressed in a white Garment expected.
What happened there with him, not hear of his descendants to report only that the figure to the boy "pictures" showed scenes to see where tents, people, riders, warriors and fighters. Then taught the strange figure of the boy about his future and predicted that he would be a great hero. Then Little Spruce was again "went down" this floating, glowing light path and landed in the hut at his camp. At that moment the luminous cone of light had disappeared without a trace - and thought little spruce, all of this to have only dreamed of. How else could he explain this unusual and mysterious experience?
Small spruce would certainly be very surprised - and comforted? - Have been if he had known that his Up Hover should belong on a "shining path" to an unknown object floating in the sky a few hundred years later to the details typical for the modern UFO abductions.
Such a "shining path" - a light beam or light cone - is a very puzzling phenomenon, past and present. In our contemporary reports abduction victims and witnesses repeatedly described the following characteristics of such a light cone:

• it serves as a kind of "lift"
• was observed as a strange thing (or more) it up or down floated or both
• it was observed how objects lifted it or how stakeholders have been raised therein
• witnesses saw, also within a beam and / or to float down, alone or with one or more foreign beings
• Witnesses saw as a cone of light down press or injured or paralyzed

In the several times mentioned study of 300 cases of abduction of Dr. Bullard is to rule on this inter-esting aspect of the UFO phenomenon: "As rays of light ... in relation to the ship are remains a mystery, but their meaning is clear in the abduction. In 61 reported cases the witnesses that a light in your car or bedroom met, or they were showered with light. This light can emanate directly from the ship or of a being ... The usual position of the light incident at the beginning of the story to settle during the arrest, where a beam has the task of taking the witness's mental and physical freedom. "

The study then explicitly point out that with in many cases the light beam or cone-a kind of pulling power, connects the leaves to the witnesses up to float an object.

way and no other did so, too at the Indian boys Small spruce. What writes Dr. John Fiebag in his article "First Contact" could not fit better on the case of small spruce: "Suddenly in the Room occurring unexplained lights moving from outside in, is a common secondary phenomenon, which usually indicates the beginning or end of an abduction experience are."

Let's remember: while a disembodied voice speaking to other small fir, lights suddenly a "shining path" from the top down into the Indian hut up to the warehouse of the boy. This then floats up to an object is, where the encounter with a being associated with a "slide show" and a future forecast, and finally suspended the boy again in the light beam down - and is back on his Camp, the "shining path" but has disappeared.

Such a scenario could well be only just happened in our time you replace the Indian hut with a modern house. In all these early cases - the abduction of Little Raven, cloud, small spruce, and the sightings of flying objects by Round Wind - the parallels to today's kidnapping cases are obvious and compelling. were meetings of the fourth kind is already about 200 years ago, and very likely much earlier. All the cases described here bear a striking example is indeed in a limited area in the Canadian lakes and in a limited period - 18 / 19 Century - but There could be many more cases like this, which we know nothing, not because an ethnologist as JA Kohl everywhere by his positive curiosity towards the Indians by such experiences random write, hear and could publish. A

us but known parallel is the case, Black Elk - Black Elk - an Ogallala Sioux Indians, who as a boy more abduction experiences, where he has been contacted by floating humanoid creature and then a flight with a "cloud "made.

Black Elk

Black Elk attend a "cottage" in heaven above

Black Elk is carried on a cloud in the sky

Here we even know the exact date: 1868 - at the age of five years - he had his first close encounters, and in 1872 he experienced his "cloud flying". Black Elk later told a white man, John Neihardt, its history, which they later published. How many such cases there may even be that we still know nothing? Here is a track worth looking from the perspective of UFO research all!

literature:

Bullard, Thomas E.: UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery. Mound Rainier 1987

Fiebag, John: First Contact. In: Scientific New Times, No. 2, 1996 Langenthal

Kohl, Johann Georg: Kitschi-Gami or stories from Lake Superior. Bremen 1859

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk: I call my people. Munich 1962

Stöcklin, Nando: History of the Ojibwa. In: Magazine of American Studies, No. 3, 1998

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