The Baby-horse of Nigeria

Baby-horse. The photo above is real and was obtained by one of the journalists who visited the church, according information of The Nation Online/Nigeria. 

Foto: Osagie Otabor./The Nation Online

[http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news-update/61099-woman-gives-birth-to-horse-in-edo-church.html]

NIGERIA. According to the sources this news happened Tuesday, September 11 (2012), in Benin city, Edo state capital - Nigeria, Africa. A woman gave birth to a horse during a prayer meeting - called "Prophecy Programmes" - within an evangelical church - reported the supervisor of the Ministry of Mondial Liberation, the evangelist minister Iyamu Silva.

Although the local medical community be perplexed and denying vehemently the veracity and the possibility of a clinical fact of this type to happen, the Church presents its witnesses.

A nurse, Veronica Egiebor, and two women who provided aid to the (alleged) parturient told how it happened:  

The minister approached the woman and asked if she was pregnant. She confirmed. Then he said that the baby she was carrying was not normal and asked, "You want to go to a doctor and expel what are you carrying? Because it's not a baby, or you want to happen here?" People in the congregation started shouting "Yes".

The pastor asked to four women to donate their mantles to form a canopy around the pregnant. The men turn back. The pastor poured the anointing oil and a sachet of water on the woman and asked everyone to pray. 

He said that the parturition would start. She was balancing her body. Then she grabbed the leg of someone. She pressed and pushed harder. Something fell and she fell. When we removed the mantles everyone see what was expelled.

I've never seen this kind of thing in my life before. People called goat but it looked like a horse with a long neck and long ears ... The minister told that nobody should touch in the creature because it was demonic. Everyone ran in the confusion and some persons carried the woman though.

Iyamu Silva said: This is not strange to us. During prayers, we perceived that the woman was bleeding. I I saw that something was blocking her uterus. Yesterday ... (Tuesday, 09/11/2012) she came to my office asking for prayers. I think she was not from here (Benin City) because she said that will call her mother in her village.

The medical director of the Central Hospital in Benin City, consultant gynecologist Dr. Jerry Uwaifo does not admits the case and said that is clinically (or biologically) impossible for a woman to conceive and give birth to an animal. 

He said: A woman can give birth to a deformed child but not to an animal. Why they don't brought the woman and the creature to the hospital for they be examined?

The pastor replied that doctors can not investigate the case without the consent of the husband or of the fact protagonist. The woman's identity was not revealed.

About the allegations that the case was wrought by the Church to attract more members, Silva challenged anyone to make contestations and added: 

Every story has two sides. The truth is that God is working. Signs and wonders are normal things in this church. Nobody can predict what God can do. Silva also informed that the woman said that will make contact and that would be at the church for the day of Thanksgiving.

The general superintendent of the Church, Prince John Ogbovoh said: The baby-horse was exposed for awhile for people could see it but then was destroyed (how it should be done with the things of the devil) because when the news began to spread, the thing became embarrassing.

What this editor thinks? Thinks nothing... only, maybe... that...  anything is wrong with the eye of the creature, something that not seems organic... The journalists were not close enough to check this? Or the need to sell news generates myopia? In anyway, these are strange days... Let's meditate...

SOURCES 

Pony birth claim triggers controversy.

PMNews/NIGERIA, published in 13/09/2012.

[http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/09/13/pony-birth-claim-triggers-controversy/]

OLISAH, Uchechukwu. How woman was delivered of a horse. Nurse, pastor give accounts.

TRIBUNE/NIGERIA, published in 13/09/2012.

[http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/47548-how-woman-was-delivered-of-a-horse-nurse-pastor-give-accounts]

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE

http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/o-bebe-cavalo-da-nigeria.html

The Invasion of the Big Worms in Laguna Madre

Specimens collected for exam. The worms - which are reproducing themselves rapidly, are unknown to the local citizens, the fishers that work in the Laguna and biologists. They have between 20 and 30 cm long. They stink and cling to human skin causing severe irritation.

MEXICO. In the city of Vitória, state of Tamaluipas, fishermen working in the Laguna Madre requested the support of biologists Centro Regional de Investigacion Pesquera (Regional Center of Fishery Research), the SAGARPA (Secretary of Agriculture Livestock Rural Development Fishery and Food) and of the state government to help them control a plague of unknown marine worms that is spreading in fishing waters. 

Besides to be a strange life form in the ecosystem, the worms produce a nauseating odor and irritate the skin of who comes into contact with them.

The President of the Consejo de Vigilância de la Sociedad Cooperativa de Producción Pesquera Carvajal (Council of Surveillance Cooperative Society of Fishery Carvajal Production), Ángel Ramiro Fuentes said the creatures are spreading (or are reproducing themselves) in the entire Laguna Madre.

At the site, no one never seen these big worms that have been captured by fishing nets installed in the coastal of the various villages of the saline lake - that is Laguna Madre.

Fuentes explained: The plague is spreading throughout Laguna. That has not yet affected (apparently) the quantity and quality of shrimp but is affecting fishermen. It is a parasite that clings to human skin and cause much irritation.

The animals have a length between 20 and 30 cm and are covered by a sort of mucosa. They appeared there two months (amid July and August, 2012) and are multiplying rapidly.

The authorities and especially the Regional Center of Fishery Research are mobilized in order to study the specie to determine the degree of danger these creatures may to represent to health of persons (besides the skin irritation, what is already enough to be a problem) and of the fishes, considering that the fishery product is destinated to human feed.

SOURCE: DE LA CRUZ, Antonio. Extraña lombriz invade la Laguna Madre y cooperativas pesqueras claman por ayuda.

GACETA/MEXICO, published in 09/09/2012.

[http://www.gaceta.mx/noticia.aspx?idnota=46943]

This news in Portuguese: A Invasão dos Vermes Marinhos em Laguna Madre. 

[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2012/09/a-invasao-dos-vermes-marinhos-em-laguna.html]

Gorgakh, The Mutant Monster Corpses Eater of Pakistan

Gorgakh, Pakistan the pangolin-monster. Posted in YOUTUBE on 18/08/2012. 

[http://youtu.be/bwtGyb1pcbM]

SHORT VERSION MORE IN THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL PAKISTANI, PAKISTAN SHAANE (http://www.shaanepakistan.com) - posted on 15/08/2012 - [http://youtu.be/j1xMToxRY58]

PAKISTAN. News about sighting and / or capture of strange creatures have appeared frequently in all midia. Often, it is just about some kind of rare animal or something like a large dog or wolf, bald and squalid that is immediately identified with chupacabras. But...

In August (2012) - in Swabi district, the fourth most populous of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Pakistan, an animal was captured and killed by the citizens. The images were posted on Youtube where bizarre headlines and titles refer to the creature as "an alien"m an extraterrestrial. Occurs that, in true it is very earthly, or better, subterraneous.

Many netizens, between irony and contempt, expressed their vast wisdom identifying the animal as a pangolin. Moreover, most commentators - "experts" - say that the unusual size of the individual that appears in the images is "obviously" a photographic trick that consists in a simple approaching of the object in front of the camera, a matter of perpectiva.

Also remembered was that pangolins are endangered and that the conduct of Pakistanis ...was an act of brutal ignorance.

ABOUT PANGOLINS

The pangolins, whose name derives from the term pangulang, meaning "convolves by self same" - despite the wide body covered with hard scales and made ​​of keratin, of the sharp front claws that give it a reptilian appearence, are toothless mammals.

Related with the anteaters, they use their long and sticky tongue - that reaches the middle of the chest for collect ants in their holes, food of most species. There, too - the arboreal pangolins, that climb trees and eat other insects, especially termites, whose nests are under the bark of the trunks.

Pangolin of India

Their different species are found in India (Manis crassicaudata), including regions of Pakistan - where the species usually have a size 33-45 cm long. At China and also at Africa, where different species live at a wide area stretching from downtown to the south of the continent. Among these, the giant pangolin.

The Giant Pangolin is common in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Its gigantism can be defined - in terms of measures - between 1.30 and 1.40 m long, between the males - from nose to tail and a specimen of this type weighs about 33 kg.

The majority of netizens, says the size displayed - in the image of Pakistan, is the result of a trick of perspective. The matter could be closed. The pangolin is a harmless creature, toothless and is threatened of be extinct. The video is a fake. End point. However, certain details of the images and news asks a more careful analysis.

However, the same image has a benchmark that excludes that theory. One can clearly see two fingers of the boy next to the animal; the fingers of a normal human hand and this gives an idea of the real size of the animal. Is possible to see too, the feet of three person near the animal. Normal feet.

This reference point indicates that this pangolin, really is a giant pangolin. But the common Giant Pangolin, natural of Africa, larger than the Asian pangolins, are minor of the creature in the photo, even for the more well-endowed, the greaters among individuals of their species.

At Pakistan, this animal that can be seen in the photo, this type of pangolin - is well known and considered a monster. There, is called Gorgakh (or in Urdu قبر کھودنےوالا - spoken idom at Pakistan, grave digger in English) and - about this being, the pakistanis say that eats freshly buried corpses, digging up their graves, violating the coffins.

Despite its reputation to be a harmless insectivorous, similar to the anteaters, phylogenetically, the pangolins are closer to the carnivores. That would explain why an animal that usually eats ants and termites would be interested in newly buried corpses.

In this another photo (above), more complete - in the top - and expanded with quality, another element of comparison appears to certify the veracity of unusual size of this pangolin: while the previous photo (full body) can be seen the fingers of the boy, holding a stick, walking beside the Gorgakh here can be noted:

1. what appears to be a human arm with a bracelet, on the wrist, that seems to be surrounding the thorax region of the animal beneath the limb or claw, on the right and which can best be seen with the applying of a greater contrast in the image with decreased brightness;

2. especially, a thick rope, above the head of the monster that appears to be tied to the neck of the animal, holding him.

This, without to mention the what seems to be a ring in its nose that was observed bysome netizens. 

See photo in super enlarged in SIASAT, website of Pakistan [http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?129017-Monster-killed-in-Swabi-district - KPK] - The subtitle says: It was found and killed here in our village Swabi...

In the more complete photo of the SIASAT is possible to see - too, a long appendix on the left that end in an arrow-shaped. It is the tongue of Gorgakh, much major in lenght than in pangolins known.

From the analysis, is possible to conclude that this Pakistani pangolin, is indeed a Gorgakh, or be - a gravedigger, the meaning of the local expression. A gravedigger in reverse, that violates graves instead of closes them.

A breastplate or armor with shoulder pads made ​​with scales of Pangolin. The object, uncommon, was gifted to the King George III (1760-1820), monarch of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland (from 1801) - by Francis Rawdon, 1º Marquis of Hasti.

The piece is from Rajasthan - today the largest state of India. Apparently, this not gave much luck to the king, he died that year. Photo: Gaius Cornelius, 2006. On display at the Royal Armouries, Leeds - England, UK.

At China, where the pangolins are not monstrous, and still are all insectivores, they are hunted for use in the preparation of special foods. Moreover, its scaly leather is used in the manufacture of garments, and in earlier times, a breastplate of pangolin's leather was an excellent vest anti-blows of knives. Perhaps even today, could refrain the impact of a small caliber bullet.

Regarding the gigantism of this pakistani pangolin, if the analysis of the photos - made here, and the testimonies of the inhabitants of the local where it and others like it are known and are found, if this has some value, the question is: why this pangolin is so greater? Not even the species of the called "giant pangolin" has a comparable size. Moreover, this giant species has its habitat in Africa, far away from Pakistan.

Besides to be really a giant pangolin, this creature developed an anomalous feed habit for their species, accentuating their carnivore aspect, since it became a predator of fresh human corpses, which obtain its nourishment from corpses, tearing the flesh with its claws to ingest the portions in pieces. Despite the lack of teeth, a pagolin is able to swallow and digest ants. Likewise can digest the meat of the corpses.

The Pakistani tradition, which even has a special name for the creature relating it to their funerary diet, indicates that the people of that country already has some familiarity with this strange kind of pangolin. In current terms, a tradition need not - necessarily, to have hundreds of years. Already there are postmodern myths. Some ocurrences, if are dated from the decades of 1960 or 1970 can to be considered traditions.

Considering that Pakistan is one of the few countries of the world recognized like holders of atomic energy technology aimed at making weapons; that the radioactive waste from various sources is often discarded in subterraneous dumps that - no guarantees that are actually sealed properly, and - even, considering that not all accidents with reactors are disclosed to the public knowledge, it would not be absurd to think in Gorgakh as a mutant resulting from contamination by high levels of radiation. Or - worse, a creature genetically modified, in laboratory - of which offspring could have been - inadvertently, liberated in nature or to have escaped to the control of scientists.

SOURCES

ROSE, Tom. Giant 'Gorgakh' killed in Pakistan.

EXAMINER, published in 23/08/2012.

[http://www.examiner.com/article/giant-gorgakh-killed-pakistan]

Giant 'Gorgakh' killed in Swabi.

MARDAN/PAQUISTÃO, August 2012

[http://www.mardan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2169:giant-gorgakh-killed-in-swabi&catid=151:story-news&Itemid=291]

PANGOLÍ. WIKIPEDIA/catalan. [http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangol%C3%AD]

PANGOLIM. WIKIPEDIA/portuguese [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolim]

PALGOLIN. WIKIPEDIA/english. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin]

UFO at Gonars, Italy

The image obtained by Giancarlo Píu. He allow publish his own phone number, in the hope that someone can explain what's this: Piu e la sua famiglia gradirebbero essere contattati da chi si riterrebbe in grado di poter dare una spiegazione allo strano fenomeno - XXX. 6127835.

The complete number is in the page source of the news. (This citizen is risking receive many pranks by phone publishing his number. We know, how says the Brazilian singer and composer Gilberto Gil: A raça humana é, uma semana, do trabalho de Deus... OR The human race is only a week day of the god's job).

ITALY. On Friday, August 31 (2012) Gonars, a small municipality (or county) of the Italian province of Udine, an unidentified flying object was seen in the night sky flying in the lowlands (La Bassa of Gonars), fast and quiet.

The citizen, Giancarlo Píu - tells: on Friday, 20:30 hours - I was in the backyard to see the coming of a storm when a ball appeared in the sky orange, very bright. 

Giancarlo caught the attention of family members and they gone observe the object. One of them achieved capture an image with the camera of a mobile phone.

The path of the UFO, the Gonars to Mortegliano, province of Udine - Italy. The easy access to photograph and filming equipment enable more frequent records of strange phenomena worldwide.

He describes: The ball changed colors, from orange, yellow and red. She kept track nor smoke. It was too fast to be a plane, a satellite paraser estavabaixo too and if a meteor had fallen. It had flashing lights and was moving. Came from the south and going in a northwesterly direction, towards Mortegliano (another small town in the same region).

SOURCE: Misteriosa sfera nel cielo della Bassa.

MESSAGERO VENETO/ITÁLIA, publicado em 06/09/2012.

[http://messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/cronaca/2012/09/06/news/misteriosa-sfera-nel-cielo-della-bassa-1.5651689]

Machu Picchu - The Small and Mysterious Grave of the Mountain

The tomb on the hill. Mysterious: small and isolated.

PERU. A strange tomb was found on the hill Uñawaynapicchu in the Archaeological Park of Machu Pichu - on Monday, 03/09/2012. Unlike other funerary constructions of the pre-Columbian civilizations of Peru, this grave is located on the top of a rocky hill, about 10 meters below the summit of the elevation, in front of the big wall of Machu Pichu. Small - measures only 1.20 meters long and has 75 cm wide.

The park director Fernando Astete told Andina news Agency: It is unique because all the graves of Machu Pichu, such as those found by Hiram Bingham (north-american explorer and treasure hunter, 1875-1956), are caves that had been closed with stones of different sizes - stacked and covered with mud - which served as the cement of these constructions.

Researchers have realized that this strange sepulture was desecrated but on the spot were found bones and pottery shards. Next to the tomb, were rescued pieces of stone that belonged to it, what allowed to restore the original appearance of the crypt.

Archaeologists and historians have no idea who was buried there but they believe that was a character distinct or at least unusual, given the location difficult to reach and the size remarkably reduced of this mysterious burial chamber.

SOURCE: Machu Picchu: hallan tumba "única en su género" en el parque arqueológico.

EL COMERCIO/PERU, publicado em 05/09/2012.

[http://elcomercio.pe/turismo/1465523/noticia-machu-picchu-hallan-tumbaunica-su-genero-parque-arqueologico]

Swaziland - The Dance of the Virgins For the King

The virgins of Swaziland. Dancing to get a place of queen aside the king. 

In YOUTUBE [http://youtu.be/bOSC4GMQzYA]

AFRICA. SWAZILAND. At the small kingdom of Swaziland (17,364 km2), situated in the south of African continent, in august, more than 80 thousands of young women, allegedly virgins, danced half naked, only wearing short skirts and breasts on display to impress the called Ngwenyama (title of king) - King Mswati III, nicknamed "the Lion". It is the Umhlanga or Baile de la Caña (something like The Dance of Bamboo Stick).

The ritual is performed at the royal residence, in Ludzidzini Royal Village. In this time of year, during this party, the king chooses one of these women to be his new bride and future wife - aside of the others - that he already has. They are twelve - currently (2012). 

The other wives - they also observe the dancers - the girls candidates to be the wife of each year. Indeed, everyone sees this ceremony because it become a tourist attraction of the country and videos of the annual performances are available on Youtube.

Besides the possibility of becoming queen, young women dance to show their pride in still be virgins. It is a statement of virginity.

The king: he is needing a diet... urgent...

Mswati III, born in april 18 of 1968 - four hours before the country to get independence from Britain - succeeded his father Sobhuza II in 1986. Initially, it was named after Makhosetive. He already had 13 wives but one of them was caught betraying him with the Minister of Justice and both were arrested.

Swaziland is a kingdom very poor. Two-thirds of his subjects, a population of just over one million of inhabitants, are fed by international aid; 34% of the active population is unemployed and more than half live on less than a dollar a day. And - even - Swaziland is considered the African country with the highest percentage of people with AIDS, about 39%.

TRADITION

Nobody knows when or how the tradition of this ceremony began. It has been realized by hundreds of years and is a heritage of the culture of Zulu nation (a nation of african natives). The party is not only for the king choose a new bride. 

But, is much more that this. In truth, in its origins, the Umhlanga is in honor to the mother-Queen of the Swaziland also called the great Elephanta or Indovuzaki. At Swaziland, while the king rules the administration, the politics, the Mother-Queen is the spiritual chief of the kingdom.

To be a mother-Queen, the wifes, among the all of them have to reunite certain conditions. She can't belong to the royal family regnant and has to have only one son. This woman, that will be always a wife of the precedent king, is choosed to be the mother Queen by decision of the royal family and never by another system.

Not are all the wives choosed during the Umhlanga. The first two wives are elected by national counselors and must to be of determined clans: one, of the Matsebula; another - of the Motsa clan. These wives have special ritual functions and their sons never will be the heirs of the crown

THE QUEENS

A politically active woman who represents the kingdom brightly in intercional scenario. Los Angeles, USA - 2009. Getty Photos IN HUFFINGTON POST, 19/05/2012. 

[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/inkhosikati-lambikiza-swaziland-first-lady- _n_1529955.html?1337522107&ref=style#slide=998403]. 

LOOK - The list of Swaziland Queens 

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_Swazi_throne]

The list of wives of the king Mswati III of Swaziland is very interesting. Contrary to what one might think seeing the girls in the dance of the virgins they are not simpletons women and even less - wild natives. 

At least two of them are formed in higher education, in university courses: LaMatsebula, ritual wife, has degree in Psychology. LaMbikiza, born June 16, 1969 as Sibonelo Mngomezulu, is lawyer and is active member in the Swazi Royal Initiative to Combat AIDS (RICA).

LaMotsa, the other ritual wife is Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1996. LaNgangaza, born Carol Dlamini, is patron of the world organization "Hospice at Home" previously led by Diana, Princess of Wales.

SOURCES

Miles de vírgenes en Suazilandia bailan para convertirse en «prometidas» del Rey.

ABC/Spain, published in 03/09/2012.

[http://www.abc.es/20120903/internacional/abci-baile-mujeres-virgenes-suazilandia-201209031501.html]

MATEUS FERREIRA, Leonor. Virgens dançam para conquistar Rei Mswati III.

Diario de Noticias/Pt, published in 03/09/2012.

[http://www.dn.pt/inicio/globo/interior.aspx?content_id=2749958&seccao=%C1frica&page=1] 

Rei da Swazilândia cumpre ritual para escolher a 14ª esposa.

TPA-SAPO/Pt, published in 04/09/2012.

[http://tpa.sapo.ao/noticias/internacional/rei-da-swazilandia-cumpre-ritual-para-escolher-a-14-esposa]