Curling Mystery

 

I'm very "into" the Winter Olympic Games this year. One of the most entertaining and interesting events that I've been following closely is curling. Curling is a sport that originates in Scotland and is similar in rules to bowls or pétanque. Traditionally it's played on a frozen pond although usually, for safety reasons, it is takes place on an ice rink. It is a team sport and each team consists of at least two people. The first is a "thrower" who slides the stone across the ice towards the target, called a "house". The thrower can select an arc trajectory or straight line by spinning the stone. The stone can then also be steered by the "sweeper", a second player who rubs the ice ahead of the stone very hard with a special tool called a "broom" although it is different from the one used to clean floors. This changes the lubrication of the ice and can alter the stone's course and speed. Opponent sweepers are always on standby to sweep your stones if they are knocked towards a lower scoring area of the house. This makes curling more complicated and dynamic than bowls, along with the fact that it also tends to be played by younger people. Despite the fierce competition in a vital tournament like the 2026 Winter Olympics there tends to be a lot of goodwill sportsmanship in curling that is similar to cricket. You might wonder why I'm writing about this subject; what is HPANWO-esque about curling? Well, strangely enough there is a major mystery in the sport. Nobody knows exactly what makes the stones move the way they do. Their rotation defies what scientists think they understand about the forces of momentum and friction. The stone arcs in the opposite direction to what it should based on its spin orientation. Despite many studies and experiments, the secret endures. There are a few theories; and these have a lot to do with some of the very tightly controlled rules of the game. The ice is not completely smooth. A groundsman... or whatever the equivalent is for an ice rink, sprays it with water droplets in a very skilled way to create a slightly rough or corrugated surface. The stones themselves weigh exactly 44 lb and are made of a very unique type of rock. For most major competitions, the rock comes from just one location, an island off the coast of Scotland called Ailsa Craig. The rock is called "common green microgranite". It is a rare, exceptionally dense material with a unique, tightly interlocked molecular structure. Alternatively it could be something to do with the ice consistency or the action of the sweepers. Source: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/02/the-slippery-science-of-olympic-curling--we-still-dont-know-how-. What curling teaches us is that the unexplained is actually not rare and it appears almost constantly in our universe. Another example is EVP, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/11/gb-news-evp.html. We live in a world which we share with phenomena we can't understand. Personally I like that. I wouldn't want to live in any other.

My HDA Guest Article

 

A while ago I wrote a review of a new documentary by Darcy Weir and his colleague Kari Lindsay, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/01/dark-alliance-next-generation.html. I'm pleased to say that it has been also published in The Wow! Signal, the official journal of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance. The editor, Dan Harary, contacted me and asked. Source: https://www.thewowsignal.news/latest-news/dark-alliance-the-next-generation-special-guest-documentary-review-by-ben-emlyn-jones. I'm glad once again to contribute to the HDA. I have done so before when I met my fellow members, including Dan, at the Contact in the Desert conference, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/07/hda-contact-event.html. I am also featuring Kari and Darcy on the HPANWO Show, see: (coming soon)

Disclosure Day Second Trailer

 

A new trailer has dropped for Disclosure Day two months after the initial teaser. It premiered at the Superbowl yesterday, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/12/disclosure-day.html. This new trailer is shorter, one minute only. Despite that it contains a lot more dialogue and information. It repeats a few shots from the earlier trailer, but has mostly new ones. It begins again in a TV studio, but this time a different newsreader is delivering a bulletin about the threat to release "government material long shrouded in secrecy." At the same time you see people doing something with a laptop and a new character played by Eve Hewson says: "Are they... people!?" "No!" replies Josh O'Connor's character. There is an action scene that reminds me very much of another of Steven Spielberg's films, one of his early works, an excellent psychological thriller called Duel, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhehxH25GGA. A car crashes into a moving freight train. Then we hear the first words from Colin Firth's character: "If you do this, there's no undoing it." This is followed by a cryptic shot of Josh O Connor's and Emily Blunt's characters with EEG transducers stuck to their heads, indicating that they're being subjected to some kind of experiment or medical treatment. "There will be no other day like tomorrow." says Colman Domingo's character and then we see an amazing vista of some kind of ET spaceship flying through a cloudy sky. It is either pushing through the clouds or is giving off smoke. It looks like a classic saucer and there's a similar effect in Independence Day. We hear the clicking alien language in the background several times in the trailer. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLv9WFOe6GU. It is easy to interpret the message in the story. Somebody has got hold of some secret information about aliens and plans to tell the world; what's known as "catastrophic Disclosure". The action scenes, together with the police raid in the first trailer, indicate that the government is trying to stop them. Since the last trailer there has been some supposition that Disclosure Day is set in the same universe as Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It could be that some of the characters are the same, maybe the children in the earlier film who have grown up. It's easy to forget that Close Encounters does not end with any kind of public revelation. After the aliens land by Devil's Tower they simply take off again with their human passengers and the film just ends. If you were an ordinary person living in that universe at the time all you would find out is that there had been a successful public health operation in Wyoming and that the toxic gas had been cleaned up. Also many people have noticed that the house in the first trailer looks exactly like Jillian and Barry's house, although the former is presumably just scenery because a car crashes right through it. There's a rumour that CE3 is going to be re-released in cinemas as a prelude to the Disclosure Day premier. If so I'll make a weekend of it! I predict that we're all going to be disappointed by Disclosure Day, not because it's going to be a bad movie, but because our hopes for it are so high. We often judge works of art by measuring them against our expectations. This is why the Star Wars prequels and The Matrix sequels had such lukewarm reviews. When I watch Spielberg's new film I will try to do so without those biases so I can simply enjoy it for what it is.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

MH370 Search Postponed

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/12/mh370-new-search-confirmed.html.
The search did resume. Armada 8605 has spent twenty-three of the fifty-five days Ocean Infinity agreed with the Malaysian government. Not all that time was spent at the 7th Arc searching though. Those days include the trip to Fremantle for refuelling and victualing, which takes about five days. The team also lost a couple of days due to bad weather. Today it was announced that the ship will not return to the MH370 search area. Instead it has been dispatched to Pago Pago in American Samoa. This is disappointing news and I'm sure the families are very distressed by it. The decision was made because of a bad weather forecast. The sub-Antarctic seas are called the "Roaring Forties" for a reason. Storms can spring up suddenly from nowhere and be very severe. The ship needs fairly calm seas to launch and retrieve its AUV's. If it can't do that then it's a waste of time being on station. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26EP0mkV8c. This is not a cancellation of the search, just a postponement. OI have simply decided to use their ship for another task until the bad weather clears and will then probably send it back to the 7th Arc. Alternatively they might dispatch a different ship. OI called the missing airliner "unfinished business" and are determined to find it. The government have nothing to lose because they agreed to this no-find-no-fee deal. Richard and Geoffrey have been providing almost daily updates into their progress; and Jeff Wise has chimed in with his own commentary every so often, see: https://substack.com/@jeffwise. Richard now has his own independent channel, see: https://www.youtube.com/@IAIwithRichardGodfrey/featured. Ashton Forbes also continues to follow the story, see: https://www.youtube.com/@JustXAshton, although he has expanded it into other related subjects. Obviously Jeff and Ashton believe the search cannot succeed because they're looking in completely the wrong place. I tend to agree with Ashton, but who knows what the truth really is? Right now there's no cause to think OI will not continue the mission and end up completing the fifty-five day pledge, probably longer if they make a breakthrough. However, as they say in Game of Thrones, winter is coming. By the end of May the weather will deteriorate to the point where any operation will be impossible. If they fail to locate the wreck by then, will they resume in the spring?
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

American Sasquatch

 

There is a huge amount of information available about the Bigfoot mystery; books, documentaries, websites, social media pages etc. Thousands of people dedicate their lives to searching for it in the wilderness, including some personal friends of mine. David Paulides' new film is very original because it breaks the assumption that all Bigfoot encounters are cryptozoological phenomena, simply the presence of an unknown animal. Paulides is best known for his investigations into mysterious disappearances of people, the "Missing 411" works, but he has always had an interest in Bigfoot, what he calls more often by its Amerindian name Sasquatch. He has always tried to find connections between different mysteries, such as UFO's and missing people in his previous movie, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjVrcpPT1kY. In this new production he looks for the link between Bigfoot and the paranormal. I was as surprised as he clearly was when I first found out, but such a connection definitely exists, at least in some instances. David interviews numerous people who have seen Bigfoot, but at the same time have seen UFO's, orbs, and other strange occurrences. Of course, the paranormal happens also in the absence of Bigfoot, but it's surely not just a coincidence when the two mysteries independently manifest together so often. I've also talked to people who have had similar experiences, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/02/deborah-hatswell-and-ben-emlyn-jones.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-beast-of-lye-valley.html. What's more a very recurrent phenomenon is when portals appear in the air and Bigfoots walk out of them, demonstrating a direct link. This happened most famously at Skinwalker Ranch and David includes an interview in the film with Colm Kelleher, the leading NIDS researcher into that location. Sometimes Bigfoots just appear and disappear into think air. He also brings back Ron Morehead, a hunter who was featured in David's 2019 film Missing 411- The Hunted and whose book I recently reviewed, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/01/voices-in-wilderness-read-party-review.html. Strangely enough, another researcher called Adam Davies also encountered a flying rod of light like Ron did, but this time the phenomenon was far more dramatic and frightening. David reports that spooky things happened to the crew while they were making the film. They saw UFO's above the trees and orbs. Sometimes their equipment inexplicably failed. Along with Bigfoot, sometimes humanoids are encountered that appear translucent, semi-transparent yet distorted. Witnesses have compared them to the creature in the film Predator that uses a cloaking device to bypass light rays around itself and so making itself partly invisible. Jan Maccabee, who also starred in Missing 411- The Hunted, ran into one of these; and not in the remote wilderness, in some woods in a town a hundred yards from her back garden, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTgxm2BBm6E.
 
The ideas in this film have triggered a controversy in the Bigfoot research community not unlike the one in UFOlogy between the "nuts and bolts" vs the "high strangeness" tendencies. In my view these two models are not mutually exclusive. As with UFO's and ghosts we may be dealing with more than one phenomenon that we have generically categorized into a single one by mistake. There's no doubt Bigfoot is a physical being. It leaves footprints and specimens like hair, and it has DNA. It can be seen, heard, smelled and even touched. It may well have a higher level of intelligence than its recognized simian cousins. I think some Bigfoots are genuine and literal cryptids. There are too many sightings of it without anything else weird attached; but there is an adjacent phenomenon that resembles it, but is actually not it. It comes under what Jonathan Downes (the go-to author on this subject I think) called "zooform phenomena". Such beings are a bit like the cases of aliens that look very human, sometimes indistinguishable from ordinary people, but are in fact not human nor from the earth. I've noticed another parallel with UFOlogy, government conspiracies to suppress public knowledge, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/11/keeping-bigfoot-secret.html. If there is an overlap between this mysterious creature and aliens then that could be a reason why. Representative Tim Burchett is featured as well, and he is currently best known for his stance on ending UAP secrecy. He makes the same point very perceptively. American Sasquatch is well worth a watch, whether you agree or disagree. Even skeptics might like it because at the start it appears to debunk a very famous recent piece of Bigfoot footage. You can get in on Amazon. Its rental price in only about two thirds of the purchase fee, so you might as well buy it. Like all movies, you can get more out of it by watching it more than once.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.

Hospice Exorcist

 

Hospitals are some of the most likely places to be haunted. Parapsychologists often say this is because the huge amount of fear, pain and death within their walls generates a psychic energetic atmosphere more conducive to ghosts. I've covered this possibility many times over the years, inspired by my own twenty-three years of service as a hospital porter, see the links below. Over the years there have been many news stories that have proved my point, but this latest one really takes the biscuit. Staff at a hospice in Norwich have been so troubled by ghostly phenomena that they have arranged to have the building exorcised. A hospice is a hospital that provides palliative care, treatment for those who are terminally ill; painkillers, other procedures to ease symptoms and generate a calm and caring environment. This does not include euthanasia in my country. The Priscilla Bacon Lodge is part of the Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust and so is a serious mainstream public institution. Exorcism is the spiritual practice of healing a person or place said to be possessed by a malevolent supernatural entity. It was popularized by the famous 1973 horror movie The Exorcist. Management at the hospice say there are concerns about "paranormal incidents" especially regular sighting of a young girl in a red dress who seems to be a phantom. According to leaked emails, Priscilla Bacon Lodge has been writing to the local bishop asking for advice and help from a "deliverance" team. The hospice's chaplain will join them in carrying out a blessing of the building to expel whatever darkness lurks within. Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nhs-exorcist-hospice-ghosts-b1268691.html. This will certainly not be as dramatic as the film. Hopefully no spinning heads or projectile vomiting. I hope it works. The cause of all this paranormal activity could be nothing to do with the building itself, but its location. It was erected on the site of a children's hospital which was demolished and its facilities moved to a new site. No wonder the ghost seen there is of a child. What really surprises me, knowing how the NHS works from the inside, is how the management are acting openly and straightforwardly on this very unusual matter. I'm truly surprised they would risk it. Sadly in today's healthcare world a service provider can be discharged for so much as breathing at the wrong volume; and the higher up the hierarchy you are, of course, the easier it is to get rid of you. The fact that the admin at the Priscilla Bacon Lodge are risking that fate means that something serious and immediate must be going on. The paranormal unrest must be considerable. When the media asked further questions about what staff and patients had witnessed the trust declined to comment. Finally, if HPANWO readers are at all interested in palliative medicine and its spooky elements then I definitely recommend "Hospice Nurse Julie" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hospicenursejulie.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2025/01/ghost-of-hp.html.
And: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2021/12/hospital-pm-scares.html.

Third Epstein File Release

 

The latest batch of file releases related to Jeffrey Epstein has been completed. They reveal some shocking information, especially relating to the nonce formerly known as Prince. The figurehead of this new bombshell is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor kneeling on a floor looking up at the camera. The camera flash is reflected in his eyes and he is dressed casually in jeans and a white shirt. Lying on the floor beneath him is a young woman whose face has been redacted. She is lying flat on her back and looks as if she's unconscious. It's difficult to know for sure what is going on here. Maybe she fainted and Andrew is taking care of her until the ambulance arrives... but knowing what we do about this scandal I suspect something more sinister is afoot. There's nothing to reveal in what situation the photo was taken, but there are emails between Andrew and Epstein discussing an upcoming dinner party in London in which Andrew was to be introduced to a Russian lady, aged twenty-six; too old for Jeffrey obviously. They're dated 2010 so there's no doubt Andrew and Epstein remained friends following his conviction. Andrew's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, also seemed to be very chummy with Epstein. She called him her "dear spectacular and special friend" when she emailed him while on a flight involving a layover in Florida; and she invited him to take tea with her. This was in 2009, just a year after Epstein had been sleeping in prison overnight for trafficking teenage girls. The former Duchess of York has declined to comment. A new name that has popped up, without much shock on my part, is Peter Lord Mandelson. Mandelson was a long-sitting cabinet Minister under Tony Blair, an EU Commissioner before Brexit and was appointed Britain's Ambassador to the United States by Keir Starmer. Probably you can guess by now that he's not a very nice guy; in fact his nickname is "Prince of Darkness" because of his ghoulish demeanour and evil gaze. He was expelled when it was revealed that he sent supportive messages to Jeffrey Epstein. Now we find out it was much worse than that. Epstein sent Lord Mandelson money, £10,000 in fact. This was allegedly for an "osteopathy course"; which is an odd thing for a financier to fund for somebody else. Epstein also invited Elon Musk to one of his "parties" on the island. Musk replied enthusiastically, but never ended up attending. Some embarrassing documents have also emerged that may be email drafts involving Bill Gates. Gloria Allred, a solicitor representing Epstein's victims, in unhappy with the latest file release. She thinks some of her clients' names were published illicitly and not redacted, contravening data protection practice. She was assured by the US Department of Justice that this would not happen. She hopes to get the files edited, but nothing can be done about the ones already downloaded. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevnmxyy4wjo. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been cleared by the Metropolitan Police, but the FBI still have suspicions and want to interview him.
 
This is, almost inevitably, not the end of the story. US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has managed the publication, said that the DOJ has fulfilled its duty under the directive ordered by President Trump; "it's job over!" Gloria Allred disagrees and she is not alone. Questions are being asked by congresspeople who have calculated that two-and-a-half million files remain classified. As I've said previously, Trump's own rhetoric on this matter has become so diluted compared to what he said during his first couple of months in office that I wonder what has changed. I also worry that this cover-up is going on because the authorities have decided the truth is too horrible to tell. The people do not have the mental and social stamina to absorb a revelation of such magnitude. See: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/01/trump-2-one-year-on.html. This a direct parallel to the UFO truth embargo; but what if the secrets relating to children are even worse? I have long suspected that they are. Here's a passage from my novel Roswell Redeemed- Humanity After Disclosure:
Brendan left the campus and rode back into central Rockville. In doing so he realized something that he had noticed subconsciously on his journey out, but it had not registered at the time. There was very little traffic on the roads, even for a public holiday. He passed an occasional car, but far fewer than normal; and there were no buses or lorries. When he arrived back in town he saw a group of people standing on a street corner. They were clustered close together outside the door of a solicitors' office. Brendan thought there was something wrong about their posture. He slowed down to listen to their voices. They were all weeping. Their heads were bowed, they were covering their face with their hands and they wailed pitifully together. Brendan pedalled harder and sped away from them, feeling afraid for some reason. He turned his bicycle onto Park Road and followed it under the railway bridge into a residential district. He then spotted four people sitting in a front garden outside a house; three men and five women. They were crouched on the grass crying. Brendan was so surprised that he pulled up by the kerb and stared. The people didn't notice him; they never looked up. They stayed where they were, half-sitting on the grass with tears dropping from their noses. Brendan rode on. Less than a minute later he passed an old man walking down a lane crying openly. Then he saw a married couple whom he knew by sight, but whose names he couldn't remember. They were also weeping profusely. Brendan was unnerved so he headed home as quickly as he could. On the way he encountered a number of other people all in tears. It was as if the entire town had turned into one big funeral. When he got home he left his bicycle in the garage and entered his home. "Mom, dad, are you there?" He walked into the lounge and saw his mother and father hunched forward on the settee watching television. "Mom, dad, why is everybody crying...?" His words caught in his throat as he saw tears in his parents' eyes. They were clutching each other's hands as if seeking support from each other. His eyes moved to the TV screen where a narrator was speaking in a sombre voice: "...the true magnitude of what has been done for more years than we currently know..." His mother leaped for the TV remote control in a panic and almost threw herself on top of it. The screen went blank. She got to her feet and faced her son, her face trembling. "Brendan, go to your room now."
    "Why? What's going on?" Brendan asked as a very half-hearted interrogation. He knew he had no choice but to obey. As he reached the top of the stairs he heard her bark behind him: "Wait!" She ran up the stairs and pushed past him into his bedroom and came out carrying his personal computer.
    He reached out for it. "Oh no, mom!"
    "Go to bed!" she responded in a tremulous voice and pointed at the door.
    "It's only four o'clock!"
    She slammed the door of his bedroom behind him as soon as he was inside.
    He passed an anxious evening reading his books, cut off from the outside world... The following morning Brendan awoke while it was still dark outside. He poked his head out of his bedroom and heard somebody moving about downstairs. He descended to the kitchen and saw his father sitting at the table eating a bowl of cereal... "Morning, dad." said Brendan.
    His father looked up sharply... "Hello, son." he said breathlessly. "It's only six-thirty. What are you doing up this early?"
    He shrugged. "Because I went to bed early I guess."
    His father chuckled sadly. "We can't keep you in bed forever can we?"
    "What's going on, dad?"
    He sighed tremulously. "Sit down, Bren."
    Brendan poured himself a glass of orange juice from the fridge and took his place on a stool opposite his father.
    "We didn't want to expose you to what's happened. It's too horrible. The reason I'm up so early is I'm heading into DC to deal with it. I've got a meeting with Jack scheduled for eight AM."
    Brendan felt adrenalin surge through his body. His father looked genuinely perturbed, more so than he had ever done before. "What's going on, dad? Why was everybody crying yesterday?"
    "Jack told the country something awful yesterday afternoon, some really bad news. He's been holding it back for a long time; keeping it secret, just like in the old days... He never even told me. I was pissed off at first, but now I understand why. I know why Jack made sure nobody could know; and anyway he's told the nation now."
    "Told the nation what?"
    His father bowed his head and raised his hands to his brow, as if experiencing a headache. "It's... it's all to do with children."
    "What about children, dad?"
    "Before R-Day... in fact even before Saucer Day, the government kept children prisoner. Some were children taken away from their moms and dads; some were children who never had a mom or dad; and..." he shuddered. "And the government did some really cruel things to them."
    "Like what?"
    "I can't tell you; you're too young to know." he tittered ironically. "I think we're all too young to know." See: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2018/12/roswell-redeemed-is-here.html. Is it really that bad? If so, are we ever going to be told willingly? How can the authorities really prepare us for this? They can't exactly acclimatize us with Hollywood movies. I think some form of unauthorized exposure akin to catastrophic Disclosure may be the only solution.
See here for background: https://benemlynjones.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-mini-portal.