By Tim Binnall
The Battle of Los Angeles UFO incident, the dangers of electronic pollution, and the Shroud of Turin were among the fascinating topics discussed this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about a creepy doll that washed ashore in Florida, the solution to a mystery surrounding a previously indecipherable inscription found in France, and a wild plan to combat locusts in Pakistan using 100,000 Chinese ducks. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Considering how pervasive technological devices have become in our modern society, it's understandable why some might wonder if they could have a deleterious effect on our health. On Saturday night's program, Dr. Joseph Mercola explored this troubling scenario, specifically the dangers of electromagnetic fields. Despite claims from the wireless industry that EMFs are harmless, he noted that humanity's exposure to this energy has increased exponentially over the last century and it's far too soon to know just what kind of impact that might have on us. Mercola cited several ailments that may be caused or exacerbated by EMFs and also shared tips on how to protect against this electronic toxicity.
In a relatively rare instance of a longstanding mystery being solved, it was announced this week that a contest aimed at deciphering a centuries-old heretofore-unreadable message inscribed into a rock in France had proven successful with not one, but two winners being crowned. Located in the village of Plougastel-Daoulas, the puzzling stone had confounded experts until last year when the community announced a sizeable $2,250 prize to whoever could decode the writing. Among the 61 entrants, two people managed to figure out that the message was a memorial to a man who had been lost at sea.
One of the most intriguing cases in UFO history took center stage on Monday night's program as Mike Bara revisited the infamous 1942 incident known as the Battle of Los Angeles. Occurring just weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the still-puzzling event saw a mysterious aircraft appear over the city, which prompted a powerful, but futile response from the US military. Bara revealed that there were actually several different UFO reports in LA that fateful February night and detailed how the object at the center of the mystery appeared to be a large domed aircraft that was seemingly impenetrable in the face of tremendous anti-aircraft fire from US forces.
While we've seen all manner of strange and unusual objects and creatures wash ashore in various places over the years, this past week provided perhaps the most bizarre item of them all in the form of an unsettling hand-crafted doll bearing human teeth! The unnerving six-legged totem was discovered by a man walking along a beach near Cape Canaveral. Fearing that it may have been a voodoo doll, he promptly tossed the object, which was crafted out of coconut shells and had feathers affixed to it, back into the ocean in the hopes that any dark energy attached to it did not wind up sticking to him.
Despite being subjected to a vast array of scientific studies, the curious image seen on the Shroud of Turin continues to be a hotly debated subject in religious and esoteric circles. On Wednesday night's program, Dr. Andrew Silverman talked about issues surrounding carbon dating tests done on the cloth and posited that it is far older than these examinations initially suggested. He subsequently argued that the shroud was, indeed, what Jesus was wrapped in following the crucifixion and theorized that the image could have been created by some kind of energy burst.
By far the weirdest story from this past week came by way of China, where an agricultural expert told a media outlet that the country planned to send a whopping 100,000 ducks to Pakistan in order to combat a devastating outbreak of locusts. When word of the wonderfully odd plan popped up online, the story understandably went viral on both Chinese social media and in the English-speaking world. Sadly, a different agricultural official in China quickly stepped forward to squash the idea, noting that the waterfowl would not fare very well in the arid conditions of Pakistan, thus depriving us of what sounded like a truly epic showdown between millions of locusts and 100,000 ducks.
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