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In its September 9th, 1987 edition, The Atlanta Journal Constitution carried a bizarre story that became known as The House That Dripped Blood. Atlanta Police had been called just after midnight by a woman claiming that what looked like blood, was coming out of the floor of her home at 1114 Fountain Drive. In the late 1980s, elderly couple William and Minnie Winston lived in a small private house in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Everything in their life was calm and normal, except that William had diseased kidneys and was connected to a dialysis machine every day, which he really did not like and why he was often out of sorts. Late in the evening of September 8, 1987, 77-year-old Minnie Winston took a bath, dried herself with a towel, and as she was getting ready to leave the bathroom, she noticed a red spot on the floor. It looked like blood, but Minnie was sure there were no wounds on her body where it could leak. And when she looked around the entire bathroom, she found another red spot, this time on the wall. Red liquid slowly flowed from it down to the floor. Minnie jumped out of the bathroom and saw bloody streaks on the floor in the hallway, smeared on the tiles. She immediately thought that something had happened to her husband and that the blood might have leaked during dialysis. However, when she woke up William, 79, there were no sources of bleeding on his body. Minnie and William Winston There was no blood on or near the dialysis machine. The frightened couple walked around all six rooms of the house and found bloody stains on the floor in almost every room. Their house was old, brick and very strong. They have lived in it for 22 years and until now nothing unusual has happened in the house. They had no pets; they had never seen rats, mice or other possible pests. They didn’t know what to do and finally decided to just go to bed. The next morning, the blood on the floor and walls had not gone away and there even seemed to be more of it. So the Winstons decided to call the police. Police searched the house and indeed found “copious amounts of blood” in the bathroom, kitchen, living room, bedroom, hallways and even the basement. They found no evidence that a person had been attacked, but they declared the Winston house a crime scene and surrounded it with yellow tape. The couple was allowed to stay inside the house. Blood samples were collected and sent to the laboratory for analysis. First of all, in order to determine whether it is human blood at all. Soon the answer came that yes, human. Moreover, it was type zero, and both Winstons had type A blood. According to detective Steve Cartwright, who led the case, he had worked in the police force for more than 10 years up to that point, but had never encountered such an oddity. The police examined the house again, but in the end they still found nothing more. A few days later, this story hit the press and a crowd of onlookers and journalists flocked to the house. And also psychics who offered their services, believing that something supernatural was involved. From the Sept. 11, 1987 edition of the Lawrence Journal-World. Credit: theghostinmymachine.com Then a group of five enthusiastic skeptics was formed who decided to get to the bottom of this phenomenon at all costs. They were Joe Nickell, Larry Johnson, Rick Moen and Rebecca Long, who were later joined by Lt. G. Walker, who was on the original team of investigators on the case. At some point, they managed to get a police report from the inspection of the house, which contained color photos of bloody stains (alas, these photos are not available on the Internet), but no further breakthroughs happened. Lieutenant Walker believed that there was no poltergeist intervention (as psychics believed), and assumed that something criminal had happened in the house. He also did not rule out that the spouses could have been persuaded to commit a hoax by promising them money or something else. Walker then discovered that the Winstons’ daughter worked at the hospital as a nurse and had access to blood donations. According to his theory, the daughter could deliberately stage a “bloody show” in order to make her parents look like crazy and so that they would be recognized as incompetent. Then the daughter would get their house for herself. Walker considered this version very plausible, as he found out that there had been long-standing serious conflicts between the Winstons and their daughter. However, he was removed from the case long ago, and the official investigation quickly reached a dead end and the case was simply closed. A police spokesman later admitted that they still did not understand where the blood came from. The post Mystery of Atlanta Blood House: Human Blood on Floors and Walls appeared first on Anomalien.com.

It’s hard to believe, but our “news” media think Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s wife hanging a flag upside-down outside their home for a few days is a much more serious matter than an attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. That story was quickly squashed. Start with taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, which never managed to produce a single feature story on the foiled Kavanaugh assassination, but has provided multiple stories in the Alito Flag Frenzy. They use fake-neutral headlines like “Flag displays at Justice Alito’s homes concern judicial watchdogs.” Make that “Democrat law professors.” NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg, who tried to strangle the Clarence Thomas nomination in the crib, couldn’t muster any concern for Kavanaugh’s safety, but found the time for Alito-flag coverage. The idea that this slavish pal of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was going to furrow her brow about the bias of judges was a laughable matter. Everyone with political eyes can see that the media are toeing the Democrat line that a Supreme Court with a conservative majority must be discredited. Forget all of their bleatings that Trump was undermining confidence in government. “Objective” reporters always undermine confidence in government when conservatives have a toehold.  The latest decision they hated was an Alito opinion in a 6-3 ruling that the South Carolina legislature could move a sizable number of black voters out of the competitive 1st Congressional District into the black-majority 6th District. The majority ruled that this was a political gerrymander, which is legal, and not a racial gerrymander, which is illegal. But they ruled against the NAACP, so there was hell to pay. On “All In with Chris Hayes” on May 23, the host lamented the decision and brought in MSNBC’s regular extremist Elie Mystal to concoct a theory on Alito’s majority opinion. “The throughline between the Alito flag story, the Clarence Thomas coup story, and their wives, and what we saw today from the Supreme Court in this gerrymandering decision,” he said, “is that they don’t want black people’s votes to count equally.” As for Thomas, forget that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has a white husband, you’re only a sellout if you’re conservative. “I mean, he ain’t married to Ginni Thomas for nothing all right...like that’s what the man thinks.” He claimed Thomas does not think the 14th Amendment “can be used to protect the voting rights of black people.” On the Left, black voting rights translate into the ability to elect Democrats. That’s not the right to vote at all. It’s the right to be represented by a Democrat. If you don’t agree with that principle, you’re in favor of “diluting” black votes.  In Mystal’s conspiracy brain, “when people like Alito and Thomas support the insurrection, what are they saying? They’re saying that Trump won -- lost the election but won the white vote...won the white vote by a lot.” He claimed they think white votes are “the only votes that matter.” This character assassination of Alito and Thomas as racist insurrectionists is considered weighty legal analysis on MSNBC. On the Left, anything that disturbs their domination of government is an “insurrection,” which is why they endlessly associate every conservative with the January 6 riot as much as they can. They are the ones who can’t stand dissent and an actual democracy where conservatives disturb their dreams of complete dominance. 

“We should thank God for beer,” said G.K. Chesterton, a bon vivant always ready to practice what he preached over a pint or two. For Chesterton, there was something profoundly ungrateful and unnatural about abusing this divine gift: "Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world."The 1977 Burt Reynolds' classic “Smokey and the Bandit” is a kind of paean to beer and its irrational consumption. Big Enos Burdette could surely afford to ply his party guests with a truckload of any number of domestic or imported brews. Instead, he insists on hiring Reynolds and Jerry Reed to smuggle in 400 cases of the one brand he can't legally get east of the Mississippi: Coors Banquet. 'In the Yabba ... pounding pints of the local lager is the townsfolk's main diversion. Well, that and the various activities one gets up to after a beer or ten, including drunken fistfights, drunken kangaroo hunts, and drunken fistfights with kangaroos.'The idea for the movie was born when a friend shipped stuntman Hal Needham a case of Coors while he was shooting "Gator" in Georgia. Technically, the beer was contraband; because it was unpasteurized, it was difficult to ship long distance, and the Colorado-based Coors didn't have a license to distribute it east of the Mississippi. This didn't deter high-profile fans like President Gerald Ford and Paul Newman from getting their hands on it. Needham thought it would make a good story and wrote up a script. He showed it to his friend Reynolds, who hated the dialogue but loved the primal conflict it explored: Man vs. Thirst. And those are the only stakes you need for one of the great American car chase movies. As Big Enos says, sometimes you just want to “celebrate in style.” Alamo Drafthouse"It could be worse," shrugs Clarence "Doc" Tydon (Donald Pleasance), the sole medical practitioner in the tiny Australian outback mining town of Bundanyabba. "The beer supply could run out."He's talking to the protagonist of the 1971 cult film "Wake in Fright," a young schoolteacher named John Grant (Gary Bond), who after only a short time in the Yabba has discovered that pounding pints of the local lager is the townsfolk's main diversion. Well, that and the various activities one gets up to after a beer or ten, including drunken fistfights, drunken kangaroo hunts, and drunken fistfights with kangaroos.Grant's just in town to catch a flight to Sydney, but when a bad bet leaves him broke and stranded, he starts to mingle with the natives, despite his contempt for their backwards ways. Thus begins the kind of weekend that makes many a man swear off the booze for good. "Wake in Fright" depicts its characters trying to blow off steam in a place offering no escape from the searing heat. The sweat-soaked, dust-caked atmosphere it creates is so effective you may find yourself craving a cold one, while simultaneously wondering if maybe a nice glass of water wouldn't be a better choice.

Three months before the 2020 election, I hosted a "Glenn TV" special in which I posed the question, “Are we in a color revolution?” There were political operatives holding secret war games on what to do if Donald Trump won the election. It included everything from mass civil unrest to secession. Both the mainstream media and social media — network pundits and influencers alike — were moving in tandem to ensure that Trump would lose. I’d never seen anything like it — at least not domestically. This is something you would expect to see out of a banana republic, not the United States. Should we be using US tax dollars to fund private NGOs that are waging color revolutions? Is that what America stands for? Civil disobedience is rocking college campuses, and it appears to have backing from network media, social media, labor unions, and nonprofit organizations. It’s almost as if these activists and political operatives have a four-year hibernation cycle and they wake up just in time for a presidential election. We’re only in May. How bad will all this get the closer we get to November? How bad will it get if Donald Trump maintains a solid lead in the polls? Blaze Media recently published a story about a new group called the Escalate Network. Its mission is to “bring the Intifada home,” and the organization wants to improve upon what began with the anti-Israel encampments on college and university campuses around the country this spring. You can go to Escalate’s website and download material such as “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” literature on how to set up “blockades,” “Anarchist Tactics at Standing Rock,” and “How to Build the End of the World: In Defense of the Chaotic Protestor.” Imagine if this group’s motivation was pro-life or if it were run by former January 6ers. The FBI would be raiding their homes right now. There would be wall-to-wall media coverage. I think Blaze Media was the only outlet to even touch this story. Odd, isn’t it? I’m seeing the same color revolution signs this year that I saw in 2020, and I believe we were on the edge of slipping into what happened in places like Eastern Europe and the Middle East. But as Time magazine reported, at the last minute, “The word went out: stand down.” But what happens this time in 2024, and who are the architects? Color revolution officially became an accepted U.S. foreign policy strategy after the Cold War. The CIA was manipulating elections and street movements all over the world. But the entire strategy changed in the late 1980s and early ’90s. The Washington Post published this shocking article in 1991 headlined, “Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups.” The story by David Ignatius describes how a new era in regime change had been born. NGOs, labor unions, and media outlets could topple governments in ways the CIA could only dream of. Color revolution had now been “privatized.” The story mentions that the CIA no longer had to spend the time developing “media assets” because now it has CNN. The cable network’s “omnipresent, real-time coverage of the news helps America’s interests more than all the besotted Third World ‘media assets’ of old could ever have imagined. And the bar bills are less.” Ignatius also highlights the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S.-based NGO he called “the sugar daddy of overt operations.” A lot of people have questioned some of the shady operations that the NED has conducted in foreign countries over the years, but if there is any question, look no further than the NED’s founder himself, who said, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." The National Endowment for Democracy is funded by Congress. Should we be using U.S. tax dollars to fund private NGOs that are waging color revolutions? Is that what America stands for? The article goes on to list some of the other people and organizations that are involved, including labor unions like the AFL-CIO and even George Soros. Color me shocked about that one! The Washington Post showed more than 30 years ago how our government interferes in elections and topples nations. The CIA, the State Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development are often involved. Ultimately, these decisions reside with the man in the Oval Office. The operation is then privatized to create separation from the government. This is where NGOs like the National Endowment for Democracy come in. The NED is composed of four entities: the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, and the Center for International Private Enterprise. The first two supposedly advocate either left- or right-wing agendas, giving the entire NGO a “bipartisan” designation, and the last two cover labor unions and private corporations. Next, multibillion-dollar financiers and organizations partner in the entire operation. This is where people like George Soros, the Open Society Foundations, and the Tides Foundation come in.Lastly, there are the people who spread the message, demonstrate in the street, and report the news to the masses. This became the blueprint for privatizing regime change. It’s how public opinion is manipulated, mass media is harnessed, and youth movements are weaponized. This is how color revolutions are born. The lessons learned from the Cold War were unleashed in the early and mid-2000s. Where did our little cast of color revolution characters turn their sights on next? Is it possible they began operating here at home? These revolutions seem to be on a four-year cycle, and the last one was in 2020. We must be vigilant for 2024.Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.