So, I'm watching some old documentary about the Bermuda Triangle hosted by Leonard Nimoy and it happens to feature an incident that I'd never heard about before. On April 18, 1975, Ray Smithers, a host on a Florida radio station called WFTL did a call-in show about the Triangle. All the phone lines instantly lit up and Smithers had to click through several voiceless connections before he came to one with a caller. The man on the other end of the line said the following and hung up:
"There is one of you on the program who will understand what I am going to say. In [sic] every living thing on this planet has an aura. The area that you are discussing now is the aura of this planet. It is the communicative channel through which the millionth council governs this planet. Anyone going into the area when the communicative channel opens - they will not disappear, but they are in the timeless void. They are all perfectly alive and well. It is the only area through which the council can communicate with this planet."
I couldn't find a transcript anywhere, so I transcribed it from the recording played in the documentary.
The whole thing seemed weird to the level that some conspiracy nuts would have already dissected it, but I couldn't find a single writing on it which was any more in-depth than a forum post or an Agent Steel song (what?). I'm not completely convinced the word the caller is saying in the fourth sentence is "millionth," but after searching for the phrase, "Millionth Council," there was only one person who used it repeatedly: a guy called Mark Mohr.
Most of his writing and map-drawing wasn't about the Millionth Council, but ended up being even more interesting than what I was looking for in the first place. Here is one of his websites, Morianity-Foundation.com. Be warned, it and its contents are pretty far removed from what you might call reality, but a lot of it is extremely creative stuff when you take it for what it is. Here's an excerpt from one of the maps called Dog Town:
"Literally billions of "Tormepens" are grouped together in a land area roughly 48,000 by 37,000 by 29,000 miles in Earth type distance. All pens of horror & torment contain the same 4 things, 1) dormatory style bunking area, 2) giant wheat & weed fields, 3) pinball pain arenas, and 4) dancing paddle box contestant games, mandatory, not voluntary."
That's one of the parts that's easier to understand. You'll have to see the rest for yourself. This guy is either the greatest stream-of-consciousness science fiction poet in the universe, an utter fucking nut, or both. Either way, I like him. It's really fun to read things written in a completely non-traditional format, and this stuff is about as non-traditional as it gets.
I actually considered whether he could have been the caller from 1975 (Mohr, who lives in Jersey, would only have been 20 at the time), but the caller had a very authentic British accent and sounded pretty old. Still, you never know.
Monday, March 17, 2008
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