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The Curious Case Of Stella Lansing

Today I tell you guys about the crazy stuff that happened to Stella Lansing in the 60’s. She was basically stalked by orbs of light and eventually started filming the occurrences on an 8mm camera, and that’s when some crazy stuff went down.

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Sightings - S2E02 - Stella Lansing - September 18th, 1992

“Almost every time Massachusetts housewife Stella Lansing takes a picture, she gets unexplained images on her film. Using any type of camera at all with any type of film or video tape, Stella Lansing records what appear to be images from other dimensions…”

“We’ve all had strange things show up on our pictures: glitches, scratches, strange patterns of light and shadow. Weird images are bound to show up every once in a while, but researchers in the field of paranormal photography believe some of these photos are actually windows to the supernatural.”

“A frame by frame analysis of Stella’s Super 8 film reveals...a group of four men, which photo experts have named the Occupants.”

“Even more mysterious than Stella’s Super 8 image of the Occupants, is what happens when the film is transferred to video tape. Then, unidentified voices suddenly appear…”

“And we have to ask the question: how do we explain? Questions and questions and questions, but then it becomes fascinating, a real mystery of the first order.”

“The time-space barrier is smashed in some way by this housewife.”

One of the Sightings segments I remembered most. About Stella Lansing, who for decades had anomalies appear on photos she took. Every photo and video she took, in fact. Anomalies included clock face-like marks that extended out of the frame, strange lights, unexplained facial lesions, monks and other time-displaced figures, spectral disembodied limbs, and four men called "Occupants". Transferring the film of the Occupants to VHS revealed mysterious voices.

Stella Lansing was tested many, many times, and was able to reproduce the anomalies on dozens of cameras of different types. She was also able to reproduce them even when her usual camera was swapped with a double last minute. Anomalies taken in this segment could've been light leak...but with no light source possible.

So, what's the truth? Did Stella Lansing photograph other realities? It's funny that the rational answer here is that she was an anomalously terrible photographer, who broke all her cameras the same way. But still, she produced consistent effects no matter the device. Unfortunately, there's just not a lot of information about her outside of a paper written in the 70s, and this segment.

But still. I like the strange nature of it, and the analog horror vibes of it all.

I found an obituary for a Stella Lansing who died in Massachusetts in 2016, which I assume is her. RIP Stella.

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Big February Sweep…

Since we are in February, I don’t think we will get those unique Soap Opera February Sweep, such as Metro Court and Monkey Illness in GH. Since most of the major storylines had finished in January except for the Metro Court Shooter, Dex is working for Michael, Gregory’s illness, Tracy is still the owner of Deception, and Cory is Mac’s child. I don’t count whatever Drew and Carly’s plan against Nina because that needs a whole post on its own; I would have two major events going on at the same time to tie up those storylines and to have new storylines out. 

Half of the cast is at Sonny’s Place on the Island, and the other half is at the hospital. And the way I would break it down is: 

Character:

Sonny’s Place: TJ Ashford, Alexis Davis, Sam McCall, Danny Morgan, Scout Cain, Kristina Corinthos-Davis, Molly Lansing-Davis, Sonny Corinthos, Dante Falconeri, Rocco Falconeri, Carly Spencer, Josslyn Jacks, Michael Corinthos, Willow Tait, Wiley Corinthos, Amelia Corinthos, Donna Corinthos, Ava Jerome,  Avery Jerome-Corinthos, Damian Spinelli, Lois Cerullo, Brook Lynn Quartermaine, Olivia Falconeri, Leo Quarteramine, Laura Collins, Anna Devane, Drew Cain, Dex Heller, John Cate, Blaze, Diane Miller, Brick, Sasha Gilmore, Trina Robinson, Kevin Collins, Harrison Chase

Hospital: Marshall Ashford, Jordan Ashford, Curtis Ashford, Scott Baldwin, Lucy Coe, Valentin Cassadine, Charlotte Cassadine, Elizabeth Webber, Jake Webber, Aiden Webber, Maxie Jones, Felicia Scorpio, Georgie Spinelli, James West, Bailey Jones, Tracy Quartermaine, Ned Quartermaine, Robert Scorpio, Cody Bell, Nina Revees, Gregory Chase, Violet Finn, Hamilton Finn, Portia Robinson, Martin Grey, Cyrus Renault, Stella Henry, Brad Cooper, Selina Wu, Yuri, Amy Driscoll, Terry Randolph, Deanna Sirtis, Felix Dubuis, Monica Quartermaine

Events: 

Island - Michael and Willow want to have a huge first birthday for Amelia, and they decided not to have Nina or anyone related to her there. John and Anna join them as they know who the shooter is, and Dex realizes his secrets are coming out. Another shooting happens.

Hospital - Cyrus and Selina set a bomb during a fundraising at the hospital where everyone else is, and they think Sonny and his family were there. 

Characters that are Kill off: 

Island: Baby Lansing-Ashford, Blaze, Willow, Wiley, Donna, Olivia, Drew, Dex, Brick, Sasha, Molly, Damian

Hospital: Marshall, Lucy, Gregory, Cyrus, Finn, Amy, Bailey

Characters that go off-screen aftermath: 

Island: Michael & Amelia take a small break (I would recast Michael when they come back in six months); Leo goes to live with Grandma Falconeri; John finishes his case; Josslyn goes to visit Jax; Kristina takes a break and goes with Ric for awhile. 

Hospital: Violet goes back to Hayden as Jason knows where she is. Nina decides to visit NYC to check in on her family’s company. Cody goes to find Mac to tell him the truth. 

The ending of the storylines: 

Island: the Metro Court Shooter: Blaze is the older sister of Lila Rae, meaning she is Lozreno’s daughter, and it is their mob family who is behind it. Dex is working for Michael: Everything they did and who knew comes out, and he is actually working for the FBI. All of his backstory was a lie as he is Stone Cate Jr. 

Hospital: Gregory’s illness: He dies protecting Elizabeth’s boys, who have Violet with them. Tracy is still the owner of Deception: She overhears Maxie telling Ned who is injured and what his daughter is trying to do, and Tracy realizes that she watched Maxie grow up and this was her dream. Cody is Mac’s child: Robert, Felicia, and Cody are stuck together, and he tells them. 

Start of Storyline 

Island: Carly and Sonny lose their minds again with Jason returning; they are sent to a Mental Hospital, where we get a break from the characters. Sam asks Alexis to help her run Drew’s company for Scout, and she deals with Danny’s anger with Jason and everything that happens to them. Brooklyn and Chase's wedding is put on hold. TJ started having PTSD from losing his girl and baby. 

Hospital: Jason saves Elizabeth and Monica from Cyrus and tells them he has both memories. Elizabeth’s sons (all three of them) have daddy issues, and Elizabeth realizes she has both issues with her parents. While rebuilding the hospital, Elizabeth discovers that her family owns it. Terry realizes how understaffed the hospital is and starts looking for people. Maxie is asked to take over Crimson as well. 

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Once upon a time ...

... under the golden sun of Los Angeles, a girl named Mia Moore Ashbourne was born into a world of flashing cameras and velvet secrets. She was the only daughter of a dazzling actress and a beloved hockey star—a child cradled by luxury, whispered about in magazines before she could even speak. Her mother, Isabella Reyes, was known for her beauty and ambition, a woman who could turn tears on like a switch and expected her daughter to learn the same magic. Her father, James Ashbourne, was different... gentle, playful, the kind of man who smelled like winter and taught Mia to glide across frozen lakes, far from the glow of red carpets.

From the moment Mia could walk in heels, her path was chosen: scripts, stylists, acting coaches, and endless rehearsals for a life she never asked for. Her name, Mia Moore, sounded like love itself, a clever twist from mi amor dreamed up by her mother to charm the world. But Mia didn’t want to be a name or a headline. She just wanted to be heard ... really, truly heard.

There was one thing that made her heart beat louder than the rest: music. Not the kind written for fame, but the quiet kind. The kind you sing when the world is asleep. But whenever she opened her mouth to sing, her mother would wave her off like smoke. “Acting is the way,” she’d say. “That’s your legacy.” And so, Mia stayed quiet. For years, she played the perfect daughter in the perfect gowns, smiling with her mother for the cameras, even when her heart felt like it was shrinking. But fairytales are funny things, sometimes the girl with the quietest voice becomes the one who writes her own story.

On the eve of her eighteenth year, Mia made a wish ... not on a star, but in a long conversation with her father, the only one who truly saw her. She asked to leave, to study far away, in a place her mother would never think to look for dreams. And though her mother protested and panicked and made promises wrapped in guilt, Mia stood firm. Jakarta was where she wanted to go. Far from Hollywood. Far from pretending. Her mother agreed, but with a single condition: Mia must always return when called. For film festivals, galas, interviews, photoshoots. Like a puppet on a glittering string.

And so, the girl packed her things, kissed her father goodbye, and flew across the sea to begin again.

Now, Mia lives quietly in Jakarta, studying at BINUS University by day and humming melodies into her phone by night. She walks through markets with sunglasses low on her nose, writes songs in secret, and dreams not of crowns or awards, but of a stage where her voice is enough.

This is not a tale of glass slippers or magic kisses. It’s the story of a girl who left behind a fairytale she didn’t want, to chase the one she did.

And though her story is still being written, one thing is certain: Mia Moore Ashbourne may have been born into a world of scripted lines, but she’s learning how to write her own ending.

FULL NAME Mia Moore Ashbourne

NICKNAME Mia, Moons (Her dad), Mimi, Moosh (Sarah), Ash

PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles, California

DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 2005

NATIONALITY American - Spanish

OCCUPATION Student | Fashion, BINUS University (2023)

DOMICILE - Jakarta, Indonesia (Current) - Los Angeles, California - Lansing, Michigan

HOBBIES - Singing - Watching ice hockey - Watching movies/series - Listening to music

➤ Known For: – Daughter of actress Isabella Reyes and NHL legend James Ashbourne – Starred in luxury brand campaigns and family-friendly dramas throughout childhood – Her soft, melodic voice—shared anonymously in SoundCloud – Public fascination around her “nepo baby” status vs her personal desire for creative freedom

➤ Career Highlights: – Starred in the Spanish-American mini-series “Las Rosas del Verano” at age 7 – Featured in Elle Kids, Harper’s Bazaar Junior, and campaigns for Dior and Jacquemus in her early teens – At 14, received a nomination for Young Performer of the Year for her dreamy performance in “Stella and the Sky” – Paused acting at 16 to distance herself from the industry she never truly loved

➤ Modeling Now: Though she stepped away from acting, Mia continues to model selectively, choosing campaigns that reflect her evolving identity. – Works primarily with quiet luxury and high-concept editorials (Prada, Chanel Beauty, Miu Miu, Loewe, and CELINE). – Her unique blend of American-Spanish features, cool stare, and moody presence have made her a muse for niche European fashion houses. – Often spotted flying back and forth between Jakarta, Paris, Madrid, and New York, balancing her university studies with last-minute editorial shoots. – Known in the industry for her professionalism, silence, and soulful eyes—she rarely speaks during shoots, but her presence commands the frame.

➤ Current Life: Mia’s been living in Jakarta for a while now, studying Fashion Design at BINUS. It’s not really where anyone thought she’d end up, but that’s kind of why she picked it. She needed space. Somewhere far from LA, far from her mom’s expectations, and far from all the noise.

Her relationship with her mom is still complicated. They don’t fight, not really. But Mia knows the looks, the pressure, the way her mom still hopes she’ll “come to her senses” and get into acting. They have a deal, though: if her mom needs her at an event—anywhere in the world—Mia goes. Red carpet, fake smile, then back on a flight home. It’s not ideal, but it’s the price she pays for some freedom.

Her dad, though... that’s different. She calls him when she misses home or when she’s just had a bad day. He always answers. Still sends her hockey clips and tells her dumb stories about his junior team, the Wellington Frosthawks. He’s the reason she even loves the sport, even if she doesn’t play. Just watching a game makes her feel a little less far from him.

Most days, she’s balancing class projects with late-night music sessions in her room. She still models sometimes—editorials mostly, or brands she genuinely likes. One week she’s buried in fabric and sketches, the next she’s flying out for a shoot in Paris. It’s a weird rhythm, but somehow it makes sense for her.

She doesn’t have it all figured out yet. But she’s okay with that. ➤ Fun Facts: – Her name means "my love." Her dad came up with Mia Moore as a sweet twist on mi amor. He still calls her that when he texts. – She re-watches the same five comfort movies every year, including 10 Things I Hate About You and The Devil Wears Prada. She knows half the lines by heart. – She has a secret Spotify account where she posts raw covers of her favorite songs. Only a few close friends know it’s hers. – She can explain offside better than most hockey fans, thanks to growing up around her dad’s coaching sessions. – She once went viral for a modeling campaign... not because of the outfit, but because of how grumpy she looked in every photo. (She was jet-lagged and hungry.) – She has a sketchbook she never shows anyone. It’s filled with fashion designs, little lyrics she’s written, and random doodles from late nights in Jakarta cafes. – Her guilty pleasure is bubblegum ice cream. She knows it’s not classy, but she doesn’t care. – Her dream is to sing live one day, on a real stage, for a real crowd, even if it’s small. She just hasn’t told her mom that part yet.

PARENTS

James Alaric Ashbourne (Father) ➤ Profession: Former Professional Ice Hockey Defenceman, Current Head Coach ➤ Nationality: American ➤ Known For: – Playing 14 seasons in the NHL, known for his leadership, defensive skill, and clean play style – Team captain for the Vancouver Canucks – Now serves as the Head Coach of the Wellington University Frosthawks, Michigan’s most prestigious collegiate ice hockey team ➤ Career Highlights: – Two-time NHL All-Star – Olympic silver medalist (Team USA) – Retired jersey number with the Vancouver Canucks – Transitioned to coaching with a reputation for mentoring young talent and building strong team dynamics ➤ Public Persona: – Warm, goofy, the kind of dad who still calls his daughter “Moons” on national TV – Popular with both players and fans for his approachable style and strategic brilliance – Has guest-commentated on ESPN and served as a motivational speaker at youth sports events ➤ Fun Fact: – Once went viral for singing karaoke with his daughter after a championship win. His go-to song was Sweet Caroline.

Isabella Salomé Reyes (Mother) ➤ Profession: Award-winning Actress, Former High Fashion Model, Producer ➤ Nationality: American-Spanish ➤ Known For: – Leading roles in critically acclaimed dramas and international art-house films – Winning Best Actress at Cannes and Goya Awards – Her porcelain-like beauty, red carpet dominance, and ice-cold elegance – Endorsement deals with luxury brands like Chanel, Cartier, and Loewe ➤ Career Highlights: – Breakthrough performance in “La Noche Azul”, directed by a Spanish auteur – Starred in several Oscar-nominated films throughout the 2010s – Modeled for Vogue España, Harper’s Bazaar, and walked Paris Fashion Week in her early 20s – Founded her own production company specializing in prestige drama films ➤ Public Persona: – Revered for her artistry, feared for her perfectionism – Speaks fluent English and Spanish with a signature cool tone – Frequently invited as a jury member for international film festivals – Once called “the woman who could silence a room with a single look” by Vanity Fair

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Stella Lansing: The beginning of the mystery

Stella Lansing was a middle-aged housewife from Massachusetts who, in 1961, began experiencing strange and otherworldly events that, over time, led her down a bizarre path of UFOs, Strange humanoid creatures, Men In Black, and visions of other worlds. Most of which she managed to capture on different types of film. It all began on a fantastic September day in 1961 when Stella noticed a bright hovering orb outside her home in Northampton, Massachusetts. The object hovered at a tree line level off in the distant sky before zooming closely to her, stopping mid-air between her house and her neighbor's garage. The object appeared to be observing her before it suddenly zoomed towards where she stood. It hovered only yards away from her before shooting away and disappearing.​ Although another four years would pass before another encounter, she would soon start to see these mysterious objects more and more regularly. That terrifying incident, although short, marked the beginning of Stella's journey.

While driving to a friend's house to deliver candles to them in the middle of the blackout, Lansing would see the orb-like object again. She was alone on the road, except for the orb that appeared to follow her, weaving in and out of the telephone poles along the way. Out of nowhere, a dark car appeared on the road alongside her. For reasons she couldn't explain, she believed that the orb was "driving the car!" It eventually pulled over to the side of the road and stopped. Lansing kept her vehicle moving, noticing that the orb had also changed direction and was heading over the fields alongside the highway. She kept the orb in sight until she could no longer see it and then carried on to her friend's house. Incidentally, many researchers have drawn connections between strange UFO sightings and the East Coast blackout. The black car then rolled off the highway, down a hill to a standstill. As Stella slowly drove past it, she sensed that the car's occupants were looking as the bright orb suddenly dipped below the telephone wires and into a nearby field. From there, Stella saw the light fly northwest before flaring into the dark sky. She kept her car moving until she reached the safety of her friend's house. Two years passed, and Stella continued to see strange lights in the sky that, at times, would follow her. By the mid- to late sixties, she had mentioned her experiences only to her family and close friends. Still unaware of what these lights were or what they wanted, she would never imagine what horrors would soon come to visit her.

However, on Halloween night in 1966, the experiences took a terrifying turn. Stella had a frightening encounter with a strange, grotesque creature. Stella brought her car to a stop in a parking space overlooking the lake. Just as she was about to switch off her headlights, she saw a strange figure emerge from the water. Quickly reaching hysteria levels of panic, all that Lansing would recall with any detail later was that the figure "was wearing a black skullcap!" Scared out of her mind, Stella punched her car in reverse and pulled away from the uncomfortably close shoreline. In a panic, she managed to see that that humanoid-looking thing had crawled onto shore and began running towards a peninsula about sixty meters away from her house.

The creature scurried off as Stella adjusted her car and headlights to shine towards the location. She saw a basketball-sized orange orb of light surrounded by a fuzzy mist. The light glowed dimly, and the hairs on her neck stood on end. Without warning, a giant, brighter orb of light suddenly swooped down behind her house and then flew low across the water.

The bright red object was seen by Stella's two teenage neighbors, who had seen the bright light come from the sky above and swoop down by the lake. Not far behind them was Stella's family. They were utterly oblivious to the bizarre phenomena happening just up the road. Although Stella had been attempting to capture pictures of these objects for some time, following the Halloween encounter by the lake, she obtained an 8mm camera. If she had recorded the events, she would have gotten more of what she had seen for analysis. Stella happened to once again see strange lights. On the night of February 18, 1967, Stella stopped her car on Route 32 near Warren Road and Flynt Street. She exited her vehicle to get a better look at the light. She noticed that another passenger car had pulled off the road, and the driver, too, had gotten out due to the odd nature of the lights. It was on February 18, 1967 – almost three months since the Halloween encounter – when Lansing used the 8mm camera in an attempt to capture the strange orb phenomena she had been seeing since the start of the decade. She was driving along Route 32 in Northampton.

It was in April of 1968 that Stella finally purchased a Bell and Howell projector of her own. A new piece of technology allowed her to slow down the footage she shot that fateful night to two frames a second. Revealing unnerving images, she had failed to see before. The bright object she filmed on that lonely road that night in 1967 contained a few frames of the heads and torsos of strangers. Strange men in what Stella believed to be a craft of some sort. In one of the images of the orbs from Route 32 in February 1967, Lansing could see the heads and bodies of strange men. She later said, "I never saw the people when filming it. I can't tell you what object they came out of or what they were in. I thought they must have come from the soft white object!" According to Lansing, this white craft remained hovering over them all the while she was filming. The four strange men Lansing had captured would become known as "The Occupants!"

By 1970, she had been already taking photographs that contained strange lights or structures superimposed on them. A mysterious clock-like pattern also began to appear in her films and photographs. Strangely enough, geometric patterns appear on the film itself, overlapping the frames of the footage. However remarkable these images appear at first glance, no official investigation was done on Stella's claims and impressive evidence. There had been no genuine interest until one day in 1971 when Stella walked into a UFO conference and told her story to Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz, M.D.

In 1971 – a decade since the orbs had first made themselves known to Stella, she would meet Dr. Berthold Eric Schwarz at a UFO conference. Dr. Schwarz had a keen interest in the paranormal – including ufology – and was highly interested in what Lansing had to say. Mainly when she offered to show him the proof of her claims in the films she had shot. Schwarz performed extensive medical, physical, and neurological examinations of Lansing – all of which came back standard. However, he soon learned that years of sightings and witnessing strange activity had more than taken their toll on Lansing mentally. So much so that she voluntarily entered the state hospital for psychiatric evaluation in 1967. It was determined during her stay there – at least by the doctor in charge of her case – that she was a Paranoid Schizophrenic. This caused her to suffer hallucinations, which resulted in the sightings of UFOs. Far from being crazy, this showed Stella to be perfectly normal, given the years of strange events she had seen.

On April 15, 1971, Schwarz, Lansing, and an unnamed woman went to where many of her sightings had taken place. It was a late night, and as the car was brought to a stop and the headlights killed, they plunged into darkness. However, it was only a matter of minutes before they were joined by a pair of glowing yellow orbs above them – just as Lansing said would happen. On this evening, though, the three of them stood in awe of what they saw. As the three observed the craft, they were unaware of an approaching black car with its headlights off. The car stopped about a hundred feet from where the three stood. It suddenly blasted its bright headlight beams in their direction.

The night incident led Dr. Schwarz to believe that something unexplainable was happening to Stella and that it was in no way a cleverly done hoax since the distant UFO lights had no way of being projected onto the night sky. Dr. Schwarz even refuted claims by many that they were subjects of a mass hallucination, an explanation often used to explain multiple witnesses' sightings of the same phenomena. This is an impossible hypothesis since there exists no such thing as mass hallucinations. However, in 1991, when a television show (Sightings) picked up on Lansing's story, they obtained the film and transferred it to VHS tape for purposes of the broadcast. When viewed on the newly transferred VHS tape, the picture that showed "The Occupants" image now contained strange and mysterious voices, only audible over this particular section of the film.

It is an understatement to say it shocked everyone involved, including Lansing. Stella Lansing continued to research the phenomena she captured and tapped into. However, at the time of her death in 2012, she still had no answers as to what she was seeing or why. There is undeniably a connection between the strange sightings Lansing experienced and the bizarre images she captured in her film. Was that some unintended consequence? Or were there some messages or attempts at communication? Perhaps they were even images of another dimension or reality? All theories are on the table.

[thebuckblogimo]

I visted "Joe Brutha," talked to "Bo Brutha," and felt emotions I don't have words for.

November 16, 2023

When they were a pair of 160-lb. linemen on our high school football team, St. Al's Class of '65 teammates Joe McCracken and Jim Bozynski dubbed themselves the "Gruesome Twosome."

The coach called them "Stanley and Stella." They were a "couple of classics," as we used to say.

Joe acquired many colorful monikers over the years: Bullfrog Murphy, The Destroyer, Jivin' Joe to name but a few. Bo was always just Bo. Or "Crazy Bo."

In 1968, shortly after both returned home from Vietnam, Joe, a Navy Seabee, and Bo, a Marine, drove to East Lansing one weekend to party at my apartment on the outskirts of the MSU campus. That weekend one of my college buds dubbed them "Joe Brutha and Bo Brutha."

Which leads to the following story from that time:

When they arrived at the second-floor pad that I shared with three other roommates, it was wall-to-wall people inside. In those days, we didn't sit around smoking pot on Saturday nights, listening to Ravi Shankar while staring into a black light. Visitors to our place routinely threw down stubby bottles of Stroh's, put out their cigarettes in the carpeting of our living room floor, and boogalooed to music by The Fantastic Johnny C.

Things were cookin' on the evening that Joe and Bo came to visit when I spotted a guy I didn't recognize, standing near the stereo, stuffing 45s into his pants.

I immediately called upon the boys from Detroit to adminsiter justice.

They promptly dragged the dude outside, shook the records out of his clothing, and Bo threatened to throw him over the railing of the balcony that ran past the entry doors of the second-floor apartments.

"No, Bo, no..." I pleaded. The pals ultimately pulled him by the lapels down the stairs, out to the parking lot and exhorted the guy (expletives deleted) never to return.

I cite this as just one example of hundreds of tales--many of which you wouldn't believe--I could relate about my two old friends. And for a small kernal of insight into them.

Joe was the son of a sheet metal worker at the GM Tech Center. He was born in Coatbridge, Scotland, and chose not to become a U.S. citizen, viewing his Scotch citizenship as a "get-out-of-the-country card," just in case he ever needed it.

Bo, the son of a chaueffer for the president of the National Bank of Detroit, was an only child and one of the better athletes I knew as a kid. He never let me forget how a story in the Dearborn Guide about our CYO baseball team attributed a "sizzling .555 batting average" to me when, in fact, it was actually Bo who had been the hot hitter. Other than in the classrom, he was good at practically everything, from coordinating a French toast luncheon for the entire high school to hotwiring a car.

Joe, on the other hand, was one of the funniest, most fun-loving people I have ever known. It was during senior year of high school that we truly connected. While on Christmas vacation, I recall how we took the anchor and line from my Dad's fishing boat, hooked it to the bumper of Joe's '55 Ford, and amused ourselves by pulling each other in circles at high speed across Hemlock Park during a blizzard.

Sports and stunts were important elements of the chemistry that galvinized the lifelong friendships that so many kids experienced in the tightly knit neighborhood where I grew up.

But for all the fun we had at school and later as young people running the streets of Detroit, life after Vietnam proved to be a challnege in many ways for both of my old friends.

I recall sitting on the bench at Crowley Park with Joe between innings of a softball game during the mid '70s as we counted the number of cars he'd either crashed or banged up by that point in his mid 20s. It was something like 12.

And I recall sitting at a kichen table with Bo during a visit to his California apartment in the mid '90s (he'd moved out west during the early '70s), counting the number of jobs he'd had up to that point in his life. It was over 40.

I'm not talking out of school when I say that alcohol abuse affected the course of the lives of both my old buddies. We discussed it amongst ourselves many times--sometimes with tears in our eyes, sometimes during fits of anger.

And I've long wondered what effect combat in the jungles of Southeast Asia might have had on my two old buddies. Joe built roads, storage buildings, bunkers, etc. to the sounds of exploding mortars in Phu Bai. Bo, who, coincidentally, was stationed just a short (and dangerous) walk through the jungle away, regularly took fire from his position as a door gunner on helicopters. How could a human being not be affected in lasting ways by such experiences.

Fortunately for Joe, he ultimately came upon an opportunity to become a Detroit firefighter. It gave him a sense of purpose, a reason to feel proud about himself, until he was injured during a rollng fire when the floor on which he stood collaped, forcing him to be discharged from the department for medical reasons. Unfortunately, however, he was never able to conquer his addicition.

Fortunately for Bo, he went on to became the head of maintainence for a school, managed apartments and reconnected with his young daughter. He raised her as a single Dad during her formative years and did a helluva job at it. Unlike Joe, he was eventually able to kick his dependence on drugs and alcohol.

When I visted Joe recently, it was the day before my wife and I departed for a trip to Scotland and Ireland. It was Joe's influence, as well as that of his Mom and Dad and all the McCracken relatives I met over the years, that caused me to put a visit there on my bucket list. Later that day Bo called. We had a conversation that I had set up in advance through communication with his daughter (my goddaughter).

Today, both of my old friends struggle to varing degrees with short-term memory loss. As a result of injuries from Joe's final car accident a few years ago, he is unable to manage his own affairs. His brother, now Joe's official guardian, looks out for him with amazing devotion. Bo now depends on a walker to get around and weighs less than he did in high school due to a variety of health issues and resultant surgeries. His daughter lovingly provides amazing care for him.

When I left Joe's house after our visit, a film clip of our times together rolled through my head. As did a list of life's "what ifs" and "might-have-beens" as I drove back to my daughter's house where I was staying for the weekend. I experienced the same sort of thing while sitting on the edge of a bed after talking to Bo that evening.

I neither laughed nor cried after going back in time with my two old friends that day. I have no words for the emotions I felt. I think I went blank at the realization that life happened. Much as I had expected.

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Stella Lansing: The Occupants

Stella Lansing was a middle-aged housewife from Massachusetts who in 1961 began experiencing strange and otherworldly events that over time led her down a bizarre path of UFOs, strange humanoid creatures, Men In Black, and visions of other worlds. She managed to capture most of these on different types of film. She traveled all over the States and seemed to capture strange things everywhere she went.

The picture above (left) is of 3 men that she took near her home in Munson Hill, MA. None of these three men were in the room when the picture was taken. The photo has baffled photo specialists for decades. It was nicknamed “The Occupants.” The picture on the right is an artist’s cleaned up version. It was later discovered that when the image was transferred to video tape, unidentified voices started to appear, which is interesting because her 8mm camera could not record audio. The voices appear to belong to the unidentified men, but sadly the audio is too fuzzy to make out what is being said. (Listen to it here).

Stella Lansing is such an interesting case, but there isn’t much information about her. However, Berthold Schwarz, a psychiatrist/researcher specializing in the paranormal, has written an interesting paper about her:

Schwarz, B.E. (1976), "UFO contactee Stella Lansing: possible medical implications of her motion picture experiments", The Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine, 23 (2): 60–8, PMID 780328

[theartofmany]

“Some strange demonstrations of psi abilities like ESP, telepathy, and other amazing psychic ability.“ These are some cases that have no explanation so far. Very interesting video From Youtube channel Nuke's Top 5: “Top 5 ESP, Psychic, & Telekinesis Sightings Caught On Camera and In Real Life“ Oh wow...

[greatell]

This civil union or commitment ceremony or w.e. feels like the show decided last second to do this. TJ and Molly should have their whole family there. Where’s Curtis or Aunt Stella or Sam and Alexis?

[weedass]

NOOOO THEY FOUND IT AHAAHAHAHA https://monstermyth.tumblr.com/post/86914701915/creepypastaisrad-since-1967-mrs-stella-lansing

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

Rare Experiencer Super-8 Video Footage - UFO, Alien Communication - Stella Lansing

Rare Experiencer Super-8 Video Footage - UFO, Alien Communication - Stella Lansing... Stella Lansing's amazing story shares similarities with the Dorothy Izzat case. Lansing is able to capture diverse anomalies on film and has collected extensive photographic and video footage evidence over a thirty year period that and has kept detailed records of these experiences. This sequence contains footage of the four occupants incident.

See also the "Lightships" video @ the former 15 year public UK Exopolitics site -- http://exopolitics.co and/or http://contact-times.net

[clarabushuniverse]

The Strange Case of Stella Lansing is explored in Part 7 of our Ghost Hunt.

[its-spooky-bitch]

Do you know anyrhing about Stella Lansing? I find her story extremely fascinating.

No. I’ve never heard of her. I’ll have to look her up.

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STARCRASH (1978) – Episode 169 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“You know, my son, I wouldn’t be Emperor of the Galaxy if I didn’t have some powers at my disposal. Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!” Yup. That could come in handy. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out Starcrash (1978), starring Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, Marjoe Gortner, David Hasselhoff, and Joe Spinell. What’s not to like?

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 169 – Starcrash (1978)

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An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zarth Arn

Director: Luigi Cozzi (credited in the US as Lewis Coates)

Writers. Luigi Cozzi & Nat Wachsberger (screenplay); R.A. Dillon (additional dialogue) 

Music by: John Barry

Selected cast:

Caroline Munro as Stella Star

Candy Clark as Stella Star (voice) (uncredited)

Marjoe Gortner as Akton

Judd Hamilton as Elle

Hamilton Camp as Elle (voice)

David Hasselhoff as Prince Simon

Christopher Plummer as The Emperor

Joe Spinell as Count Zarth Arn

Robert Tessier as Thor

Nadia Cassini as Corelia

Salvatore Baccaro as Neanderthal Man (uncredited)

Omero Capanna as Spaceship Guard (uncredited)

Hélène Chauvin as Amazon (uncredited)

Bill picked this one and he remembers originally liking Starcrash a lot more than he does this time around. Caroline Munro is still fetching, even though Candy Clark dubs her, but every actor seems to be acting in a different movie. There is a colorful, comic-book style to this weird oddball movie, but as Bill points out, sometimes you can’t go back again.

Jeff has been wanting to see Starcrash since Decades of Horror 1980s covered Maniac, another film starring Caroline Munro and Joe Spinell. Jeff sees the obvious similarities to the recently released Star Wars (1977), but the bad dialogue and long, drawn-out fight scenes cause Starcrash to… crash. Doc remembers great-looking stills in magazines of the time, but their quality does not lead to a good film. The dubbing is laughably bad and the movie is just awful. Still, there is a sort of weird charm to it.

If you have a hankering for late-70s, cheesy, space opera, Starcrash is available to stream with ads from multiple services, and on physical media as a Shout Factory! Blu-ray.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule, chosen by Chad, will be H. G. Wells’ Empire of the Ants (1977), starring Joan Collins and Robert Lansing.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.

Check out this episode!

[greatell]

GH allowing Aunt Stella to bring up racial issues after decades of ignoring black characters 🤔 Is this just a one time conscious statement or will they actually make a decent effort & storyline to address the issues & lack of black characters & other poc ?

Unfortunately I think it’s the first one. GH loves to pick up things, have a thoughtful conversation on it, than drop it and never ever revisit it. I know Jordan had a similar conversation with Curtis about TJ and Molly facing obstacles as an international couple the other day, but that felt more like an after thought. Stella’s talk with TJ was more thorough. And I’ve been waiting for more POC characters and storylines focused on them!!! It’s really just Jordan and Curtis representing POC’s. Trina too but she’s not on as consistently. Stella is off to London, Valerie is MIA, TJ is on rarely. Bring back the Wards!! Bring back Shawn or even cast Thomas! And let’s see some Latinos and more Asian characters.