There are also different types of unexplained events not always dealing with parapsychology but certainly with the field of science and instruments when something goes wrong. Unless perhaps an unseen force grabbed at the belly of the next person' story of meeting a fated flight one summer day. The Mystery of Aemelia Earhart captured the imagination of the young and old, amateur and professional, since she disappeared on July 2, 1937. Her flight over the Pacific would have completed her around-the-world flight being the longest (following the equatorial route) and the first by a woman. Of course something went wrong. When she had her first ride in an airplane as a child, Amelia Earhart was hooked on flying. She had a wicked passion leading her to break flight records and become the public celebrity she was. In one of her letters, she had hoped that the around the world flight would finally rid her of her compulsion to fly and she could settle down. Somehow I don't think that would have occurred and to imagine what great things she could have pursued in aviation just places my mind on a cloud. She vanished into the Pacific Ocean 24 hours after leaving Lae, New Guinea.

Zecharia Sitchin was a man who started a revolution in thinking about our past over two decades ago. Now we can look back at our history and see the man who helped create a modern myth. Zecharia Sitchin says that he first realized aliens colonized earth when he discovered that the mythology of the Sumerian people spoke of real places and things. This is why I harp so much on revisiting our past for it is precisely our past that gives us clues and pieces to larger puzzles. For Zecharia, the moment of discovery arrived when he came to a conclusion about our familiar solar system. In a July 1993 interview, he told Connecting Link Magazine that the Sumerians knew there were not only nine planets: "Once I realized that this was the answer, that there is one more planet, everything else fell into place. The meaning of the Mesopotamian Epic of Creation on which the first chapters of Genesis are based and all details traveled from their planet to Earth and how they splashed down in the Persian Gulf and about their first settlement, their leaders and so on and so on, everything became clear!"

Zecharia isn't the only one who led the astronaut debate. When you understand the man like my father, and break it down into sub-human parts you begin to realize that their brains have been enlightened with incredible knowledge and the ability to foresee at a higher level. Zecharia looks like a kindly old man with thinning gray hair and thickening glasses poised above a mustached mouth. My father wishes he had the hair to grey! But just the same is kindly in his mannerisms. Zecharia is the author of eight works on the influence of ancient astronauts on the emerging human race, starting with the 1976 best seller The Twelfth Planet. He grew up in Palestine where he says he learned Hebrew, Semitic and European languages before attending college at the University of London, where he graduated with a degree in economic history. He worked as a journalist in Israel for many years before moving to New York City. Hans had similar types of education and also ended up in the great big apple authoring dozens and dozens of titles. Zecharia skeptic Ian Lawton gives an overview of Sitchin's theories on his website: "Not only does he suggest that a race of 'flesh and blood' gods who were capable of space flight visited Earth from their home planet, which the Ancients called 'Nibiru', nearly half a million years ago. He goes on to speculate that they came in order to mine precious minerals which were abundant on our planet; that they created modern Homo sapiens by genetic engineering..." Hans believed in humanoids and that we were already cross breading with them for centuries. That would explain my family then! :-)

Whether one chooses to become educated and be a parapsychologist is neither here nor there. I just think the more educated one is, the more fact finds and documentation will be obtained. Then one can weed out all the negatives from their findings. It takes conscientious time and effort on one's part to indeed revisit history but in the long run, will make for a better partnership with the dead and the little green men.

As always, be well-Alexandra Holzer.