October 27, 2001 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada - Yesterday morning I received a phone call from one of the nurse's aides who works at the Lacombe Nursing Home near Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. A month ago, I reported about the large 422-foot-diameter hexagram that appeared in a Red Deer wheat field on September 2.
October 24, 2001 Washington, D. C. - Officials have confirmed that two postal workers who worked in the Brentwood postal facility that processes mail for Capitol Hill, including contaminated mail from the Trenton, N. J. Processing and Distribution Center, have died from inhalation anthrax. The number of people who have died from anthrax since September 11 is now three. Further, officials announce that another Brentwood postal worker has inhalation anthrax and symptoms in nine other workers are under medical watch. A 56-year-old New Jersey female mail handler at the Hamilton, New Jersey mail center near Trenton is now hospitalized with inhalation anthrax. Overall, thirteen people have been diagnosed with anthrax, five inhalation and seven with skin infection.
October 20, 2001 - As the anthrax scare spread throughout the nation's Capitol, New York, New Jersey and other areas this week, the current total on people who have actually contracted anthrax is now eight. At least 37 others have tested positive for exposure to anthrax spores. The eight cases of disease include:
October 20, 2001 Ocean Beach, California - Since September at least a dozen domestic and wild cats around the Naval Air Station in Point Loma or a neighborhood in Ocean Beach have been found cut in half, similar to the Austin, Texas cases, or completely eviscerated by a clean, bloodless excision in the belly from which all internal organs were removed.
October 13, 2001 Mantario, Saskatchewan, Canada - This weekend I talked with 49-year-old rancher, Bill Francis, in Mantario, Saskatchewan, Canada near the Alberta border and north of Medicine Hat. He has ranched there his whole life and added cattle to his business fifteen years ago. He had heard about animal mutilations where ears, eyes, tongues, jaw flesh, genitals and rectal tissue have been excised from thousands of animals worldwide since the mid-1950s. But until August 16th, he had never seen one on his own property.
October 12, 2001 - The FBI announced today that both The New York Times and NBC have received mail containing suspicious white powder. The NBC employee (not yet identified) who handled an envelope has tested positive for skin anthrax. She has long worked for Tom Brokaw's "Nightly News" and on September 25, she handled a letter that threatened Mr. Brokaw and contained a white powder that she reported to authorities. The powder at first tested negative for anthrax. But then she developed a black cutaneous anthrax infection the size of a softball on her arm. That means the bacteria entered her skin through a cut, but so far no anthrax bacteria has been confirmed in that mailed powder. Cutaneous anthrax is easily treatable with antibiotics which the NBC employee has been taking and progressing well.
Update - October 10, 2001 Boca Raton, Florida -
The third employee at American Media, Inc. in Boca Raton (Lantana), Florida has tested positive for exposure to an anthrax bacteria known as the Ames strain after an Ames, Iowa bacteria found in the tissue of a dead animal in the early 1950s. The other two cases are also the Ames strain which has been distributed over the past half century to many medical researchers to make anthrax vaccines. The 35-year-old woman is being treated with antibiotics. The FBI says there is no evidence to link the three anthrax cases to terrorists, but has now shifted its investigation to a criminal probe. The consensus is that the anthrax bacteria have an "unnatural source," which implies manipulation at least by someone with malicious criminal intent, if not terrorists.
October 10, 2001 Wakerley, Leicestershire, England - Nick Nicholson, Editor of The Circular Review in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, discovered an unusual crop formation in barley on Sunday, June 3, at Wakerley village near Barrowden, England. Nick's first e-mail to me with a ground photograph said: "I found a major formation near our last year's hunting ground between Morcott and Seaton in Leicestershire County."
