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as just one of many anomalous entities spoken of in the oral traditions of the jordanian bedouin

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this entity in particular is described as having the appearance of a cyclops and a hooked foot

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resembling that of a donkey or an ostrich many have testified to have seen this creature from

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a distance while those who have even encountered it directly say it's invulnerable to bullets

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according to local tribesmen it goes by the name of salewa and british explorers in the early 1900s

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who surveyed the area were warned about encountering this being even the problematic orientalist and

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adventurer charles montago doughty and his influential 1888 travel log makes several

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references to this creature as something both native and terrifying to the area

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throughout history reports have emerged detailing encounters with the enigmatic beings and time

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distortion anomalies tied to the locations where a large loss of life has occurred in 1915 in

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galipoli turkey in a conflict that would ultimately see more than 130 people unalived multiple witnesses

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testified to seeing the fifth norfolk regiment from the uk march into a low-lying cloud and vanish into

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thin air the remains were later found on a farm scattered across an area of one square mile some distance

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from where the anomaly was initially observed then in Syria from 2011 and in the decade since there have

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been several reports of encounters with spectral entities that have manifested in heavy conflict areas

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humanoid in general appearance they're sometimes described as exhibiting extraordinary abilities helping

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injured civilians to safety similar instances of luminous humanoid anomalies have been encountered in

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2023 gaza palestine where at the time of this edit nearly 25 000 people most of whom are civilians had lost

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their lives here not only has the media reported on testimonies concerning the manifestation of beings composed of

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light comforting children trapped beneath building wreckage but also members of the military have claimed to have

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had terrifying skirmishes with more malevolent entities often described as ghosts beyond the region such occurrences

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have been reported in France 1914 during the battle of months then decades later in Kashmir in 2005

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Japan in 2011 following the tohoku event and Missouri USA in 2012 while the majority of these encounters are

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benign in nature and at times even beneficial what about other locations where anomalies have been overly malicious

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in this episode we'll look at two such locations one in Iraq and the other in Jordan where for decades

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there have been countless eyewitness accounts of terrifying entities known as shadow people manifesting in cursed locations

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historically known for a high loss of life

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this is a mountain and valley area in the heart of Jordan some of the bedouin here consider the location

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haunted and even evil for hundreds of years there have been reports of unusual phenomena occurring here

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especially at night explorers and campers traveling through it have reported hearing knocks on windows

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and roofs of their cars by unseen entities while driving through the area others speak of terrifying screams

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coming from an unidentified direction and recently one journalist working for the Jordanian media outlet

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Al-Rai wrote that while exploring its valley he was advised not to light a fire at night here as it will attract

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the attention of an unfriendly invisible entity unfortunately for a team of US soldiers camped there in the 1980s

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they learned of these horrors they learned of these horrors the hard way

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the term botn al gul translates to belly of the ghoul or more forebodingly the belly of the beast

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here David Morehouse a former US Army soldier stationed in the area during the 80s

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recounts a harrowing story of when his squad were allegedly attacked by an army of spirits in this area

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in his book the psychic warrior he states that for many years Jordanian servicemen camped in the area

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have reported seeing shadow entities roaming the wasteland and even in rare instances attacked people

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the manifestations of these beings would typically occur after a nightfall if a strange atmospheric phenomena

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that causes the entire valley to become bathed in a strange bluish gray light is observed

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according to Morehouse one night after recovering from an accidental head injury

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he would experience the phenomenon firsthand

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some time in the night my eyes opened to a surreal light outside the tent

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it was like the light of an eclipsed sun and wasn't coming from any stove

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it filled the night sky

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the entire Bautana el Ghul and the hills beyond were bathed in the strange bluish gray light

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I walked to the edge of the bluff and stared into the valley

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dark figures moved effortlessly across its floor like apparitions

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they poured from the rocks in various heaps and shapes and moved about the clusters of tents

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I could hear muffled cries from the Jordanian encampment

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and momentarily I thought we were being overrun by thieves or Israelis

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panicked I turned to run for help

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colliding with one of the figures I reflexively closed my eyes except I didn't collide

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I walked right through it

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turning around I watched the figure disappear over the edge of the bluff

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how true the story is is problematic

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however Morehouse does say that his head injury gave him abilities that now allows him to easily see these entities even when others cannot

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consequently he was assigned to project stargate

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a program within the US government that dealt with weaponizing psychic abilities

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namely remote viewing

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as this was one of the paranormal abilities he developed following his accidents

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remote viewing is the ability to gather information about a distant or unseen target

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often involving visualization or extra sensory perception using the mind

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officially discontinued in 1995 after 17 years of research

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the decision to terminate the stargate project was primarily based on a lack of evidence supporting the reliability and effectiveness of this type of intelligence gathering

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yet in the three decades since the project has remained a subject of interest and speculation

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with some suggesting that classified research related to this phenomena continues under different names within different agencies globally

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now while this is not directly relevant to the topic of haunted locations

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it does play an indirect role concerning the origins of the Watna Ghul mystery that predates the US's involvement in Jordan by decades

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but before we explain how

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let's go back to the mid-2000s Iraq

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where multiple encounters similar in nature to Morehouse's experience in Jordan have been reported

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in a chilling account shared by a former US Army surgeon

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now a government contractor and author who tracks anomalous encounters

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wrote a number of eerie incidents that unfolded during deployment near Camp Babylon in Iraq

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the veteran who had just completed active duty and was in the process of leaving the military

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found himself drawn into unexpected and paranormal events while stationed in the region

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the author who recounted this event in an online post said the following

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I was a sergeant in the US Army when President Bush ordered more troops into Iraq in 2003

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I had just returned home to Austin Texas when I was summoned into my local National Guard unit at Camp Mabry

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and told that I was being recalled to the army

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but the unit was already tasked out to deploy to Iraq

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I was not part of their unit yet

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so the commander offered to give me a waiver to deploy with a government contractor

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Halliburton in Houston

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I knew that I would make more money as a contractor so I took the offer

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not long after arriving in Kuwait at Camp Doha

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I began working with the operations team overseeing logistics affairs

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we would oversee the daily convoy of supply between Kuwait and Baghdad

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a route riddled with IED incidents, small arms skirmishes, and almost constant breakdowns of army and civilian vehicles

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because I was a saw gunner in the 1st Infantry Division while in active duty

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and was technically still in the guard

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I was often in the convoys manning a mounted weapon that accompanied the mostly civilian convoys

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during these runs we had a few strange encounters in an area south of Baghdad known then as Camp Babylon

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occupied by French troops but then designated an archaeological site for obvious reasons

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Camp Babylon was set up in the area that was said to originally be inhabited by the famous Tower of Babel

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indeed there were ruins there that did look like a massive structure once stood at that spot

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I had two strange incidents happen to me while passing through there

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the first incident seems a bit benign but sets the mood for the second

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we were passing through Camp Babylon in the afternoon one day when our convoy took small arms fire

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the standard operating procedure was to stop the convoy and return fire

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while engineers looked for explosive devices on the road we scanned the horizon for enemy

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nothing they most likely fled immediately

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however the ruins around Camp Babylon were alive with shadow figures that seemed to move about the area

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several times we would spot the figures but they would immediately disappear

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a contractor lying beside me with his weapon commented

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how odd that we are in the shadow of Babel and fighting the supernatural

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I didn't feel at the time that much was supernatural but certainly did see the shadowy and bizarrely small figures dart about the structures

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the second incident occurred about a month later

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at this point the weather in southern Iraq and Kuwait had turned quite cold at night

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during this encounter we had just completed the supply run to Baghdad and were returning back to Camp Doha in Kuwait

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when a vehicle in our convoy broke down once again we found ourselves right at Camp Babylon

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while the army mechanics took a look at the vehicle and the rest of us took up fighting positions around the area

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strange things began to occur it started with a strange light bobbing in the desert

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thinking it was a person with a flashlight we used NVGs or night vision goggles to watch

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it was simply a glowing ball of light moving towards a set of ruins

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after initial contact with the light a few of us had moved forward away from the convoy to see what the source was

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after seeing it was self-contained and not a person we were a bit alarmed

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then we heard a sound that I will never forget

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a long wailing began from one of the ruined structures foundations not far away

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it sounded like a woman in agony mixed with loneliness

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on and on the sounds went while we huddled in the cold and dark

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wondering what the hell we were listening to

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with our NVGs equipped we used our flashlights to spotlight the ruins

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if you've ever done this you will know that a normal flashlight with NVGs looks like a massive beam of light

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we scoured the area but no source of the whales or the ball of light were seen

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about this time we were told via radio that the vehicle was repaired and ready to roll

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so we decided to return to the convoy

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I was slinging my saw over my shoulder when I noticed my contractor partner was staring at the ruins in horror

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he was frozen

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I shook him and he snapped out of his stupor quickly leaving the area with the rest of us

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once we were back at the camp and it was pleasantly daylight the following morning

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several of us were chatting about the encounter at Camp Babylon before our daily operations briefing

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it was then that I remembered the terrified expression on the face of the contractor

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so I asked him about it

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he was still obviously traumatized by the event

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but managed to explain that as we were leaving our position on the sandy hill

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he saw a tall black figure standing beside the ruins

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he was watching us as we were looking for him

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he said that he felt an instant wave of despair hit him

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he thought that he was going to die

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he didn't remember leaving the area

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his next memory was in the Humvee headed back to Kuwait

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now instances of shadow entities have been reported by many Iraqis and multiple international servicemen across the country

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these encounters echo Morehouse's experiences that had allegedly occurred in Jordan's Batn al-Ghul

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unfortunately we say allegedly because in an unpublished piece for the Esquire magazine

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Jim Schnabel, author of the book Remote Viewers The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies

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states that his tale concerning how he gained the ability to interact with the Jinn of Jordan

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was just a plagiarization of a story belonging to another remote viewer

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called Joe McMoneagle

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who had the exact same experience in Europe a decade earlier

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Jim Schnabel said the following

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Morehouse started working on his own book of his experiences

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later titled The Psychic Warrior

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inside the CIA's Stargate program

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the book discusses an accident in Jordan in the mid-1980s

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when Morehouse was hit in his helmet by a bullet from a careless Jordanian

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at the DTS

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a prior name for Project Stargate

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Morehouse told colleagues about the incident

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but only mentioned that it had only given him a headache afterwards

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in Psychic Warrior however

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the trauma from the bullet

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destabilized his brain

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and caused him to have a variety of psychic and transcendental experiences

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while Morehouse's Batn al-Ghul story remains doubtful

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that does not mean that this location is free of spectral phenomena

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its very name

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references a Jordanian supernatural legacy

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that goes back over a thousand years

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and as we all show in the next part of this episode

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this historic legacy

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is as violent as its contemporary locations like modern day Iraq and Palestine

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albeit on a smaller scale

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we live in the northern part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

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where my brother told me about a disturbing event he found himself in one day

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while he was driving to the city market

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he explained his experience to me in great detail

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where reality appeared to had shifted around him while he approached the area

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it was a typical day in the city

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but the unusual phenomena began when he suddenly had a feeling of being detached from his surroundings

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and then noticing that the area he was driving through was completely wrong and not what it should be

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he didn't feel like he was in his Jordan anymore but in another dimension or a completely different reality or something

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as he parked his car to try and understand what was happening

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the noise of the hustle and bustle of the street seemed to fade into the background

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and this is where his experience took a profoundly more disturbing turn

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as he sat there examining the area he felt the presence of someone else in the car with him

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when he turned around to his astonishment

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a transparent figure with undefined features was sitting there with him in his vehicle

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he said that this shadow like entity began speaking to him in a tone tainted with sorrow saying

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inform everyone that you are on the verge of the end

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life has decreed its demise and the inevitable is very close

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a terrible conflict is approaching and there will be a drought in water resources

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and this conflict will impact you and your loved ones

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beware warn the people and draw closer to God for this event is imminent

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as proof the entity then revealed information concerning individuals from my brother's personal life

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who had passed away including a close friend of his

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the being said that he saw his friend being consumed by a fire and then went on to forewarn him

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that someone else dear to him who is still alive was in danger and would also soon meet their end

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my brother explained to me that this entity spoke for a while with him in the car providing other details that he now unfortunately cannot remember

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but the strange thing is throughout the entire encounter and despite its terrifying nature my brother was not afraid of this being nor detected any sense of malice from it

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in fact it was the complete opposite he felt a flow of positive emotions genuine tenderness and warmth being generated from it

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after it finished speaking the figure vanished momentarily returning for a brief moment without uttering a word

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but this time relaying to him a sense of deep grief and sadness before disappearing again

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but despite this my brother said he was instantly overwhelmed by a feeling of quote on quote Nirvana

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that being a feeling of perfect peace and contentment and it was in that moment he returned to our real world

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but this weird experience did not end there when he looked around he was no longer parked on the side of a busy street

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both him and his car were transported hundreds of kilometers away out into the desert onto a familiar desert road

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facing a signboard that read man man is on the complete other side of the country in southern Jordan

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now we have multiple questions what was this spectral entity how was he instantly transported across country in less than a second

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did the entity do it and if so why that location in particular

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regardless it's crucial to note that my brother was fully conscious during the whole encounter

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he is completely sure he did not hallucinate dream or imagine the experience

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and at the relatively young age of 40 he has a completely sound mind

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we are still looking for a scientific answer to explain this situation

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within various traditions it's believed that the veil or a barrier between our world and the realms of the supernatural exists

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in some traditions multiple worlds or dimensions consist of the spirits of the dead

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while in others they're home to eldritch type monstrosities soul of crafting and scale

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they can drive the human mind insane

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in Islam however it's believed that these parallel dimensions merely consists of a form of life known as the aforementioned jinn

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in locations where traumatic events occur

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some occultists and experts on the paranormal believe that the veil that separates our world can become thinned

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or may have already been thin allowing other world beings either access to our world or enabling humans to see aspects of their world

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hence in Iraq during the darkest times in its modern history stories about jinn encounters are numerous

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or in places where a natural mass casualty event has occurred such as in Japan in 2011

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spectral encounters have often been spoken of

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an alternative but complementary theory suggests a concept known as psionic imprinting

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where residual energy or emotional impressions are left on a location following a traumatic event

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this imprint might manifest as a mere replay of said event focusing on an individual or animal at the center of that event

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giving the impression to anyone observing this manifestation that they're seeing a ghost when in reality they're only witnessing a type of psychic recording

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unfortunately neither of these theories be it a thinning of dimensional barriers or psychic imprinting have been conclusively proven as a fact

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however for this episode we'll focus on the theoretical concepts of this thinning of the veil

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specifically as it pertains to Batnul Ghul and why this location in particular is believed to be haunted

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but to understand this we first need to revisit a pivotal time in Jordanian history

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May 1918

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originally part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of the First World War

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Jordan rests right in the center of the Middle East

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today its society is stable and its people are friendly and welcoming

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mixing the tradition of the Gulf with the culture of the Levant

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in other words the best of both worlds

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however because of its strategic geographic position

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numerous civilizations throughout history have clashed over its sands

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all the way back to the ancient Achaemenid and Babylonian empires

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in 1918 Batnul Ghul in particular played a key role in the shaping of the modern region

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when Arab and British forces conducted a raid on a train station established here

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during which the garrison who controlled it were eliminated

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the station which was a waypoint for a strategic railroad that impacted the entire peninsula

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was decimated in the campaign

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before it existed

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some people traveling to and from Mecca

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from neighboring parts of the region and Africa

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had no choice but to pass through this geographically hostile area

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composed of steep cliff faces

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sharp rocks and sand that was difficult to navigate

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such journeys often led to a loss of life

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because not only was the landscape harsh

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but anyone from lone individuals to perhaps even entire caravans

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also ran the risk of being unalived by brutal bandits patrolling the area

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these various threats contributed to it earning the name Batnul Ghul

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also known as belly of the beast

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it's said that those fortunate enough to make Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage

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but unfortunately enough to have a travel through here

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commonly made the following dua' or prayer

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may the almighty God be merciful to them

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who descend into the belly of the ghoul

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however

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this threat was not just human and environmental

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but also supernatural

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as a powerful jinn is believed to haunt the entire valley

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as just one of many anomalous entities spoken of in the oral traditions of the Jordanian Bedouin

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this entity in particular is described as having the appearance of a cyclops

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with one eye in the center of their forehead

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and a hooked foot resembling that of a donkey or an ostrich

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many have testified to have seen this creature from a distance

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while those who have even encountered it directly

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say it's invulnerable to bullets

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according to local tribesmen

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it goes by the name of Salewa

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and British explorers in the early 1900s

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who surveyed the area for the potential railroad

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were warned about encountering this being

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even the problematic orientalist and adventurer

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Charles Montago Doughty

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in his influential 1888 travel log

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Travels in Arabia Deserta

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makes several references to this creature

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as something both native and terrifying to the area

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he states that she entices male passengers

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calling to them by their names

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so that they think it's their own mother's or sister's voice

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although this entity behaves in a manner similar

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to the skinwalker of the Americas

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in their ability to read the minds of its victims

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by mimicking someone from their life

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it's also reminiscent of another powerful female entity

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that was perhaps feared in this area thousands of years earlier

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the succubus Lilith

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this is a figure from the Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology

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that in some traditions is theorized to be the first wife of Adam

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and supposedly a primordial she demon

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her abilities like Salewa includes the ability to shapeshift

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mental manipulation and seduction

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however while Lilith seduces men for poor creation

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the Austrian orientalist and politician von Kremer

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wrote that Salewa's main goal is to consume them

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variations of this entity although

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apparently native to the deserts of Western Arabia

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appears to be a part of species of jinn

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that routinely appears in the folclores

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and children's story across the Gulf

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and even into Northwest Africa

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and the Southern Mediterranean

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where she goes by the name of Aisha Kiandisha

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a Moroccan jinn

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a dangerous but tragic being

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we'll examine shortly in future episodes

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but why would Salewa

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who could possibly be a Mesopotamian entity in origin

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choose Batn al Ghul as its home?

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well as we mentioned earlier

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this part of the Arabian Peninsula

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was part of the Mesopotamian Empire

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so it's understandable that remnants of its lore

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survived until the 19th, 20th and 21st century

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and theoretically

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that dimensional veal

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that separates our world

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may naturally be thin in this area

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making it an attractive hunting

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and in some cases

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feeding ground

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for extra dimensional monsters

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but why?

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in May 2007

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a blogger took to the internet

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addressing a theory

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that Batn al Ghul

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could be situated over a yet to be discovered buried city

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and that this city

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could be the source of all the supernatural occurrences

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reported across the area

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this individual

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a Timothy Wordsworth

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who was an irregular combatant in Iraq

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addressed a rumor that this lost city

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was built for the Sumerian entity

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Inki

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a fictional deity

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from ancient Mesopotamia

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that is considered as one of the Anunnaki

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the Anunnaki are a collective of supernatural beings

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belonging to the ancient Sumerians

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Akkadians

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Assyrians

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and Babylonians

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in addition to being associated with the fallen angels

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and giants of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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as well as technologically advanced aliens

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and even a race of secretive humanoid reptiles

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in the modern age

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Wordsworth argues that this city is not associated with Inki

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since Batn al Ghul is too far removed from Mesopotamia

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to have that connection

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but that it is home to a powerful supernatural force

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that could even be alien in origin

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or something far worse

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and although his analysis and conclusions

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are questionable at best

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it is here

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we can piece together from his blog

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a tedious explanation for all the high strangenessness

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we have covered in this episode

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Wordsworth states that when he camped in Batn al Ghul for two nights

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on both nights

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he dreamt of an eagle telling him that it loved him

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but then

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he also goes on to say that there is a great evil there

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and that area could be hell itself

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implying that a physical gateway to the Abrahamic hell exists beneath this area

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possibly due to buried alien technology

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subtly acknowledging how completely and utterly bizarre this all sounds

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and openly admitting that he is not qualified to speak expertly on Jordanian folklore and history

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at least here on the mysterious Middle East

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we can see some less than obvious connections

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or at least happy coincidence

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to a history of anomalous activity in the area

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that tie in to Woodsworth's experiences

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firstly

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he believes that the eagle who spoke seductively to him in his dreams

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was feminine in nature

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echoing the lore concerning Sal'awa

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that horrific jinn that tempts men to their fate with a seductive and appealing voice

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furthermore

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the ancient entity Lilith

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who may or may not be Sal'awa

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is also believed to enter the dreams of her male victims

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in order to get what she wants

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even Charles Montago Dori in his travelogue

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writes that this female shapeshifter

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has been described in some encounters as taking the appearance of a humanoid bird

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possessing a beak instead of a mouth

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a humanoid bird

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secondly

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if we are to assume that a weakening of dimensional barriers between our world and other realities

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naturally exists in Batnul Ghul

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or has formed here due to thousands of years of trauma occurring in this vicinity

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then it makes sense that not only evil can move through that barrier

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but also the good

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and even the indifferent

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of which jinn can be all three

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hence why that one individual who claimed to have encountered the shadow entity in his car

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and instantly transported across the country to a road adjacent to Batnul Ghul

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said that not once during the lengthy encounter did he feel that he was in danger

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finally within the broader context of Mesopotamian lore and the Anunnaki

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even in the unlikely instance of a Sumerian city deep beneath Jordan ever being found

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a definite association between what the ancient Jordanian Arabs

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and their knowledge of our reptilian influence on earth does seem to exist

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at least according to an emerging study

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but this is an archaeological mystery we will reserve for upcoming episodes

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in the next few episodes we will explore the cultural, social and supernatural legacy

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of the aforementioned Sukkabi type entities across the region

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as well as digging deeper into mysteries in the Jordanian desert

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where archaeologists may have unearthed a potentially horrifying truth to human history

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and its modern development that may be connected to this thinning of the veil

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and a threat the ancient Arabs of the region have been trying to warn us about for centuries

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until then we apologize for the long break

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a mixture of personal and regional events has prevented us from releasing any new content publicly

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but now we have a backlog of episodes all set to be released over the coming few months

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comment on whether you agree or disagree with all that we've said here

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