Cities in the Sky

It turns out, there have been many instances of cities in the sky, or fata morgana as they have been named. I only knew on one in China a few years back, but seems there have been others. Charles Fort collected a number of tales as below and detailed in his book New Lands.

In October of 1796 a mirage of a walled town had been seen distinctly for half an hour at Yougal in Ireland. Again upon March 9th 1797 in Yougal had been seen a mirage of a walled town.

In June of 1801 a mirage of an unknown city, It was seen for more than an hour. A representation of mansions surrounded by shrubbery, with forests behind.

October 10th 1881 that at Rugenwalde, Pomerania now Poland and Germany the mirage of a village had been seen in the sky, Snow covered roofs from which hung icicles.

On June 29th 1882 over lake Orsa in Sweden, representations of steam ships had been seen in the sky, and an island covered with vegetation.

March 12th 1890 at 4pm in the sky of Ashland, Ohio was seen a representation of a large unknown city.

Early in June 1897 in the Yukon in Alaska, A city had been seen in the sky, The description of this city is that it looked like some immense city from the ancient past.

On Feb 17th 1901 it is said Indians of Alaska had told of the occasional appearance of city, appearing suspended in the sky, description by visitors to this area, we could see plainly houses, well defined streets, here and there rose tall spires over huge buildings, which appeared to be ancient mosques and cathedrals. More like an ancient European city.

August 2nd 1908 at Ballyconneely on the coast of Ireland, was seen a phantom city, of different sized houses, in different styles of architecture, visible for over 3 hours.

And in 2015 there was a sighting and video footage in China of one.

Hard to know for sure what is going on up there, but interesting none-the-less.

Some large cloud shadows I saw in Spain

(c) K Wicks

Short Stories

I have seven various short stories available to read for free, I thought it might be nice to link them all in one post so if you find yourself with a bit of time to fill and fancy a creepy read, see below.

Full book links available as well if you decide you may want to read more, although most of them are now shared here for free 🙂

Doctors Visit

Clocking Off

P113

Smart City Alpha.3

The I Scream Man

A Short Walk

Dead Until Twelve

There is also a newer short story available, which isn’t in a collection yet but you can also read for free here – In the Mountain

(c) MKW Publishing

It’s now been going…(poetry)

It’s now been going

For quite some time

The continuing farce

A pantomime

A pure afront

We can’t ignore

They’ve taken so much

Yet still want more

To put in their box

That they have created

Pushing towards

What they have fated

Keeping distractions

On tap thick and fast

Changing the present

Rewriting the past

So that we won’t know

What did come before

It turns into myth

And a faded folklore

But through the darkness

A sliver of light

The bold and the brave

Step forward to fight

For a future worth saving

Not in part but in whole

It’s not just in mind

But deep in our soul

~

Something is coming…

(c) K Wicks

Myths, Monsters and Legends

I was bound to get round to an article of this nature eventually. I have been mulling over myths, monsters and legends for over 30 years now. And although having previously accepted that these things were fantasy and fictional, rational thought and more research has now made me rethink that presumption. I’ll mention a few and how they fit into today’s landscape for me.

Giants and titans – we have had stories and tales of giants for our entire history. The book of Genesis mentions them, all old stories and legends have them at some point, and we even have modern tales of them. But what if they were real? Giant trees and other huge animals show there has been a time before of a greater size than now. Jack and the beanstalk spring to mind here. There have been whispers and stories of a land above ours, as well as below, so could it be that they were or are on land, just not the one we inhabit?

Olympics, gods and competition – they say we are made in gods image and compete to be the best. But what if we aren’t the best that’s ever been. We just try to emulate and replicate it as best we know how. We try to be the strongest, fastest, jump the highest, but only a much smaller scale than once was. Maybe.

Leviathan, mermaids, cracken – monsters and mysteries of the oceans have always been with us as long as we have been seafaring I should imagine. But where did they start? Did we have gigantic ‘monsters’ lurking in the depths of the seas? Could it be that from those strange times and great upheavals of the past there were things different from us as we know ourselves now. But maybe we were different back then too.

Vampires – it’s no secret we have historical references throughout most cultures to blood sacrifices or drinking blood. But is there any truth in it? There’s talk of young blood rejuvenating older people in mainstream articles now, so it’s not something they are trying to hide. All the movies and books of that nature had to be prepping us for something didn’t they?

Odin, Middle earth, Ragnarök – this one is interesting to me as it seems to overlap with the giants, and involves an end of days event which hold some weight to our current path in time. They have a land in their legends called Niflheim during a period called the Great Void (there is the word ‘great’ again, possibly a marker as I suspect in my previous article, There’s nothing great about it. But the word is awfully close to Nephilim, a giant race from Enoch’s time and a cross between the fallen angels and humankind. Funny how it starts to weave in to other things, or you realise where those other legends and tales may have come from.

We often dwell in the past, and for certain things, I think it is necessary and can help you to understand where we are and where this is all going…

(c) MKW Publishing

Fatima – a miracle?

There have been some very strange occurances over the last century, this one being a very odd and unexplained one. Fatima 1917. Three children witness an apparation, on three separate occasions leading to an event (which was predicted by the apparation), witnessed by over 50,000 people it is said. Reports say up to 80,000 witnessed it, but i’ll go with the lower estimate, which is still extremely impressive. Testimonies were taken and books have been written about this event, which has been mostly described as the sun dancing in the sky. Much was going on at that time in history with the first world war and the ‘Spanish flu pandemic’, so it’s possible that it was barely even noticed with various media blackouts happening at the time. The church however, were straight on it, declaring it visions of the Virgin Mary and taking it over pretty much and then deciding on what information to release about what the apparition told the children. If you would like to know a bit more, check out this vid explaining what happened and the details.

(c) K Wicks