Letter from readers

the original image i found in the internet

the retouched image of so called ghost... huhuhu

Dear Paracrypt RSG,

I have been reading and keep following your postings from time to time, and i would like to share with other readers bout one of the photo which posted in the articles earlier. Well for readers out there, here's the original photo which i found in the net and being used by the person in the photo to create a so-called ghost photo. And I also would like to advised other readers out there that most of the picture which coming from the Indo was mostly fake and retouched with photoshop software. Thanks.

Honest opinion from me, Seeing is believing!!

Karen Ting LC
S-pore

Pontianak ghost photo?

PRSG received these photo from readers via email and it was showing a white figurine standing near the wooden pillars during one of their group's discussion.

Readers and researchers comments are welcome. In the mean while, PRSG still doing further examination on the emailed photo for genuineness.


Hasnida,
Paracrypt Admin

Misteri Tengu- Syaitan terbang dari Jepun

Konoha Tengu

Di jepun, ada legenda mengenai seekor makhluk angkasa yang misteri, iaitu makhluk yang dianggap sebagai iblis dan digambarkan memiliki tubuh separuh burung dan separuh manusia. Makhluk ini disebut dengan nama Tengu. Luar biasanya, satu mumi Tengu tersimpan dengan rapi di Perfektur Aomori.

Muzium Hachinohe di Aomori, Utara Jepun, adalah rumah bagi Mumi Tengu yang konon pada awalnya dimiliki oleh Nambu Nobuyori, pemimpin klan Nambu yang memerintah Hachinohe di pertengahan abad ke-18. Mumi itu memiliki kepala manusia, namun memiliki kaki dan sayap berbulu seperti burung. Tengu yang telah menjadi mumi ini dipercaya berasal dari kota Nobeoka (perfektur Miyazaki) di Selatan Jepun. Beberapa teori menyebut bahawa mumi ini sampai ke Utara Jepun setelah diwariskan ke beberapa anggota keluarga Samurai yang memerintah Jepun, hingga akhirnya sampai ke Museum Hachinohe di Aomori.

Mitologi Tengu bermula dari sekitar abad ke-6 Masihi sama dengan tibanya agama Budha ke Jepun dari China. Tengu dianggap sebagai goblin yang tinggal di hutan dan gunung. Mereka disebut memiliki kekuatan supranatural seperti dapat berubah bentuk menjadi manusia atau haiwan, dapat bercakap dengan manusia tanpa membuka mulut dan mampu pindah dari satu tempat ke tempat lain dengan cepat menggunakan sayapnya. Kata Tengu sebenarnya berarti “Anjing langit”. Dalam mitologi Cina, makhluk ini juga memiliki tempat tersendiri dengan nama Tien Kou (Tiangou) yang maksudnya juga anjing langit. Nama ini sebenarnya tidak sesuai dengan deskripsi Tengu. Makhluk ini tidak memiliki rupa anjing, melainkan lebih mirip seekor burung.

Buku Nihon Shoki, catatan kuno yang dianggap paling pertama menyebut Tengu, yang ditulis pada tahun 720 Masehi, menyebutkan bahwa pada abad itu sebuah meteor melintasi langit Jepun dan meteor itu disebut oleh seorang rahib Budha sebagai Anjing Langit (Tengu). Namun bagaimana Tengu berevolusi dari sebuah meteor menjadi makhluk terbang tidak diketahui dengan pasti. Secara umum, Tengu memiliki dua bentuk fisik. Yang pertama disebut Karasu tengu yang memiliki kepala dan paruh seperti burung. Yang kedua adalah Konoha Tengu yang memiliki bentuk seperti manusia namun memiliki sayap dan hidung yang panjang (kadang disebut Yamabushi Tengu) Tengu berhidung panjang seperti dikenal orang zaman sekarang merupakan hasil penggambaran orang pada abad pertengahan. Dalam cerita Konjaku Monogatari-sh?, tengu digambarkan boleh berlari di udara, dan sebagai hantu berbentuk burung rajawali yang membuat orang kerasukan. Gambaran tersebut mengambil model dari hantu Temma dalam konsep agama Buddha yang digambarkan berbadan manusia dan memiliki sepasang sayap.

Model awal tengu kemungkinan berubah pada paruh pertama zaman Muromachi. Dalam kumpulan cerita rakyat Otogiz?shi terdapat cerita Tengu no Dairi (Istana Tengu) yang tokoh utamanya bernama Kurama Tengu. Selain itu, Ushiwakamaru dikabarkan menerima pelajaran seni pedang dari Tengu di Kuil Kurama.Dalam Hikayat Heike, tengu digambarkan seperti “Manusia tapi tidak seperti manusia, burung tapi tidak seperti burung, anjing tapi tidak seperti anjing, tangan dan kakinya seperti tangan dan kaki manusia, wajahnya seperti anjing, memiliki sayap di kanan kiri, dan boleh terbang.”

Menurut Legenda, sewaktu masih kecil, perajurit legendar Jepunbernama Minamoto no Yoshitsune yang hidup pada tahun 1159-1189 pernah berlatih ilmu pedang dengan raja Tengu Soujoubou dekat Kuramadera di gunung utara Kyoto.

Tidak ada keterangan dan informasi lebih lanjut mengenai mumi yang dipamerkan di muzium Hachinohe. Apakah ini mummi syaitan sebenar, makhluk Cryptozoology atau sebuah karya seni palsu dari abad lampau. Beberapa peneliti percaya bahwa mumi itu adalah sebuah karya seni buatan manusia, tapi belum ada bukti pasti yang disediakan untuk mendukung teori tersebut.


Articles shared by Muhd Naim, Singapore

Pocong or another hoax from Indonesia?

Video which were publish in youtube showing 'pocong' in unnamed location. More to HOAX or is it real?

Haunted place in Peninsular Malaysia

List of active haunting area in Peninsular Malaysia:

1. Collapsed condo of Highland Tower, Kuala Lumpur

2. Victoria Institute, Kuala Lumpur

3. Abandoned residential in Bukit Tunku, Kuala Lumpur

4. Chinese cemetery in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur

5. Chinese cemetery in Brickfield, Kuala Lumpur

6. Muslim cemetery in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur

7. Lady Templer Hospital .

8. Girl School Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur

9. Area near Cheras policlinic.

10. Road from Kuala Lumpur to Genting Highland Resort

11. Pudu Jail, Kuala Lumpur

12. Puchong Area, Kuala Lumpur

13. Near the Kuala Ampang Secondary School

14. Area near the Maktab Rendah Sains Mara, Kuala Kubu
Bharu, Selangor

15. Damansara Hill area, Selangor

16. Kellies Castle, Perak

17. Area near Tambun Inn,Perak

18. North-South Highway near Sungai
Perak bridge, Perak

19. 2 way junction heading to Kuala Kangsar Malay College, Perak

20. Junction in the middle of Georgetown near Union High School, Pulau Pinang.

21. Lorong Petani Area, Alor Setar, Kedah

22. Office area of old BERNAMA near Pekan Rabu, Alor Setar Kedah.

23. Area near the Titi Haji Idris bridge, Alor Setar, Kedah.

24. Area of Kubur Panjang, Pendang.

25. Tobiar, Pendang.

26. Hilly area of Telok Chempedak, Kuantan Pahang.

27. Manggrove area in Kuantan, Pahang

28. Surrounding area of Kota Lama, Melaka.

29. Old Istana Jugra, Banting, Selangor

Confirmed Fake Ghost Photo

Here's some of ghost photo sent by readers to the PRSG. However after further check on the PRSG team using image analyzing test, and by professional image processing lab, the photo and images have been confirmed as FAKE and HOAX.

Thanks to the partners for the examination results and cooperation towards the research.

Alleged ghost photo sent by readers from Indonesia:

'Durian Hantu' @(Devil's Durian Tree)

The villagers at Dalat, a small coastal town in Sarawak believe this is a "ghost" durian tree. It is a huge tree with big buttresses. Every year it bears hundreds of fruit. No body dare to plant the seeds as it is believed that whoever plant the seeds will die at an early age. this picture was taken in 1981, some 28 years ago.


(As emailed to Paracrypt Admin)

coincidence?

There are two US presidents and both of them had same tragic death, both were shot to death, but the coincidence doesn't stop there!





Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected as a President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected as a President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

It is getting really weird, huh?

Lincoln's secretary was named as Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named as Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Coincidences are now even more creepy, right? Please read more:

Lincoln was shot at the theater named as "Ford."
Kennedy was shot in a car called as "Lincoln" made by "Ford."

Lincoln was shot in a theater, and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse, and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.


What do you think of it?
Please feel free to post your opinion about it.

Condolence from Paracrypt Team

Deepest sympathy to the family of the late Will... one of the Paracrypt RSG member who died due to fatal car accident in Bintulu Sarawak on 23rd May 2009. May his soul be rest in peace. Paracrypt RSG will miss all the moments without him....


From all Paracrypt RSG Team members

Sarawak River Dragon or wave?

Ripples not far from the yellow boat

Mysterious ripples in the river and resembles large snake-shape movement

According to local legend and folklore, Datu Depati Jepang has twin son- Datu Merpati and a dragon name Seri Bulan. Their descendant till now believed that the mythical dragon Seri Bulan still exist and guarding his brother's bloodlines. How far is these legend and stories somehow nobody know since it's full of mystiscm and legends. We came across with a photo sent to PRSG admin recently showing mysterious ripples in Sarawak river which people link it to the legends. Further study of the photo still ongoing to determine genuinity. Photo open for readers and researcher to comment.

Giant Snake in Rajang River Hoax Exposed

PRSG Team along with other photo experts member from Europe confirms the image of 'nabau' or giant snake which lurks in Rajang River, Sarawak is a hoax based on the results after testing and enhanced it with spectrum enhancer. The image was actually a photoshop edited image and purposed of circulating it in the internet was to create sensational news and also as a pranks. The picture was also been published in the local newspaper and cause locals to believed that the mythical creature really exist in the river of Rajang.

Here are some of the published photo which claimed to be taken using handphone by the sender.

Areal photo of the so called 'nabau'

Alleged Nabau

Photo published in the local news


Other proof of the hoax was the actual photo of the river itself which taken from plane and the main differences was the actual Rajang River is muddy brownish color throughout the year and never dark blueish color as claimed in the photo. Below is the actual Rajang River in the State of Sarawak.

HAPPY 2009 TO PRSG MEMBERS AND READERS