DEAR FRIENDS, PATRIOTS AND WARRIORS OF TRUTH:
The following story was sent to me by Mr. Tizzard, who is compiling a documentary for cable distribution in Canada: permission to repost has been solicited; Joan Horwood is Mr. Tizzard's mother --
NOTE: Bell Island has an abandoned iron ore mine with massive amounts of copper wiring and an electric rail car system extending for miles [underneath].
The Bell Island Mystery
story by Joan Horwood
Something terrible came out of the sky over Lance Cove, Bell Island, Newfoundland, on Sunday morning, April 2,1978, at 11 A.M., and exploded with a horrendous blast. The blast caused extensive damage on the property of James Bickford, and sent a tremor surging through the earth which was felt in communities 15 miles across the bay and into the capital city of St.
John's, nearly 12 miles from the point of impact. According to James Bickford he was preparing to turn on his television set when suddenly a big flash, accompanied by a thunderous roar, tore through his house with an impact louder than the roar of an explosion created by 300 sticks of dynamite. This was a sound he had heard often while still employed at the Bell Island ore mine, a job he had given up some years previously.
Seconds before, Mrs. Bickford had heard what she described as hailstones hitting her window in the bedroom. She left the room and was passing the fuse box in the hall, when she felt a terrible pressure in her head. she put her hands up to her ears just as the blast hit the area. she screamed and fell forward as the fuse box near her exploded, melting all but the glass in
the fuses and blowing them the length of the hallway, where the imprint on the back of the fuse was visible on the opposite wall. The light switches were also blown from the walls and the picture tube in TV set was completely shattered.
In addition to the devastation in the main house, the Bickford's two-room summer cabin located nearby was severely damaged. Outside, the roof was split open and parts of the ceiling fell in. Inside, the dwelling was a shambles. A small cupboard where the wires entered the building had even exploded from the wall. And furthermore, the top of the Bickfords' barn and chicken coop were almost totally ripped off by the blast, and five dead chickens were found in the ruins of the coop.
Three holes, the biggest about two feet deep, were gouged out of the earth behind the barn, leaving a depression under a fir tree which was scorched about a quarter of its height of about 20 feet.
Whatever had caused the blast did a thorough job on the Bickfords' property. A cousin of the Bickfords who lives just across the meadow describes how the incident affected her:
" I was standing at the counter in my kitchen, peeling potatoes into my old tray, when the explosion occurred; my back was to the window. Suddenly flames rose up to my face from the tray and I grabbed my heart and said "Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph." Everything shook, the whole earth shook, and I thought that heaven and earth shook, and I thought that heaven and earth had come together. I've never witnessed the likes of it in my life. Then my son's girlfriend came from the washroom and she said, "If you wanted to see fire, you should have been in there; I looked out the window and it lit up out there in the meadow going right toward Mr. Bickford's place. It was just like a great flame."
Minnie Bickford suffered no damage to her property, and except for the power loss and the fright, she was not inconvenienced in any way. She said that she was certain that it wasn't thunder or lightning and that it was more like "a warning sent to us from Heaven."
One of the most terrifying experiences of all was described by the teenage grandson of James Bickford, David Bickford. He was riding on his bike in his driveway when the blast occurred. Suddenly he saw a ball of bluish fire hovering over the ground about ten feet away from him. A force of some kind threw him to the ground. When he got up, the ball was gone. In an interview he said the ball was about three feet in diameter and was blue with orange around the edges. He also said that sparks were being discharged form the outer surface of the ball.
Just seconds before, Carol O'Brien, who lives down the road within sight of the Bickford house, described the event as she experienced it: "Before I saw anything, I heard a rumbling sound which seemed to come closer; then I heard an explosion, The room that I was in lit up, I could see the sky was red. I ran out into the kitchen, looked out the window and saw smoke, and I thought a house down the road a ways had exploded. But when the smoke cleared, I saw the roof was still on the house I thought had exploded, and shortly after that some people came to our house from the Bickford place and told us what had happened. I came over and saw the mess that was in there; I couldn't believe it. My little brother, who was lying on the floor, saw a shot of light come out from the oven door, right through the glass. He looked up toward the kitchen window and saw the sky was aglow. Some people down in the town areas said they saw the light and then heard the explosion. It was an experience I'll never forget."
Fireballs, a red glow, high electrical discharge, rumbling sounds preceding a terrible blast. Something terrible exploded over Lance Cove that morning. At the south end of Conception Bay in the community of Holyrood, a woman reported seeing a ball of fire streaking across the island. The same report was made by a resident of Harbour Grace, which is situated across the bay from Bell Island. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Bell Island were notified by these observers that the ball of fire was seen by many other persons.
There were sightings of mysterious lights seen over Conception Bay on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Carl Sterrett, moderator of an "Open Line" show on radio station VOCM took calls from up to 20 persons who claimed to have observed colored lights moving across, and even standing still over Conception Bay. One caller from Harbour Grace stated that between
9 and 11 p.m. he watched orange, green and white lights moving across the sky in erratic patterns, A resident of Witless Bay reported seeing a UFO in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The Open Line moderator said that the calls coming in to his station covered an area of 50 miles from St. John's.
Another description was added to the many others by a woman from Portugal Cove, two-and-a-half miles from Bell Island. She said she saw a straight beam of white Light (not jagged) coming down from the sky at a 45-degree angle to the ground. There was a strange gleam from the light, and there was a rumble from the end of it. She heard a low noise just before the explosion.
Several scientists visited the area soon after the blast and went away puzzled. Dr. Ken Collerson, a Memorial University meteorologist, said he was interested in the visual sightings and the sound effects, while Dr. Tom Gold from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., arrived in St. John's to investigate the occurrence, terming it a "most unusual and interesting phenomenon."
And within 24 hours, two military attaches from the US Defense
Research Center in Los Alamos, N.M. showed up, taking care not to attract the attention of the news media. They surveyed the scene, bought the five dead chickens from Mr. Bickford's and then left without saying a word.
JOAN HORWOOD Paradise, NF. APRIL 2, 1978 (on site report hours after the event occurred)
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UPDATE: BELL ISLAND EFFECTS --
Mainland witnesses said they saw " a fireball coming out of the sky and hit the Island on a 45 degree angle" some describe it as " a silvery streak or shaft of bright light". The "Boom" was heard 100 miles away. A barrage of bizarre electrical phenomenon immediately ensued. Most of the damage was on the Bickford's property.
- The fuse box in the Bickfofd's home blew up and shot 2 fuses 20 ft. down the hall and left imprints in the opposite wall.
- fuses were not blown.
- Seconds before the "Boom" Mr. Bickford's daughter, Cynthia heard a loud sound, like P.A. feed-back and Mrs. B.heard hailstones hitting her bedroom window and felt a terrible pressure in her head.
- All light switches and TV were blown out.
- A ball of fire shot of the oven and passed through the front door.
- A neighbor saw a blue flame shoot up out of an iron baking pan.
- Many neighbor's lights came on for a few seconds but switches were off.
- Many neighbor's TV's and electrical appliances were destroyed.
- Blue flames shot out of plumbing fixtures. (neighbor's)
- Boy on a bike saw a ball of blue fire 3 ft in diameter hovering, with orange around the edges, discharging sparks from the outer surface of the ball.
- A grandfather clock that had not worked in years, suddenly started and the hands moved forward at an accelerated rate. (Paul Bickford)
- The bickford's 2 room shack, behind the home, had a portion of the roof and wall blown out in the rear corner.
- The wire inside the A.C. drop into this building was completely vaporized, leaving only the melted insulation.
- Chicken coop behind summer home was destroyed killing 5 chickens.
-Horse in attached barn was OK ( no electrical wires in barn)
- Behind the barn in the woods were three mysterious holes in the ground 2 ft. deep, in a equilateral triangle formation 2 ft apart.
- Above the holes, a fir was scorched a quarter of it's height about 20 ft.
- A man outside sawing wood, saw odd blue hail that stuck to his raincoat that disappeared within seconds, before he heard the boom and saw a bright orange flash.
- Many witnesses saw an orange glow or smoke in the woods, "like iron ore dust."
Patriotlad adds --
Note the similarities to the explosion at the A.P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, on April 19th, 1995. Three hundred sticks of dynamite would do an incredible amount of damage, if properly placed, and would also leave behind residual smoke. Again, as has been stated before, there was NO SMOKE coming from the Murrah building in the minutes after the blast there. The black smoke detected and photographed by news helicopters and other news reporters all came from the burning tires of cars parked across from the Murrah. The cars were not moved at all!
Extensive blast-type damage was reported and in evidence in other near-by buildings. Yet there was no residual, acrid smoke as was the case when the ANFO truck bomb at the World Trade Center was detonated, underground, in the 1993 bombing. That event produced smoke so thick that it sent some 1,000 Trade Center workers and visitors to the hospital with smoke inhalation and many people emerged from the building with soot-blackened faces.
What, exactly, happened to the so-called ANFO in the Ryder Truck which supposedly destroyed the Murrah cannot be determined. If it was vaporized intact, then it generated NO SMOKE at all.
Perhaps the truck was empty or carrying something else. There was definitely a truck, and two persons associated with it. But where was the acidic, acrid black smoke from ANFO?
Posted in the interest of obtaining the truth about the massacre at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Was a Tesla weapon used at Oklahoma City? Was a Tesla weapon used to weaken all of the steel inside the World Trade Towers? Would its use explain the failure of the radio sets carried by firefighters and police that day? A failure which probably contributed to the additional loss of lives amongst rescue personnel?
Why did the Yakuza of Japan buy an old Soviet-era warfighting plan, and what is the significance of the date, 9/11/2001, aside from the obvious and interesting configuration of numbers?
Victory comes from getting the truth.
