'Vampire' bones dug up in Bulgaria

Bulgarian archaeologists are showing off two centuries-old skeletons that they say were pinned down through their chests with iron rods to keep them from turning into vampires — a trend that was all the rage in medieval Europe.
The "vampire" skeletons were excavated recently near the Black Sea town of Sozopol, according to reports from The Associated Press and AFP. Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of Bulgaria's National History Museum, was quoted as saying that corpses were regularly treated this way in some parts of the country until the beginning of the 20th century.
About 100 similar burials have been found in Bulgaria over the years. "I do not know why an ordinary discovery like that became so popular," AP quoted Dimitrov as saying on Tuesday. "Perhaps because of the mysteriousness of the word 'vampire.'"
Bulgarian archaeologist Petar Balabanov has found a number of nailed-down skeletons near the eastern town of Debelt, at gravesites dating as far back as the 1st century. According to custom, the bodies had to be pinned down just in case they tried to rise from the grave. AFP quoted Balabanov as saying that the rite was practiced in Bulgaria as well as other Balkan countries.
Of course, the world's most famous vampire legend is associated with the 15th-century Balkan strongman known as Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler. That's mainly due to Irish novelist Bram Stoker, who borrowed the Dracula name for his 1897 novel about a blood-sucking bad guy from Transylvania. The idea that vampires drank blood may be of relatively recent vintage, but the idea that the dead had to be stopped from rising again was widespread in medieval times — in part due to the plague.
Several years ago, Italian archaeologists made a splash when they dug into a mass grave for 16th-century plague victims on the Venetian island of Nuovo Lazzaretto and found the remains of a woman who had a brick stuck between her jaws. To explain the brick, they cited some of the anti-vampire strategies practiced at the time.
For example, in one region of Germany, gravediggers would occasionally return to a plague grave and find that the shroud surrounding the corpse had been eaten away, with blood or other fluids coming out of the mouth. The hair and fingernails also appeared to grow longer, even after burial. Today, researchers say such phenomena are due to the natural stages of decomposition — but in the Middle Ages, people feared that these were the signs of vampirism.
The Italian researchers claimed that the brick was jammed in to keep the "Vampire of Venice" from causing trouble. But other archaeologists have disputed that claim. They suggest instead that the brick merely fell into the mouth of the woman's skull. That has sparked a scientific tiff, as LiveScience reported last month.

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Copy Cat "Zombie Attack": Miami Homless Growls & Attempts To Bite...

A homeless man was busted hassling customers in a Boston Market in North Miami Beach Saturday. The man told police he wanted to "eat" them and tried to bite a police officer, police said.
After cops yanked him from the chicken joint and put him in a police cruiser, Brandon De Leon, 21, slammed his head against the plexiglass divider and shouted at officers, "I'm going to eat you," NBC Miami reported. He then growled, gnashed his teeth and tried to bite the hand of an officer attempting to treat his head wounds. "Brandon growled and opened and closed his jaw, slamming his teeth like an animal would," the report said. Cops placed restraints on De Leon and fit him with a Hannibal Lecter-style bite mask, the report said. Hospital blood tests showed that De Leon was also high on marijuana, Xanax and a designer drug called "Cloud 9" — known as synthetic pot or herbal incense — which can produce hallucinogenic effects similar to “bath salts,” the drug thought to be connected to last month's face-eating attack on Miami's MacArthur Causeway.

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Interest in Doomsday Shelters Increases

 Recent Article posted on website USA News said the following....

"First it was the naked man in Miami who was shot while gnawing on another man's face. Then a Maryland college student admitted to killing a man and eating parts of his heart and brain.
Now, after a slew of gory news reports detailing what some have characterized as "zombie-like" behavior, internet searches and postings—often laced with humor and sarcasm—are blooming across the Internet, advising Americans on how to stay safe in case of a zombie apocalypse.
That includes "doomsday shelters," says Matt Mogk, head of the Zombie Research Society, structures built to withstand various natural—and supernatural—disasters.
"These things are totally selling like hotcakes," he says. "Zombies are synonymous with the end of the world. That's why they're so popular right now, because we're all worried about them. We're seeing them in the news every day."
[Read: Miami 'Zombie Apocalypse' Puts Bath Salts Ban in Congressional Spotlight.]
One Kansas-based luxury doomsday condo complex has completely sold out its units, the cheapest of which go for $1,000,000, according to several sources. Equipped with walls as much as 9 feet thick, military grade security, as well as an indoor pool and spa and a movie theater, these so-called "long-term survival facilities" promise protection from any number of disasters including hurricanes, the effects of global warming, and volcanoes.
A zombie apocalypse isn't specifically listed on the company's website, but "civil unrest" is—close enough, right?
If a multimillion-dollar price tag is a turn off, don't worry. You can buy a bare-bones shelter at a steal of deal for around $38,000, according to MSN, installation not included. But it's hard to tell how big the broader bunker market is, the article reports. Industry groups remain secretive and don't often divulge details about the business.
[Read: Company Discounts Bath Salts Days After Miami Cannibal Attack.]
Nevertheless, one bunker business owner isn't shy speaking about his success. Radius Engineering International has built 1,400 shelters around the world in its 32-year existence, owner Walton McCarthy told a local news source and he has plans to expand his workforce according to MSN.
Still, not all doomsday researchers are keen on zombie-proof bunkers.
"It's overkill and just not practical for the common person," Mogk says, noting that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, the last place one would want to be is in the company of 100 other potential zombies.
"That's basically the worst idea ever," he adds. "In an extreme disaster situation why would you want to be with a bunch of strangers?"
[Read: Miami's 'Naked Zombie' Proves Need to Ban Bath Salts, Experts Say.]
The most important thing is to be prepared, he says.
"Rather than thinking, 'Oh I'm just going to grab a shotgun and blow off a bunch of zombie heads and it's going to be just like a video game,' people should be truly prepared meaning stocking water and worrying about the security of their shelter," Mogk says.
The plus side of investing in your very own zombie-proof shelter? Even if a mysterious virus doesn't transform most of the world's population into soul-less zombies, you still have a pretty sweet escape from any number of other disasters, possibly even the (potentially more-likely) explosion of the sun.
Meg Handley is a business reporter for U.S. News & World Report. You can reach her at mhandley@usnews.com and follow her on Twitter."

Transit of Venus Tuesday June 5, 2012

About every 105 or 121 years Venus passes through the Earth and the Sun. The last transit was in June 2004 and will not happen again untill December 2117, astrologers note only occurs in June and December, or during the signs Gemini and Sagittarius.

If the transit of Venus has historically affected individuals and mankind as a whole, this one could end up being the biggest one of all. Many astrologers note that it will occur just months before the end of the Mayan calendar, on Dec. 21, 2012.
“The Mayans watched Venus obsessively, and had to have known that the end of their calendar would occur at the perfect time, in the same year as the transit of Venus,” Miller said, noting the Mayans were "terrified" of Venus.
But Ackerman figures Tuesday night's event might hark back to Thomas Edison, and not the apocalypse.

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Zombie Apocalypse: Man bites Ex Wife's Husband

A Louisiana man was arrested after biting and removing a chunk of skin from another mans face. On June 2, Carl Jacquneaux showed up at his ex wife's house violating the order of protection. Todd Credeur, the husband, who was outside was surprisingly attacked. Carl bit Todd removing a quarter size piece of flesh from his face. Carl fled to a near house and took a man a knife point threatening his life if he didn't give the location of his fathers gun.

Zombie Apocalypse: Man Eats Another Mans Face!

Believe or not recently there have been a rise in police reports of people gone berserk and begun chewing on other people's face. In Miami Florida police were called to the scene by a man who failed in attempts to stop 31 year old Rudy Eugene from savagely chewing the face of Ronald Poppo. Police arrived and found a naked, covered in blood Eugene growling and chewing on the face of 65 year old Poppo. Police confronted Eugene and even after repeated orders to stop, police were forced to shoot Eugene. It took several shots to bring Eugene because the first shots did not phase him. Ronald Poppo is now in the hostipal in critcal condition and is fighting for his life. Eugene had swallowed his eyes, nose and most of his face.
This latest rash of strange apocalyptic-type episodes intrigues Doomsday theorists, who insist that the world will end on December 21, 2012. That prophesy stems from findings that the ancient Mayan calendar ends on that date. Nonbelievers, who don’t dispute a literal end to the calendar, argue that this cessation simply signals a transition from one World Age to another.
The most prominent doomsday scenario suggests that on December 21, 2012, at the dawn of the Summer Solstice, the sun will be perfectly aligned between the Earth and the gigantic, rapidly rotating, black hole located at the center of our galaxy. Reportedly, our solar system will pass through this black hole, resulting in a reversal of the Earth’s gravitational pull. As the story goes, this dreadful occurrence will trigger a series of cataclysmic earthly events, including tidal waves, floods, devastating earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, global warming and more. Interestingly, according to the Goddard Institute for Space and Science, an analysis of air and water temperature anomalies reveals that April 2012 is the fourth warmest April on record.

resources: http://www.december212012.com/articles/news/Miami_police_kill_apocalyptic_zombie_cannibal.htm

New Mayan Discovery: World isnt going to end?

If you have not heard, a recent Mayan discovery has archaeologist saying the world will not end on December 21, 2012 or during 2012 at all. an article posted by The Daily Best says "In Xultún, a Mayan dynastic hub, Saturno and his colleagues dug up a small chamber around 6 by 6 feet with 10-foot ceilings in a large complex. There they found paintings of figures on the walls as well as a large number of delicately painted hieroglyphs and numbers—astronomical tables unlike any such notations seen before.

The notations “got our attention very early on,” says David Stuart, a co-author of the study who specializes in Mesoamerican art and writing at the University of Texas in Austin. The Science authors believe the excavated room is a work space where a Mayan nerd—a calendar-keeper, astronomer, and scribe—puzzled away, covering two walls with calculations much like today’s scientists do on a whiteboard. The paintings and text date back to the year 800—a remarkable five centuries earlier than the oldest known Mayan hieroglyphic books, the Mayan Codices of the 15th century.

Most intriguingly for modern-day doomsday prophets, the scribblings include four long numbers that represent multiples of set units of time using the Mayan calendar. In one column, time stretches reach 7,000 years into the future. Bingo! The apocalypse myth, says Stuart, is that the Mayan calendar shows the world ending after 13 periods, or 5,000 years, also called baktun. We are supposedly coming up on the end of the last one.

This new find, however, is further proof that that belief is mistaken, says Stuart. The mural shows 17 baktuns, showing “there was a lot more to the Mayan calendar than just 13 baktuns.”

The Mayan calendar reaches far beyond the year 2012, the scientists assure us."

This is great news to many of us out there but also upsetting to some who do not believe this to be true. Let us know what you think!

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Numerology of 2012

In numerology every number has a corresponding letter associated with it. Each and every number also has it's own distinct set of meanings, emotions, gender, religious and/or astrological significance.
The date 12-21-12 reads as, A-B-B-A-A-B. When you consider that the Hebrew language is read from right to left, this date would read BA ABBA.
The Hebrew translation for BA ABBA is "Father comes" or "Father is coming"
Another shocking revelation is the scientific timing of the alignment of our sun with the milk way galaxy. At 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m Universal Time, this alignment will occur.
The number '11' is the general number of magic or sorcery and energy tending to change. Uranus. This is the individual in confrontation with the world.  It is also the number of war and the battle with the demonic element.
The Number '12' is the "Hanged Man". Plunged into the world without being a part of it. Large Sacrifice.
The Number '21' is building a better world (apocalypse).
Thus at 11:11 UT on 12/21/12, there is a confrontation as the world of reason is plunged into to fight with demonic forces that involves a large sacrifice for the eventual betterment of the earth and all it's living creatures. The 2012 Apocalypse.

Natural Disasters Predicted in the 2012 Apocalypse

Super-Volcanos
A supervolcano or super volcanic eruption is a volcanic eruption which is of such great magnitude greater that it's eruption can cause long-lasting change to weather, like the triggering of an ice age or 'volcanic winter'. A magnitude large enough to threaten the extinction of species, and cover huge areas of the earth with lava and ash.
In addition to the apocalyptic changes in temperatures around the world, a super-volcano can blast billions and billions of metric tons of sulphuric acid into the atmosphere. This causes acid rain to fall around the world.

The Four known super-volcanoes capable of Apocalyptic eruptions are:

1) Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand - 26,500 years ago
2) Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia - ~75,000 years ago 
3) Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, United States - ~640,000 years ago, ~1.3 million years ago, ~2.2 million years ago
4) La Garita Caldera, Colorado, United States - Largest eruption known to man ~27.8 million years ago
Of particular interest is Lake Toba, where magma build up has risen land mass over 3 miles higher than it's last eruption. Is this the 2012 Apocalypse?

Asteroid or CometThe energy of an impact from 433 eros would be equivalent to 100 million megatons of TNT, 6 million times more energetic than the 1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption.

The impact would eject rock from several kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth and carved out a bowl-shaped crater nearly 100 km in diameter. In addition, the shock of the impact would produce magnitude 10 earthquakes, which were greater than the magnitude of any we have ever measured in modern times. Other effects such as a tsunami approximately 50 to 100 meters high should be expected.

Near the impact crater the debris is tens to hundreds of meters thick, while it's plume reaches as far away as 2000 km. Additional material was lofted in an expanding, vapor-rich plume that included gas from the vaporized asteroid or comet. This plume would rise far above the Earth's atmosphere, enveloping it, and eventually depositing a thin layer of debris around the entire world. The darkness as predicted in the book of revelation.

Terrestrial and Solar Pole ReversalPolar reversal is process by which the North and South pole reverses position. According to a new study, when polar reversal is in early stage (which is now), the tectonic plates are heavily affected by the changing electro magnetic fields and the result is change in flux characteristics affecting the gravity.

During polar reversal the equilibrium between electromagnetic forces and the gravity of the earth as well as the other parts of the solar system and the galaxy is disturbed. The net effect is unpredictable erratic behavior of the continental and oceanic plates.

It is evident now that increasing number and intensities in hurricanes, volcanoes and earthquakes all over the world are caused by the electromagnetic influence of the terrestrial polar reversal.

In the present decade the earth has experienced the largest three earthquakes in over two hundred years. The under water volcanoes and earthquakes have gone up 88% over the last three years. The continental earthquakes have gone up by 62% during the same time frame. The rate of increase of earthquakes and volcanoes against time is staggering.

Some scientists believe the ongoing polar reversal is accelerating and will eventually have reverse polarity in North and South pole. According to the simulation model, the earth’s inner core and outer core is going through some serious disturbances causing increased frequency and strength of earthquakes and volcanoes as we approach the year 2012. The 2012 apocalypse is near.

A computer model monitoring the recent seismic disturbances – earthquakes and volcanoes show extreme disturbance in the outer and inner core of the earth. The interaction of the inner core and the rest of the earth cause the electromagnetic properties of the earth.

In our modern age we have not experienced a simultaneous solar and terrestrial polar reversal. Between now and 2012, the sun will experience a polar reversal and the earth will also experience a polar reversal. This combination of events will cause disturbances in the earth’s crust and tectonic plates resulting in severe volcanoes and earthquakes.

In this decade, three most violent earthquakes happened in the last 150 years. This is accompanied by innumerable small quakes, under water volcanoes, mudslides and more. Simply put, the tectonic plates are slowly going out of equilibrium and are showing chaotic effects.

The polar reversal also causes shift in tectonic forces to accelerate. The pressures built up for many years are some what released through violent outbreaks with earthquakes and Tsunamis.

Pestilence and Disease
Global Warming
Floods
Fires

NASA landed a satellite on Eros the asteroid and have come to the conclusion that Eros will be near earth object in Earth's path around January of 2012. When asked why they landed such a device on Eros they replied," They wanted to see if they could in case in the future that they had to plant explosives on an asteroid to try to prevent a collision"

Eros is an asteroid 26 miles in diameter. So immense that the explosives wouldn't work to stop the bulk of the 26 mile in diameter asteroid from hitting our world. If it does it will be planet killer, The Apocalypse of 2012.

The direct impact of Eros upon the earth's surface would destroy all mankind and animals, follage. The end of times, the Apocalypse, or Doomsday.

NASA also predicts the sun will reverse it's magnetic poles in 2012 and end it's 11 year sunspot cycle .

2012 Apocalypse in Other Biblical Prophecies and Visions

Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and astonished at thee.
There will be many that will be astonished in the year of 2012 at the apocalypse when Christ returns, when all the "synagogues of Satan" , and all the riches, commerce, and every part of that filthy religious order will be torn down, and will be no more.
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Ezekiel 26:17
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, 'How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!'
These "Kenites" [Phoenicians] roamed the world in the fifth century B.C., very much the same way they do today. They buy low, and sell high. They have no regard for their fellow man, as they tread through life in their world of theft, deceit, and lies. They will start wars, destroy nations, and murder many, and all for the sake of their profits.
Their day of judgment with God in the 2012 Apocalypse is coming shortly. There will be many tears shed by the world over Tyrus.
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Ezekiel 26:18
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
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Ezekiel 26:19
For thus saith the Lord God; 'When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

When Tyrus falls, all the coastal cities around the world felt it. When Satan, the Antichrist falls, All the people of the entire earth will know it, and fear. When this comes to pass, The 2012 apocalypse will culminate, then all evil prophets, Princes, and The Anti-Christ are destroyed.
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Ezekiel 26:20
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Do you get it now? God is not only talking about ancient Tyrus, but the Tyrus of todays Southern Lebanon- Hezbollah and the warning of the coming apocalypse in 2012.
I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit." this refers to Satan being cast into the pit at the sound of the seventh trumpet.
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Ezekiel 26:14
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
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Daniel 9:27When the Antichrist, the king of Tyrus, stands in the holy place in Jerusalem, and claims himself to be God. This is called the "abomination of desolation" in Daniel 9:27. Then shall Jesus Christ come to earth with His sword, and when Christ's feet touch Mount Zion, the battle will begin.
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Sun Hurles Whomping Solar Flare

Source: By Timothy Prickett Morgan • Get more from this author

Posted in Space, 7th March 2012 20:42 GMT

 

Sol is having a bit of fusion indigestion again and has belched forth one of the largest solar flares to come hurtling towards Earth in the past five years, according to NASA.
NASA said in a statement that the solar flare on March 6 at 7 PM Eastern time weighed in at X5.4 on the solar flare scale. The flare came from an area known as Active Region 1429, a belchy spot in the solar surface rolled into view on March 2.
Solar flares are classified based on the energy of X-rays (in the 100 to 800 picometer range) smacking the Earth as measured in watts per square meter. A fairly strong M-class flare has 10^-5 to 10^-4 watts per meter of peak flux, while the top-end X-class flares generate more than 10^-4 of peak flux. The scale is linear within each class, so an X5 flare is five times as strong as an X1 flare. The X-ray measurements are taken by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system from orbit, which is operated by the US National Weather Service.
That X5.4 rating on the March 6 flare makes it the second most powerful flare since the Sun hit the lull in its 11-year cycle back in early 2007. Solar flare activity is expected to rise through 2013, provided the world (and perhaps the Sun) doesn't end on December 21, 2012 as the Maya – how convenient for them to be extinct, eh? – predicted.

X5.4 marks the spot – everybody duck!

By the way, the Maya are not extinct, they just abandoned their cities before the Spanish got there and melded into the jungle, and the 5,125-year Mayan Long Count calendar just hits reset on December 21, 2012. It's a clock, not a detonator. So we do, in fact, have to learn to get along.
A little more than an hour after the first belch on March 6, a flare rated at X1.3 erupted from the same area of the Sun's surface. The flares were pointing Earthside and triggered temporary radio blackouts, interfering with radio navigation and shortwave radio, according to NASA, and also coincided with two "significant" coronal mass ejections. A flare from March 4 is dumping electrically charged particles in the magnetic fields of Earth right now, and depending on how the flare is oriented this time, we could get whacked again, and a bit stronger.
The last big flare pair was an X6.5 one on December 5, 2006, which was followed up the next day by an X9.0 whopper from the same area. There was an X6.9 flare on August 9 last year.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center put out its own statement, with M-class burping expected in the AR1429 region today, with the Earth's geomagnetic field to be "unsettled to active" in the next 24 hours because of all the solar activity. Everything should quiet down by Friday, and if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, might be a good time for some romantic aurora borealis viewing.
These flares and related coronal mass ejections are nowhere near as powerful as the March 9, 1989 flare, which energized a severe magnetic storm in Canada and knocked out the power grid. (The GOES system was not in use then for measuring geomagnetic storms.) And the mother of all modern geomagnetic storms, on September 1 and 2, 1859, was hot enough to shock telegraph operators directly and the aurora reached down into the tropics. ®

Mayan Light Beam Photo: Message from Gods, or iPhone Glitch?

Source: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2189-mayan-light-beam-photo.html
Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer

Date: 27 February 2012 Time: 05:09 PM ET

 

 

When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins.
In the first two images, dark clouds loom above the pyramid, but nothing is amiss. However, in the third photo, a powerful beam of light appears to shoot up from the pyramid toward the heavens, and a thunderbolt flashes in the background.
Siliezar, who recently shared his photographs with occult investigators, told Earthfiles.com that he and his family didn't see the light beam in person; it appeared only on camera. "It was amazing!" he said. He showed the iPhone photo to his fellow tourists. "No one, not even the tour guide, had ever seen anything like it before."
The photo has surfaced on several Mayan doomsday discussion forums. But was the light beam a sign from the gods — a warning about Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of the Mayan calendar cycle, and when some people fear the world will end? Or is it simply the result of an iPhone glitch? [See photo]
According to Jonathon Hill, a research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, which operates many of the cameras used during NASA's Mars missions, it is almost definitely the latter. Hill works with images of the Martian surface taken by rovers and satellites, as well as data from Earth-orbiting NASA instruments, and is fully versed in the wide range of potential image artifacts and equipment errors.
He says the "light beam" in the Mayan temple photo is a classic case of such an artifact — a distortion in an image that arises from the way cameras bounce around incoming light.
It is no mere coincidence, Hill said, that "of the three images, the 'light beam' only occurs in the image with a lightning bolt in the background. The intensity of the lightning flash likely caused the camera's CCD sensor to behave in an unusual way, either causing an entire column of pixels to offset their values or causing an internal reflection [off the] camera lens that was recorded by the sensor." In either case, extra brightness would have been added to the pixels in that column in addition to the light hitting them directly from the scene.  [7 Things that Cause UFO Sightings]
Evidence in favor of this explanation is the fact that the beam, when isolated in Photoshop or other image analysis software, runs perfectly vertical in the image. "That's a little suspicious since it's very unlikely that the gentleman who took this picture would have his handheld iPhone camera positioned exactly parallel to the 'light beam' down to the pixel level," Hill told Life's Little Mysteries.
It's more likely that the "light beam" corresponds to a set of columns of pixels in the camera sensor that are electronically connected to each other, but not to other columns in the sensor, and that this set of connected pixels became oversaturated in the manner described above.
 "That being said," Hill said, "it really is an awesome image!"