Cjay
2nd June 2011, 16:38
SPIRIT STONES - A fascinating story of an extraordinary phenomenon.
" On many occasions in the 1940s and 50s stones fell on Aboriginal (Noongar) camps. These showers delivered stones in locations up to 250 kilometres apart, falling at various places for hours, sometimes days and even weeks and months.
Landowners, Aboriginal farm labourers and inquisitive townsfolk were all witness to falling stones. Though these events stretched over many years not one person was ever hurt. "
Spirit Stones was broadcast in July 2009 on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
" Spirit Stones did extremely well on the 2008 film festival track and has received passionate and enthusiastic audience responses...
"Beautiful film, deep, strong, poetic, visually marvellous", Bernard Bories [Director of St Tropez Antipodean Film Festival, France.
"Utterly absorbing… Spirit Stones is an exceptional film", Revelation Perth International Film festival.
"Images are beautiful, faces are beautiful, story is beautiful, surround sound architecture is beautiful... Simply beautiful", Nobuo Isobe, Managing Director Asia Content Centre. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCpTzoTvNZI
" Jack Coulter was a journalist during the Spirit Stones phenomenom. This is an excerpt of Jack's interview from Spirit Stones. A film set in the southwest corner of Australia. "
Some of the stones were said to have fallen INSIDE a tent, with no visible damage to the tent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6wVw2yvpU
" There were four different locations in Western Australia that experienced the phenomena of "falling stones", all within 300km of each other: Boddington (1946 unreported in press). Maynup near the town of Boyup Brook (1955), Pumphyrey's Bridge (1957), and Borden(1962) where sandalwood nuts were involved. The reports include description of stones ranging in size from a pebble to a stone of approximately 35 pounds. The stones along with other objects were primarily reported as falling out of nowhere.
Falling stones are phenomena that have occured in other countries. Reports dating back centuries describe similar phenomena, where people have been bombarded with stones for extended periods of time. The following are examples:
Sumatra 1903; Harrisonville, Ohio 1901; South Africa; Marcinelle, Belgium, 1913; Ardeche, France 1921 "
Read the full police report from March 1957, media releases, scientific reports, see maps of where the stones fell in Western Australia - download 62 page pdf - and see still pictures from the documentary on the website: http://www.spiritstones.tv/home.html (http://www.spiritstones.tv/home.html)
" On many occasions in the 1940s and 50s stones fell on Aboriginal (Noongar) camps. These showers delivered stones in locations up to 250 kilometres apart, falling at various places for hours, sometimes days and even weeks and months.
Landowners, Aboriginal farm labourers and inquisitive townsfolk were all witness to falling stones. Though these events stretched over many years not one person was ever hurt. "
Spirit Stones was broadcast in July 2009 on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
" Spirit Stones did extremely well on the 2008 film festival track and has received passionate and enthusiastic audience responses...
"Beautiful film, deep, strong, poetic, visually marvellous", Bernard Bories [Director of St Tropez Antipodean Film Festival, France.
"Utterly absorbing… Spirit Stones is an exceptional film", Revelation Perth International Film festival.
"Images are beautiful, faces are beautiful, story is beautiful, surround sound architecture is beautiful... Simply beautiful", Nobuo Isobe, Managing Director Asia Content Centre. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCpTzoTvNZI
" Jack Coulter was a journalist during the Spirit Stones phenomenom. This is an excerpt of Jack's interview from Spirit Stones. A film set in the southwest corner of Australia. "
Some of the stones were said to have fallen INSIDE a tent, with no visible damage to the tent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6wVw2yvpU
" There were four different locations in Western Australia that experienced the phenomena of "falling stones", all within 300km of each other: Boddington (1946 unreported in press). Maynup near the town of Boyup Brook (1955), Pumphyrey's Bridge (1957), and Borden(1962) where sandalwood nuts were involved. The reports include description of stones ranging in size from a pebble to a stone of approximately 35 pounds. The stones along with other objects were primarily reported as falling out of nowhere.
Falling stones are phenomena that have occured in other countries. Reports dating back centuries describe similar phenomena, where people have been bombarded with stones for extended periods of time. The following are examples:
Sumatra 1903; Harrisonville, Ohio 1901; South Africa; Marcinelle, Belgium, 1913; Ardeche, France 1921 "
Read the full police report from March 1957, media releases, scientific reports, see maps of where the stones fell in Western Australia - download 62 page pdf - and see still pictures from the documentary on the website: http://www.spiritstones.tv/home.html (http://www.spiritstones.tv/home.html)