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warning.com This episode is about something called the Bets
Sphere. The Bets sphere is a round metal
sphere. It's about the size of a bowling
ball, weighs about £9 I believe they said, and it has a highly
polished finish. Now the story starts with this
thing back in 1974, the Bets family, I believe The dad was a
medical student and the mom, I don't know what she did.
I mean, I'm not really sure how this family ended up there, but
they ended up on this on this old plantation in northeastern
Florida. I guess it was on the island and
it had been a property there since the Spanish had come in
and forced the Native Americans off the land back in the 1500s.
Anyway, it become a a plantation, a slave plantation
I'm sure. And back in 1918 there'd been a
big house built there. More on that later.
Anyway, there must have been about 550 or 600 acres in this
plantation I believe and and this old old plantation, anyway,
there had been a pretty big fire like a forest fire.
So after everything cooled down, the mom and dad and the young
boy went out to survey the damage and they go through the
forest area but they burnt down and the boy finds this sphere
there in the ashes. And there's a picture of it I
have. I have several links on the
website ufowarning.com and it looks like I said about the size
of a bowling ball. They said when you picked the
thing up over your head, by the way, which this sphere didn't
seem to appreciate too much. But when you picked this thing
up, it had to feel like a Mexican jumping being.
I think they said it was almost like it was hollow inside, but
you could feel a movement in there.
Couldn't hear anything rolling around, but you could just feel
like this mass kind of going back and forth.
So they take this sphere home with them, all right, and it
immediately begins to exhibit some strange behavior.
In fact, they called it that poltergeist behavior.
Like they would set it down the hardwood floors, this old house,
this this old house that was called the castle, by the way.
So they set down the hardwood floors and this ball will roll
across the floor and stop and then start again.
And then it was observed rolling down the hallway, making right
turns. I mean, this thing obviously had
a mind of its own, and it kept doing weird things that you
could try to roll off the table. It wouldn't fall off the table,
it'd stop. They said it was gravity
defying. In fact, I don't know.
It must have had more than one kid.
They described how one of the boys was playing an electric
guitar and the sphere responded by making a very strange
electrical sound of its own. And they did not describe this
as a pleasant sound. This is something that scared
the living heck out of them from what I could read.
At any rate, they're perplexed. They call a reporter out.
He comes out and there's a picture of mom, dad and the kid
there with this ball. And reporter says I have no
idea, I can't explain it. He's watching this ball, you
know, start rolling, stop rolling under some.
They describe how how it doesn't seem to like certain people.
When certain people go to pick it up, it rolls away from them.
You know, this is way past the pet rock.
So anyway, they don't want to give the fear to anybody to take
it, to have it examined in the lab, anywhere for whatever
reason. I guess they're afraid that they
won't bring it back. So they start calling people in
and I think they said JL and Heinik may have examined it, but
a bunch of people looked at this thing and no one can figure out
what it was. They all just kept saying it was
unknown. Now you had the debunkers, of
course that said, well, this must have fell off of a
satellite. And they went so far as to say,
I guess there was an abstract artist that they got his name
there from Spain back in the 70s.
And they said, well, he, he was doing an abstract art exhibit
that involved a bunch of steel balls.
And one of them must have fell off the truck.
Yes, somehow this ball fell off the truck on the highway, which
was like 25 miles away, and rolled all the way there onto
this place in the middle of timber.
And probably not too likely at any rate.
Finally, I mean, they just got like a stream of people wanting
to come see this thing. They're driving them crazy.
Eventually, from what I found, they gave it to the Navy to look
at and the first time the Navy tried to X-ray it, it was a no
go. This thing, whatever this metal
was, it was so dense the X-ray wasn't touching it.
So you know, the United States Navy, they've got some pretty
big xrays machines. So they eventually took and put
this thing in a really heavy duty X-ray machine and they were
able to determine that this sphere had two inter spheres and
they were made out of some super dense material, like so dense
that it was heavier than anything known to man, heavier
than uranium, whatever. They couldn't explain it.
And it also seemed as though there was some sort of there was
something going on in the middle of that ball.
They couldn't see it, but there was something going on in there.
In fact, one scientist said he was afraid that if you were to
drill a hole in that ball, there was so much energy inside of it
that you could end up with something akin to an atomic
explosion, I think is how he described it.
So they didn't drill it, they didn't cut it, which is saying
something. Because, you know, usually when
when a lab gets ahold of something like this, the first
thing they want to do is put a hole in it or saw into it.
But these guys must have known enough or since enough to know
that that penetrating this thing or trying to cut it open or
dissect it would have been a really, really bad idea.
Now some of the documentaries claim that that the Navy just
kept the sphere, but I found an article online and I linked to
that at the website ufowarning.com and this guy was
a professor. And let's see, either he had the
boy that found it was in his class, or maybe his friend was.
He had a connection to the family and According to him, the
Navy returned the sphere to the family.
But the family was just so exhausted from all the curiosity
seekers that they just put the same storage and wanted to be
and requested to be left alone. They don't want to talk about it
and end of story, which seems a little strange to me.
And then, you know, he went on to describe some behavior of the
ball, but it almost seemed like he was trying to soft sell it to
maybe explain away some of the things that happened.
I don't know. It was very clear to me that he
was trying to protect the family, and that's fine.
It seems like the family got this thing and it was like a lot
of these weird UFO things that people find or even the
implants. At first they're curious because
these things are a strange curiosity, But the longer they
had the thing around, the more this thing really confronts your
reality. I mean, it's one thing, it's
demonstrating all of this poltergeist, and that's their
words. Poltergeist type behavior, Okay.
Secondly, it's made out of materials that don't seem to be
of this world. I mean it.
It's doing some weird stuff. They're talking about how you
pick this ball up and it's like it feels like picking up a like
a Mexican jumping being. Well, what's a Mexican jumping
being? It's got a little worm in there,
man. It's got something on the inside
that's making that being feel like not a normal being.
When they could pick this ball up and shake it over their head,
they could feel something in there.
And by the way, apparently the ball didn't like that very much.
They talked about how people would pick it up and handle it
when it didn't want to be handled.
And it would roll away from them on its own volition.
It would roll in the hall and take a right or left turn into
another room. Doors would slam and like I said
that they played the guitar, the electric guitar around.
It must not like that too well because it starts making its own
guitar music, but not very nice guitar music.
So you have this really strange, strange poltergeist type
behavior. And it gets to the point where I
think people, people, what they find this stuff.
At first it's a curiosity at first it's interesting, oh wow,
what's this? But when you look at it a little
bit deeper, the behavior is so strange that it just smacks you
in the face and really challenges your own reality.
I mean, this thing's here. It's telling you.
It's telling you in no uncertain terms that paranormal,
supernatural, whatever you want to call it, this unidentified
phenomena exists. And you can choose to believe it
or not believe it. But when it's in your face
challenging you, it can be a little disconcerting.
And that's the feeling that I got from this.
And I think sometimes that's why the debunkers come out of the
woodwork. I think sometimes people, people
are so they have such disconsonants, they're so
disconnected when their reality is challenged by something like
this that they will grasp at any excuse to try to explain this
thing away. Like I said to try to say that
an abstract artist had a a semi truck load of steel balls they
were carrying from an exhibit and that one of them fell off
and rolled 25 miles away into this into this you know forest,
it's it's asinine. If if this thing would have
fallen out of the sky from a satellite A9 pound round round
object, I wouldn't have expected to find it on top of the ground.
I would expect to find it like a couple feet down in the ground,
and it's obviously not a meteorite.
No way, no how. It looks like a bowling ball or
a cannonball, but it's super shiny.
At any rate, there was some more disturbing back story to this.
Like I said, the plant, the old plantation, the property that
this occurred on several 100 acres.
And on that property where the Beth's family lived was an old
house which they called the Castle.
And this house was built in 1918 and had been vacant for like 51
years. I think they said till the best
has moved in like in 1969 what had happened was and you can go
back and look at the links I have there, but there was a
family up north, a wealthy family and the dad that had this
house built as going to be like a summer home or maybe like a
winter home, whatever. And he had it built like a 1918,
but before they could move in, and then it took a few years to
build it or whatever, His wife died in a suspicious fire.
I think that there she was, like in a summer cabin up north or
something. Anyway, she died.
And then a year or two later, the son they said committed
suicide. They found him hanging from an
apple tree. Then a couple years after that,
the dad shot himself. So we have a mom dead, son dead,
dad dead, and the house that's empty for 51 years.
Then the Bets family moves in. Now from the article I read,
Mrs. Betts had gone on and she had a string of really
successful businesses. It sounds like she made a lot of
money and I don't even know of her or the dad are still alive.
It's been that many years, but at any rate, they live there and
I believe it was 1985 that they sold the property to the state
and turn it into a park and the house is still there and now
it's abandoned and you can go look at the pictures.
It is a really a really looks like an old haunted house, a
perfect place for a, you know, a paranormal portrait pulcher
sphere that nobody can explain. But it's a fascinating case.
It was a lot of fun to read. I have some links here on the
website ufowarning.com. Stop by, check it out and read
for yourself and and you decide what it is.
Is it? Is it something from another
Galaxy? Is it just some kind of a
natural phenomenon? Or is it another one of those
very strange, unexplained things that we just have to live with?
You can decide. That's all for now.
Over and out. Ufowarning.com I'm a.