Extraordinary claims. Ordinary investigations.

We covered the bizarre case from the beginning, and even managed to get inside photos of the scene from “the house that dripped blood”. Ladies and gentlemen, the case has been solved by the police, and the resolution is astonishing.

Genetic analysis of the blood confirmed it was from the old lady that lives in the house with her husband. That would be most disappointing, but before considering hoax, read this:

“Officer Lopes said that even before the results of the DNA tests, he already knew the blood was from the lady. ‘Two days after the blood showed up, we already suspected that the blood was hers. I spent a day in their house and my only doubt was if the bleeding was gynecological or from varicose veins. I examined the couple, and we realized that she had a recent hemorrhage in the varicose veins in her legs’.”

Yes, her varicose veins burst, and all suggests she honestly didn’t realize that. That explains why everything happened after she bathed (with her legs naked), and how she could claim that she had seen the blood squirting. It also explains the freshness of the blood, which coagulated in the floor. Any hoax involving blood taken, for instance, from a blood bank would not coagulate because they are treated with anti-coagulants. That was fresh blood taken from someone and spilled on the floor.

Or, as we now know, it was indeed squirted, as the varicose veins of the lady burst. As those veins, before the event, are already blown up, doctors confirm that people, especially old people, may not realize the burst. The fact the lady was diabetic also contributed for the large amount of bleeding before it stopped. She may have noticed her legs covered in blood, but must have assumed it was the house squirting blood on her, not the other way. Case solved.

The couple, including the lady, is well and fine. The police has confirmed they will archive the case, as there’s no evidence of any criminal intent. Indeed, the peaceful couple didn’t exploit the case despite the great media interest, and still remain anonymous.

Now, varicose veins bursts as explanations for a seemingly paranormal phenomenon, that’s priceless. Your read it here first. You are welcome.

After the invisible gorillas, we now have paranormal varicose – can you come with a better term for this? I’m sure you can, please share it in the comments.

[News source, in Portuguese: Investigação de casa que jorrava sangue está encerrada, diz delegado]

Finally, and thanks to a kind source, we have the photos from the Bizarro case. Click for more.

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Some updates on the bizarre case in "Jardim Bizarro". First, and foremost: the street is also called "Antonio Bizarro" (here on Google Maps). And a correction: contrary to what I assumed (from watching too many movies), the blood didn’t drip, it allegedly sprayed from the floor up to a height of 15 cm. No Amityville, it was supposedly more like the Shining.

Too bad, no photos yet of "the happening".

Then we have the detail that the blood only sprayed when the old lady (65) was in the shower. According to her husband (71):

"When I shower, nothing happens. When she [the wife] showers, it starts".

Parapsychologists are more used to have those things happen to teenage girls, not retired ladies. But it’s an interesting detail. And blood didn’t spray since then.

What came to the house was a crowd, eager to see something. But true to their claims, the couple does not exploit the event in any way. They remain anonymous.

"The result of the test is irrefutable. We did the analysis more than once and there’s no doubt that it was human blood, and fresh, from the same day in which we collected it", stated Wilson Antonio Pereira, head of the local Scientific Police [source]. They are collecting blood samples form the couple and their daughter, to try to match it with the blood that was on the floor.

But skepticism is already filtering through the news reports, and it comes first from the Catholic priest first called. Priest João Estevão da Silva, first to arrive in the scene, denies he celebrated a mass or any claim of supernatural phenomenon.

"I was the first person to suggest to the couple to report it to the police. I realized it was blood, but I didn’t believe that it had sprayed. It looked like it was spread in the floor", he told. [source]

The police is also skeptical. Pereira also told O Estado newspaper that "there are blood marks at around 10 cm [in height], on a cleaning product bottle, but the blood spilled from top to bottom, not the other way", contradicting the claim that it sprayed from the floor.

Most surprisingly, even the owner of the house doesn’t exclude the idea that the blood may have been spilled maliciously by someone. "You can’t doubt anything. There’s a lot of evil in this world", he muttered. [source]

Things are still very bizarre on Antonio Bizarro St. The police will probably take some time to publicize the results of the tests on the blood samples.

Above, the small house that dripped blood

Echoing the bizarre scenes from horror movies (and the dubious associated claims), a small house in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, dripped blood. Deputy officer Marco Antonio Ferreira, who investigates the case, have discarded the idea that foul play may have been involved, as the people who live in the house are a retired elderly couple above all suspicion.

This past Sunday and Monday night, around 6:30 PM, they complained about a liquid that looked like blood that started to drip from the walls from a height of around 15 cm in the bathroom, living room and one of the bathrooms.

“I was already going to archive the case, as in a preliminary analysis we thought the liquid could be paint. But it is blood”, Ferreira told the news. He also dismissed the hypothesis of a homicide in the house. “Blood is tissue. It only comes from a living person. I visited the house and I have seen that everything was fine. There is nothing wrong there. I may even go back there to have a cup of coffee with the couple,” he joked.

The couple is scared and doesn’t want to talk with the press. They don’t event want to be named.

But if that wasn’t bizarre enough, the last bit is simply priceless. The neighborhood where everything is happening is called… “Jardim Bizarro”, or “Bizarre Garden”.

People are seemingly very catholic around there, including the couple, who first things first, immediately called a priest. But they don’t want to move. A group of around twenty catholic ladies also visited the house to pray and help clean the mess.

Another neighbor, identified as Angela, told that the couple is above any suspicion — “I know them for years. They lived here for 38 years. For my part, I lived here for the past 50 years. Nothing like that ever happened.” Good for them.

She also tells how the neighborhood may be finally living up to its name, as “everything around here has always been very peaceful. But around a week ago, a young man was murdered, another was thrown from a train and now, blood is dripping from nowhere. We are scared.”

“They say the fact that our village has ‘bizarre’ in the name attracts bad luck. It may well be. We should change. But ‘Bizarro’ is the surname of a very traditional family of the region. They owned a construction material shop in the past. A name like any other”.

Wait a minute. The Bizarro family owned a construction material shop, and now blood is dripping from the walls? I see a connection there. I hope they kept the receipts for the material in the walls. The Bizarro family may have things to explain.

More updates in this bloody case as they come.

[Source in Portuguese: Líquido que jorrou em casa de Jundiaí é sangue, diz polícia]

Click to see how to talk to the dead . With Nicole Zapruder, who “has been communicating with the dead since she was 4 years old.”

Zapruder introduces the “Grey Walter-Berger Construct”, a video with flashing lights and an Australian voice speaking. After watching it you would contact the dead. It’s interesting, and the references to Hans Berger and William Grey-Walter were actually erudite. Something was odd with that website. Nicole isn’t selling anything. That, and something like the not so subtle mention to the movie “The Orphanage”. Wait, maybe she’s selling something.

A quick look at the registrar information for the website domain didn’t reveal who was responsible for it, but it did reveal that it is hosted on the same server as the website of a company called “The Topia Project“. There it was.

Topia is an Australian advertising agency, and the movie “Orphanage” will be released there on May 29. Zapruder’s website went on line this past May 7, and there seems to be no reference to anything a psychic with that name ever did before. Zapruder probably doesn’t exist.

I emailed them asking for confirmation that the website is a viral to promote the movie. I congratulated them for the amount of creativity and research they must have put on it. It would be actually interesting if there were people promoting this “Grey Walter-Berger Construct” (what a name!).

It would still be despicable exploitation of those missing their deceased beloved ones, via self-hypnosis and pseudo scientific mumbo-jumbo, but it would be something slightly new and with a cooler name. Walter and Berger were real scientists, who were actually involved with psi research, as well as having contributed to mainstream science.

Besides, you have to love that detail about how “Nicole’s next project will be the website ‘Communicating with your deceased pet‘.” Using that “Grey Walter-Berger Construct” you would probably hear annoying barks and meows in your head.