Saturday 3rd June 2000
Ebony the Hamster reports on some spooky photography

I felt the hair on the back of my neck bristle with surprise as, displayed before me was first one image, then another, of photographs taken at night with the aid of infrared filters in one of our local forests.

'There's certainly something there' my interviewee pointed out 'you can see the head very clearly even though it's in partial focus. This was taken at f6 with an exposure time of one sixtieth of a second so I guess we'd expect just a little fuzziness'

This was weird - I couldn't help but think of Ganjette and those images that had been reported from around the world of hamster faces in all sorts of places - even, I remembered, in the freshly baked pastry of a Cornish Pasty in London. That would have been preserved for posterity but, as these things go, someone had inadvertently eaten it.

But this - wow! - this was weird! What else did they have?

'Here' said the photographer 'get a load of this...' and he pressed into my hands another red image, this time of Mars - seems that a pasty wasn't the only foodstuff to have been imprinted with the face of an animal.

'How is it possible' I asked 'for a Mars Bar to bear the face of an animal?'

'Pure chance is possible' he assured me 'but random chaotic differences may be being influenced from worlds we have no conception of - and by beings who are trying to communicate with us on a higher level'

I thought for a moment - a higher level? Intelligent beings? If they were so intelligent, wouldn't a few lines of text be a bit more informative? And what did we think they were saying by the reddened face of a hamster seemingly imprinted onto a night time infrared image?

'Perhaps' he said 'It's the ultimate answer to the ultimate question. Perhaps if we were to consider the implications of such an image, the meaning of life would become immediately apparent'

But in what way is the face of a hamster the meaning of life? After all, is this supposed to be the image of the Supreme Being? Are earthly hamsters made in the divine image? I think not...

'We need to conduct more research' he assured me 'but, for now, we would greatly appreciate any interpretations your readers might have that could be messages from the other side...'

'Oh' I said 'You mean the other side of the Atlantic?'

'Yes, precisely...'

Ebony the Hamster writes for the Rodent Weekly.
This article appears courtesy of that paper.




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