'Monster of the deep' is filmed
By LEON WATSON
Published: 26 Sep 2009
SCIENTISTS believe this incredible footage could show a mysterious monster lurking beneath one of the deepest lakes in the British Isles.
Jonathan Downes, 50, spotted the "creature" thrashing around in one of the Lakes of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland, while on holiday last week.
His eerie sighting was in the Upper Lake one of three interlinked lakes that make up the area.
The mystery comes just a few years after bizarre unexplained sonar recordings showing a large body were made in the adjoining Muckross Lake.
Along with his wife and friends who also had cameras, Mr Downes, from Crediton, Devon, managed to capture shapes moving across part of the lake.
Mr Downes, who is director at the Centre for Fortean Zoology, said that he had heard of the sonar reading before visiting the lake, but was "ridiculously" lucky to see anything.
He said: "I was actually there with my wife and a friend on holiday.
"All I knew is what I've read and having spent an hour on Thursday night looking down on it.
"What we saw was a thing about nine to 10ft long.
"I'd love to say I saw long necks and humps and things but I didn't."
Mr Downes, who studies cryptozoology - which investigates unknown species of animals, described seeing what he see described as appearing to be "a long thin eel-like creature appearing about 10ft long".
"I believe it must be a large eel," he said. "It was a pale colour.
"What I saw didn't actually really come out on the picture as well."
Pat Foley, deputy regional manager of National Park and Wildlife Service, which oversees Killarney National Park, said that there has been some unusual readings taken about six years ago, which indicated an unknown figure in Muckross Lake.
"I think it was about 2003 there was a survey taken," he said.
"They were getting some sort of strange picture coming back.
"The image was a large and dark blob which I presume, for economic reasons, was described as a monster."
The Lakes of Killarney have much in common with Loch Ness - home of the world's most famous monster - just across the Irish Sea in Scotland.
Both are large very deep lakes with similar fish species including Arctic char.
Loch Ness is the deepest lake in Britain, whilst Muckross Lake measures up to 70m deep, is along with Lough Leane, Ireland's deepest lake.
At the time of the sonar findings in Muckross Lake in Paddy O'Sullivan, Killarney National Park manager for the National Parks and Wildlife Service said: "I am very excited by these findings and am delighted that the ancient fish community of these lakes are being examined by the Irish Char Conservation Group and scientists from around the world.
"These interesting findings can only be good for Killarney from a public awareness and a tourism point of view.
"Whatever the thing turns out to be it will be afforded our fullest protection under EU law as the Muckross forms part of a Special Area of Conservation."
Cat wrapped head-to-tail in duct tape
By staff writers
NEWS.com.au
September 24, 2009 07:44am
A CAT found wrapped from head-to-tail in powerful duct tape has survived to purr the tale, in a bizarre case of animal cruelty.
The female tabby was spotted by a passer-by in the US city of Philadelphia, who immediately contacted the local animal welfare organisation, the Daily Mail reports.
The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA) said it was one of the most bizarre cases of animal cruelty they had ever come across.
The tape was firmly wrapped around the cat’s entire body, with only her head and one leg left untouched.
"Whoever did this is very sick," said PSPCA director George Bengal, according to the Baltimore Sun.
"I've never seen a cat totally wrapped like a mummy before," Mr Bengal said. “It was very methodical... (It is) a very sick individual that would do something like this to a cat."
SPCA officers said they were able to completely remove the tape by first sedating the cat and then removing it with scissors.
The animal welfare organisation said the cat, nicknamed Sticky, was doing well and did not appear to be traumatised by the cruel treatment.
Video footage of the cat showed her purring and enjoying cuddles with an SPCA officer.
Watch video here
SPCA said the cat's good health and cuddly nature led them to believe it came from a good home.
So, as well as seeking those responsible for the cruel act, they are also looking for the cat's owner.
A $US1000 ($1153) reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible.
18 Creepiest Landscapes On Earth
Fri, Sep 25, 2009
Photo: johnbatte.com
Landscapes are usually associated with rolling hills and lush meadows, the tranquil quiet broken only by occasional birdsong. Not these landscapes. Full of fiends and strange faces, some of them might make you think a wizard muttered incantations to invoke nature’s sinister spirits. Others appear as gateways to other worlds best left unexplored, while still others seem like sets straight out of a horror flick director’s sick dream. Muhahahahahahaha! Oh, and if you like being scared, go to Iceland.
Icelandic Stone Trolls
Photo: Soffia Gisladottir
This snap is riddled with trolls, which according to Icelandic legend turn to stone in daylight. There’s an obvious one, bottom right, but look closely and you’ll see others. The ridge itself is like a sleeping giant.
Geological Rhino
Photo: orvaratli
Another Icelandic landscape, this one showing Hvítserkur, an old volcanic injection of magma whose surrounding rock the ocean wore away. Looks like some monstrous, literally stone age rhino to us.
Cliff Skull
Photo: LTTay7
Taken at Lake Cumberland in Kentucky, this skull-like face is apparently one of many in the cliff face caused by naturally occurring decay and erosion. One’s enough, thank you very much.
Looking Out to Sea
Photo: cridds
Looking like an old man watching the sea, perhaps for signs of impending doom, this photo was taken in Kilve Beach in Somerset, England, famous for its fossils – of giants?
Face in Profile
Photo: Joe Shlabotnik
This next profile of a rock face in a rock face is in Yosemite’s famous Taft Point. A stone giant grimly surveying his kingdom from 3500 feet up while facing off with the big nose of El Capitan, opposite.
Water Monster
Photo: David Paul
OK, not so much a landscape as a seascape, but check out the water spirit, moving out of the water and standing tall as the surf hits the lighthouse pier at Frankfort, Michigan.
Gateway to Hell
Photo: Hkvam
The jets of hot steam and sulphurous gases known as fumaroles plus its sterile, acidic ground give Iceland’s Námaskarđ pass the look of an opening into the devil’s own domain.
Straight out of Hell
Photo: elfis gallery
What is it about Iceland that makes its landscape so creepy? Well those solfatares emitting hot steam – in this photo near Myvatn – definitely have something to answer for.
Geothermal Nightmare
Photo: Völundur Jónsson
Yes, Iceland seems determined to haunt us with its infernal terrain, here at Hverir. It’s no wonder the country’s folklore is replete with monsters, goblins and other phantoms of the netherworld.
Leaving Hell’s Gates
Photo: c@rljones
One final shot of Iceland’s infernos before we leave its shores in search of other weird and wonderful landscapes. Taken near a geothermal power station, the bubbling mud only added to the sense of menace.
Strange Eggs Appear
Photo: Ozyman
These strange, egg-like mounds look as if they form part of some alien landscape. In fact, though, this colourful expanse of unusually eroded rocks is the Bisti Badlands, located in New Mexico.
Another World
Photo: Jessie Reeder
No, we’re not in Iceland again, but staring at another otherworldly landscape. This one is in the desert surrounding Bolivia’s Laguna Colorada, a shallow salt lake with red-coloured water and white islands.
Ice Gate
Photo: Wiechert Visser
This beautifully frost-bitten avenue of trees, snapped in the Netherlands, looks like some gateway into the kingdom of the Ice Queen. Enough to send shivers down your spine. Brrr.
Creepy Gloves
Photo: Bianca van der Werf www.biancavanderwerf.com
Who would have thought a view with gloves hanging from barbed wire in the foreground could be so sinister? Come to think of it… and crumbs are those marigolds creepy. Shot in the Netherlands, arthouse style.
Long Road Home
Photo: J.T. Noriega
This shot brings back memories of road movies gone awry; we’re thinking The Hitcher or Duel. Actually, though, the photo was taken not in the California desert but the wilderness of the Philippines.
Scary Place
Photo: Dirk Delbaere
This next picture has all the hallmarks of a scene from a classic horror, a Hammer perhaps: unknown location; isolated house framed by creepy trees; fog lacing the ground. You can make the rest up yourself.
Dark Night
Photo: johnbatte.com
This creepy pic could be a screenshot from a high quality chiller. Lit by moonlight, bathed in swirling mist, the tree might easily be concealing some horror in its shadows. This could be anywhere. Atmospheric.
Desolate Landscape
Photo: Caro Wallis www.carowallis.com
Desolate indeed. Creepy too. The fog shrouding this rural scene makes it seem as though that lonely lane could be leading anywhere. Who knows what lies beyond the ghostly horizon? Perhaps nothing. Perhaps oblivion.
Cancer victim has face rebuilt using ribs, hips and wrist
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:35 AM on 27th September 2009
A mouth-cancer sufferer has had his face completely rebuilt - using parts of his ribs, hips and wrists.
Father-of-three Tim Gallego underwent 16 operations to have bones, skin and arteries from all over his body implanted into his face.
The financial advisor had chunks of bone from his rib cage and his hips removed to form the structure of his new nose and jaw to hold in his new teeth.
Tim Gallego, who needed 16 operations to rebuild his lower face after suffering from mouth cancer
'The tumour I had was huge. The doctors didn't realise how big it was going to get and between the scan and the surgery to remove it, it grew a lot. They thought I would lose a couple of teeth in the operation but in the end I lost 10 teeth and they took the lower part of my face off,' he said.
Arteries from both his legs have been built into his neck and skin from his wrists grafted onto his lower face. And almost a whole rib bone was inserted into his face to support 10 new teeth and his nose.
Mr Gallego - who has since made a full recovery - was unable to talk for a whole year and couldn't eat or drink for two weeks after one of the many operations to aid his recovery.
The 46-year-old, who is married to wife Katie, also had frequent sessions in an oxygen chamber to encourage new facial blood vessels to develop.
He said: 'I seem to be running out of a supply of body parts now. I've always been very positive throughout and always thought that I would get back to normal. It's just that normal has ended up being a bit different for me.'
Mr Gallego, from Poundbury, Dorset, was diagnosed with mouth cancer at the age of 38, when he went to his doctor complaining of sinus problems.
Tests revealed a cancerous tumour the size of an apricot behind his nose, and he underwent a 21 hour operation to open up his face and had to have bone from his nose removed to get to the growth.
Afterwards his head ballooned to the size of a basketball, and he embarked on months of radiotherapy before he started the long process of rebuilding his lower face bit by bit.
Tim and Katie Gallego, before his diagnosis
He said: 'Within a week of being diagnosed, my dog died and Katie found out she was pregnant with Imogen, our first child.
'After the operation I was already looking like a monster and then ended up with a face like a basketball, I was so badly swollen.
'The radiotherapy made me sick as a dog. But I was determined at that stage to be well enough to look after Imogen. I needed to be well enough to drive Katie to hospital.
Because of the changes in my face now, people I know have seen me and not recognised me.
'People look at me and wonder what has happened but the only people who actually ask me are young children. But it was only when I was well enough that I could actually understand how sick I was, if that makes sense.'
Mr Gallego had his final operation in May this year and has now been given the all-clear.
Killing in the name of love: Seven funerals and a wedding
Like Romeo and Juliet, Naveen and Sonam would do anything to be married. But in their story, it was others who died. Here, they confess to Andrew Buncombe
Sonam Dagar's first mistake was to fall in love with the boy next door. Her second was to continue their illicit, outlawed relationship after her family had warned her off in no uncertain terms. And her final error was to believe that an act of violence – an extraordinary, calculated night of mass murder – would allow her and her lover to be together.
The 19-year-old and her boyfriend have been detained by Indian police after confessing to murdering seven members of her family – her mother, father, grandmother, brother and three cousins – in a move they believed would allow them to marry in contravention of local custom that forbids people belonging to the same clan or gotra from becoming man and wife.
After drugging her family's food with sedatives slipped into the flour used to make their evening chapattis, the couple looped a rope around the necks of their victims and – each of them taking one end – strangled her relations one by one.
The crime has stunned the remaining members of the young woman's family and triggered a wave of disbelief across the quiet flat farmland of rural Haryana where she grew up. But as more details of the murders emerge, the killings have also focused attention on the controversial role played in this part of India by khap panchyatts (unelected social councils) in controlling people's lives, including who someone is allowed to marry.
During a remarkable confession to The Independent at the police station where she is being held, the slightly-built Sonam tried to explain what had pushed her over the edge. "I think that if people are in love, whether or not they are from the same gotra, they should be married," she said. "I thought that we could be together."
Sonam and Naveen, 20, grew up in the village of Kaboolpur, 60 miles west of Delhi and set amid fields of sugar cane and rice paddy that are home to eggshell-white egrets and kingfishers. The pair lived next door to each other on a small, unmetalled lane bisected by an open drain and heavy with the smell of cattle. They had known each other since they were children but about 18 months ago their relationship took a different, and ultimately more dangerous turn.
Despite living in a community where all young people were told they would have to look outside of their clan and beyond the village boundaries for marriage, Sonam said she was attracted to her next-door neighbour, especially his gentle nature.
When the young woman's family learned of the relationship, they strongly forbade it. While such a ban may have been enforceable in the small farming village, in the city of Rohtak where the lovestruck pair were students (she studying humanities and he enrolled at a computer college), their love could continue away from public reproach.
When, earlier this year, Sonam's family learned that the affair was continuing despite their warnings, they decided to withdraw her from college and the young woman who may have been set for a very different future, was brought back to the village and set to work in the home the family shares with its animals.
This summer, apparently unable to endure the prohibition any longer, Sonam began to think of an escape from a world of rapidly diminishing options. She hit upon a solution that seems scarcely believable.
"I had no suspicions towards the girl... I could not believe that my granddaughter would do this," said Takdir Singh Dagar, one of Sonam's grandfathers, sitting in the simple home with other stunned relations. Her uncle, Bhupinder – whose eight-year-old son and two daughters, aged 12 and 14 – were among those murdered, appeared utterly dazed. His wife died two years ago, he explained, adding: "I have nothing left."
In the days immediately after the killings Sonam was treated in hospital, after apparently taking sedatives herself in order to cover her tracks. "For the first five days we thought she was innocent," her uncle said. "Had we come to know that the girl had been involved in the murders we would have killed her instantly."
The young couple have told police they believed that killing their family was the only way they could be together. Indeed, Naveen said they feared that they themselves might be killed for their relationship, even if they had fled the village.
Members of the family dismiss this, although Sonam's other grandfather, Zila Singh Jakhar, confirmed that tradition prevented them from marrying. "We have some customs and tradition," he said. "It means that someone in this village cannot marry anyone else in the village. The whole village belongs to the gotra. This has come from our forefathers. It is to stop inter-breeding."
But whatever common-sense intentions such customs may once have served, in an India where traditions are increasingly colliding with a shift towards modernity, the rulings of the panchyatts have often had deadly consequences.
Earlier this summer in the Jind district of Haryana, 30 miles south of Kaboolpur, a man was lynched by his in-laws after marrying a woman from the same gotra and receiving a death sentence from the panchyat. The man was murdered despite a High Court order permitting the marriage and even though he was accompanied by 15 police when he went to collect his wife from the village.
Reports suggest there have been at least five similar "honour killings" in the region since then. "This is the heartland of Haryana. The people are killing their own sons and daughters," said a police source. "This is the first time there has been a reverse case."
Members of the khap panchyatts deny having ever issued such death sentences but instead say that when rules governing intra-gotra marriage are broken, a couple will be banished.
"We have some social rules, customary laws," said Ameer Singh, a member of the Kaydyan panchyatt, who lives in Rohtak. "The younger generation may be ignorant about the rules, or else arrogant and break them on purpose."
Senior Supt Anil Kumar Rao, who is heading the murder investigation, has little doubt the couple were driven to their crime as a result of the influence exerted by Sonam's parents. "It was social pressure," he said. "The parents did not want to allow them to live together and that is why they have taken such a step."
Naveen, also being held in police custody, said Sonam had come to him with the idea of killing her family two weeks before the murders. Initially, he said, he had rejected the proposal but when she raised it again with him the same day he agreed. "It was her insistence. It was because I love her," he said, sitting on the floor beneath a gently clattering ceiling fan. "I knew we would be in trouble and that sooner or later we would be caught."
Police say the couple obtained a powdered sedative and on the night of 14 September mixed it into the flour the two families used to make their chapattis. Once Sonam was sure her family were unconscious, she called Naveen on his mobile phone and he slipped out past his slumbering parents. At her house they first killed Sonam's grandmother, and then her father and mother.
They had not initially planned to kill the children but decided to do so in case they woke up and called for help. "We strangled them with the rope," Naveen told detectives. "I had fear in my mind when I was doing the killing."
The young Romeo said that once the murders had been carried out the couple tried to have sex, but that he was unable to do so. They then went their separate ways, with Sonam apparently then swallowing sedatives so that it would appear she too had been drugged. The following morning, when other family members discovered the seven strangled corpses, Sonam was semi-conscious on the floor and was rushed to hospital.
Though the young woman declined to talk about the specific details of the killing, she said Naveen had agreed to her suggestion "immediately" and that the pair had planned it together. "I love my parents, and my brothers and sisters, but my family planned to marry me forcibly," she said. "I will not say I'm innocent," she added. "I will accept whatever punishment."
As they wait to be taken for their second appearance in front of a magistrate, the young couple have not been allowed to see or speak to each other, even though they are being held in the same police station.
Both say they now regret what they did in pursuit of their relationship. "I am repenting it now," Sonam said
Shocked Surfers Find Shark On Cornish Beach
6:50pm UK, Saturday September 26, 2009
Surfers got a "nasty shock" at discovering a 12ft shark that had been washed up on a beach in Cornwall.
The surfers' discovery on Hayle beach in Cornwall
The thresher shark was found on Hayle beach by the surfers who thought it was a dolphin.
It had a 6ft long body, with a tail of the same length, and is estimated to weigh around 440lb.
Dave Jarvis, from Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network, has formally identified the shark that was found on Wednesday.
"The surfers who found it thought it was a dolphin so they got a nasty shock when they got closer and saw it was a shark," he said.
"It was in good condition, there were no marks on it so we don't know how it died."
Thresher sharks are native to UK waters but it is unusual for them to be washed up in this way.
Mr Jarvis said he could not think of another that had washed up in recent years in Cornwall.
"They don't pose any threat to humans, if they did decide to go for you it would take a lump out of you but they only have a small mouth and two rows of teeth so its not like Jaws," he said.
"I've never heard of anyone being attacked by one."
Thresher sharks can grow up to 20ft in length.
In 2007 a trawler fisherman caught a 16ft thresher shark off the coast off Land's End, Cornwall.
Jacko: I want to tell Bulger killers I love them
By KATE JACKSON
Published: 25 Sep 2009
MICHAEL Jackson regarded Hitler as a "genius" - and believed he could have changed the heart of the Nazi leader.
In the most explosive series of interviews ever, the King of Pop also admits he planned to visit James Bulger's killers in jail - to tell them, "I love you."
Today, we exclusively lift the lid on the troubled, bizarre and often tragic thoughts that plagued the King of Pop.
Jacko on Diana ... 'she was my type ...
very special, classy and feminine'
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Eight years before his untimely death, Michael Jackson recorded more than 30 hours of interviews with his close friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, to share an intimate side of himself with a public he knew was deeply suspicious of him.
With heart-rending honesty, he spilled the beans on the pressures of childhood fame, his terror at the hands of his violent father Joe and his all-consuming love for children.
But the strangest confessions include how he:
* admired Hitler's showmanship
* wanted to hug schoolboy killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993.
* adored Princess Diana but was too shy to ask her out
* believed Madonna was in love with HIM
The tapes, recorded with Michael's approval between August 2000 and April 2001, have been published in a new book, The Michael Jackson Tapes, which goes on sale in America and online today (friday).
Killers ... Robert Thompson, left, and Jon Venables
"There were many times during our conversations when my heart really went out to him," says Rabbi Shmuley, 42, who met Jacko through their mutual friend Uri Geller. "He cried so much in these interviews.
"He was a man who yearned so deeply to do good with his life but was ultimately consumed by indescribable loneliness and pain.
"I wasn't the CNN journalist interviewing him on camera or Martin Bashir, these conversations were mostly conducted in the privacy of his bedroom suite at Neverland.
"There was a very intimate quality. When he displayed a lot of emotion, it was genuine.
"He was a man who thought that attention from fans could be a suitable replacement for love from family. But fame and fortune have never made anyone happy."
The most shocking revelation comes through the pair's discussion of Hitler.
"Hitler was a genius orator," says Jackson. "He was (able) to make that many people turn and change and hate.
"He had to be a showman and he was.
"Before he would speak, he would pause, drink a bit of water, and then he would clear his throat, and look around.
"It was what an entertainer would do trying to work out how to play his audience.
Murdered ... James Bulger aged two
"He would go into this fury of the first words he would say and he would hit them hard."
Rabbi Shmuley later asks if Michael believes he was given his talent to bring out the goodness in man.
"I believe that," says Michael. "You can change them because going to my show is like a religious experience because you (go in) one person and come out a different person."
The conversation continues:
Shmuley: "You believe that if you had an hour with Hitler you could somehow touch something inside of him?
Jackson: "Absolutely. I know I could."
Shmuley: "With Hitler? Come on. Michael! You don't believe there is anyone who is completely evil and there is no way to touch them."
Jackson: "No, I believe you have to help them, give them therapy.
"You have to teach them, that somewhere something in their life went wrong. They don't see what they do.
"They don't understand that it is wrong a lot of times."
Rabbi Schmuley explains: "Michael, of course, despised what Hitler had done. But naively believed that the monster in Hitler was solely the product of a neglectful childhood.
"I tried to explain to him that people are still always responsible for their actions."
During a separate discussion on love and relationships, he talks of an argument with his first wife Lisa Marie Presley over plans to visit James Bulger's killers.
"She had a fight with me one time when two little boys in London killed this other kid and I was going to visit them 'cause the queen gave them adult sentencing of life," says Jacko.
"These were like eleven and ten-year-old boys and I was going to go to the prison and visit them.
"She said, 'You idiot. You're just rewarding them for what they did.' I said, 'How dare you say that.' I said, 'I bet if you trace their life you can find they didn't have parents around, they didn't have any love, nobody there to hold them look in their eyes and say, 'I love you.'
"They deserve that, even though they're going to get life, I just want to say I love you and hold them."
Although he doesn't name Robert Thompson and Jon Venables - and he mistakenly says the murder occurred in London - Rabbi Shmuley confirms he is referring to them.
"He brought up James Bulger's killers on a number of occasions," says Rabbi Shmuley. "He did not believe children could be evil - he believed their parents had neglected those children and not given them nurturing love. They had turned out scarred.
"He felt he was empowered to heal these kids who were neglected.
Interviewer ... Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Jackson at gala in 2000
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"But when it came to believing he could heal Hitler, that was hopeless naivety."
The interviews were always intended for publication but a rift emerged between Rabbi Shmuley and Michael Jackson in 2001 when Jacko agreed to perform his 30th anniversary concerts when Rabbi Shmuley was adamant that Jackson had to get his private life in order before returning to the stage.
Jackson's arrest in 2003 and trial in 2005 further delayed publication.
"He desperately wanted these conversations to be published," says Shmuley, who was Rabbi at Oxford University for 11 years. "Nobody had any sympathy for him before but there was a groundswell of sympathy after his death.
"I believe that a public who once judged Michael negatively are now seeing a fuller picture."
Holding a dictaphone close to his mouth, Michael Jackson also opens his heart on subjects usually kept buried deep, like love and women.
He admits he would have liked to have asked Princess Diana out because she was his "type."
"I thought she was very special," he says. "Very feminine and classy. She was my type for sure, and I don't like most girls.
"There are very few I like who fit the mold (sic). It takes a very special mold to make me happy and she was one of them."
When Rabbi Shmuley, an American dad-of-nine, asks if he thought of asking her out, Michael says "Absolutely."
The conversation continues:
Jackson: "I have never asked a girl out in my life. They have to ask me."
Shmuley: "Really?"
Jackson: "I can't ask a girl out."
Shmuley: "If she would have asked you out?"
Jackson: "Absolutely. I would have gone."
He also claims Cindy Crawford flirted with him at a black-tie dinner, and that he had considered dating his good friend actress Elizabeth Taylor. 
Jacko on Madonna ... 'she was in love with
me, but she is not sexy at all'
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"I know that if we ever did anything romantically, the press would be so mean and nasty and call us 'The Odd Couple,'" he says.
"It would turn into a circus and that's the pain of it all."
He also spoke about Madonna's feelings for him.
"I think she likes shock value and she knows how to push buttons on people," he says. "I think she was sincerely in love with me and I was not in love with her.
"She did a lot of crazy things. I knew we had nothing in common."
He continues later: "She is not sexy at all. I think sexy comes from the heart in the way you present yourself."
It was always assumed Michael and Madonna were great friends.
But it seems, from these recordings, it was not a great friendship and Jacko suspected Madonna was one of those jealous of his success.
"They admire you and know you are wonderful and great because they are jealous, because they wish they were in your shoes," he says. "Madonna is one of them. She is jealous.
"She is a girl, a woman and I think that's what bothers her. I think women don't scream for other women.
"Men are too cool to scream for women. I get the fainting and adulation and she doesn't."
Asked how he thought Michael's conversations would be received, Rabbi Shmuley adds: "There were always two Michael Jacksons. The beautiful boy from an underprivileged background who was humble, shy and loving, and 'The King of Pop' who craved adulation.
"It is my sincere hope that this book will expose more of that innocent and special child which never completely left him."