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Top 10 People Rumored To Be Alive After Death
History is full of faked deaths and re-appearances of people long thought dead, but there are also a small number of people who did most likely die, but become the center of theories that claim they live. This list looks at ten of the most well know deaths that have fueled the fires in the…
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Rare sighting of comet captured on camera above Gloucester
Tuffley astronomer John Fletcher captured a spectacular picture of a comet above Gloucester.Mr Fletcher, who runs the Mount Tuffley Observatory photographed the C/2012 K1 Panstarrs comet in the early hours of Saturday morning. read more: Rare sighting of comet captured on camera above Gloucester | Gloucester Citizen.
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LOCH NESS MONSTER: The Surgeon’s Photo Eighty Years On
It was eighty years to the day on the 21st April 1934 that the Daily Mail introduced the most iconic image of Nessie to the world. The Surgeon’s Photograph as it was dubbed caught the imagination of the world and has ever since been the lead image for the monster.Almost immediately, the photo gained acceptance…
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The spooky world of the ‘numbers stations’
This is the era of hyper-tech espionage, encrypted emails and mindboggling cryptography. But you can hear a very old-fashioned form of espionage on shortwave radio.It is 13:03 on a Tuesday in a cramped room with some fairly advanced radio equipment. What is suddenly heard on a shortwave receiving station is a 10-minute message in Morse…
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Archaeologists Uncover Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Writer
Egypt’s minister of antiquities Mohammed Ibrahim has announced the discovery by Egyptian and Spanish archaeologists of two tombs dating to roughly 600BC in the south of the country. One of the tombs contained the mummy of a writer along with reed pens and even a bronze inkwell. The mummy itself was said to be well…
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Video – First Crop Circle in England 2014 (Probably..)
First Crop Circle in England 2014 via Video: Is2012TheDate First Crop Circle in England 2014 ~ Frequency.
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Get Ready for the Lyrid Meteor Shower: Our Complete Guide for 2014
The month of April doesn’t only see showers that bring May flowers: it also brings the first dependable meteor shower of the season. We’re talking about the Lyrid meteors, and although 2014 finds the circumstances for this meteor shower as less than favorable, there’s still good reason to get out this weekend and early next…
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Flirty Fishing: Evangelical Prostitution
The Children of God were a rather silly American Christian group, born in 1968, that went, however, almost immediately off the rails, rode down the sidings and ended up chugging along in the blackest, grimiest ditches known to human experience. They specialized, for one, in unusual sexual practices. Some of these are too sordid to…
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Viking treasure discovered in the Isle of Man | Granada – ITV News
Buried treasure from Viking and Medieval times has been discovered in the Isle of Man.A rare Viking gold ingot, a silver document seal, gold ring and 119 silver coins from the middle ages are considered highly valuable and rewards for the finders could reach tens of thousands of pounds. read more: Viking treasure discovered in…
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The strange case of the “vampire” burial in Venice.
In 2006 in Venice, Italy, archaeologists excavating a plague cemetery found something quite unusual: a skeleton with a brick in its mouth. They determined that the brick was likely placed there after death, and they later developed a hypothesis about how the brick got there spoiler alert: it involves vampires. Be sure to read the…
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Creationist Carl Kerby insists dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark: They took the younger ones.
One of the founding border members of the Creationist organization Answers in Genesis believes that dinosaurs accompanied Noah on his Ark as the entire world was flooded by God.Speaking to Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on Thursday, Carl Kerby insisted it wasn’t infeasible for the giant reptilian creatures to have been on Noah’s…
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They reached for the sky but found death: The world’s greatest airplane mysteries
Hopes are now pinned on the robotic submersible scouring the sea 1,500 miles off Australia where experts believe the Boeing 777, with 239 passengers and crew, was lost six weeks ago. Since 1948, 100 aircraft have gone missing in flight and never been recovered and aviation history is peppered with disasters that defy explanation.Danny Buckland…
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Pope Francis To Permit Delivery Of Easter Baskets To Maine Zombies
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John Barrowman interested in Doctor Who return
After appearing alongside the ninth and tenth Doctors, John Barrowman admits he’d love to return to ‘Doctor Who’…Everyone’s favourite intergalactic chancer, Captain Jack Harkness, hasn’t been seen since appearing in the spin-off series, ‘Torchwood’. But it looks as though John Barrowman would love to return to ‘Doctor Who’… and thinks Peter Capaldi is going to…
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Britain’s first cloned dog is born – and described as ‘ridiculous waste of money’
The birth of Britain’s first cloned dog has been branded a “ridiculous waste of money” and scientists said the process raised serious ethical concerns.Sooam Biotech, a company based in Seoul, said it had cloned the puppy, named Mini-Winnie, from a 12-year-old dachshund belonging to Rebecca Smith, a caterer in west London. She had won a…
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One Man Lives Alone In This Submerged Argentine Ghost Town
For 60 years, Villa Epecuén, a small Argentine town located about five hours southwest of Buenos Aires, hosted European vacationers who had come to bathe in the salty waters of Laguna Epecuén. Then, one day in 1985, the dam built to keep the lake’s waters out of the town burst. Everyone fled to nearby Carhue,…
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Depp Impact: The Science Behind ‘Transcendence’
In the new science-fiction thriller “Transcendence,” Johnny Depp uploads his mind to a powerful computer, melding his consciousness with artificial intelligence in a scenario many refer to as “the singularity.”Far-fetched? Yes, but so is the idea of a brooding Depp as an awkward neuroscientist. That doesn’t mean people are not trying to make it happen…
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First trailer for incoming sci-fi film, The Anomaly
Ian Somerhalder stars, as the first trailer lands for Noel Clarke’s upcoming sci-fi film, The Anomaly…The ever-industrious Noel Clarke has been busy again, with the first of his new films heading into cinemas this year. This one is The Anomaly, which arrives in UK cinemas on July 4th. via First trailer for incoming sci-fi film,…
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New chapel found at site of ‘Easter’ abbey
Archaeologists have located a hidden chapel at the site of an abbey where the date of the country’s Easter celebrations were first set.A team from English Heritage discovered the remains at Whitby Abbey, in North Yorkshire, as part of a 20 year research project.In 664 it was the venue for the Synod of Whitby, at…
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Were unexplained lights in the sky a UFO?
The recent earthquake activity in the general area makes me ponder earthquake lights, see here New Ollerton Quakes …and for an explanation of the phenomen, here Earthquake lights Unexplained flashes and darting lights have been spotted over parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire — sparking questions over the mysterious UFOs.The strange lights were spotted over local…
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The Unicorn: Myth, Legend. Did they Exist?
The Unicorn is a legendary animal that has been described in ancient times as a horse with a large pointed spiraling horn projecting from it’s forehead. The Unicorn is usually white in color, there have also been mention of Unicorns being a white goat with a horn projecting from it’s forehead. Leonard Lake – serial…
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Right, left, wrong: People reject science because …
You’d be forgiven for thinking science is under attack. Climate science has been challenged by deniers and sceptics, vaccination rates are falling thanks to anti-vaccination movements, and GM crops are pillaged by anti-GM activists. But what determines why people take these positions? via Right, left, wrong: People reject science because ….
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No, we didn’t find the Loch Ness Monster with Apple Maps
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good debunking-random-monster-sighting post. The ready availability of global satellite image databases is a powerful tool for exploration and monitoring but has also led to a boom in pseudoscience “discoveries” by people not familiar with how these images are produced or just willing to suspend disbelief for…
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Wichita’s mystery in the sky
WICHITA, Kan. — Jeff Templin is a amateur photographer. He says he’s seen it all until now. While taking pictures of wildlife back in February, something caught his eye. He said it looked like an unusual contrail.“Right over the city, clear as a bell,” said Templin. “Anyone that was looking up would have seen it.…
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The world’s most haunted island is up for auction
Tourists are banned and it’s said to be the most haunted location in the world; the island of Poveglia is only minutes from where the glittering Venice Film Festival takes place each year, but couldn’t be more different. And now it is about to get a new owner. In an effort to pay off public…