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Intriguing tale of the gold collar found while ploughing
I’m always fascinated by the way experts can look at open countryside, work out the likely site of a longlost settlement, or whatever, and interpret the archaeology by digging trenches.It’s amazing how, with the passage of time, all but the mightiest of structures disappear from sight. As long-forgotten homes, villages and forts fell into disrepair,…
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I’m Not Dead Yet: Premature Burial
The fear of being buried alive is more than just a Victorian era pre-occupation. Premature burial, also known as vivisepulture, has been recorded as intentional as a form of torture or murder, or accidental due to death like states such as catalepsy or coma combined with the inability to determine complete death. During the Victorian…
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Top stars heading for Sheffield film and comic con
Doctor Who and The A-Team stars are among big name actors coming to Sheffield for a film and comic convention.Collector fair organiser Showmasters has announced an event in the city this year for the first time – with a host of TV and movie stars, as well as comic book artists booked to attend.A Showmasters…
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Top 10 Most Famous Alien & UFO Pictures And the Stories Behind Them
The citizens of Earth have had to put up with a lot of extraterrestrial shenanigans over the years, or at least it seems that way. Many of these sightings and alien encounters have even been captured in pictures.So here are 10 of those most famous alien and UFO pictures, in no particular order. What do…
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Star Trek Writers To Reboot Flash Gordon?
After disappearing into development hell, it looks as though a ‘Flash Gordon’ reboot is alive and well… and being penned by current ‘Star Trek’ writers.”I understand that there’s fresh attempt bring [Flash Gordon] back into the limelight underway right now,” said the folks at Film Divider. “JD Payne and Patrick McKay are writers working on…
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LOCH NESS MONSTER: The World’s Oldest Loch Ness Monster Document
Anyone with an interest in the Loch Ness Monster will tell you that the earliest account of the monster was by Saint Columba sometime in the 6th century AD. The story itself has been repeated countless times in books, magazine and newspaper articles since the early days of Nessie fever in 1933. Even the latest…
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Community dig sheds new light on Wark Castle in Northumberland – The Journal
A community dig has shed new light on a castle which for centuries was in the front line of the conflict between England and Scotland.It has shown that Wark Castle on the Northumberland side of the River Tweed was more of a heavyweight prospect than previously believed.The excavations are the latest in a series by…
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Meet the creature found by divers in Russia’s Loch Ness, famed for legends of monsters
Reports of a ‘Devil’ in Siberia’s Lake Labynkyr date from the 19th century, and have intrigued scientists for many decades. The inaccessible lake, in the Sakha Republic, Russia’s largest and coldest region, was in March the scene of the deepest-ever dive under ice in the world. Divers on a joint expedition by the Russian Geographic…
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Break out the bells and sticks: Morris dancing is back
Ridiculed as unfashionable, with a dwindling band of ageing followers, its demise was predicted within the next 15 years.But break out the handkerchiefs, sticks and bells: morris dancing is on the way back. read more: Break out the bells and sticks: Morris dancing is back – Telegraph.
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That Time Subterranean Aliens Killed 60 People in New Mexico
Dulce, New Mexico is located right on the Colorado-New Mexico border. It’s a quaint town, with a population just under 3,000. It’s the tribal headquarters of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. It’s also the alleged location of a secret underground alien base. Read More: That Time Subterranean Aliens Killed 60 People in New Mexico | Roadtrippers.
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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…