Monday, June 30, 2008

Ruslana Korshunova Suicide: The Conspiracy 

Suicide or Russian Mafia?

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:20 PM

The Creature in the Black Ravine 

The Paranormal Pastor sees something unexplained in Burkina Faso.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:42 PM

LaVena Johnson: Murdered By Her Colleagues, Ignored By The Army 

Disgusting.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:37 PM

Nazi looted relics returned to former owner's heirs 

Three ancient medallions looted by the Nazis in World War Two and missing for more than 60 years are being returned to the heirs of the former owner, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe said on Tuesday.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:59 PM

Ancient crashed UFO claimed to be from dinosaur age, 150 million years ago 

News released today about a secret U.S. Government project to analyze an allegedly extraterrestrial craft has a unique twist.


VIDEO: Is this another UFO captured on film?

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:57 PM

Durham couple in court for bizarre sex crime 

Stunning new details in a story Eyewitness News broke Friday involving a local leader in the Democratic Party charged in a bizarre sex crime.

Prosecutors say it was satanic and even involved dog cages.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:52 PM

King Arthur is propaganda, say French 

Even if a character who vaguely resembled the fabled leader did exist, he would probably have been a Welshman with strong connections to Brittany and whose sworn enemies were the Anglo-Saxons, they said.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:45 PM

Rare ghost orchid starts blooming again at Corkscrew Swamp 

The spectacular ghost orchid that wowed so many Southwest Floridians and visitors from across the country last year is once again producing record blooms in Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:42 PM

THE WILD MAN OF THE NAVIDAD 

Film review.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:40 PM

Riddle of stone head sculpture 

With pic.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:30 PM

100 years later, Tunguska still mysterious 

A full century after the mysterious Tunguska explosion in Siberia leveled an area nearly the size of Tokyo, debate continues over what caused it.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:23 PM

Murder Charges Imminent For Amanda Knox? 

For the past nine months, 21-year-old Amanda Knox has been sitting in a jail in Italy. Officials believe the American coed and her boyfriend killed her roommate, and could charge Amanda sometime this week. But she maintains her innocence.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:19 PM

Archaeologist investigating who built ancient chapel 

Restoration work at San Miguel Chapel could turn up new evidence about who built what is billed as the nation’s oldest church, says the group planning the restoration.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:14 PM

Histories: Viking longships brought rape, pillage and cod 

Just over a thousand years ago, a Viking chieftain named Ohthere paid a visit to England and the court of King Alfred. An intrepid mariner, Ohthere told the king about his homeland in Arctic Norway, and described long sea voyages around what are now Norway and Denmark. The learned king evidently listened intently, and instructed his scribe to note down the intelligence gathered from this visitor from the north. Today, the resulting late 9th-century manuscript, conserved in the British Library, is acknowledged to be the single most important contemporary account of a Scandinavian Viking-age traveller.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:12 PM

I'll eat my hat if Dr Crippen was innocent - OK? 

The North London Murder, as the Crippen case was called at the time, achieved outrageous fame partly because it incorporated a real-time chase, and the first telegraphic interception of a fugitive at sea.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:08 PM

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Secret Agent 666 

“The Great Beast” has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:12 PM

Book examines strange stone attacks of 1682 

All of a sudden, late on a moonlit June night, the assault began. Flying rocks - hundreds of them. Some the size of apples; some weighing as much as 8 pounds; others blazing hot, as if retrieved from a fire.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:06 PM

Couple says their dog disappeared in Lake Somerset 

A theory maintaining that there is a monster lurking in the depths of Lake Somerset might sound far-fetched.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:03 PM

Volkswagen-Sized Catfish 

Cryptomundo finds farfegnugen.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:57 PM

Plane, meteor or just a UFO? 

It looked like a small plane that was on fire and about to ditch in the ocean, Port Macquarie’s Luke Williams said.

See also:

International Experts Present Credible Evidence of UFOs

Welsh UFO sighting to feature on US show

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:12 PM

Bigfoot in Catskill? Believers say it's so 

THE MYSTERY of the creature commonly referred to as "bigfoot" has sparked the imagination and interest of millions of people around the world.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:11 PM

Swiss mystery machine or doomsday device? 

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.

But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:57 PM

Pacific Lighthouse Illuminates Mystery Of Its Past In The East 

In the world of lighthouse fanciers, the news was like a sudden flash through the fog: Never the biggest or brightest, the lighthouse here that guides mariners into San Francisco Bay has been revealed as perhaps the only bicoastal beacon in America.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:45 PM

The Forgotten Secret of Life 

The trend of people flocking to learn breathing techniques is not a fad, but a revival of an ancient wisdom to unlock the secrets of life.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:42 PM

Antique piano ad leads police to Nazi Colonel 

He had placed an advertisement in an English daily in Goa saying that he had an 18th century piano to sell. But 88-yearold Johann Bach never imagined that the advertisement would give away so much of his past that he had so long successfully concealed.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:40 PM

Murder case's lore, mystery keep growing 

Thirty-one years later, the debate rages over whether Gene Leroy Hart murdered three Girl Scouts in the rain-soaked woods near Locust Grove.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:39 PM

Writer tells true story of artist who solved 9 murders 

In his most unusual, fascinating book, Ted Botha, a prominent journalist, has written the true story of Frank Bender, a self-taught artist who has solved nine murders and helped find numerous criminals through his mystical talent for sculpting faces on skulls.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:35 PM

Tips on unsolved '54 murder still come in 

Thursday marks the anniversary of the day Huffman's little 1938 Ford was found parked in the middle of Route N, six miles from her home, just two miles from the overgrown ditch where a strong odor alerted an Allenville couple to the site of her body about 60 hours later.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:26 PM

100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia 

A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:21 PM

New Allegations Revive an Italian Mystery of the 1980s 

It was resuscitated this week after the news media here reported a witness claiming, among other things, that Emanuela had been kidnapped on the orders of an American archbishop, Paul Marcinkus, a former president of the Vatican bank. Linked to a major Italian banking scandal in the 1980s, Archbishop Marcinkus died in 2006.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:10 PM

Researchers recreate pre-Columbian sounds 

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:06 PM

Friday, June 27, 2008

Rare Iraqi Jewish books 'surface in Israel' 

Some 300 rare and valuable books confiscated from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein's regime have been secretly spirited into Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:01 PM

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Was the incident that marred Sarkozy's exit a suicide or assassination try? 

Something went terribly wrong on Tuesday afternoon, at the departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni, at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:23 PM

Creature from the deep stumps scientists 

A set of bones found on a Longboat Key beach has stirred a scientific mystery, as scientists and researchers struggle to identify the strange remains.


With good pics.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:52 PM

Ancient Bacterial Fossils May Exist on Moon 

It's not Amazon women, but it's a start.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:46 PM

Bee disappearances could get worse, House panel told 

A record 36 percent of U.S. commercial bee colonies have been lost to mysterious causes so far this year and worse may be yet to come, experts told a congressional panel Thursday.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:44 PM

Could hypnotism be the future of surgery? 

This dental patient certainly thinks so.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:20 PM

Things That Go Boom In The Night 

Brad Steiger takes a look at mysterious explosions that "seemingly manifest from nowhere for no reason." Via the Anomalist.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:54 AM

Hotel behind UFO 'fleet' mystery 

A hotel celebration appears to be behind the mystery of "UFO sightings" in Shropshire.

Are they here?

Fishos catch sight of UFO

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:41 AM

Unexplained event damages apartment building 

Some things just can't be explained, but something happened in West Valley City just before 6 o'clock tonight, and the proof is on top of an apartment building. The damage is there, but what caused it, is a mystery.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:38 AM

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Mopeds, Horsemeat and Pynchon on Malta 

With video.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:18 PM

Dig shows Paris is 3,000 years older than first thought 

An archaeological dig, whose findings were revealed yesterday, moves back Paris's first known human occupation to about 7600BC, in the Mesolithic period between the two stone ages.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:12 PM

Inuit oral stories could solve mystery of Franklin expedition 

More than 150 years after the disappearance of the Erebus and Terror -- the famously ill-fated ships of the lost Franklin Expedition -- fresh clues have emerged that could help solve Canadian history's most enduring mystery.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:56 PM

Ian Brady 'shows no remorse' says lawyer, as grave of Moors victim remains mystery 

The lawyer representing the mother of the Moors Murderers' last missing victim has held secret meetings with Ian Brady, the Daily Mail can reveal.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:55 PM

Explorers in search of 'man beast' 

A group of British explorers and scientists, backed by a renowned geneticist from Oxford University, have embarked on an intrepid expedition into a war zone and they hope to come back with compelling evidence for the existence of "man beasts" and cave men.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:48 PM

Redating Caesar’s invasion of Britain 

Now, astronomers from Texas State University have applied their unique brand of forensic astronomy to the enduring controversy surrounding the precise location of Caesar’s landfall, concluding that the historically accepted date for the event--Aug. 26-27, 55 B.C. – is incorrect.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:45 PM

Ancient Persian Gold Cup Goes to Mystery Buyer 

The cup was made in the Middle East from a single sheet of gold about 2,300 years ago.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:43 PM

Crop Circles Found In Helston 

Alien spacecraft may have been operating over Helston recently - or it could just be the work of local youngsters.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:53 PM

Deadly clicks: Shaolin Temple sets up eBay-style shop 

Between perfecting one-finger handstands and single-handedly fending off 1,000 enemies at once, the residents of China's Shaolin Temple are hawking t-shirts, candles and chopsticks online.

posted by Prof. Hex at 4:40 PM

George Carlin's Last Interview 

In-depth interview with The Master. And don't miss Jerry Seinfeld's tribute.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:34 AM

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

From the Wythall History Society 

Harrison disappeared after visiting a nearby village to collect a relatively large sum of money and various searches failed to trace him. Finally John Perry confessed to his murder but later retracted the confession.

However, as a result of his confession all three members of the Perry family were convicted of murder, despite the lack of a body.

They were hanged, close to the top of Fish Hill near Broadway, for a murder that never took place because 15 months later Harrison returned to Campden with a barely believable story of his disappearance.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:01 PM

Human skull found during home remodel 

Roofers made an unsettling discovery while working on a house in Tooele. Now police have a mystery to solve. The roofers found a human skull while they were tearing apart the attic's roof. The family living there is baffled.

With video.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:50 PM

Hit or myth: stars date the slaughter 

AFTER delving into a 3000-year-old mystery using astronomical clues in Homer's The Odyssey, researchers say they have dated one of the most heralded events of Western literature: Odysseus's slaughter of his wife's suitors on his return from the Trojan War.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:12 PM

UK Police Helicopter captures 'UFO' on film 

With cool video. See also:

Wedding couple sparked UFO alert

More UFOs Spotted Over Wales

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:51 AM

Monday, June 23, 2008

Hidden area beneath Antarctic ice revealed 

With jagged mountain ranges, plunging valleys and majestic lakes, Antarctica has scenery to rival any beauty spot in the world – except that no-one has ever seen the continent's hidden landscape.

Via Daily Grail.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:43 PM

UFO spotted over Bristol 

Puzzled professional John Clamp, 25, felt compelled to contact The Sun for answers after we sensationally reported last week that a UFO threatened a police chopper in the sky above nearby Cardiff.

With video and pic.

See also:

British Police in High Speed Chase ... with UFO

UFO sighted in the skies above Bala

UFO enthusiasts delve into the unexplained

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:52 PM

5 feet, few clues make 1 big B.C. mystery 

Five bodiless feet — all encased in buoyant sneakers — have washed ashore in less than a year. Four have been right feet. The latest foot was found a week ago in the water off Westham Island, about 15 miles south of Vancouver.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:44 PM

Divers to Search for Lost Sarcophagus 

It has been a source of enduring fascination for archaeologists and amateur Egyptologists everywhere: what exactly happened to the sarcophagus of Menkaure, one of Egypt's greatest Pharaohs? Now, more than 170 years after it was found and lost, the mystery could be solved.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:23 PM

Vatican employee's daughter 'was thrown into cement mixer' 

An Italian girl whose disappearance 25 years ago baffled investigators was murdered and thrown into a cement mixer by the gang which kidnapped her, according to a new witness.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:03 PM

Md. Plantation Attic Holds 400 Years of Documents 

For four centuries, they were the ultimate pack rats. Now a Maryland family's massive collection of letters, maps and printed bills has surfaced in the attic of a former plantation, providing a firsthand account of life from the 1660s through World War II.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:13 AM

RIP George Carlin 

Sad news for a Monday morning. George, you will be missed.

Here is his famous "Seven Dirty Words" routine. In no way safe for work.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:47 AM

Saturday, June 21, 2008

GOOD Guide: to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World 

Six organizations that have been accused of plotting world domination, along with an assessment of who they are, what they do, and just how powerful they actually are.

Via Boing Boing.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:58 PM

A new look at mystical Los Angeles and its high priest, Manly Hall 

"Master of the Mysteries" by Louis Sahagun takes a trip back in time to early 20th century L.A.'s obsession with the occult.

This book looks awesome.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:01 PM

Auburn man unearths 'Weird Washington' 

By his own admission, Al Eufrasio is no Weird Al.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:50 PM

Police show feet of clay in B.C. mystery 

Almost everyone has a theory about the human feet washing up on British Columbia's scenic coastline.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:47 PM

Poe biography invites further research 

Book review of Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:45 PM

Pagans and partygoers celebrate the summer solstice at Stonehenge 

Thousands of partygoers, pagans and self-styled druids cheered and banged drums Saturday to greet the dawn at Stonehenge on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:43 PM

Sperm count concerns specialists 

"Nobody I saw had a normal sperm count," said Wilshire, a reproductive endocrinologist at Mid-Missouri Reproductive Medicine and Surgery Inc. "It took about two or three weeks until a normal semen analysis came through the door. I kept asking myself, ‘Am I in a hellhole of toxins?’"

Hat tip to George!

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:13 AM

Friday, June 20, 2008

A dark figure haunts visitors to Oxford Castle Unlocked! 

With pic.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:49 AM

Beware! Nameless leviathan said to lurk in Lake Merritt 

From descriptions dating back to the Peralta family's arrival to the area in the late 1700s, the creature is a great silver beast with a delicate muzzle, a wisp of a tail, a neck as long as a grown man is tall and flippers that propel it forward at great speed when necessary.

And they're having a monster-naming contest!

See also: Cressie to surface on cable

Monsters of the deep still undiscovered

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:38 AM

It’s a Car! It’s a Plane! It’s the 1952 Fulton Airphibian! 

Cool video.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:32 AM

Truth about gold bars still a good mystery 

Brad Clover, of Enid, has some evidence a major operation was under way in the late 1930s or maybe early ’40s to locate 14 gold bars said to have been buried in the vicinity of the dam at the Great Salt Plains Lake 158 years ago by five men engaged in what must have been a running fight with a band of hostile Cheyenne-Arapaho Indians.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:28 AM

Scientology Founded On Principles Of Dark Magic, Dark Psychology 

Interesting.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:27 AM

Video: Wiltshire crop circle is "the most complex ever" 

With video of some pretty cool circles.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:57 AM

Something ‘Weird’: Author scouts strange Mass. spots 

Local author Jeff Belanger likes to say that life in Massachusetts was pretty normal until about 10,000 years ago - when the first people showed up.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:53 AM

Charles Fort - The Man Who Invented the Supernatural 

Review.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:52 AM

UFO alert: Welsh police spot 'unusual aircraft' 

UFO enthusiasts got a boost Friday when Welsh police confirmed that one of their helicopter crews had spotted an "unusual aircraft" flying over Cardiff earlier this month. An investigation into the sighting had been launched, they said.

UFO sighting put small Texas town on the map

Calls pour in to UFO witness

Is this the answer to Hampshire's UFO mystery?

UFO spotted over Colne?

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:46 AM

Mars Phoenix Tweets: "We Have ICE!" 

There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday.

White Patches Found in Mars Trench Are Ice, Scientists Say

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:42 AM

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Yet another human foot washes up in B.C. 

What the hell is going on up there?

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:11 AM

Monday, June 16, 2008

Solstice Moon Illusion 

On Wednesday night, June 18th, step outside at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant form rising in the east. At first glance it looks like the full Moon. It has craters and seas and the face of a man, but this "moon" is strangely inflated. It's huge!

Via Fark Geek.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:47 PM

Rest In Peace Stan Winston 

The legendary movie magician has passed.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:45 PM

Ghostly presence felt at lighthouse crew station B&B 

Although I've traveled here to watch the banding of some mysterious birds at one of the nation's most active owl migration points, I soon will learn that other mysteries of this "graveyard of the Great Lakes" will not be easily ignored.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:44 PM

Burn Notice - Season One 

Not too many people seem to be aware of this show but I enjoy it and thought I would recommend it. Nice review as well.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:34 PM

Ballard’s Titanic exploration was a cover for finding the Thresher submarine 

ABC News had an article that pointed out that Bob Ballard’s famous discovery of the Titanic was just a cover for the real expedition, which was the discovery of the sunken submarine Thresher.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:08 PM

Insane Wooden Bicycle Creations 

Cool.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:05 PM

'Bigfoot' is someone's idea of a joke 

"It's man-made and a hoax," Sarawak Museum anthropologist Dr Charles Leh said last Saturday while dismissing news reports that the two sets of footprints found in a village in Mukah division were those of "Bigfoot", an ape-like creature said to be found in North America.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:04 PM

So where the bloody hell are you? 

An Aussie extinct-animal researcher has asked Petone Herald readers for help in his quest for living moa roaming the Rimataka Range.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:03 PM

NASA Jumps at Patent for Plasma-Powered UFO Technology 

Subrata Roy, an aerospace engineer from the University of Florida, recently submitted a patent application for an aircraft that just happens to come in the shape of a flying saucer.

See also: British hacker should not be extradited to US, Lords told

Local Group Claims 14 UFO Sightings Near Del Rio

Did Howard Hughes View a Captured UFO and It's Occupants?

Hoax or not? UFO sighting alleged in Newbury

UFO mystery deepens with more sightings (With pic and video!)

Strange lights over Texas

What was in the sky in 1897?

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:00 PM

Do skulls hold key to world salvation? 

You've got four and a half years to get ready for "it."

According to folklore, 13 crystal skulls were created in a dimension other than this world up to 30,000 years ago and hidden in Central and South America. On Dec. 21, 2012, the skulls will reunite, activate and save the Earth from doom.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:49 PM

Looking scared could be protective 

“Fearful faces 'spot threats better'” is the headline on Channel 4 News. The Observer also reported on the same study at the weekend, claiming that a team of Canadian neuroscientists had solved the evolutionary mystery of why our faces contort in a certain way when we are scared.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:46 PM

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Cursed: The on-set terrors of ill-fated movies 

Some movies are just cursed.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:34 PM

India's dirty laundry 

The murder of a teenage girl in Delhi, unjustly blamed on a domestic servant, has heightened hatred and suspicion at the heart of Asia's most class-riven society.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:29 PM

Salmond: 'Stone of Destiny is fake' 

The First Minister has made the astonishing claim that the Stone of Destiny is a medieval fake.

Scotland's iconic coronation stone has been seen by tens of thousands of people since it was returned from Westminster Abbey to Edinburgh Castle in 1996.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:02 AM

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Big Borneo Bigfoot Prints 

Cryptomundo steps in it.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:27 AM

Friday, June 13, 2008

Is Friday the 13th really ‘unlucky?’ 

Is it bad luck, an ominous aligning of supernatural forces, or just a series of events accepted into urban legend?

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:25 PM

Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard called to find lost sarcophagus 

It has been a source of enduring fascination for archaeologists and amateur Egyptologists everywhere: what exactly happened to the sarcophagus of Menkaure, one of Egypt's greatest Pharaohs? Now, more than 170 years after it was found and lost, the mystery could be solved.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:23 PM

British warship found in Lake Ontario after 228 years 

The British warship HMS Ontario has been in a watery grave for 228 years. The Ontario went down in a gale on Halloween night 1780 with 120 souls on board.

With video.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:21 PM

Theories and rumours abound as scientists ponder mystery of mass dolphin deaths 

"I'm used to the big military guns going off but this was something different - bang, bang, bang, very close, very loud. The vibrations went through the boat and up through my backbone. The whole boat was shuddering."

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:19 PM

Macabre murder history 

Very few phrases throttle the public consciousness like “a dismembered torso in a suitcase.”

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:15 PM

Hidden Treasure Behind Walls of Home 

A mystery dagger and letters from 1853.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:13 PM

A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede - Breaking News - New York Times Blog 

Wow.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:12 PM

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Killer's Defense: Gacy Demons Made Me Kill 

A convicted killer awaiting trial for the alleged rape and murder of a young girl may try to avoid the death penalty if convicted by arguing he was doomed by a dark encounter with one of the nation's most notorious murderers, John Wayne Gacy.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:48 AM

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Chinese Man Pierced 2008 Times for Upcoming Olympics 

With awesome pic.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:35 PM

Wilshire Boulevard Ephemera Collector Eric Lynxwiler Interview 

Lynxwiler's collecting led to the discovery of a long forgotten Brown Derby restaurant.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:01 PM

To Decipher a Tattoo, Caveat Emptor 

Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the prostitute in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, finds a novel method of letting her other clients know she didn't rat them out.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:40 PM

Thunderbirds over Western Pennsylvania 

The Paranormal Pastor looks to the heavens. Via Daily Grail.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:09 PM

Unicorn Deer Born 

Cryptomundo gets horny.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:06 PM

American investigator: Amanda Knox is coming home 

"It might be five months or five years, but she's getting out," the renowned private investigator said of Knox, a 20-year-old former University of Washington student now into her seventh month in an Italian prison, still not charged with any crime.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:03 PM

UFO sighting was kept secret for 20 years 

The 1985 sighting occured in the sky over Shoreditch.

See also: UFO seen over Woodford Green

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:00 PM

'Monster of Florence' is real-life murder mystery: review 

This gripping collaboration between a bestselling American author and an Italian journalist is a most unconventional thriller, a real-life murder mystery in which the authors become suspects.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:56 PM

White witch puts curse on 'satanic' horse slashers 

An owner whose animals have been targeted twice said he had been told satanists want the blood for the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and a key date in the occult calendar.

See also: Police probe devil worship link to horse slashings

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:53 PM

Mystery site puts $7-million bounty on man wanted in theft of Canadians' bank data 

A mysterious website has issued a $7-million (U.S.) bounty for a computer technician who sparked an international scandal when he stole and sold banking records for thousands of account holders from the European tax haven of Liechtenstein.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:34 PM

Montezuma’s palace unearthed in Mexico 

During a routine renovation project on a Colonial-era building, experts uncovered pieces of a wall as well as a basalt floor believed to have been part of a dark room where Montezuma meditated, archaeology team leader Elsa Hernandez said Monday.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:16 PM

Celtic coins break sales record 

The 41 Celtic gold coins, dating back to the first half of the 1st century, were found by a mystery collector in a Kent field.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:05 PM

Living in Peru: Cusco Tales 

Cusco is not just a town; it is a place of God and man-made beauty. It is a crossroads, an experience. It is even a time machine of sorts. If you don’t know Cusco, you’re missing something. There’s no other place like it.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:03 PM

Monday, June 09, 2008

Stonehenge by Rosemary Hill review 

What is it about Stonehenge that makes people take leave of their senses? Why should a harmless-looking group of megaliths induce softening of the brain? These are questions that Rosemary Hill's witty, erudite book persistently prompts.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:35 AM

Keep watching Westall's skies 

A Melbourne filmmaker is calling on residents to unlock the secrets surrounding a UFO sighting in Clayton South 42 years ago.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:33 AM

How Victorian restorers faked the clothes that seemed to show Hadrian's softer side 

The head, with its neatly trimmed beard and fringe of exquisitely crimped curls, is certainly Hadrian but it seems the body it has been attached to for almost 150 years belongs to somebody else. The statue, a unique piece that has been cited in many biographies of Hadrian as proof of his love for Greek culture and customs, and illustrated countless times, is an ingenious Victorian confection.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:13 AM

Treasure hunters head to sea for salvage season 

The fever is contagious. Gold fever, that is.

Symptoms? Unwavering optimism.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:07 AM

Friday, June 06, 2008

KC Skywatchers Keep Track of UFOs 

Weird activity in my neck of the woods. Depressing, because I never see anything. And I'm looking.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:23 PM

The Bee: Part 1 - Beedazzled 

History is rife with lost knowledge and traditions whose meaning has blurred with the passage of time. I believe the ‘Bee’ is one such tradition, and that its symbolism was important to civilizations of all ages.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:43 PM

Smiley Face Killers on YouTube 

User NationWideAdam has some video pertaining to the case.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:37 PM

Pictish stone found by gravedigger most significant in decade – expert 

With pic(t)!

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:36 PM

NC "Monster" Featured On History Channel 

According to a new MonsterQuest TV show episode on the History Channel, the so-called "Beast of Bolivia" that terrorized Bolivia and Bladenboro in 1954 recently returned to kill dogs and goats in North Carolina. Residents say something killed animals with brute force, dug up their bodies, and even sucked out their blood in some cases.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:14 PM

Gnostics provide insight on alleged Manipulative Extraterrestrial "Trojan horses" operating against human free will 

It is alleged that Manipulative Extraterrestrials in human form, seek to act as Trojan horses within human institutions, to mis-direct humanity into an agenda that serves the divide, rule and conquest ambitions of a clique of alien races.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:04 PM

The 2,000-year-old 'supertanker' 

The ship was carrying high-quality red wine from a Greek island when it sank a mile-and-a-half off the southern coast of Cyprus in about 350BC, around the time Alexander the Great was born. Within days, several of the large wine jars, or amphorae, were brought to the surface.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:01 PM

Mystery Of Infamous 'New England Dark Day' Solved By Three Rings 

At noon, it was black as night. It was May 19, 1780 and some people in New England thought judgment day was at hand. Accounts of that day, which became known as 'New England's Dark Day,' include mentions of midday meals by candlelight, night birds coming out to sing, flowers folding their petals,and strange behavior from animals.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:57 PM

Doomsday cult says nuclear war starts next Thursday 

So have a great weekend!

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:53 PM

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Gangsters, Murderers & Weirdos of the Lower East Side 

A new book, part one in a series of three, focuses on the Lower East Side neighborhood known since the 1960s as the East Village (E.14th Street to E. Houston Street, east of Broadway). This neighborhood really earned its criminal stripes in the 20th century. It was a Jewish mob fortress for the first couple decades of the 1900s. The Italian Mob muscled in by the 1920s, but they fled the city for a period of time in the 1930s and 40s, when newly elected Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Special Prosecutor (and future NY Governor/presidential hopeful), Thomas E. Dewy, handed out arrest warrants for every major mob boss within their jurisdiction.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:30 PM

Brian De Palma to Helm 'The Boston Stranglers' 

I generally like Brian De Palma's movies - with the exception of The Black Dahlia which was a huge mess. Fingers crossed for this one.

The Boston Strangler at Wiki.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:41 PM

'Water-Running' Car Gets 100 Miles To The Ounce, Inventor Says 

Brown said he shut his fuel injection system down and created the system that can use any type of water with a small amount of gas. He said the car is getting just fuel vapor.

Via Fark.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:09 PM

Phoenix Lander May Have Found Ice on Mars. So What? 

If those mysterious chunks turn out to be ice, will NASA’s star research robot—already surprising its human overseers with power output—have unlocked an extraterrestrial mystery in its first week?

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:17 AM

Guy Ritchie to direct edgy new version of Sherlock Holmes 

British director Guy Ritchie is on the case to helm Warner Bros' gritty big-screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, which could dump the deerstalker and pipe and turn the character into more of an action hero.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:35 AM

Bigfoot Bounty: Reward Offered for Mysterious Monsters 

Bigfoot and lake monsters, beware: There’s a price on your heads.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:27 AM

Whatever Happened to Whatever Happened to the Bees? 

One year ago, the world was transfixed by the unexplained collapse of honeybee colonies in North America and Europe. Doom was predicted for entire sectors of global agriculture. And then we forgot about it.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:26 AM

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Yard Sale in Kentucky Yields a Trove of Weegee Photos 

The letters, along with 210 vintage black-and-white photographic prints, were found in 2003 in a zebra-stripe trunk that was bought at a yard sale in Kentucky by two Indiana women who were on their way back from a camping trip.

Thanks Dan!

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:57 PM

Monday, June 02, 2008

Alleged killer witness in murder case 

The case included tales of satanic rituals and vampire obsession, of drug use and the occult, of local youths hanging out in cemeteries and showing off dead bodies, and of mystery witnesses and jail-house snitches.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:21 PM

Does Bigfoot live on Mars? 

With pic.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:29 PM

UFO 'dive-bombs' couple on highway 

Lawrie Fuchs, 70, and his wife Gwen, 69, were returning to their home town of Elliott following a trip to Queensland last Friday when they say the UFO swooped them as they drove along the Barkly Highway.

Did you see the UFO over Clayton?

UFOs buzzing Beloit?

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:28 PM

In search of the raiders of the fabled city 

Machu Picchu, the fabled heart of the Inca empire, was discovered by a German, not the American who originally took the credit, it is now believed.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:52 PM

China Earthquake Comics 

Very sad, yet inspiring. Via Fark.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:32 PM

Yeti 'photo-fit' shows 'potentially explosive' evidence of elusive mountain beast 

Jonathan Downes, director of the Centre of Fortean Zoology, which studies mystery animals, said: "If this is true it is the most important zoological discovery in 70 years."

He added: "This is potentially explosive. If this scalp is authentic and has bone still attached, it will probably be the single most important zoological find since the discovery of the coelacanth."

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:06 PM