Sunday, March 31, 2013

India's first zombie movie: 'Go-Goa-Gone' 

I'm rather surprised India hasn't already produced twenty zombie movies (I'm actually surprised they didn't do it last year) but these guys think they're the first. Check out the trailer below. It kind of looks like Harold and Kumar Meet the Zombies and I'm not saying that in a bad way. I would probably watch a zombie movie with Harold and Kumar.



We'll see if they can, ahem, curry favor with international audiences.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:45 AM

Suspects identified in 2012 gold heist in Siskiyou County  

Early one morning in February 2012, thieves crept into the Siskiyou County Courthouse, made off with more than $1.25 million in gold and other items from the lobby's display case and disappeared.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:30 AM

Friday, March 29, 2013

Study: Archeologists find remains of human-Neanderthal hybrid  

The finding comes from northern Italy, where some 40,000 years ago scientists believe Neanderthals and humans lived near each other, but developed separate and distinctly different cultures.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:04 AM

Mysterious animal mauling puzzles Palm Springs BMW owner 

When a neighbor told Flood he’d spotted two animals, “bigger than coyotes,” tearing through the neighborhood in the wee hours the night before, he decided it was time to call the police and report the odd event.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:55 AM

Mysterious African Fairies Might Be Termites  

For decades, people have been mystified by thousands of bare, circular soil patches that dot arid western African landscapes with inexplicable geometric precision.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:55 AM

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Pompeii exhibition at the British Museum captures the day the sky fell in on Sin City 

Yes, the Daily Mail sucks but the pics are pretty good.

posted by Prof. Hex at 12:43 AM

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Roy Chapman Andrews: A Real Life Indiana Jones  

Though his adventures didn’t involve faces melting or hearts being torn out, they were still perilous and often produced artifacts of great significance.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:38 AM

Cool Audio: Harry Houdini talks about the "water torture" escape 

Recorded in 1914. Neat stuff.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:35 AM

Monday, March 25, 2013

Reincarnated Kids Needed For Reality Show 

A Los Angeles production company is currently holding a nationwide casting call for children who claim to have, or have had, past life memories for a new reality series, "Ghost Inside My Child," scheduled to air on the Bio Channel later this year.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:41 AM

Thursday, March 21, 2013

600 year old coin found proves China was trading with East Africa BEFORE Europeans arrived  

Researchers say the copper coin, which has a square hole in the center so it could be worn on a belt, proves trade existed between China and eastern Africa decades before European explorers set sail.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:20 AM

Creepy Crater Lake: Legends, Lost Gold, and a History of Mystery 

Strange things are afoot at Crater Lake.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:58 AM

11 Crazy Bigfoot Conspiracy Theories  

Is Bigfoot really a giant ground sloth? An alien? A caveman?

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:54 AM

Bigfoot believer shares hairs: 'I wouldn't give it up for anything'  

Her sasquatch keepsake comes from her parents. Klopp said her parents were driving along in the 1960s, towing a small trailer, when they swerved off the road to avoid hitting what they believed was a man.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:43 AM

Dreams of the Sonora Aero Club 

The amazing story of Charles August Albert Dellschau and the Sonora Aero Club. Also: Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story of an Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:32 AM

Fishing for Mermaids with Ivan. 

Good read. The comments, too.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:24 AM

4 places of legend in Utah  

The Bear Lake Monster. Whales living in the Great Salt Lake. A neighborhood of hobbits in Sugar House.

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:48 AM

Unexplained boom baffles experts, residents 

The mystery of the “loud boom” heard in parts of the region over the weekend may go unsolved as efforts to find the source of the boom proved a bust Monday.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:46 AM

New film revives Soviet hikers' death mystery 

The film, "The Dyatlov Pass Incident", loosely retells the true story from 1959 when nine students went on an expedition to a peak in the northern Urals known as the Mountain of the Dead - never to return.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:46 AM

Boston art heist: FBI says it has solved mystery of $500m theft  

The FBI says it has solved the decades-old mystery of who stole $500m (£330m) worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, but it is withholding the identities of the thieves, adding a further twist to the largest property heist in US history.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:43 AM

Mystery masterpiece revealed as Rembrandt self-portrait  

A mystery portrait donated to a British heritage charity as part of a mixed lot of paintings has been identified as a work by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn -- worth more than $30 million.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:39 AM

Clairvoyant chemistry  

A strong contender for the strangest book ever written about chemistry is Occult chemistry by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater published in 1909. It offers an element-by-element account of the form and structure of atoms, with astonishingly rich substructure and detail – some like ornate frozen splashes, others resembling the rose windows of Gothic cathedrals.

posted by Prof. Hex at 6:02 AM

Watch: James Franco Directs Kenneth Anger As Occult Priest In Music Video, Delivers "No Talking" PSA For Alamo Drafthouse  

Directed by Franco as well, the six-minute clip for "Love in the Old Days (Tim James 1999 Remix)," aims for atmosphere and mystery, but most significantly, it features experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger as a theremin-playing occult priest.

Video NSFW.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:59 AM

Chinese bowl bought for just $3 sells for $2.2 million at auction  

The sellers were a New York family who had purchased the bowl in 2007 at a garage sale for a mere $3, according to reports.

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:53 AM

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Ancient Egyptian text describes a shape-shifting Jesus  

"Then the Jews said to Judas: How shall we arrest him (Jesus), for he does not have a single shape but his appearance changes. Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man ..."

Jesus the Magicians!

posted by Prof. Hex at 5:24 PM

Sunday, March 10, 2013

It's like that scene in Jaws, but with a cow 

"The stomach of a cow recently killed in Kentucky contained a brass ring, a lot of hair pins, hooks and eyes, pieces of steel hoops, and a high-heeled shoe. "Old Brindle" had probably swallowed the milk maid."  

- The Weekly Arizonian, June 30 1859.

posted by Prof. Hex at 3:11 PM

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Does Bee Venom Kills HIV?  

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have demonstrated that a toxin called melittin found in bee venom can destroy HIV by poking holes in the envelope surrounding the virus, according to a news release sent out by Washington University.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:36 PM

No new life form found in Antarctic lake, says Dr. Cthulhu Fhtagn 

Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica..

posted by Prof. Hex at 8:43 PM

Friday, March 08, 2013

2 Civil War sailors from the Monitor to be buried at Arlington  

Burial comes a year after officials in Washington unveiled forensic reconstructions of the sailors' faces in an unsuccessful attempt to learn their identities.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:44 AM

Haunted by trauma, tsunami survivors in Japan turn to exorcists  

"People were killed in so many different ways during the disaster and they were left like that in limbo."

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:37 AM

Soviet soldier missing since 1980 found in Afghanistan  

A former Soviet Army soldier who went missing in action in 1980 during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has been found alive almost 33 years after he was rescued by Afghan tribesmen.

Reminiscent of the Japanese holdouts.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:35 AM

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Iliad date is confirmed, thanks to science  

Cool beans.

posted by Prof. Hex at 11:20 PM

Not just the stuff of legend: Famed Viking 'sunstone' did exist, believe scientists  

For centuries, it has been a crystal of legend locked in the verses of Norse myth with little or no evidence that it was ever real. Now it seems scientists at last have grounds for believing that the Viking “sunstone” used to navigate the seas did indeed exist.

posted by Prof. Hex at 7:48 AM

Monday, March 04, 2013

Building remodel reveals icky surprise  

Cool pic.

posted by Prof. Hex at 9:03 PM

'Mongolian Bling' rappers swing to their own beat  

Mongolia's hip-hop scene caught Benj Binks off guard. The young Australian expected the descendants of Genghis Khan to be mostly nomads and herders, cantering over wild, bleak plains. Instead, when he arrived in the country's capital of Ulaanbaatar in 2004 he found nightclubs, graffiti and guys rocking baseball caps and baggy pants.

posted by Prof. Hex at 2:53 AM

Video of Apollo Robbins Pickpocketing 

Apollo Robbins show you how it's done. Cool stuff.

posted by Prof. Hex at 1:05 AM

Friday, March 01, 2013

The conjoined twins who were more famous than movie stars in the 1920s 

At a strange time in history when freak shows, vaudeville, and the nascent movie industry intertwined, a celebrity phenomenon gripped the world.

posted by Prof. Hex at 10:30 PM