tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66688532024-03-18T23:00:17.799-05:00Professor HexScholar of the Strange and MysteriousUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14862125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-35144927598581601382015-08-12T08:17:00.001-05:002015-08-12T08:17:04.178-05:00Archeologists may have solved mystery of the 'Lost Colony' <i><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0811/Archeologists-may-have-solved-mystery-of-the-Lost-Colony">Two separate teams of archeologists claim they have unveiled objects that may be traced back to the first English colony in the New World. </a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-91013978628810558972015-08-12T07:33:00.001-05:002015-08-12T07:33:07.214-05:00A Thrift Store Find Yields an Astronomical Mystery<i><a href="http://www.universetoday.com/121822/a-thrift-store-find-yields-an-astronomical-mystery/">A good mystery is often where you find it. Photographer Meagan Abell recently made a discovery during a thrift store expedition that not only set the internet abuzz, but also contains an interesting astronomical dimension as well. </a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-23611383773953040062015-08-09T05:21:00.001-05:002015-08-09T05:21:25.029-05:00‘Granny Ripper’ Case: Cannibalism, Occult Sacrifice Suspected in Slayings of 11 People <i><a href="http://ktla.com/2015/08/07/cannibalism-occult-sacrifice-suspected-in-granny-ripper-case-police/">Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg say they are investigating cannibalism and occult sacrifice as motives in the suspected slayings of at least 11 people by a pensioner dubbed the “Granny Ripper.”</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-11666893782028754012015-08-09T05:19:00.001-05:002015-08-09T05:19:23.999-05:00A Florida Sheriff Is Investigating a 'Witchcraft'-Related Triple Murder <i><a href="http://www.vice.com/read/cops-are-looking-for-a-blue-moon-killer-in-the-florida-panhandle-805">Sometime last week, probably on Tuesday night, a visitor entered the residence of the Smith family on Deerfield Drive in Pensacola, Florida, without much trouble. This alone was a bit unusual given just how reclusive the Smiths were; after all, some of their neighbors of many years have never even spoken to them, much less stepped inside their home.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-77221200851226676242015-08-06T16:32:00.001-05:002015-08-06T16:32:51.447-05:00John Keel: Ahead Of His Time <i><a href="http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/08/john-keel-ahead-of-his-time/">In today’s world of Ufology it’s not even remotely strange to hear accounts of “hybrid babies,” “hybrid children,” “black-eyed children,” and alleged alien-driven genetic experimentation.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-67915683309821705132015-08-06T16:28:00.001-05:002015-08-06T16:29:10.386-05:00Historic UFO Battle of 1665 Left Many People Very Sick<i><a href="http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2015/08/historic-ufo-sighting-many-became-sick.html">On April 8, 1665, around 2 p.m., fishermen anchored near Barhöfft (then in Sweden, now in Germany) reported seeing ships in the sky battling each other. After the battle, a dark object hovered in the sky.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-69707190281692920292015-08-06T16:26:00.001-05:002015-08-06T16:26:51.739-05:00The Mythic Child-Stealing Thunderbirds of Illinois | Atlas Obscura<i><a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-mythic-child-stealing-thunderbirds-of-illinois">At approximately 8:10 p.m., the Lowes were cleaning up after their al fresco dinner, the kids still playing outside. And that's when it happened.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-52444393624432513092014-12-30T01:30:00.000-06:002014-12-30T01:30:01.486-06:00THE CHICKEN BOY OF ILLINOIS<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On the Old Holland road near </span><st1:place style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><st1:city>Calumet</st1:city>,
<st1:state>ILL</st1:state></st1:place><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, lives a German family with a
12-year-old boy who is a remarkable phenomenon. He is a boy in every
particular, as far as form and feature are concerned, but there the similarity
ends. In every attribute of mind and matter he is exactly like a chicken. He
moves like a chicken, eats like a chicken, scratches like a chicken, flaps his
arms arid crows, and sleeps on his feet crouched in a corner. These strange
traits were imparted to him by a surgical operation, wherein the blood of a
live chicken was conveyed into his veins to sustain life during a protracted
siege of fever in which his own blood turned almost to a colorless liquid. Mention
of his case is made in two medical books of resent date, and the case attracted
some considerable attention five years ago, when the operation was performed;
but, singularly enough, nothing of it crept into the newspapers.</span></div>
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As the reporter drove up to the
house the boy was seen standing by the gate. He could not be mistaken, for,
while two or three other children, like him yellow-haired and blue-eyed,
evidently his brothers and sisters, were playing around, he stood perfectly
quiet, leaning against the fence with one foot drawn up, as a chicken sometimes
stands, and with his head turned to one side and dropping on his shoulder. His
eyes were closed and he appeared to be sleeping, precisely as a chicken sleeps
– its left foot drawn up and the head under its right wing. The noise of the buggy
seemed to awaken him. He gave a somewhat startled look, put his foot down and
shook himself as a chicken ruffles its feathers, and, starting off with a
short, quickstep, ran into the garden, where, a moment afterward, apparently
forgetful of what had alarmed him, he stopped and began scratching with one
foot in some soft earth beside a pine box, on which stood a saucer of corn meal
and a rusty tin pan half full of water. These, it was afterward learned, were
placed there regularly every day for him to feed upon. The boy's mother, it was
learned, is dead. She died about two years ago. The father was away from home,
at work in the Pullman car wheel foundry. The boy, whose peculiar
characteristics make him an object of so much interest, is named Charley Wolfson.
The driver of the buggy who conducted the reporter to the house said that he
had heard that up to the time of his affliction the boy was a more than
commonly bright child. Since then he has insisted on laying out of doors, going
under cover only when it rained, and seeking shelter only in some of the outhouses
along with the chickens. He never wears any hat, not even in the coldest
weather, and never talks or takes any notice of things more than a chicken. One
of the children, the oldest girl, evidently about 10 years of age, at the
reporter's request called the boy by making a clucking sound, but he would not
consent to be caught, and immediately ran away as an effort was made to take him.
The girl said that he often sat on the fence, and not in frequently was found
at sundown perched on the limb of a tree. </div>
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- <i><st1:country-region>Mexico</st1:country-region>
Weekly Ledger</i>, <st1:date day="6" month="3" year="1884">March 06, 1884</st1:date>,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-62441979470771634232014-12-28T01:00:00.001-06:002014-12-28T01:12:53.455-06:00HAUNTED BY A BROWNIEPerry, Mo., October 6. - This community is somewhat stirred up over the report that a spirit's knocking could be distinctly heard at the farm-house of John G. Brown, one-half mile west of this city.<br />
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Your correspondent visited the place last night and gleaned the following from the occupants of the house: Mr. Ingerham said: "The first noise heard was last Friday night. I thought it was caused by rats. Upon investigation, however, I found the noise changed position.<br />
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My sister-in-law seemed to be the medium, and she began to interrogate the spirit, which would answer some of the questions by three knocks and some with one. Ever since the first observance the mysterious noise there has been strange sounds around the premises. <br />
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Your correspondent made a thorough investigation of the house, heard three distinct knocks to each of the following letters of the alphabet; A, B, C, E, I, L, and M. No answer was made when the other letters were called. The lady who seems to be the medium is very much excited over the matter, as her name has been repeatedly called and three knocks were clearly heard each time. The knocking ceases when a light is brought into the room, or when too much unusual conversation is indulged in. A least twenty-five persons visited the place last night, and to-night no doubt the number will be doubled. Everyone is anxious to have the mystery explained. – IWW<br />
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- <i>Mexico Weekly Ledger</i>, October 14, 1886Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-12217403123302703102014-12-10T11:44:00.000-06:002014-12-28T01:09:14.684-06:00New Mode of Suicide (1906)New York Oct 15 - A Rio Janeiro dispatch published here says that Viscount Almeida, a well-known member of society, committed suicide in a novel manner. He invited a number of his friends to dinner and afterward led them to a cage of lions that he had hired from a traveling menagerie.
When all were watching the animal and chatting, the Viscount opened the door of the cage and entered. The lions pounced on him and he was fatally mutilated before he could be dragged out. It is said he was overwhelmed by gambling debts.<br />
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- <i>The Hartford Herald</i> (KY), October 17, 1906,
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-26142739785255315792014-12-09T10:22:00.001-06:002014-12-28T01:08:31.243-06:00A FALLEN STAR - A Once Famous London Actress Picking Coal in Kansas City (1873)The Kansas City Times says: The recent arrest of a number of poor coal pickers in West Kansas City, resulted in the discovery of the identity and the present home of a once very popular actress, who made her debut in, and for a season drove the play going public of London, wild over her beauty and power of delineation. Mrs. Caroline Whittlesey, or, as she was better known, the "Brighton Pearl" appeared on the stage in Drury Line about twenty years ago, and after a brilliant season of favor and popularity suddenly – faded from the London stage, and for several years was lost to the public eye. When next she appeared before the footlights, it was as Mrs. Whittlesey in the Theatre Royal, Hull, Yorkshire.<br />
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These brief outlines of this woman's remarkable history were given by herself to a neighbor, who has by kindness and attention to the child of this gifted and eccentric woman – a little girl of thirteen years, who was caught by a railroad watchman a few days ago, in the act of filling her little basket with coal from the cars of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Mrs. Whittlesey appeared in behalf of her child, and her calm lady-like manner, and pale, careworn face, was all the eloquence required to release the little girl from the watchman's grasp. This man, to test the woman's word as to her poverty and destitution, visited her shanty, a rude, unplastered hovel in the bottoms near the rail road track. The contents of the home of this once brilliant woman is a vivid contrast to her fine palatial residence, furnished her while the mistress of the late Lord Denbigh. A clean but humble bed, a few chairs, a table, a number of relics of the stage, such as play bills, portraits, etc, and a sewing machine, comprise all her earthly possessions. Although poor and pinched by poverty this woman preserves all the dignity of a queen Elizabeth, a character she has no doubt filled to perfection some day, long, long ago. She came to Kansas City about five years ago and has lived here since the death of her husband in 1870, by her own exertions as a seamstress. She wears upon her finger a handsome ring with the Denbigh coat of arms engraved thereon. She says, when she left the stage in 1853 she did so to become the wife of Lord Denbigh, with whom she went as his wife, to Geneva and thence to Florence, where they lived in retirement several mouths. On his death her claims as his wife were set aside, and having neither money nor friends she abandoned her claims and again returned to the stage, and for several years was a popular provincial favorite in England, Australia and Canada. While in England in 1860 she married a young Englishman named Whittlesey, with whom she lived many happy years in domestic quiet. She says she has been compelled to send her child to gather coal, to assist in ekeing out the scanty support won by her needle.<br />
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Among the curious mementoes of her early life Mrs. Whittlesey preserves nothing with such jealous care as a folio of play bills giving her "cast" in plays for several years in England, Australia and Canada. This lady still retains some trace of that remarkable dash and beauty which made her the favorite star of the London stage twenty years ago. <br />
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-<i>The Leavenworth Weekly Times</i>, November 6, 1873. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-47749867261327820892014-12-08T21:37:00.001-06:002014-12-08T21:37:41.483-06:00Satanic Ritual Trial<i><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jose-e-reyes-trial-teen-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-and-murdering-corriann-cervantes-15-as-part-of-satanic-ritual-9911402.html">A teenager accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl during a satanic ritual, before disfiguring her body and killing her, is on trial in the US state of Texas.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-27133589777044490212014-02-22T19:19:00.001-06:002014-02-22T19:19:24.410-06:00Legendary Nibelung Treasure May Have Been Found By A Guy With A Metal Detector<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/nibelung-treasure-gold-silver-woods-germany_n_4826228.html">Maybe. Still cool.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-84149959122269602692014-01-27T16:53:00.001-06:002014-01-27T16:53:41.712-06:00'Stone Age' Sweden's 'Atlantis' relics uncovered <i><a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/stone-age-sweden-s-atlantis-relics-uncovered-114012600230_1.html">Swedish divers have uncovered Stone Age artefacts left behind by Swedish nomads about 11,000 years ago, which has prompted some to claim that Sweden's Atlantis may have been found.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-42828110331997308542014-01-26T15:11:00.001-06:002014-01-26T15:11:08.069-06:00DNA test of 7,000-year-old tooth overturns popular image of light-skinned European hunter-gatherers<i><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/26/dna-test-of-7000-year-old-tooth-overturns-popular-image-of-light-skinned-european-hunter-gatherers/">The Spanish team started their work after a group of cavers stumbled upon two skeletons in a deep and complex cave system high up in the Cantabrian Mountains of northwest Spain in 2006. </a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-53859107360702657892014-01-14T22:00:00.001-06:002014-01-14T22:00:28.552-06:00Roman head hunters in England: Researchers analyze skulls with gruesome results <i><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/14/roman-head-hunters-in-england-researchers-analyze-skulls-with-gruesome-results/">Scores of skulls excavated in the heart of London have provided the first gruesome evidence of Roman head hunters operating in Britain, gathering up the heads of executed enemies or fallen gladiators from the nearby amphitheatre, and exposing them for years in open pits.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-41394369604325396732014-01-08T08:29:00.001-06:002014-01-08T08:29:12.518-06:00Ronald Reagan and the occultist: The amazing story of the thinker behind his sunny optimism <i><a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/01/05/ronald_reagan_and_the_occultist_the_amazing_story_of_the_thinker_behind_his_sunny_optimism/">The Gipper's warm "morning in America" worldview was directly shaped by his reading of occult thinker Manly P. Hall.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-76340686622307238922014-01-08T08:27:00.001-06:002014-01-08T08:27:22.117-06:00Mystery of Earthquake Lights Traced to Electrical Charges in Rocks<i><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/environment/mystery-of-earthquake-lights-traced-to-electrical-charges-in-rocks">The strange phenomena of earthquake lights—sometimes resembling bluish flames, lightning strikes, or floating orbs—can be explained by tiny crystal defects in certain rocks that can release electric charges, according to National Geographic.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-79545148960616176402014-01-08T06:37:00.001-06:002014-01-08T06:37:41.649-06:00Bremen UFO 'looked like a plane but was louder' <i><a href="http://www.thelocal.de/20140107/alleged-ufo-disrupts-travel-at-airport-bremen-germany">The airport said on Monday night that the UFO showed up on its radar several times over three hours from 6.30pm to 9.30pm.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-30684715536643098552014-01-08T05:29:00.001-06:002014-01-08T05:29:53.779-06:00New Zealand Shipwreck Points To 18th-Century Race To Colonize Island<i><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/new-zealand-shipwreck-race-colonize_n_4554090.html">The recovered vessel is the country’s oldest-known shipwreck — dating more than 50 years before Captain James Cook’s landing — and hints at a 'space race' among colonial powers to reach the remote isles.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-19790169727672943192013-12-14T02:42:00.001-06:002013-12-14T02:42:20.893-06:00Have We Found the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?<i><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131208-roanoke-lost-colony-discovery-history-raleigh/">Remote-sensing techniques have unearthed clues to the fate of settlers who mysteriously disappeared.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-56635734221431193762013-12-02T20:19:00.001-06:002013-12-02T20:19:39.641-06:00Uncovering New England’s Viking connections <i><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2013/11/23/uncovering-new-england-viking-connections/JhxUdp7xvwZK8DjxqQ9cFO/story.html">The Hub might seem to be a strange place to honor a medieval Icelandic-born adventurer, but for centuries New Englanders have theorized that Erikson led a thriving Viking settlement here around 1000 AD, more than six centuries before the Mayflower set sail.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-48910016539585863092013-12-02T20:14:00.001-06:002013-12-02T20:14:23.762-06:00The Lake Monsters of America Cool map from <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/map-of-american-lake-monsters">Atlas Obscura.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-2535533475371770642013-12-02T14:16:00.001-06:002013-12-02T14:16:22.173-06:004,000 year old skull discovery shows young women were sacrificed in ancient China <i><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/4000-year-old-skull-discovery-shows-young-women-were-sacrificed-in-ancient-china/">The skulls were found in what appears to have been a mass grave at the Shimao Ruins, the site of a neolithic stone city in the northern province of Shaanxi.</a></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-58646169753091146452013-12-02T12:50:00.001-06:002013-12-02T12:50:59.388-06:00Strange Creature Spotted In The Mekong River <a href="http://sportsmasher.com/2013/12/02/strange-creature-spotted-in-the-mekong-river/">Interesting. With crappy video.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0