tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66688532012-01-12T03:57:27.575-06:00Scholar of the Strange and MysteriousProf. Hexnoreply@blogger.comBlogger144651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-60794082363696403612012-01-12T03:57:00.000-06:002012-01-12T03:57:27.581-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2012/01/conventry-street-vampire.html">In 1922 a giant bat-like creature had been seen in the vicinity of West Drayton Church.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6079408236369640361?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-83538147243447485562012-01-12T01:42:00.000-06:002012-01-12T01:42:33.968-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://io9.com/5875109/read-a-real+life-medical-report-on-three-cases-of-haitian-zombies">Zombies may seem like the purview of AMC dramas nowadays, but in 1997, English medical journal The Lancet published an intriguing set of case studies detailing three reports of zombification in Haiti.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8353814724344748556?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-88739155259416392522012-01-05T16:27:00.000-06:002012-01-05T16:27:27.507-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://io9.com/5873017/these-predictions-for-the-future-from-1900-are-eerily-accurate">In the year 1900, John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. decided to give clairvoyance a go by asking "the wisest and most careful" thinkers from "the greatest institutions of science and learning" what they thought might transpire over the course of the 20th century. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8873915525941639252?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-33592431252779896722012-01-05T15:58:00.000-06:002012-01-05T15:58:02.336-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.history.com/news/2011/09/20/human-skulls-mounted-on-stakes-found-at-stone-age-burial-site/?cmpid=PaidMedia_Outbrain_HIS_HITH">Stone Age hunter-gatherers in southeast Sweden mounted the skulls of their dead on stakes and buried them in a lake, according to a team of archaeologists.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3359243125277989672?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-68800314410981398742012-01-04T23:13:00.000-06:002012-01-04T23:13:34.303-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5872900/">cientists from the University of Oxford, University of Southampton, the National Oceanography Centre, and the British Antarctic Survey have discovered a "lost world" thriving with unknown species under Antarctica, in the East Scotia Ridge. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6880031441098139874?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-10359611056166814522011-12-27T10:49:00.000-06:002011-12-27T10:49:32.507-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2078875/Does-finger-long-guarded-Himalayan-monks-prove-Yetis-DO-exist-Today-DNA-tests-finally-solve-truly-bizarre-mystery.html?ITO=1490">The myth has it that the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, is a vast creature which inhabits the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet, where tales about Yetis have been passed down through generations.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1035961105616681452?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-68735668011769057232011-12-22T21:30:00.000-06:002011-12-22T21:30:33.516-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/22/1100-year-old-mayan-ruins-found-in-north-georgia/">Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6873566801176905723?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-19803884292532127332011-12-01T22:38:00.000-06:002011-12-01T22:38:05.170-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/24/occult-rock-black-widow-ghost?newsfeed=true">When occult rock rose from the darkness 40 years ago, it seemed truly eerie. Maybe its power has been diluted, but new purveyors such as Ghost can still thrill and chill.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1980388429253212733?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-46355799360084946632011-12-01T22:26:00.000-06:002011-12-01T22:26:44.384-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.necn.com/12/01/11/Mystery-metal-falls-through-roof-of-Mass/landing_newengland.html?blockID=604114&amp;feedID=4206">There’s a mystery in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Investigators are trying to figure out what exactly fell through the roof of a warehouse. The object punctured a hole in the roof, and the question is where did it come from?<br /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4635579936008494663?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-77689395206425391142011-12-01T19:01:00.000-06:002011-12-01T19:01:04.650-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/11/robot_hysteria_in_the_1930s_slide_show_.html">“A Robot Has Shot Its Master”</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7768939520642539114?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-24849842013025650402011-12-01T18:50:00.000-06:002011-12-01T18:50:22.581-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/arabian-artifacts-may-rewrite-africa-theory-225406521.html">Newfound stone artifacts suggest humankind left Africa traveling through the Arabian Peninsula instead of hugging its coasts, as long thought, researchers say.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2484984201302565040?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-18791354652802725022011-11-29T19:06:00.000-06:002011-11-29T19:06:13.847-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-15917921">Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1879135465280272502?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-12978504504064729542011-11-29T18:39:00.000-06:002011-11-29T18:39:20.580-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://gawker.com/5863550/freak-tofu-explosion-terrorizes-portland">A female resident of Portland, Oregon was at home cooking tofu when, suddenly and without warning, her kitchen exploded. </a></span><br /><br />Thanks, Andrea!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1297850450406472954?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-19879764474689756022011-11-26T20:57:00.001-06:002011-11-26T20:57:41.914-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45438811/">Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Maya predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1987976447468975602?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-3300458184238844122011-11-22T02:40:00.000-06:002011-11-22T02:40:32.343-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2064375/Dagan-Gerrity-Family-claim-5-year-old-son-haunted-man-grey-skin.html?ITO=1490">A father has told how his five-year-old son claims he has been troubled by visions of a ghostly man with grey skin who speaks to him in the night.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-330045818423884412?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-45446929944975382952011-11-15T17:19:00.000-06:002011-11-15T17:19:02.630-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/09/world/europe/russia-corpses/index.html">A historian has been arrested in central Russia after police found the corpses of 29 women, dressed as dolls, in his apartment, authorities said this week.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4544692994497538295?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-49449991435497584932011-11-15T17:17:00.000-06:002011-11-15T17:17:46.922-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/crime-novelist-claims-jane-austen-died-arsenic-poisoning-173146375.html">Nearly 200 years after Jane Austen‘s untimely death, crime novelist Lindsay Ashford has come up with a new explanation: arsenic poisoning. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4944999143549758493?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-10122393997626802752011-11-10T21:26:00.000-06:002011-11-10T21:26:33.179-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/880973-albuquerque-residents-claim-giant-owls-are-eating-their-pets">Residents in the foothills of the US city of Albuquerque have claimed that giant owls have moved into the area and are snacking on their small cats and dogs.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1012239399762680275?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-47323056732630943322011-11-10T03:04:00.000-06:002011-11-10T03:04:33.225-06:00<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45224503/ns/world_news-americas/">This one was found in freshwater.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4732305673263094332?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-36210399365168910382011-11-10T01:34:00.000-06:002011-11-10T01:34:07.273-06:00<a href="http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n263980">Also the Spear of Longinus, Thor's hammer, and King Tut's iPod.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3621039936516891038?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-78938260393723153062011-11-10T00:58:00.000-06:002011-11-10T00:58:59.344-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/milwaukee-satanic-ritual-657329">During a subsequent search of the apartment, investigators seized copies of "The Necromantic Ritual Book” and "The Werewolf’s Guide to Life.” The former book promises to enable a reader to “share consiousness with the Angel of Death.” </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7893826039372315306?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-94485704551723832011-11-06T20:12:00.001-06:002011-11-06T20:13:09.725-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45182628/">Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-9448570455172383?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-43723933804599971222011-11-06T01:29:00.000-06:002011-11-06T01:29:04.335-06:00<a href="http://bigthink.com/ideas/40858">My latest at Big Think.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4372393380459997122?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-44811890379024278432011-11-06T01:05:00.000-06:002011-11-06T01:05:49.874-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.memphismagazine.com/Blogs/Ask-Vance/November-2011/Meet-Homer-G-Wells-Memphis-Detective-and-Bloodhound-Man/index.php">Way back when, Memphis had a real detective in town, a tough guy who not only nabbed plenty of bad guys in his long career, but also cranked out famous true-crime stories for national detective magazines.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4481189037902427843?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-90116995969695856512011-11-06T01:01:00.000-06:002011-11-06T01:01:27.912-06:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/11/03/narwhal-tracking/">This tusked "Unicorn of the Sea" is one of the ocean's most interesting oddities.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-9011699596969585651?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-35209905216886382132011-11-06T01:57:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:57:27.632-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57318468/renaissance-accoustic-mystery-solved/">Ah, the Renaissance—lots of deep thinkers, gorgeous art, busty maidens, fried dough on a stick (if Ren faires are to be believed), and the liveliest music this side of the Middle Ages. But when you compare the elaborate, up-tempo harmonies of late Renaissance polyphony to the churches where they would have been performed, a serious discrepancy pops up.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3520990521688638213?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-56994556840837619412011-11-06T01:54:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:54:04.295-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8866083/Jack-the-Ripper-Is-this-six-inch-knife-used-by-Victorian-serial-killer.html">A six-inch blade recently discovered could be the one used by Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper, it has emerged.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5699455684083761941?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-58430374236816177862011-11-06T01:52:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:52:24.143-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5910006/Lyall-Bay-sea-creatures-a-mystery">The identity of a mystery clump of alien-like creatures found beached in Lyall Bay yesterday has puzzled experts. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5843037423681617786?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-30555002093128558542011-11-06T01:45:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:45:37.399-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057800/Taylor-Van-Diest-dressed-zombie-fake-blood-killed-Halloween-night.html">Taylor Van Diest was dressed as a zombie with fake blood when she was killed on Halloween night.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3055500209312855854?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-71785682606117776162011-11-06T01:42:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:42:52.875-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/AP-ENTERPRISE-Grisly-theory-for-Holy-Land-mystery-2253420.php">A newly proposed solution to an ancient enigma is reviving debate about the nature of a mysterious prehistoric site that some call the Holy Land's answer to Stonehenge.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7178568260611777616?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-36314346624928107812011-11-06T01:41:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:41:38.911-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/20999/he-sees-dead-people-%E2%80%93-and-they-confess-to-him">At three o’clock in the morning, while the world sleeps, troubled souls rouse this priest to relay important messages or confess their sins so they can move on gently and finally to eternity.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3631434662492810781?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-26816075995209362982011-11-06T01:40:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:40:29.423-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2057916/Pope-told-investigate-Vatican-murder-suicide-amid-claims-cover-up.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">A murder-suicide involving the Swiss Guard that rocked the Vatican in a mystery worthy of a Dan Brown thriller is back in the spotlight after Pope Benedict XVI was asked to intervene and reopen the case.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2681607599520936298?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-82118895503945655062011-11-06T01:39:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:39:34.541-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/05/ct-scans-of-baby-mammoths-reveal-ice-age-mystery/">Computed tomography (CT) scans of two extraordinarily well-preserved baby woolly mammoths from Siberia have yielded startling new insights into these iconic Ice Age beasts.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8211889550394565506?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-51982904672415031212011-11-06T01:38:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:38:51.660-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mysterious-stones-in-alexandria-hint-at-a-watery-past/2011/11/03/gIQAc1pnpM_story.html">In a flagstone wall by the sidewalk in front of 810 Janneys Lane in Alexandria, there is a small alcove that reads at the top, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow” with a Maltese cross.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5198290467241503121?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-76712564792328101562011-11-06T01:36:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:36:28.308-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/281994/Mystery-jelly-baffles-experts">The gloop is thought to be star jelly which according to folklore is deposits from a meteor shower and was first reported in the 14th century. Another theory is that it is the remains of frogs, toads or worms.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7671256479232810156?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-9935643730962325532011-11-06T01:34:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:34:43.732-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/282001/River-monster-alert">A mystery creature that eats geese in the blink of an eye has returned to haunt murky waters around the £9billion Olympic Park.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-993564373096232553?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-35748534563140933292011-11-06T01:31:00.000-05:002011-11-06T01:31:40.914-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/11/05/the-amherst-poltergeist">The year was 1878. A young Esther Cox, barely eighteen years old, is brutally attacked and almost raped by a friend of the family. Shortly after, the beginning of a cruel and dangerous poltergeist attack was witnessed and recorded by many. This is the Amherst Poltergeist case.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3574853456314093329?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-49974699131144349592011-11-05T07:10:00.000-05:002011-11-05T07:10:08.605-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://provincetownmagazine.org/local-current-events/the-black-flashthe-legend-lives-on">It started with the children. Coming home in tears and shaking, the children of Provincetown told of a monster that frightened them on the way home from school. Something big. Something that growled. Something all in black. Something that appeared from nowhere and then took off in a flash.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4997469913114434959?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-91114943611209761782011-11-05T03:08:00.000-05:002011-11-05T03:08:20.846-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/02/air-force-developing-tiny-drones-disguised-as-birds-bugs/">It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Actually, it’s sort of both.</a></span><br /><br />With video.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-9111494361120976178?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-71802933306688682842011-11-05T03:06:00.000-05:002011-11-05T03:06:53.508-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8862471/Magical-Viking-stone-may-be-real.html">A Viking legend which tells of a glowing "sunstone" that, when held up to the sky, disclosed the position of the Sun on a cloudy day may have some basis in truth, scientists believe. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7180293330668868284?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-35201395832193780542011-11-01T23:03:00.000-05:002011-11-01T23:03:12.654-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/ufo-nfl-game_n_1033966.html">As NBC's cameras returned from a commercial break and focused on the historic, triple-steepled St. Louis Cathedral in the city nicknamed the Big Easy, a couple of lit objects seemed to streak across the darkening sky -- and they've yet to be definitively identified.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3520139583219378054?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-23947127259318416632011-11-01T23:02:00.000-05:002011-11-01T23:02:53.080-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/ufo-nfl-game_n_1033966.html">As NBC's cameras returned from a commercial break and focused on the historic, triple-steepled St. Louis Cathedral in the city nicknamed the Big Easy, a couple of lit objects seemed to streak across the darkening sky -- and they've yet to be definitively identified.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2394712725931841663?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-81244493771600142482011-11-01T22:52:00.000-05:002011-11-01T22:52:02.943-05:00<a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/11/01/Woman-Picture-shows-ghosts-having-sex/UPI-13001320165842/?spt=hs&amp;or=on">With video, and yes they show the pic.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8124449377160014248?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-64223839316165558422011-10-31T17:46:00.000-05:002011-10-31T17:46:35.568-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/10/31/141366283/houdini-relative-unlocks-some-family-secrets">You'd think if you were a relative of someone as famous as Harry Houdini, you'd know it. But George Hardeen, 59, didn't find out he was Houdini's great-nephew until he was a teenager.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6422383931616555842?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-6536685652212101062011-10-27T19:53:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:53:41.071-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/randolph/features/x742509809/BOO-The-tricks-of-the-Bridgewater-Triangle#axzz1c27YZxtB">Paranormal researcher Loren Coleman first dubbed it the “Bridgewater Triangle” in the 1970s, but clearly he wasn’t the first to conclude the Hockomock Swamp is a dark and sinister place where terrifying and mysterious things seem to happen on an inexplicably frequent basis.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-653668565221210106?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-65685800029766655862011-10-27T19:47:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:47:10.994-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://longbeach.patch.com/articles/ghosts-of-long-beach-past">“I want nothing to do with seeing anything foggy or eerie when I'm out on the water," said East End surfer Jimmy Cardone. "I won't even look past Lincoln beach until the sun is up and people are around. Ghost or no ghost: I don't want to see to find out."</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6568580002976665586?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-23719395937304772522011-10-27T19:43:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:43:53.562-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/mystery_yellow_stone_found_in_belfast_hills_1_3185119">The yellow, honeycomb type stone was found by a member of the public as part of an ongoing open archaeological dig in the Ballyaghagan town land on the Upper Hightown Road in the north of the city.</a></span><br /><br />With pic.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2371939593730477252?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-53828088628396051052011-10-27T19:41:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:41:51.394-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8850509/Billionaire-French-hotelier-shot-dead-in-professional-hit.html">The lifeless body of Claude Dray, 76, was found with three bullet holes in the neck in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the Paris suburb where President Nicolas Sarkozy built his career and still owns property. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5382808862839605105?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-39422236578710299692011-10-27T19:21:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:21:54.717-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.moviefanatic.com/2011/10/anonymous-exclusive-screenwriter-john-orloff-on-shakespeare-auth/">Orloff tells Movie Fanatic exclusively about how, after exhaustive research looking into the mystery, he firmly believes there is no way that William Shakespeare -- an actor and son of illiterates, and the father of children who were also illiterate -- could possibly have written what are considered the greatest works of the English language.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3942223657871029969?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-31568584647981180432011-10-27T19:18:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:18:29.581-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/copiale-cipher-crack/">Computer scientists from Sweden and the United States have applied modern-day, statistical translation techniques — the sort of which are used in Google Translate — to decode a 250-year-old secret message.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3156858464798118043?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-26916324372006181462011-10-27T19:09:00.000-05:002011-10-27T19:09:39.313-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.news-press.com/article/20111027/NEWS01/111027034/Mystery-surrounds-Lego-man-washed-up-Sarasota-beach?odyssey=nav%7Chead">An eight-foot-tall Lego Man who washed up on a Sarasota beach may soon be out of police custody.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2691632437200618146?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-23291982426695348212011-10-04T20:53:00.000-05:002011-10-04T20:53:33.355-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mania.com/lair-beasts-monster-hotspots_article_131187.html">It is one thing to receive reports of a strange creature – whether Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or the Chupacabra – seen in one particular locale. But it’s quite another thing entirely to get multiple reports of several different unidentified beasts from one clearly delineated area! </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2329198242669534821?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-75736943854151092182011-10-04T20:51:00.000-05:002011-10-04T20:51:42.717-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/10/01/bigfoot-researcher-believes-us-forest-service-covers-up-bigfoot">Bigfoot Researcher and author William Jevning has gone to Twitter to post what he believes to be a possible US Forest Service cover-up in the matters of Bigfoot.</a></span><br /><br />See also: <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MfkjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pyUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5372,4076204&dq=bigfoot&hl=en">Taxidermist Says 'Bigfoot" is Giant Indian Gone Wild</a> (An oldie from 1958.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7573694385415109218?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-1586935344614799672011-10-04T20:48:00.000-05:002011-10-04T20:48:34.055-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/story/2011-10-04/Footprints-comic-gives-noir-life-to-urban-legends/50657486/1">It's not a picture but a letter, though, that sends Bigfoot to the Arctic when he receives a note from his brother Yeti that includes a cryptic message: "She's alive." Bigfoot discovers his sibling murdered, so he rounds up a posse to find out what happened to him and also track down the mysterious "Motheresa."</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-158693534461479967?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-73084162715920004992011-09-26T14:26:00.002-05:002011-10-04T20:52:33.133-05:00Hey folks. Allow me to apologize for the lack of frequent posting here but I'm on a big road trip so my computer access has been off and on and I've been busy enjoying myself. I'm heading west and investigating strange and mysterious phenomena as I go, hopefully to write a book about my adventures. I managed to write a couple columns for Big Think as I moved along. Here's my first: <br /><br /><a href="http://bigthink.com/ideas/40202">The (New) Great American Road Trip</a><br /><br />And while in Denver I wrote an article about the innovative farming project at the Denver Green School.<br /><br /><a href="http://bigthink.com/ideas/40296">Denver Green School seeds new innovation – growing their own food</a><br /><br />Check them out if you are so inclined.<br /><br />I'm pulling out of Casper, Wyoming, today and will be heading to Douglas, home of the Jackalope, and then into the Pedro Mountains to look into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimerigar">Nimerigar</a>, the legendary (and violent) little people of Shoshone legend. Hopefully, I won't get a tiny arrow in my butt. I'll post again when I reach civilization. Until then, check out the links and I hope this finds you well.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7308416271592000499?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-29843848392297232432011-09-23T17:21:00.000-05:002011-09-23T17:21:31.379-05:00<a href="http://money.msn.com/insurance/article.aspx?post=949a22ee-fa81-4a98-8b7a-42b95c9f3c32&amp;gt1=33004">Nice.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2984384839229723243?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-42618353014664587312011-09-23T16:48:00.001-05:002011-09-23T16:48:35.942-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-the-placebo-effect-when-intense-belief-kills/245065/">While people of all cultures experience sleep paralysis in similar ways, the specific form and intensity it takes varies from one group to the next.</a></span><br /><br />Thanks, Scott!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4261835301466458731?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-86813911337862909702011-09-23T16:44:00.000-05:002011-09-23T16:44:18.761-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Review+tries+decipher+mystery+left+underfoot+around/5449753/story.html">The main phrase is always some variation of this: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.” </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8681391133786290970?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-84538976987569288652011-09-23T16:42:00.000-05:002011-09-23T16:42:55.804-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/22/national/main20110062.shtml">The writings -- which some have interpreted as being either Arabic or Arabic-type symbols -- appeared to have been done with a chemical process that reveals the text once an auxiliary power unit is turned on and heats up the outside skin of the aircraft.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8453897698756928865?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-89503525913451694352011-09-23T15:55:00.000-05:002011-09-23T16:56:51.637-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://io9.com/5841687/min-min-lights-the-phantom-glow-that-chases-confused-motorists-in-the-australia">If you ever visit Eastern Australia, there's a rare chance you may encounter the Min Min light, a spectral luminescence that trails the viewer and is often mistaken for a UFO. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8950352591345169435?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-29047766810446006032011-09-23T15:54:00.000-05:002011-09-23T16:49:14.735-05:00<a href="http://io9.com/5841816/tintin-returns-to-the-mind+melting-worlds-of-hp-lovecraft">Awesome.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2904776681044600603?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-75939398666169782152011-09-22T16:58:00.000-05:002011-09-22T16:58:55.752-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://theparanormalpastor.blogspot.com/2011/09/does-lake-erie-harbor-underwater-ufo.html">Around 9Pm on Saturday September 17th 2011 unknown air borne phenomenon was observed over Lake Erie near western Erie County Pennsylvania by two households. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7593939866616978215?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-84063154015983380442011-09-20T23:29:00.000-05:002011-09-20T23:29:23.504-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/10451042759/five-year-old-girl-discovers-160-million-year-old">She named the fossil “Spike”.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8406315401598338044?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-82535379531740195072011-09-20T22:44:00.000-05:002011-09-20T22:44:31.356-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/20/scitech/main20109021.shtml">The source of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago remains a mystery, a new study finds.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8253537953174019507?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-14783227296955646962011-09-19T19:40:00.000-05:002011-09-19T19:40:49.281-05:00<a href="http://io9.com/5841788/canadian-cryptid-coins-are-the-most-bad+ass-currency-in-the-history-of-legal-tender">I can't top that headline.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1478322729695564696?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-34580365177177107662011-09-19T19:04:00.000-05:002011-09-19T19:41:23.253-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/05/123198/archaeologists-in-illinois-dig.html">The largest excavation of a prehistoric site in the country is poised to solve a riddle about Illinois prehistory that has lingered for a century — where did the Mississippians go?</a></span><br /><br />Thanks, Scott!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3458036517717710766?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-80254122451034286112011-09-19T02:21:00.000-05:002011-09-19T02:21:30.824-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44550343/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/mysterious-booming-sounds-perplex-scientists/?gt1=43001">Mysterious booming sounds are occasionally heard on the North Carolina coast, often powerful enough to rattle windows and doors. They cannot be explained by thunderstorms or any manmade sources — their source is a mystery. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8025412245103428611?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-78733407051406093882011-09-18T18:05:00.000-05:002011-09-18T18:05:07.957-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/18/online-gamers-crack-aids-enzyme-puzzle/">Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7873340705140609388?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-11677861369379508992011-09-16T23:08:00.000-05:002011-09-16T23:08:00.555-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=1210">"Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal - Relating to Yeti."</a></span><br /><br />Thanks, Scott!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1167786136937950899?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-45325935893385626832011-09-16T20:43:00.000-05:002011-09-16T20:43:02.427-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/16/visible-only-from-above-mystifying-nazca-lines-discovered-in-mideast/">They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public.</a></span><br /><br />With cool pic.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4532593589338562683?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-63392949607179188422011-09-16T19:43:00.000-05:002011-09-16T19:43:30.285-05:00<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44549702/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/did-zombies-roam-medieval-ireland-sleep-it/?gt1=43001">They used to call this a "vampire" burial but I guess zombies are more popular these days.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6339294960717918842?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-58372777760774640672011-09-15T22:04:00.000-05:002011-09-15T22:04:19.644-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/09/14/nile-crocodile-is-actually-two-species-and-the-egyptians-knew-it/">This is what happens when you don't read your Herodotus.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5837277776077464067?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-2862251613697534652011-09-15T21:31:00.000-05:002011-09-15T21:31:05.172-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/09/14/riverside-orange-county-residents-reporting-strange-lights-in-the-night-sky/?utm_source=home&amp;utm_medium=dl&amp;utm_campaign=men-from-mars">Anonymous: “I was on my cell outside, in City of industry when I looked up and saw the green, orange falling object about 7:40 p.m. As I saw it my buddy was on his way home on the 91 and he saw it at the same time.“</a></span><br /><br />With video.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-286225161369753465?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-79195549057772294492011-09-15T21:23:00.000-05:002011-09-15T21:23:46.563-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14921665">Around 150 of the dolphins live around the Melbourne area and had until now been assumed to be one of the known bottlenose dolphins.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7919554905777229449?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-52242799086075813652011-09-15T00:18:00.000-05:002011-09-15T00:18:41.236-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/09/dan-aykroyd-ufo-britney-spears.php">If you want real intrigue, you apparently need to get Aykroyd started on unidentified flying objects.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5224279908607581365?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-15198842936623708042011-09-15T00:11:00.003-05:002011-09-15T00:15:33.598-05:00<p><br /><CENTER><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KgfB9kebFNI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></CENTER><br /><br />Willem Dafoe hunts the Tasmanian Tiger.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1519884293662370804?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-19384886383856143292011-09-14T23:33:00.000-05:002011-09-14T23:33:11.118-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mania.com/lair-beasts-beware-big-gray-man_article_131029.html">The mountain is the reputed home of a vile and terrifying man-beast: the Big Gray Man, as it has become infamously known.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1938488638385614329?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-82439538159210828592011-09-14T22:47:00.000-05:002011-09-14T22:47:50.856-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14887428">Dozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by wi-fi and mobile phones have flocked to the town of Green Bank, West Virginia.</a></span><br /><br />Thanks, Scott!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8243953815921082859?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-20804189883605049472011-09-13T19:05:00.000-05:002011-09-13T19:05:24.734-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/09/13/can-animals-forecast-disasters">In the dead of night, dogs howl. Snakes slither away in droves. Moments later, an earthquake upends the landscape. No one sees it coming -- no human, that is.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2080418988360504947?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-78869721363105436002011-09-13T18:57:00.000-05:002011-09-13T18:57:18.161-05:00<a href="http://blog.oup.com/2011/09/yeats-faeries/">With video.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7886972136310543600?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-68455730630484881622011-09-13T17:18:00.000-05:002011-09-13T17:18:23.368-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14207581">More than 200 suspects have been named. But to Ripper expert Trevor Marriott, a former murder squad detective, German merchant Carl Feigenbaum is the top suspect. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6845573063048488162?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-51837860818735118012011-09-13T17:01:00.000-05:002011-09-13T17:01:12.634-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14896640">A forensic expert has reconstructed the face of a 14th Century Archbishop of Canterbury who met a grisly end during the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5183786081873511801?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-70665247408188381582011-09-13T13:27:00.000-05:002011-09-13T13:27:00.948-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2099543_pangbourne_panther_back_on_the_prowl">A furry scourge of Reading’s countryside might be back – if the legend of the Pangbourne Panther is to be believed.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7066524740818838158?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-34858207112619057442011-09-03T22:56:00.000-05:002011-09-03T22:56:58.311-05:00<a href="http://io9.com/5834870/postcards-and-maps-from-americas-olden-days-filled-with-monsters-and-alien-dictators">As someone who spends a lot of time looking at old paper, I really appreciate the attention to detail here. Neat stuff.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-3485820711261905744?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-85438821427851045012011-09-03T21:19:00.001-05:002011-09-03T21:19:59.417-05:00<a href="http://vimeo.com/28278839">So cool.</a> <br /> <br /><CENTER><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28278839?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/28278839">Jonny Quest Opening Titles</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user8282078">Roger D. Evans</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></CENTER><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8543882142785104501?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-13590493344524309042011-09-03T12:44:00.000-05:002011-09-03T12:44:56.787-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://civilwarstoriesofinspiration.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/rebel-snowball-wars-fighting-winter-boredom/">At least four rare wintertime Civil War engagements remain footnotes in history, even though the scope and ferocity of these battles received mention in many diaries and journals of the soldier-participants.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-1359049334452430904?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-28276488899189528892011-09-02T21:12:00.000-05:002011-09-02T21:12:45.989-05:00<a href="http://bigthink.com/ideas/40027">My latest at Big Think.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2827648889918952889?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-47853605277145468102011-09-02T20:52:00.000-05:002011-09-02T20:52:16.060-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/new-study-finds-pirates-of-the-caribbean-had-fascination-with-fine-po">They smoked like the devil, drank straight from the bottle, annoyed the Spanish and had a fascination with fine pottery.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4785360527714546810?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-91615116954574332112011-09-02T16:51:00.000-05:002011-09-02T16:51:59.234-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.technobuffalo.com/hardware/all-hail-the-tiny-25-pc-coming-in-november/">Raspberry Pi, a UK-based charity focused on computer science studies, has a slice of really interesting tech goodness on tap — a working PC that’s the size of a credit card, able to connect to a mouse and a keyboard, and can use a TV or even a capacitive display, for a make-shift tablet. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-9161511695457433211?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-47241132170578461302011-09-02T14:03:00.000-05:002011-09-02T14:03:26.829-05:00<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Score-Parker-Novels-ebook/dp/B0046W6TX0/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1314880871&amp;sr=8-8">If you have a Kindle or Kindle app you can pick up Richard Stark's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Score</span> now for free. Great book.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4724113217057846130?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-82806924676099866302011-09-02T10:43:00.000-05:002011-09-02T10:43:18.446-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/09/01/utah-campers-film-bigfoot">Apparently Bigfoot is roaming the forests of many North American locales as a new video comes to us from some campers in the mountains of Utah.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-8280692467609986630?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-76856805144919154852011-09-02T10:38:00.000-05:002011-09-02T10:38:34.163-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/magic-blamed-for-road-mishap-2011-09-02-1.416225">Police checking the damaged car found pieces of human nails and hair tied to each other and wrapped in a handkerchief, which was concealed under one seat.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-7685680514491915485?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-21646802556164082222011-09-02T10:34:00.000-05:002011-09-02T10:34:47.506-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://dailygrail.com/Skepticism/2011/9/Beyond-Belief-and-Randis-Million-Dollar-Challenge">Firstly: there is something very wrong with an organisation that is supposedly dedicated to raising the public understanding of science and skepticism deliberately obfuscating the fact that its well-known challenge is no real scientific test of the topic and thus says *nothing* about the existence or non-existence of the paranormal.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-2164680255616408222?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-63800893217043663742011-09-02T10:18:00.000-05:002011-09-02T10:18:17.253-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://blogs.sacurrent.com/index.php/streetview/holy-humanoids-batman-reports-of-flying-beings-over-south-texas/">At the time, the lady of the household was standing in her driveway having a conversation on her cell phone, when she happened to glance up and spotted what appeared to be a huge, dark winged man gliding through the air!</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6380089321704366374?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-41598306202348899152011-09-01T15:07:00.000-05:002011-09-01T15:07:56.566-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2011/09/inside-the-great-pyramid/">Few would be so bold as to suggest that, even today, we know why Khufu ordered the construction of what is by far the most elaborate system of passages and chambers concealed within any pyramid.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4159830620234889915?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-50377128829892853192011-09-01T06:00:00.000-05:002011-09-01T03:16:55.745-05:00<span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/207799/">TV crew comes to Carlton County looking for Bigfoot</a> <br /></span> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/332061/group/News/">Sasquatch claims draw TV show to Minnesota</a></span> <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110831/CGY_bigfoot_hunt_110831/20110831/?hub=CalgaryHome">Hunt for Bigfoot continues in Alberta's mountains</a></span> <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.banffcragandcanyon.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3280492">Bigfoot in Banff?</a></span> <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.shelbystar.com/news/casar-57939-history-knobby.html">Knobby legend lives on: History of bigfoot sightings brings the curious to Casar </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5037712882989285319?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-42884637424069688942011-08-31T10:35:00.000-05:002011-08-31T10:35:00.747-05:00<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44337838/ns/us_news/">What. The. Hell.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-4288463742406968894?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-56849170652329367342011-08-31T10:30:00.000-05:002011-08-31T10:33:52.666-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/the-west-memphis-three-their-first-taste-of-freedom.html">For 17 years, I have only seen Damien Echols—gaunt, pale, always behind thick glass—in an Arkansas supermax prison. Our voices—his always quiet—crossed through a metal grille.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5684917065232936734?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-67588101366070246862011-08-31T08:55:00.000-05:002011-08-31T10:34:20.241-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/rare-find-discovered-amid-town-s-old-west-kitsch/article_e1247c5a-424e-5e0a-a1ca-050aee84a91e.html">The Gypsy sat for decades in a restaurant amid the Old West kitsch that fills this former gold rush town, her unblinking gaze greeting the tourists who shuffled in from the creaking wooden sidewalk outside.</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-6758810136607024686?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668853.post-52778256264491842532011-08-26T21:08:00.000-05:002011-08-26T21:08:01.473-05:00<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8724183/King-Arthurs-round-table-may-have-been-found-by-archaeologists-in-Scotland.html">The King's Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens below Stirling Castle, has been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years. </a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6668853-5277825626449184253?l=professorhex.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Prof. Hexnoreply@blogger.com0