Sunday 27 December 2015
Aluminum Wedge of Aiud
Back in 1974, a group of workers in Romania discovered three different
objects 10 meters deep in a sand trench. Two of the items were
prehistoric elephant bones that have been dated as old as 2.5 million
years ago. The third object however, is an aluminum wedge that was found
together with the ancient bones. This discovery dumbfounded most
researchers, as aluminum was difficult to create even by 19th century
standards. While some call it evidence of extraterrestrials, others are
calling it a hoax. Whatever it is, we may never know.
Silent Twins
Dubbed the Silent Twins because they only communicated with their
immediate family, June and Jennifer Gibbons were born in Wales in 1963
and grew up as social pariahs who were frequently bullied.They
both had speech impediments, and as the years went by, created a strange
secret language which became more unique and less intelligible to
outsiders.The sisters committed several crimes, including arson and
petty theft, were committed to England's Broadmoor Hospital, where they lived for 11 years and were later diagnosed with schizophrenia.The Silent Twins, the sisters had an intense love-hate relationship and
eventually made a pact while at Broadmoor: one had to die so the other
could lead a normal life.Jennifer even admitted to journalist,
Wallace during a visit: "I'm going to die. We've decided." In 1993,
hours after their release, Jennifer, at the age of 29, died on her
sister's shoulder from a sudden inflammation of the heart muscle. The
cause remains a mystery.
UFO Near Falcon Lake, Canada.
Well, on 20th May 1967, Stefan
Michalak reportedly encountered a UFO near Falcon Lake, approximately 75 KM
north of the Canadian/American border, a sort of resort and vacation town in
Whiteshell Provincial Park. He was also an amateur geologist and he was close
enough to touch the object but then, it abruptly lifted off, knocking him on
his back. He stayed still for about a half hour, sketching the object. It was
roughly 40 feet across, 10 feet high, and had a small dome on the top that was
an additional 3 feet high. A blast of hot gas shot from these holes onto his
chest, setting his shirt and undershirt on fire and causing him severe pain,
and leaving burn marks in the shape of a grid.
Stefan Michalak claimed to have
been burnt by the object´s exhaust vent that was covered with a grid. However,
it sounds very strange; the injuries are shown in this image below. Therefore, after this weird accident, he
suffered from typical symptoms of radiation. It remains a real mystery to this day
as to how he gained these injuries. Could the story really be true? Moreover,
few has saw this in a really old UFO book, they’ve been talking about this for
decades the real interesting part is adter all this time it hasn’t been
debunked.
Easter Island Heads
The remote island is tucked away in the
South Pacific Ocean and was once home to a Polynesian population, whose
history remains mysterious. The Easter Island is home to many
stone heads. They do however actually have bodies too! The tallest of
the 887 Moai on the island is over 30 feet tall and weighs over 82 tons.Many of the sculptures were moved to different places around the island. They are said to represent ancestors and deities.
Friday 25 December 2015
The Ouija Board
The Ouija Board has a long and strange sordid history for a board
game. This was first brought to the commercial market by a business man by
the name of "Elijah Bond" in the late eighteen centuries (1890) as nothing more than a parlor game. Therefore, this
“wonderful talking board” promised “never-failing amusement and
recreation for all the classes.” Moreover it became hopelessly entangled in the occult years later when spiritualists adopted it as a tool for divining. Thus, people use these boards to try and make contact with spirits and ask them questions and they'll spell out their answers. Moreover, it is thought and well believed that this "game" can be very risky & dangerous, and something not to be messed with. Have you ever played with a Ouija Board and had a strange experience? Countless people has tried this game and have positive experience.
The Shadow People
The Shadow People is an urban legend, revolving around obscured visions or shadows of people that appear and disappear very quickly. However, at least one case turned out to be true. Therefore, in Fukuoka, Japan, a man who
lived "alone" in his apartment started to suspect that something else was
present there with him, moving things around and stealing food. It was a strange things he faced first time. Then he decided to set up surveillance cameras and, sure enough, he captured
footage of an old woman slithering out of his cupboard. Hence the lady was 58-year-old Tatsuko Horikawa, who was homeless and
admitted to police that she had lived in the man's home for about a
year, lurking just beyond his eyesight in closets and cupboards.
Two Men Died in Strange Circumstances
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1966, two men died in strange circumstances, which have yet to be explained. It is unclear whether the men were murdered or if it was suicide. There
were several objects found around the men and the case has been called
the Lead Masks Case.Two electronic technicians, Manoel Pereira
da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, told friends and family they were going
to buy some supplies for work and buy a car. They apparently already had
the money on them.They stopped
off to buy a bottle of water and a coat. They apparently seemed to be in
a hurry and kept looking at their watches.
Their bodies were
found a few days later. The police determined the last moments the men
were alive and found some items that represented their last moments
alive. They were both dressed in suits and they had on waterproof coats.
They wore lead eye masks with no holes such as one would wear to
protect form radiation. They also found an empty water bottle, a
notebook, and two towels. The money they were supposed to be carrying
for the purchase of a car wasn’t found.The notebook contained these words in Portuguese “16:30 be at agreed place, 18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for mask signal.”The toxicology didn't offer any concrete results. It’s still unknown if
they took the capsules or not. It appears they were waiting for someone
to tell them to put on their masks.
Children Mask in World War II
During World War II children were fitted with a weird Mickey Mouse gas mask. It was 1942, just about a month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Fearing imminent chemical attack on American soil, the government
issued thousands of gas mask to civilians. Children couldn't fit into
the regulation-sized masks. The masks were designed to fit kids
18 months to four years old, and were supposed to take away some of the
fear out of a chemical attack.They look much creepier than the regulation gas masks!
New Species of Spider
Tattoo artist Mark Pennell and his friend Dean Hewlett spent £30,000
scouring the world’s jungles looking for a new species of spider. He was in Borneo, when a tree-dwelling tarantula dropped right in-front of him.Experts took until this year to confirm the spider as the first newly-recorded species of tarantula since 1895.They named the species Phormingochilus pennellhewletti, combining Mark and Dean's surnames.
The Cecil, Hotel
The Cecil, is a hotel at the heart of Los Angeles's Skid Row. This was the site of a mysterious death in 2013.
"Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez called one of its rooms home in the
'80s, and a Viennese serial killer stalked hookers there in the 1960s.
Many have committed suicide from its 15 stories, one killing a person
on the sidewalk below. This is also the site of the mysterious Elisa Lam
death too.
Cymothoa Exigua
This pale little bug is Cymothoa Exigua, also known as the Tongue-Eating Louse, or the Tongue Isopod. They enter through the gills as a juvenile, the Tongue-Eating Louse will clamp on to the base of the fish’s tongue. It uses its claws to sever the blood vessels to the tongue. The tongue falls off after losing blood supply. The Isopod will then take the place of the fish’s tongue, attaching itself to the muscles that controlled the tongue. Probably Hollywood getting idea of Alien type movies from this type of creatures. Therefore, many of bait species like slimy or jack mackerel and yellow tail have them in warmer months.
Shocking Photos of Halls of An Asylum
Here are some truly shocking photos of what it used to be like to walk the halls of an asylum. There were countless reasons for being admitted to this asylum in the late 1800's, including laziness and egotism. Therefore, treatments included radium therapy, and diathermia, which was a
treatment which sent a jolt of electricity through the patient's brain. Moreover, other patients had to wear masks to stop violent patients from biting people. So, it was once believed that mental disorders could be steamed away too.
The Black Knight Satellite
This photo is one of several observations made by some of the first
man-made satellites in 1960, reporting unidentified objects in polar
orbit, something that neither the US nor Russia were capable of at the
time. Since then, the “Black Knight” was said to disappear and
reappear at regular intervals. Several pics of this strange object have
been taken, but it has yet to be identified as a known piece of man-made
debris.
Rumors are that it Nikola Tesla was the first man to
“intercept” a signal from this otherworldly satellite in 1899 after
building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs. After Tesla’s
discovery in the next 30 to 50 years the signal was being intercepted
more frequently until it was apparently “decoded”. Since the 1930′s
Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals which
allegedly come from the “Black Knight”.
The Superstition Mountain
A mountain range located east of Phoenix, Arizona. Already it’s off to a great start with the name.
According to legend, sometime in the 1800s a man named Jacob Waltz
discovered a huge goldmine within the mountains that has since been
dubbed the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine. He kept the location a secret until his deathbed, upon which he may or may not have told a single person the secret.
Regardless, the mine has never been found, in spite of many
expeditions. Some say the spirits of people who have lost their lives in
search of the gold still haunt the mountains.
Tuesday 1 December 2015
South Korean Photographer Captures Spectacular Landscapes Reflected in Mirror-Like Lakes
These days, most of photographer
is very keen on taking picture of natural landscape. Nature is extremely close
to heart of everyone. People really like to enjoy in open air with fresh breath
to relax him for daily routine. Similarly The Seoul-based photographer Jaewoon
U has gathered quite the following on 500px, and rightly so. His imposing
landscape shots of his home country are nothing if not magical, overflowing
with colors and rich details. The South Korean artist is mainly skilled at
capturing beautiful outdoor scenery reflected within mirror-like lakes and
rivers. Moreover, Jaewoon's spectacular portfolio features the essence of
nonviolent harmony in each composition, while instantaneously showcasing the
natural beauty of the countryside. The photographer's wanderlust-inducing
portraits are visually tempting enough to immediately add South Korea to our
travel bucket-list.
Friday 27 November 2015
Dunlin & Sanderling
The dunlin and sanderling are small, gregarious waders often
seen on our mudflats and long sandy beaches in winter. The dunlin is one of our smallest wading
birds, at a length of about 18cm (7in) or so. Moreover throughout the year it
can be seen at almost any estuary, muddy beach or harbor. Inland, it is surprisingly
common; sewage farms, flooded fields and the shores of reservoirs are good
places to see dunlin in winter, and in summer it can be found in the moorland
areas where it breads. Therefore, dunlin is easy to recognize in the summer
because it has a characteristic black patch on its belly. The upperparts are a
rich Rufous brown streaked and spotted with black. The breast is heavily
streaked with brown. In the autumn, the dunlin moults to its winter plumage,
losing both its body and wing feathers in spring, when it regains its breeding
plumage, only the body feathers are moulted and replaced. The dunlin’s winter plumage
is quite drab and inconspicuous, the upperparts being grey brown and the
underparts a dull white.
Dark-shouldered sanderlings, the sanderling are slightly
larger than the dunlin and usually inhabit sandy estuaries and ling sandy
beaches. In Britain, it is most often seen in its winter plumage, which is much
more striking than that of the dunlin. Its underparts and much of its head are
pure white and its back and wings are pale grey. Often, there is a dark patch
on the shoulder of the wing, mostly called the wrist. Like the dunlin, the sanderling moults its
body feathers in the spring. Its summer plumage resembles that of the dunlin,
except that it has a white belly. The best chance of seeing a sanderling in
full breeding plumage is in spring, when many birds migrate north along our
coasts, having just grown a new set of body feathers.
Beak differences a good way to tell the difference between
the dunlin and the sanderling is to look at the beak. British dunlins have
downward curving beaks about 3cm (1-4/5) long, whereas the sanderling has a
shorter (2.5cm/1in), straight beak. There is considerable variation in beak
lengths among dunlins, the British birds in general having shorter beaks than
those breeding further north. For example, Canadian dunlins have beaks
averaging about 4.5cm.
The beaks of these two species are different because they
have different methods of feeding. The dunlin, when feeding, walks with a
purposeful air, head held low, constantly pecking at the surface of the mud and
probing for tiny molluscs. The tip of its beak is particularly sensitive and
allows the bird to detect, by touch food lying below the surface of the mud.
The sanderling, on the other hand, feeds at the water’s edge, hurrying back and
forth like a clockwork toy following each wave as it breaks and recedes. It can
be seen skillfully snatching small creatures such as san hoppers from the edge
of the surf. The dunlin and sanderling both in summer and winter plumages, in
flight, both show a white wing-bar throughout the year; though on the
sanderling it is much more prominent. In winter, flocks of dunlin can be seen
flying along the coast and flashing grey or white as the bird’s man-oeuvre in
unison.
Both dunlins and sanderlings feed until high tide and then
fly off to special roosting sites on shingle banks and marshes or sometimes, on
grassy fields. There the birds gather in their thousands for two or three hours
until the tide has retreated and they can return to feed. Both on the ground
and in flight the two species form their own groups. In the winter, a large
flock of dunlin’s flying to or from the feeding and roosting areas can be a
marvelous spectacle. Each bird in the flock flies in precise formation only a
few inches from its neighbor, and with each change of direction the color of
the flock changes. First you see the bird’s dark upperparts then as they swerve
to one side, the dark changes to the white of their underparts.
Migration routes are normally seen in Britain, and all
sanderlings are winter visitors or passing migrants. Migrating sanderlings
arrive in the British Isles each July and August from their breeding grounds in
Greenland and Siberia. Some spend the winter here and the remainders fly on
South to France, the Iberian Peninsula and Africa.
In May, our wintering
sanderlings return to their summer grounds, joined by migrants passing through Britain
from further south. Britain is one of the few countries in the world with both
breeding and wintering dunlins, so their passage throu\gh Britain is not as
distinct as sanderling migrations. Nevertheless, dunlins breeding in Greenland,
Iceland the Netherlands and around the Baltic
Sea all migrate through Britain on their way to or from their wintering areas
in southern Europe and North Africa. Dunlins breeding here also fly south for
the winter, but this loss is more than compensated for by the arrival in
Britain for the winter of large numbers of dunlin from Scandinavia and Russia.
As hard weather sets in further north, so more and more dunlin arrives on our
coasts; their numbers usually reach a maximum in January. In spring our
wintering dunlins return to their breeding grounds, to be replaced by our own
breeding population. Most of our breeding dunlins settle in Scotland and
Northern England, but a few nests in Wales and Ireland and there are even some
on Dartmoor the most southerly breeding dunlins in the world.
Moreover, the breeding season for dunlins usually starts in
April or May. A typical site is a damp, peaty, upland moor, though some nest
beside lakes and others in salt marshes. The nest is a tiny hollow, hidden among
heather or a grassy tussock to provide shelter. The female lays four eggs the
typical number for a wader at the rate of one every day or two. Both parents
help to incubate the eggs until they hatch after about three weeks. Dunlin
chicks are superbly well camouflaged with yellow, butt, black and white down.
When danger threatens they lie down and become almost invisible. They feed
mainly on midges and crane fly larvae, which are plentiful at the time of year.
The chicks grow quickly and can fly after about 25 days, when they leave for
the coastal feeding sites.
Occasionally, dunlins manage to raise two broods
in a season, but this is rare. The sanderling on the other hand, normally
succeeds with two broods by laying one clutch of eggs in a first nest, followed
immediately by another clutch in a second nest. Both clutches contain four
eggs; one is incubated by the female and the other by the male. Sanderling
chicks have the same camouflaged down as dunlin chicks and they fledge in much
the same length of time. Soon after, they begin their long migration south.
Some of the birds still have their winter plumage but most have moulted ready
for the breeding season. Soon they will be migrating to their breeding grounds
far to the north.
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