Monday, September 23, 2013

Mad Jack Churchill - the eccentric military hero who fought World War II with a sword, bow, and arrows

In a war that featured formidable weapons such as grenades, machine guns, and armored tanks, one eccentric young soldier decided early on to buck traditional convention and stick what he was most comfortable with. Thus, John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, who came to be known as “Mad Jack,” fo...
Mad Jack Churchill - the eccentric military hero who fought World War II with a sword, bow, and arrows

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Large, saucer-shaped UFO filmed near Paris, France on September 13, 2013

According to the videographer, he was sitting in a restaurant when he spotted a long, silver object crossing the sky. At first the witness thought it was a zeppelin but then recognized that it had a “clear saucer shape, no wings in back, and no propeller”. The witness claims that he later saw two...
Large, saucer-shaped UFO filmed near Paris, France on September 13, 2013

Green River Killer - Gary Ridgway kills nearly 50 prositutes in the Seattle-Tacoma area [UPDATE]

The name of this case is derived from the Green River, a river that begins in Washington State and empties into the Puget Sound in Seattle. Near the river is the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, built in 1942. It was in this area that the Green River Killer, later identified as Gary Leon...
Green River Killer - Gary Ridgway kills nearly 50 prositutes in the Seattle-Tacoma area [UPDATE]

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Police training with new sonar equipment at local lake find SIX dead bodies in two different submerged cars

Police in southwestern Oklahoma were training with new sonar location equipment at Foss Lake on September 17, 2013 when they discovered two decades-old mud-covered vintage cars containing six skeletons at the bottom of the lake. Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers were training with the new...
Police training with new sonar equipment at local lake find SIX dead bodies in two different submerged cars

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

120 dead elk carcasses found near mysterious crop circle in northern New Mexico

Game and Fish investigators found 120 dead elk carcasses near a mysterious crop circle near Las Vegas, New Mexico on August 26, 2013. The animals were found about 20 miles north of Las Vegas and a few hundred yards south of the crop circle. All of the animal carcasses were found within a single...
120 dead elk carcasses found near mysterious crop circle in northern New Mexico

Monday, September 16, 2013

Military confirm that large, unidentified object has crashed in Tunisia desert (impact site not yet identified)

Authorities are reporting that a large, unidentified object has crashed in a desert in Tunisia. The space object, which authorities told panicked citizens was a meteorite, fell yesterday (Sunday, September 15, 2013) in a rural desert area of the Tataouine governorate, near the town of Remada in...
Military confirm that large, unidentified object has crashed in Tunisia desert (impact site not yet identified)

Down-and-out homeless man finds backpack containing $42,000. Turns it in to police.

Authorities in Boston are praising a homeless man for a heroic act of honesty after the down-and-out man turned in a backpack stuffed with nearly $42,000 to local police. The homeless man found the backpack, stuffed with cash, travelers checks, and passport, in front of a T.J. Maxx inside South...
Down-and-out homeless man finds backpack containing $42,000. Turns it in to police.

Friday, September 13, 2013

"Unlucky" Friday the 13th flight 666 to Hel has safely landed

Finnair flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki (HEL) actually took off twice on Friday the 13th with both flights being fairly full of passengers. Pilots for Flight 666 to Hel took great pains to laugh it off. “It has been quite a joke among the pilots. I’m not a superstitious man. I...
"Unlucky" Friday the 13th flight 666 to Hel has safely landed

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Maine fishermen catch strange lobster with five human-like fingers

A crew of lobster fishermen in Maine found themselves in possession of an eerie five-fingered lobster after a recent haul. Recognizing their catch was something unusual, Capt. Peter Brown and lobsterman Richard Figueiredo of the fishing vessel Rachael Leah, delivered the specimen to the Maine...
Maine fishermen catch strange lobster with five human-like fingers

River Thames residents puzzled by sudden appearance of mysterious red letterbox

Residents of Sonning-on-Thames, Berkshire say they are mystified by the appearance of a red letterbox (postal mailbox) that has appeared on a buttress on the downstream side of a bridge which crosses the River Thames. Uri Geller (yes, *the* Uri Geller), who has lived in the village for over 33...
River Thames residents puzzled by sudden appearance of mysterious red letterbox

Nebraska television station catches flashing triangular UFO on "Towercam" video. Area residents confirm sighting.

Lincoln, Nebraska television station KLKN captured, and aired on live television, video of a flashing, triangular UFO hovering for over 45 minutes on the morning horizon. Just before 6 a.m. on Sept. 4th, 2013 KLKN’s high-definition “Towercam” gave Channel 8′s Morning Meteorologist Sea...
Nebraska television station catches flashing triangular UFO on "Towercam" video. Area residents confirm sighting.

Scientists claim to have found alien life high in the Earth's stratosphere

British scientists believe they have found evidence of alien life after a specially designed balloon sent 27 km into the stratosphere captured small biological organisms that they say can only have come from space. The mission was launched during the Perseid meteor shower in order to check for...
Scientists claim to have found alien life high in the Earth's stratosphere

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

For Sale: Bizarre Cold War bunker home located underneath the streets of Las Vegas.

Las Vegas is the fertile breeding ground for the for the strange. Now that this bizarre, personal Cold War bunker has hit the residential market, you can add this creepy Hobbit-like underground home to your list of places to see on your next visit to Sin City. At this sprawling home for sale at...
For Sale: Bizarre Cold War bunker home located underneath the streets of Las Vegas.

Glowing UFO orb captured on video in the sky above Rome. Splits into two, then three, separate orbs.

An amateur astronomer was filming satellites using a night vision camera when this odd UFO glided across his field of view. The object appears first as a large, glowing orb before tracking to the left and splitting into two, and then three, separate orbs. The video was captured around 1:00 AM on...
Glowing UFO orb captured on video in the sky above Rome. Splits into two, then three, separate orbs.

Man tricks demolition crew into tearing down his neighbor's home. Neighbors rejoice.

Lately we’ve seen several reports of demolition crews levelling the wrong house. This week, a Michigan man whose home was slated to be torn down took advantage of the situation in order to get rid of an unsightly neighbor’s home. The man switched his address numbers with those of his neighbor res...
Man tricks demolition crew into tearing down his neighbor's home. Neighbors rejoice.

Monday, September 9, 2013

New York garage worker drives car into empty elevator shaft - plummets over three stories and survives

A Manhattan garage worker survived when the car he was driving plummeted three and a half stories down an empty elevator shaft. The unidentified worker, who was driving a black Audi in the Sterling Garage on E. 80th St., thought the elevator bed was on the fifth floor and drove the car into the...
New York garage worker drives car into empty elevator shaft - plummets over three stories and survives

New "lost" Van Gogh painting found after spending decades inside the attic of Norwegian collector's home

A lost Van Gogh painting has been found after spending decades inside the attic of a Norwegian collector, who was told in the early 1900’s that it was a fake. The Vincent Van Gogh painting is the first full-size canvas discovered since 1928. “Sunset at Montmajour” depicts a “dry landscape o...
New "lost" Van Gogh painting found after spending decades inside the attic of Norwegian collector's home

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Video captures massive mudslide and huge boulder narrowly missing passing car

The video below was shot via a dashboard camera during Tropical Storm Kong-Rey near Keelung, Taiwan. In the video you will see a heavy mudslide rain down from the roadside mountain followed by a gigantic boulder that comes to rest mere feet from a car trapped by the debris. The boulder weighs...
Video captures massive mudslide and huge boulder narrowly missing passing car