Thursday, December 2, 2010

Minnesota jeweler says the Second Coming is near...so he's selling everything cheap, till the end of time!

Larry Falter, owner of Superior’s LTD Jewelers, hit upon a novel idea for his latest TV commercial — blending a storewide sale with his belief that the second coming of Jesus is near.

Full article: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/185317/ 

Does China have the first unicorn-cow?

A cow with a horn smack dab in the middle of its forehead is leading some people to claim the supposedly fictional unicorn is alive and well and living in northern China's Hebei province.  According to Metro.co.uk, the cow's farmer, Jia Kebing, first noticed a small bump on the cow's forehead when it was born two years ago, but he didn't expect it to grow into an 8-inch horn.  But it has, and so has the cow's popularity, even though the presence of two normal horns makes the animal more of a "tri-corn" than a unicorn.
Full article: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/chinese-unicorn-cow-horns-in-on-fame/19737389 

At least twelve people killed by angry mob in Haiti, blaming witchcraft for the cholera  outbreak

Tensions simmered in Haiti Thursday with its political future hanging in the balance, as protesters renewed charges of vote-rigging and cholera fears led to deadly mob violence.  As vote-counting continued ahead of the expected release of preliminary results on Tuesday, candidates in last weekend's presidential and legislative elections remained split over whether to endorse the outcome.  With the impoverished Caribbean nation in limbo, several hundred opposition demonstrators peacefully took to the streets of Port-au-Prince seeking annulment of the vote to determine the successor to Rene Preval.

Full article: ttp://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gk_FU_dwxdIJzfSSz8IyS3oSsL6g?docId%3DCNG.f9a0b4d03dfba10ea4d940df1f67012d.451

Friday, November 19, 2010

Is there really a lost unicorn in New York City

Typically, missing-animal posters encourage one to wonder: Have I ever seen that creature?  In the case of one "missing" poster seen on the Upper West Side in New York earlier this month, the lost animal was not a puppy or someone’s cat. It was a unicorn.  Described as a female with a friendly disposition, the missing unicorn in question and the poster belonged to Camomile Hixon, a New York-based painter.  The missing unicorn, in fact, was part of a larger vision for New York City.

Full article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/11/history-of-unicorns-missing-unicorn-in-new-york-city.html


Conspiracy stills abound California missile contrail ... is it Chinese?

Although the U.S. Defense Department and North American Aerospace Defense Command have speculated publicly that the unidentified contrail of a projectile soaring into the skies off the California coast – and recorded by a KCBS television crew – came from a jet and posed no security threat to the U.S., several experts are raising provocative and disturbing questions about the government's official response, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Full article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=230425

Tuesday, October 4, 2010

Unicorn spotted in Toronto?

Amateur video depicting what could be one of the most elusive legendary creatures, the unicorn, has been captured on film by a Toronto resident. The video in question, shot by a local birdwatcher, Peter Hickey-Jones, shows what appears to be a white horse with a single horn on its head emerging from the trees in the Don Valley wetland.

Full article: http://smr.newswire.ca/en/ontario-science-centre/rumoured-unicorn-sighting-reported-in-don-valley 

UFO photographed above the skies of the Northern Territory, Canada

The accidental photograph on today's front page of a UFO over a popular tourist destination occurred only hours before a bright light buzzed the crowd at the Katherine Show.  Victorian tourist Adam Rewuk did not realise he captured the image of the flying saucer over Katherine Gorge until he looked back over his photos after the trip.

Full article: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/10/04/183931_ntnews.html

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Are mutant deer the cause of unicorn legends?

Maybe unicorns aren’t wholly mythological: a one-horned deer has been spotted in a nature reserve near Florence, Italy. And it’s not merely a case of having one weird antler off to one side; it’s a horn poking straight out of its forehead.  "This is fantasy becoming reality," said Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center for Natural Sciences in Prato, to the Associated Press.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/unicorns-are-re/Full article:  

Psychic parrot Meena (whose 'psychic' record isn't as accurate as Pauly's) makes same choice as Pauly the psychic octopus in choosing Spain to win World Cup!

Meena Kutti, an eight-year-old parakeet born in India, was advising punters which teams to back, according to its owner, fortune teller M.C. Mohan, who usually gives tips on business and life.  Mohan said he placed two small envelopes on the floor at his home in Kuala Lumpur and asked Meena to pick the winner of the World Cup final - the Netherlands or Spain - and without hesitation it chose the one marked "La Furia Roja." "Meena is one of a kind and is always accurate in her predictions," he was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper, which did not give any details of previous forecasts.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7883865/World-Cup-2010-final-Meena-the-parakeet-backs-Paul-the-psychic-octopus-for-Spain-win.html


Dracula, Vlad Tepes,  got a bad rap from his European neighbors says museum curator

The show, which has just opened in Bucharest, attempts to rehabilitate Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler, who ruled Wallachia in the 15th century.  "Vlad Dracula was doubtlessly cruel, but not more so than other princes of his time," said Margot Rauch, the Austrian curator of the exhibition, entitled "Dracula - Voivode and Vampire".

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/romania/7883928/Dracula-was-not-bloodthirsty-just-a-victim-of-bad-propaganda-new-exhibition-claims.html

Researchers believe they've discovered King Arthur's legendary Round Table and it was a Roman-style amphitheater!

Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.  Legend has it that his Knights would gather before battle at a round table where they would receive instructions from their King. But rather than it being a piece of furniture, historians believe it would have been a vast wood and stone structure which would have allowed more than 1,000 of his followers to gather.  Historians believe regional noblemen would have sat in the front row of a circular meeting place, with lower ranked subjects on stone benches grouped around the outside.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7883874/Historians-locate-King-Arthurs-Round-Table.html

Does a full Moon really cause us to go crazy?

There's a bad moon on the rise? Werewolves, lunatics and criminals, we all know, famously respond to the light of the full moon.

But Creedence Clearwater Revival lyrics aside, an upcoming crime study reinforces findings that the full moon's malign influence is, well, moonshine.

"Western lore has long suggested a relationship between the phases of the moon and various forms of aberrant, antisocial, deviant, and criminal human conduct," begins the Journal of Criminal Justicestudy led by criminologist Joseph Schafer of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. "Policing, crime, and criminal justice have not been immune from speculation concerning the lunar-crime relationship."
Full article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2010-07-11-moon-crime_N.htm