It’s not usual to see Ribbonfish washed up on shore because they’re a deep water fish. When one was captured off teh coast of north west Taiwan and taken ashore, it sent locals running for higher ground. As Xie Lu, a fisherman on the scene explained to journalists; “People started packing up to leave. They […]
Very angry cobras. Very calm man.
Imagine your job was to clean the cobra den in the zoo. I think they call it the cobra pit. All you have to do is sweep away the dung, cast off skin and sort the dead eggs from the viable ones. Could you do it? Could you do it if you had to go […]
Hell hot cross buns: “For a limited time. A bit like Jesus”
Hell Pizza in New Zealand have (another) advertising campaign that’s upsetting the Church. What have they done? They’re selling hot cruss buns for Easter. The buns are decorated with an inverted pentagram – a symbol commonly associated with Satanism. There’s more. The tagline for the advert – which appears in billboards all over Auckland, the […]
Ghost hunters and others cost Cornwal Council £340,000
Cornwall Council has revealed that it has answered more than 2,000 questions from members of the public under the Freedom of Information (FoI) requests. BBC Radio Cornwall are responsible for digging the information up and producing the news story that puts ghost hunters and exorcists centre stage. It costs Cornwall Council around £150 to deal […]
The mystery of the alien doughnut clouds
Radar screens used to track weather patterns have been seen to show giant doughnut sized clouds. The clouds are large enough to circle a small country and vanish as quickly as they appear. The rings are actually created by the weather messing with the radar technology. The doughnuts occur on radars when snow melts in […]
The meaning of the Easter Bunny
The original celebration was not a Christian one. In Anglo-Saxon history, the festival was originally for the goddess Ēostre, also sometimes written as Ēastre. Ēostre also gives her name to Eosturmonath, one of the months in the Anglo-Saxon calendar, and is believed to have been either a goddess of light or fertility. Experts who have […]
Picture: Living with Nature
Isn’t this house simply fantastic? It fits in perfectly with the natural surroundings and does not look like some horrid wart on the side of the mountain. The identity of the photographer is unknown.
Photograph of ghostly child taken in Redhill, Surrey
Does this photograph show a ghostly child? The photograph was taken by the mother of the boy in red. Sirus Walsh is five, lives in Redhill Surrey and lives in a house alongside several ghosts. The family is relaxed about the supernatural presence and denies the photograph, which was taken on a mobile phone, is […]
The Incident at Tower 37
This 10 minute animation was created for World Water Day 2011. The man leading the project is Chris Perry, who previously worked at Pixar. The video shows mankind exploting the local natural world, gobbling up its resources for themselves and failing to notice that it was destroying the local ecosystem. There’s an unexpected hero and […]
Islandmagee witches: 300th anniversary of the last witch trial in Ireland
Exactly 300 years ago to the day (March 31st, 2011) Ireland finished its last ever witch trial. No one was burned at the stake, no one was drowned but eight Presbyterian women were sentenced to a year in jail alongside time in public stocks. On market day these “witches” had to suffer the crowds pelting […]
