tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104990992024-03-13T03:21:47.268-05:00SHENANIGANS AND SKULDUGGERYTHE MOST FRIGHTENING BLOG ON THE INTERNETCRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comBlogger1690125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-32095953635215886282009-06-18T18:39:00.002-05:002009-06-18T18:43:51.819-05:00NEW ADDRESS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cruelkev3b.blogspot.com/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZdUBXe9xpdEVm6gHXV4JM0RirADjucImQjJJrtCoZM0cv8_I1Gg9hxJ4aa-eogcj3T6JDq3OAjMPjqtKScRWUSLEVYMOX6zYGJ8k9NupRI1yxasy7KeZxKJp6ccolNoioMCQK/s400/Splashnew.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348817202448384514" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-54676359759423555132009-06-18T00:03:00.000-05:002009-06-18T00:03:01.249-05:00Witch’s Hand Seen In Coast Poverty<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Backward <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">practices like <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">witchcraft </span>have prevented Coast province from developing economically</span>, provincial commissioner Ernest Munyi said Wednesday. He said the negative beliefs had affected education and economic development, making the region a food deficient area with high poverty levels. According to him, more than 900,000 people in the province face starvation and hunger despite the flourishing tourism sector. Mr Munyi also described the poor infrastructure as a stumbling block to development. He said the government through the Kazi kwa Vijana programme, has allocated funds to the Coast Development Authority and the Coast Water Services Board to de-silt water pans to alleviate water shortage while boosting the purchasing power of the youth.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4v6doyswSHBOb_mZCPFXcKQOFkg53TV1-OER-KFYc2ylbTrON7ZP7jFoqX892H8FEHVAS0Q0M0Cq7D9N_5VmQo5shAGMKnHUbZGV0msPL8NSfHzajyOYYFHz-a_XxNe__icZM/s1600-h/Little-old-witches.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4v6doyswSHBOb_mZCPFXcKQOFkg53TV1-OER-KFYc2ylbTrON7ZP7jFoqX892H8FEHVAS0Q0M0Cq7D9N_5VmQo5shAGMKnHUbZGV0msPL8NSfHzajyOYYFHz-a_XxNe__icZM/s400/Little-old-witches.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348523494647475730" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It is sad to note that the educational transition rate in most districts in the province is below 30 per cent, leaving the local people at a disadvantage when it comes to competing for job opportunities,” Mr Munyi said in a speech read on his behalf by his deputy, Mr Joseph Keter, during an investment strategy meeting. The meeting was organised by Kenya Investment Authority (KenInvest) and focused on the economy and development of the province. The PC said reports of <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">killings of elderly people suspected to be practising witchcraft </span>sent bad signals and scared away investors. The authority’s investment promotion general manager Kennedy Manyala called for the formation of strong co-operative societies to marshal resources for development.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nation.co.ke/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-74087198635887173672009-06-14T00:03:00.000-05:002009-06-14T00:03:00.814-05:00Multiple UFO Sightings In Northwest Missouri Spark MUFON Investigations<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">Missouri Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) state section director Margie Kay is reporting an increase in UFO sightings reports. The following was released by Kay on June 12. A rash of UFO sightings in the greater Kansas City area have prompted investigations by Mutual UFO Network field investigators. Sightings in St. Joseph, Kansas City, Independence, Sedalia, and Warrensburg from December 31 to the present have increased in number. Some of the more spectacular sightings are as follows: Two Warrensburg women witnessed a large circular unidentified object on the evening of December 31, 2008 and the morning of January 1, 2008. Christina Cooper, a professional photographer, and her friend reported the sighting to MUFON. A third witness, who wishes to remain anonymous, and who was in a different location, spoke to the investigator by phone. The sighting occurred on the evening of December 31 at 6:30 PM and again at 12:30 and 1:30 AM on January 1. The object was circular in shape, reported to be close to the road, approximately 60 feet off the ground and had several bright white lights on it. It landed at one point on 50 Hwy.</span><center><object height="325" width="380"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kB_lfdU3fIk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kB_lfdU3fIk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="325" width="380"></embed></object></center><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">Since the unidentified object may have been in the area for several hours, it is possible that other people saw it. The locations are Hwy 13 North of Warrensburg and south of I-70, and Hwy 50 between Kansas City and Warrensburg. In March a UFO was spotted by several college professors in St. Joseph, Missouri, who viewed the object through a telescope. Two of the witnesses made drawings of the object, which were large orange fireballs in a tear-drop shape. The UFO moved away and disappeared. In late May a large oval object was spotted traveling from South to North from the UMKC campus in Kansas City, and in June a large cigar-shaped silver UFO was witnessed in Sedalia by 20 people standing in an Applebee’s parking lot. Many other sightings have been sent to the KC MUFON office, some of which were not reported to the official MUFON database. If anyone has seen UFOs in the area, Kansas City MUFON would like to be contacted at margiekay06@yahoo.com or 816-833-1602 during the day. Reports may also be made at <a href="http://www.mufon.com">www.mufon.com</a>. Visit www.missourimufon.org for more information. Reports may remain anonymous if desired.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.examiner.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-76506502105225044512009-06-06T00:03:00.003-05:002009-06-06T00:03:01.047-05:00"Ghost" Seen Lurking Inside Upstate City Hall<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6xqUXrtq9xgNV6ga_NRAxYNhyphenhypheni379VDpHHxOrupP8R7OdDicN4NqU2sz4Sy8RVujZJnrhcDfUM0oPkwhHP83aYo7fSQPno7xvbk-0mrfOGoxgy9_3c_phM68Ar2xNIl-Vrd9/s1600-h/ghost6609.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6xqUXrtq9xgNV6ga_NRAxYNhyphenhypheni379VDpHHxOrupP8R7OdDicN4NqU2sz4Sy8RVujZJnrhcDfUM0oPkwhHP83aYo7fSQPno7xvbk-0mrfOGoxgy9_3c_phM68Ar2xNIl-Vrd9/s400/ghost6609.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344043958267170018" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">"Like I said, we really have no idea, what it could be," says Rob Colbert, a security guard at the building. It's a white blur that moves across a surveillance image of a room at the building. It will pause, then move again, then speed up from time to time. Immediately they tried to come up with explanations of what it might be. They tried closing the blinds thinking that it might be a reflection from outside. But instead of disappearing, it showed up again. In fact, with the blinds closed, it looks even clearer than before.</span> <center><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="embeddedplayer" height="305" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://gannett.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/gannett-wltx-3334-pub01-live/current/articleplayer/singleclip/client/embedded/embedded.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="salign" value="LT"><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"><param name="wmode" value="window"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerId=articleplayer&referralObject=1143787925&referralPlaylistId=playlist&adServerBasePath=http://gannett.gcion.com/adrawdata/.0/5111.1/506951/0/0/header=yes;cc=2;cookie=info;alias=&adPositionId=video_prestream&adSiteId=video.wltx.com/&gpaperCode=gntbcstwltx&marketName=Columbia, SC&division=broadcast&pageContentCategory=video&pageContentSubcategory=articleplayer"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://gannett.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/1/site/gannett-wltx-3334-pub01-live/current/articleplayer/singleclip/client/embedded/embedded.swf" id="embeddedplayer" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" menu="false" quality="high" play="false" name="articleplayer" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" scale="noscale" salign="LT" bgcolor="#000000" wmode="window" flashvars="playerId=articleplayer&referralObject=1143787925&referralPlaylistId=playlist&adServerBasePath=http://gannett.gcion.com/adrawdata/.0/5111.1/506951/0/0/header=yes;cc=2;cookie=info;alias=&adPositionId=video_prestream&adSiteId=video.wltx.com/&gpaperCode=gntbcstwltx&marketName=Columbia, SC&division=broadcast&pageContentCategory=video&pageContentSubcategory=articleplayer" height="305" width="320"></embed></object></center><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Another explanation they considered was a bug on the lens of the surveillance camera, but even after they cleaned and sealed the camera cover, it came back. Even if it is an insect, it seems to only come around in that particular office. "I've checked the tax office, the business license, community development, even the basement," says Mark Cunningham, the building's information technology director. City employees say it doesn't cause any trouble. "If it is a ghost maybe it's Casper the friendly ghost," says Frances Parham, a city employee. They've even given it a name--Claie. Clair is short for 'Clairvoyant.'</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wltx.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-42983570603403795142009-06-04T00:03:00.000-05:002009-06-04T00:03:01.074-05:00Witch Bottle Is Uncorked To Discover Spellbinding Content<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm56o277sxyFTb0F2KWxGOtsC5427iW0DLv4PsoSTK4mgfdAbB6vnsPyFugmDtuOXZA9JeTUjI0iruDlswqWIK1YPZpsAOeRYZNHMTtrwPVVWRGQ-FWLE-uX2VP9gFeotqAMN1/s1600-h/Witch_bottle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm56o277sxyFTb0F2KWxGOtsC5427iW0DLv4PsoSTK4mgfdAbB6vnsPyFugmDtuOXZA9JeTUjI0iruDlswqWIK1YPZpsAOeRYZNHMTtrwPVVWRGQ-FWLE-uX2VP9gFeotqAMN1/s400/Witch_bottle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343292822349914146" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Take a small heart-shaped piece of leather, a handful of iron nails, eight brass pins, a lock of hair, some nail clippings, a pinch of navel fluff and place them in a bottle. Then add a pint of urine, seal the bottle and bury it by your front door — this is the recipe for warding off a witch’s curse</span>. An analysis of the contents of the first witch bottle to be found with its cork intact has cast light on the fear of witchcraft in the 17th century. The theory behind the witch bottle was that by placing the items and bodily fluids in a bottle, the evil spell could not only be diverted but would also rebound on the witch. The bottle, which was found at a building site in Greenwich, southeast London, in 2004, was the first of more than 200 witch bottles discovered that still had its contents intact. It was sent to Alan Massey, a retired chemistry lecturer from Loughborough, who has examined half a dozen witch bottles. Dr Massey said: “We threw every test we could devise at it.” The analysis took 12 months to complete. Before the salt glaze bottle was opened, it was X-rayed and put through a CT scanner, which showed that its contents included bent iron nails and an unidentified liquid, some of which was drawn off by inserting a syringe through the cork. Tests determined that the liquid was 300-year-old urine and traces of nicotine indicated that it had come from a smoker. The ten nail parings were examined under a microscope and were found to be those of an adult.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpblNRqAre_LwjyUrFeDvslyQProClAGh0bj77Z0ZVNu9rIRMPzM1pNwkcidZ5JHBM1G6EdJDJjgNOYm1SotwVbnBMvbhz0_xu1cEWFQRekRV2vLDIEI1xp7hgrZVKwnTbe18s/s1600-h/witchbottle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpblNRqAre_LwjyUrFeDvslyQProClAGh0bj77Z0ZVNu9rIRMPzM1pNwkcidZ5JHBM1G6EdJDJjgNOYm1SotwVbnBMvbhz0_xu1cEWFQRekRV2vLDIEI1xp7hgrZVKwnTbe18s/s400/witchbottle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343292827332326018" border="0" /></a><center style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">X-rays showing contents of a witch bottle</span></center><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology, which has published the results of Dr Massey’s analysis, said: “From their size, they probably came from a male and they were well manicured so he was from a higher social class. It is possible that we could one day identify him from DNA analysis and the location of the discovery.” The small leather heart was pierced by one of the iron nails. There were traces of sulphur, then known as brimstone, and what is thought to be navel fluff. The other objects may have had ritual significance or been associated with the person who filled the jar. Mr Pitts said: “This is a relic of early modern Britain. There is documentary evidence of how people were advised to make witch bottles but this is the first that has been subjected to rigorous scientific analysis.” during renovations, including children’s shoes and dead cats. The practice continued into the early 20th century. Witch bottles are much rarer. Dr Massey believes that the bottle he examined dates from the last quarter of the 17th century. He said: “When I first heard about witch bottles I assumed that you had to catch a witch and make her wee in it. But of course it is much easier and makes more sense to do it yourself, based on the ‘scientific theory’ behind it.” Most witch bottles are heavy stoneware wine flagons from the Rhineland known as bellarmines after the French cardinal whose face was traditionally embossed on the neck. When the import of bellarmines ceased glass bottles were used, although fewer have survived.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-59332548603723738912009-06-03T00:03:00.000-05:002009-06-03T00:03:01.294-05:00Cannibal 'Eats Cellmate'<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The prisoner is said to have torn open his victim’s chest and cooked the organ with onions, olive oil, salt and pepper on a stove. A cannibal prisoner killed another inmate and ate one of his lungs, prosecutors have alleged. Nicolas Cocaign, 37, is said to have torn open his victim’s chest and cooked the organ with onions, olive oil, salt and pepper on a stove.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotM3QDQnIPOGyb8etjR3zbr5IiBL06B4FypsSy4tyXr7s26fl8JWJsfG7j5uhyXXLJywIYY0-uBKf1WntjG6dGeRR26-MphuWYmI6OADN_Z43CCjTRNAGPYWyFHZKZwdZG98l/s1600-h/cannibal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgotM3QDQnIPOGyb8etjR3zbr5IiBL06B4FypsSy4tyXr7s26fl8JWJsfG7j5uhyXXLJywIYY0-uBKf1WntjG6dGeRR26-MphuWYmI6OADN_Z43CCjTRNAGPYWyFHZKZwdZG98l/s400/cannibal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342932417559927138" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The attack happened in a jail in the French city of Rouen, where Cocaign was being held for rape. He has been moved to a psychiatric unit and will face court in Paris charged with murder and barbaric acts, for which he may get life.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.policeoracle.com/news/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-80384275471288200812009-06-02T00:04:00.000-05:002009-06-02T00:04:00.257-05:00Vampire Pleads Guilty To Harassing Teen<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">A man who calls himself "The Impaler" and ran for governor under what he called the Vampires, Witches and Pagans ticket has pleaded guilty to harassment through e-mail charges. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">John Albert Sharkey</span> faced harassment and coercion charges for allegedly sending harassing e-mails to a Rochester teenager in 2007. After pleading guilty Monday, Sharkey was sentenced to 90 days in prison.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FV_X_-G4W3M5YIqg1DTn3WPY71Ml9XKlhw9sAygbYbVB2RbP1HZSAzyGrP9nJsdQI7OR0lpA5sZ0zsBrIJe63LS7Z2QZs8piw1DZoWrDvb4RQOkY8JpdypBdJWG8HlKPfAS7/s1600-h/Sharkey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7FV_X_-G4W3M5YIqg1DTn3WPY71Ml9XKlhw9sAygbYbVB2RbP1HZSAzyGrP9nJsdQI7OR0lpA5sZ0zsBrIJe63LS7Z2QZs8piw1DZoWrDvb4RQOkY8JpdypBdJWG8HlKPfAS7/s400/Sharkey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342556408896224514" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">In August 2007, a 15-year-old girl told police she sent an e-mail message of political support to Sharkey's MySpace page and that they began dating online. She told police she tried to end it within two weeks, but the 44-year-old wouldn't leave her alone. Sharkey's attorney has said the e-mails were mutual. However, some e-mails in police reports threaten the girl's family and friends with harm, including decapitation.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://kstp.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-91659546081363068702009-06-02T00:03:00.000-05:002009-06-02T00:03:00.629-05:00I See The Ghost Of My Dear Ronnie, Says Former U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">Ronald Reagan's widow has told how she talks to the ex-President's spirit and even sees him at night. Nancy Reagan, 87, said she still desperately misses her husband, who died five years ago this week aged 93 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. 'It sounds strange but... I see Ronnie,' she said. 'At night, if I wake up, I think Ronnie's there and I start to talk to him. The fact is, I do think he's there. And I see him.' Speaking at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, she also told Vanity Fair magazine that she longs to be reunited with her husband of 52 years in the afterlife. But she never contemplates giving up, she said, because 'Ronnie wouldn't like that'. The former First Lady admits she still struggles to cope with the loss of her long-term companion. 'I miss Ronnie a lot, an awful lot,' she admits. 'People say it gets better. No it does not.' However, she added that evangelist and one-time presidential adviser Billy Graham, now 90, once assured her that she will see Mr Reagan again after her own death. 'I said to him, "Just tell me if I’m going to be with Ronnie again. Just tell me that and I’ll be OK." He said "You are" and I said "OK".' Mrs Reagan, once nicknamed 'Dragon Lady' because of her demanding ways with staff and fierce protection of her husband, was frequently ridiculed during her White House years from 1981 to 1989 for her belief in the paranormal and reliance on astrological advice in planning the presidential diary and influencing policy.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilznDadJKVFMduTzB8flsF-XoLsW8OdJLq0Is0mTbxE142OBeJdOe4biYYsgvAju9IMuCsnhNcbr1rQ2BAxHSqpbaov4Is8zRKNq2csij6QC2TPyuyghTZ89jsSKWQFTeRFVZT/s1600-h/reagan-ghost.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilznDadJKVFMduTzB8flsF-XoLsW8OdJLq0Is0mTbxE142OBeJdOe4biYYsgvAju9IMuCsnhNcbr1rQ2BAxHSqpbaov4Is8zRKNq2csij6QC2TPyuyghTZ89jsSKWQFTeRFVZT/s400/reagan-ghost.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342553113443475538" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">In her 1989 memoirs, she admitted that astrology became her 'crutch' after the president was shot during an assassination attempt eight years earlier and told of how she consulted the stars and planets to help plan his schedule and security arrangements. But President Barack Obama was forced to telephone her and apologise for poking fun at her beliefs when asked during a press conference last November whether he had consulted any ex-presidents for advice. 'I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any séances,' he quipped in reply. In the Vanity Fair interview, Mrs Reagan remains tight-lipped about President Obama’s apology, revealing only that she told him when he called that 'he’d gotten me mixed up with Hillary' and that she enjoyed a separate 45-minute telephone chat with First Lady Michelle Obama. 'I was very happy to talk to her. We had a nice conversation,' she says, noting that chief among her advice to Mrs Obama was a recommendation that she should hold plenty of parties at the White House. Entertaining there is 'the easiest thing in the world,' she told Mrs Obama. 'You don’t have to do anything. Just have a good time and do a little business…that’s the way Washington works.'</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-54296389933359506572009-06-01T00:03:00.000-05:002009-06-01T00:03:00.039-05:00104 'Satan-Woshippers' Arrested At Iranian Concert<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Iran has arrested more than 100 "Satan-worshippers" in a raid on a concert in the southern city of Shiraz where people were drinking alcohol and "sucking blood", a newspaper reports. "One hundred and four members of a Satan-worshipping group were arrested at a party and immoral concert in Shiraz (on Sunday)," local Revolutionary Guards chief Abbas Hamidi was quoted as saying by Jam-e Jam newspaper on Wednesday. "The session was held in a garden outside Shiraz and the Satanist ceremony was broadcast live to the world via the internet," he said, adding the arrests were made by members of the Islamist Basij militia linked to the Guards. "These people drank alcohol, hurt themselves and sucked blood," Hamidi said. "They even bow to Satan in some ceremonies." Iranian authorities sometimes link hard rock and heavy metal music and their icons with devil worship. Alcohol is banned in the Islamic republic. Jam-e Jam carried pictures of drum sets and amplifiers seized in the raid and a group of young men photographed after the arrest sitting on the floor of an official-looking building with their backs to the camera.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UYxIY9g-LLDv88dz1tK_D9OSGwH25XwZ4KsgCyS4ILa8u4se0lI7Y35KzysUHsiBHf3UA159pGxx1jD5Bk4zW-hqZqcUusF47nDXYEiosHAUPm3B1fX7gUUv0EjX5kGnI7ILWA/s1600-h/DRUM.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UYxIY9g-LLDv88dz1tK_D9OSGwH25XwZ4KsgCyS4ILa8u4se0lI7Y35KzysUHsiBHf3UA159pGxx1jD5Bk4zW-hqZqcUusF47nDXYEiosHAUPm3B1fX7gUUv0EjX5kGnI7ILWA/s400/DRUM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342193975795145746" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">It said some of the detainees sported tattoos and body art resembling the wings of birds and car emblems. Hamidi said Basij intelligence forces operating under the Revolutionary Guards had put "foreign-linked groups and their venues" under surveillance for a year before making Sunday's arrests. Over the past two years Iranian police and security officials have warned against the emergence of "Satanist" cults accused of corrupting the young, amid a tough nationwide crackdown on "unIslamic" attire and behaviour. In September 2008, a senior police chief said members of the so-called cults would wear "broken-cross and skeleton necklaces and rings, drink alcohol and dance in their ceremonies." "They believe they should defy religions, especially Islam, do as they want and drag the world into anarchy," deputy police chief Hossein Zolfaghari said. In 2007, police arrested 230 people in a raid on an illegal indie rock concert in a garden near Tehran and several reports branded the party-goers as Satan-worshippers.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-7232807297471402412009-05-31T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-31T00:03:00.716-05:00Loch Ness Monster Caught On Sonar?<span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Celebrity stage stars of the classic TV sitcom 'Allo 'Allo are at the centre of a Nessie mystery. And a leading Loch Ness expert is baffled by one of the most unusual sonar readings recorded on Loch Ness while the cast was on a pleasure cruise. Sonar pictures taken on the voyage revealed five unexplained images which have lead to monster speculation. The mysterious images – which appear to be 200ft apart – have now been sent for scientific analysis. The riddle began on Thursday morning when the cast of the stage adaptation of 'Allo 'Allo – including stars Jeffrey Holland and original TV series sexy favourite Vicki Michelle – were on board the Jacobite Queen taking the opportunity to visit the world famous loch whilst they were in the Highland capital for a week-long run at Eden Court Theatre. The sonar reading, which illustrates five individual characters, was recorded at precisely 11.20am between Dores village and Urquhart Castle. According to Jacobite Queen captain John Askew, it was the first time in his 15 years working on the loch that he successfully picked up images of this kind on any of the Jacobite fleet's sonar screens. The Loch Ness Project's Adrian Shine, an expert in sonar who has been studying the loch since 1973, could not explain the sighting. He said: "This has got me puzzled and has every appearance of a genuine sonar contact. A single object often appears again, as an echo.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd3jUDyR7svIeD1Ndlz-un5SS102J3nY4dXrmOEsu1WUYkCiTGX-RR0zmeUm4amrQ2GzED2GcIadOnJk7aVvejvvpIebmXtf8mMWgEACmZcvUERXmT-AJr6yzKp3m3hDsjARX/s1600-h/LochNess.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd3jUDyR7svIeD1Ndlz-un5SS102J3nY4dXrmOEsu1WUYkCiTGX-RR0zmeUm4amrQ2GzED2GcIadOnJk7aVvejvvpIebmXtf8mMWgEACmZcvUERXmT-AJr6yzKp3m3hDsjARX/s400/LochNess.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341825358345379042" border="0" /></a><center style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-style: italic;">The sonar images seen by 'Allo 'Allo stars Jeffrey Holland and Vicki Michelle which have baffled a Loch Ness expert.</span></center><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">"I would like to see the boat go back to this spot and see if the same thing could be produced again. "This certainly adds to the Loch Ness mystery and will be the subject of further investigation. "I don't understand five separate images on a sonar reading. It could possibly be a string of targets anchored to the bed of the loch, but that is again not likely, as the targets are 200ft apart exactly, which is why I would like to see the boat go back to that spot. There will be an explanation for this, but at the moment I just don't have one." TV star Vicki Michelle was shocked at what she saw. She explained: "I went down to the boat's cabin and caught an arch shape on the monitor, followed by two more. The whole cast had been hoping to see something on the trip and, if it was Nessie, that positive energy probably brought her out. Or perhaps she's just a fan of the show!" She added: "In all seriousness, whether it was Nessie or not, we all definitely saw something on that monitor." Jeffrey Holland said: "We're all very intrigued by the sonar image and keenly awaiting the results of the analysis." Recorded sightings of the Loch Ness Monster go back nearly 1,500 years dating to AD565, although many photographs of the legendary Nessie taken in the past century have proved to be either hoaxes or simply optical illusions.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.highland-news.co.uk/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-25727848798480502272009-05-30T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-30T00:03:00.364-05:00Witch Flies Naked 120km In A Basket To Kill?<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">In court Regina Sveto, 21 on Friday “hissed like a snake” and “went into a trance” as Sekuru Nelson Jambaya, the vice president of the Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association (ZINATHA) testified leaving a packed court room shocked. All the drama took place at Court 18 at the Harare Magistrates Court where it was jammed to the rafters as court officials, magistrates and lawyers all raced there to watch proceedings in the rather unusual case. Sveto has pleaded guilty to a charge of public indecency after she was found naked outside her brother-in-law’s house in Highfield suburb just after 6AM on last Sunday. Sveto was seen by passers-by outside the house wearing “red headgear” and “some black strings around the waist”. She claimed she had “flown” from there from Murehwa, some 120km east of Harare, with her father-in-law and an aunt. Their winnowing basket aircraft taxied off from a graveyard in Zihute Village under Chief Mangwende — their mission to kill her brother-in-law. Once at the house in Highfield, she claims she balked when asked to kill her brother-in-law. Her father-in-law, named in court as Elias Zemba, and the aunt, Filda Zemba, then took off and abandoned her. Just in case she flies back. Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has asked for expert opinion before passing sentence. After listening to Jambaya’s evidence on Thursday, Guvamombe ordered Chief Mangwende to be summoned to give his opinion on June 4. The magistrate has also ordered that the woman be kept in custody, “just in case she flies back to Murehwa”. Jambaya said the woman’s account confirmed what traditional healers have always believed about witches and wizards. He told the court: "According to my knowledge, if the woman said she flew from Murehwa in a basket, then she is a witch. Witches do a lot of this and they are known to travel naked at night.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9UhL2rMnAlKQM0Nj_Xm-5IcFAvD6pnNBziSCfl77shuxOeo73O8Kk1Gds_o8REvMlu9u5sJNaQISxFQCmzkZpEgu9L1D7T-dC6t8zswkBUDOMMG1jNzuvSWjzm5shfITilnv/s1600-h/black_skin_blonde_hair_nude.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ9UhL2rMnAlKQM0Nj_Xm-5IcFAvD6pnNBziSCfl77shuxOeo73O8Kk1Gds_o8REvMlu9u5sJNaQISxFQCmzkZpEgu9L1D7T-dC6t8zswkBUDOMMG1jNzuvSWjzm5shfITilnv/s400/black_skin_blonde_hair_nude.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341264836227246530" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">"It is also possible for witches to travel as far as South Africa during the night for the purposes of witchcraft, flying back as soon as their mission is accomplished. Some people use magic to protect their homes and families against witchcraft and in such cases, the witches and wizards become powerless and are subsequently exposed.” As Jambaya testified, Sveto “hissed like a snake”, triggering some panic at the court room. At one point, she was seen to suddenly become weak, leaning heavily against a prison guard. Then, in a sudden burst, she shouted in her native Shona: “You are liars! You are only senior in terms of your jobs but you are powerless against me. Why are you leaving criminals to roam free out there and harassing an innocent person like me? I have no case to answer, didn’t my medium brief you?” Sveto immediately collapsed and lay prostrate on the floor for several minutes before a relative revived her by placing salt into her palms. She regained consciousness some 10 minutes later, by which time the court was overflowing with curious on-lookers. Prosecutors have asked the magistrate not to impose a custodial sentence on Sveto. Prosecutor Austin Muzivi said the woman was likely to be a state witness should Elias Zemba and Filda Zemba be charged with practising witchcraft, which is a crime in Zimbabwe. A 2006 law says anyone accusing another individual of witchcraft must show proof of their allegations. The Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act 2004 says court officials can rely on expert evidence “as to whether the practice that forms the subject of a charge… is a practice that is commonly associated with witchcraft.”</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://en.afrik.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-62980234406770492132009-05-29T00:04:00.000-05:002009-05-29T00:04:00.319-05:00Feral Girl In Siberian City Of Chita Was Brought Up By Cats And Dogs<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">A feral girl who has spent her entire life shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs has been taken into care by police in Siberia. The child, 5, was unable to speak and acted like a dog when officers discovered her locked in a squalid, unheated flat in the city of Chita. “For five years, the girl was ’brought up’ by several dogs and cats and had never been outside,” police said in a statement. “The unwashed girl was dressed in filthy clothes, had the clear attributes of an animal and jumped at people.” Police said that the girl had had a lack of contact with humans, despite sharing the three-room flat with her father, grandmother, grandfather and other relatives, the Ria-Novosti news agency reported. The girl, known as Natasha, is now being monitored by psychologists in an orphanage. She has the appearance of a two-year-old, although police have established that her real age is 5. The child refuses to eat with a spoon, insisting on lapping up her food straight from the plate, and has taken on many other behaviours of the animals with which she lived, police said.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaioIMiBftcQD-4qHKib5XVFX99evFAoJqb4A_9MneTIJnlwap4y7UrMsC3O9xlfFUoS8KKhcpzqxanK1jUI-adQrRIfdGggSAAL-6PM0RwmdyEboaGT-DDvS1hVGMhTfRSA4G/s1600-h/feral.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaioIMiBftcQD-4qHKib5XVFX99evFAoJqb4A_9MneTIJnlwap4y7UrMsC3O9xlfFUoS8KKhcpzqxanK1jUI-adQrRIfdGggSAAL-6PM0RwmdyEboaGT-DDvS1hVGMhTfRSA4G/s400/feral.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341064441458451410" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">“When carers leave the room, the girl jumps at the door and barks,” the police said. Her mother was taken in for questioning when she called at a police station after her daughter was taken away. Her father has not yet been found. Feral children, the stuff of folklore all over the world, usually exhibit the behaviour of the animals with whom they have had closest contact. The condition is known as the Mowgli Syndrome, after the fictional child from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book who was raised by wolves. Such children have usually built strong ties with the animals with whom they lived and find the transition to normal human contact traumatic. The girl could understand Russian but could not speak it and tried to communicate through barking instead. She was more comfortable with her animal companions than with her relatives. She is being given medical and psychiatric treatment. Police are treating the case as a criminal investigation into alleged child abuse.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-53390108077581068662009-05-29T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-29T00:03:00.835-05:00Loch Ness Monster Exists - We Have Her Tooth!<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Early in March 2005 two American students decided to visit Loch Ness and have a look for themselves if the monster was real or not and boy did they get more than they bargained for! Hiring themselves a local fishing boat, the students ventured out onto the quiet waters and after only a few hours came across a huge mass floating on the water, getting closer they could see that it was the mangled remains of a deer. "The animal had been ripped to pieces, its hind quarters were gone, totally severed!" one of the students claimed. It was while investigating the dead deer that they saw a bony protrusion. Using a screwdriver they cracked open the animal's rib cage and discovered the protrusion was in fact a tooth! This tooth was about four inches long and very sharp. In their excitement, the students called over a local boat to show what they had found but the person turned out to a local enforcement officer of some kind (some reports have called him a local Water Bailiff others have said that he was from Fish and Game). The animal remains and the tooth were confiscated from the American students, but luckily for them they had already taken photographs of the tooth and the deer remains.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTHYFthZNzbAx5PUVYpzBnskYWnySn6kluAqfHNQX35GNAq2iNfoHyVZ5rLGFQKjRAHDnR-VNseb1uGjit78MjIM93kmvnL5VOBoXHZ3C-T6T2LQSv_3lpaNBZYgIL__L_pEV/s1600-h/TOOTH.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTHYFthZNzbAx5PUVYpzBnskYWnySn6kluAqfHNQX35GNAq2iNfoHyVZ5rLGFQKjRAHDnR-VNseb1uGjit78MjIM93kmvnL5VOBoXHZ3C-T6T2LQSv_3lpaNBZYgIL__L_pEV/s400/TOOTH.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341057726924708098" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">On returning to America the students began to take measures in trying to retrieve the tooth. They eventually got in contact with Bill McDonald, a private investigator and Loch Ness expert. It was through Mr McDonald that the New York Times best selling author Steve Alten became involved. Mr Alten, who by sheer coincidence was writing a novel at the time called The Loch, was so impressed by the findings of the students and of Mr McDonald that he re-wrote part of his novel to incorporate their findings! After many months without the return of the tooth the students, with backing from financers convinced of their cause, have put up the sum of $100,000 for anyone who can return to them the tooth that they claim is rightfully theirs. After seeing the pictures of the tooth and the carcass, together with having read Steve Altens novel that although is fiction a lot of experts have come forward and said that the book is more accurate than many books of non fiction about Loch Ness. I have to say that I am convinced that the tooth is genuine and that whether the students get back the tooth or not it surely can only be a matter of time before the real monster in Loch Ness is exposed for all the world to see!</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thecheers.org/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-34886624202314929222009-05-28T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-28T00:03:00.848-05:00Pink Dolphin A Standout In Louisiana Shipping Channel<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">What's pink, has red eyes and leaps around a Louisiana shipping channel long enough for you to believe your eyes? A rare albino bottlenose dolphin. Bottlenose dolphins are common in the lower Calcasieu Ship Channel, feeding in the deep water and riding on top of boats' waves. And when the pink one jumps amid four dark gray dolphins, it's easy to spot. The albino is just the 14th reported worldwide, and the third in the Gulf of Mexico, according to biologist Dagmar Fertl of Plano, Texas. It was first reported by Wesley Lockard of Rayville, La., as a small calf in June 2007. Lockard, 26, said he and family members were fishing when they were stunned by the sight. "Something comes up and you say, `Wow! Did I just ...?' Then he comes up again and you say, `Yeah! I just saw a pink dolphin!'" he said. Now, the mammal is as much a part of the channel south of Lake Charles as boats and fishermen. "We see him on a pretty regular basis," said Roddy Blackburn, crewman and relief captain of a boat that ferries pilots to ships. But spotting the pink one, believed to be about 2 1/2 years old, does take time. Michael Harbison, a state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist, has seen it several times, but only when he wasn't looking for it. He spent two trips—one for 10 hours—trying to locate it but didn't see the dolphin.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqGM8NwF396uoHkMV3Tdw_im1em7gqlxSUrAGHLGr1VpLUtlptScx3zB3s0nOQ4nW09EzxvKDBRQEk5uaEZ-W97bv5Yy-BCVRVQay_A_cJ81UrNKt5DOPfEdEVbdUS5y8QG0F/s1600-h/pink.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQqGM8NwF396uoHkMV3Tdw_im1em7gqlxSUrAGHLGr1VpLUtlptScx3zB3s0nOQ4nW09EzxvKDBRQEk5uaEZ-W97bv5Yy-BCVRVQay_A_cJ81UrNKt5DOPfEdEVbdUS5y8QG0F/s400/pink.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340630247204194882" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);">The albino is usually seen with four adults, and probably splits time between the Gulf and the lower 10 miles of the ship channel, said Harbison. Typically, dolphins surface for a second or so to breathe, then dive for up to 10 minutes, moving a half-mile or more, he said. Five days after the initial sighting was reported nearly two years ago, the dolphin was seen again. For 90 minutes, fisherman Randy Smith watched the dolphin leap alongside an adult they assumed was its mother. "It was unbelievable," said Smith, who was returning from a Gulf fishing trip with friends when he saw the dolphin. Many people refer to the dolphin as a male, though its sex is unknown. Biologist Mandy Tumlin of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries hopes more people will report sightings and give officials as much detail as possible. But they should stay at least 50 yards away and limit themselves to a half-hour of watching to keep the animals from getting too comfortable with people and boats, she said. No specific studies are planned, but sightings will help the department track the animal. "As rare as this is, we're trying to get as much as we can (about) this one individual," she said. "We definitely want to protect it and keep it safe."</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.breitbart.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-77600295144810789822009-05-27T18:00:00.003-05:002009-05-27T19:07:24.395-05:00UFO Crashed Into Meteorite To Save Earth<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Did a UFO deliberately crash into a meteor to save Earth 100 years ago? That's what one Russian scientist is claiming. Dr. Yuri Labvin, president of the Tunguska Spatial Phenomenon Foundation, insists that an alien spacecraft sacrificed itself to prevent a gigantic meteor from slamming into the planet above Siberia on June 30, 1908. The result was was the Tunguska event, a massive blast estimated at 15 megatons that downed 80 million trees over nearly 100 square miles. Eyewitnesses reported a bright light and a huge shock wave, but the area was so sparsely populated no one was killed.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioasMIrNhZGf4llNEbEYUDo8-CSOEZQAatEFtDMkHqPG0uypDzDAa9MbdaiAocDvqXideXmWpez-IRtw2gPGhe0bxTA9aOjXX91FbRBVVIfxGpN54hdTd2Pe5j1qpBOYkndCq9/s1600-h/Meteor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioasMIrNhZGf4llNEbEYUDo8-CSOEZQAatEFtDMkHqPG0uypDzDAa9MbdaiAocDvqXideXmWpez-IRtw2gPGhe0bxTA9aOjXX91FbRBVVIfxGpN54hdTd2Pe5j1qpBOYkndCq9/s400/Meteor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340658974941794754" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Most scientists think the blast was caused by a meteorite exploding several miles above the surface. But Labvin thinks quartz slabs with strange markings found at the site are remnants of an alien control panel, which fell to the ground after the UFO slammed into the giant rock. "We don't have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals," Labvin told the Macedonian International News Agency. "We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space."</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.foxnews.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-10774669146839990762009-05-26T00:03:00.001-05:002009-05-26T00:03:00.301-05:00Japan Rolls Out Scary Toilet Paper<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">In a country where ghosts are traditionally believed to hide in the loo, a Japanese company is advertising a new literary experience — a horror story printed on toilet paper. Each roll carries several copies of a new nine-chapter novella written by Koji Suzuki, the Japanese author of the horror story “<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Ring</span>,” which has been made into movies in both Japan and Hollywood.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWA8WP7GwvFE0HaoEi7RTvIqjQ60xP8ugrX68lrDXH7BMX4KPnS0c9zm1W-jgqtylonL5ByLK8PaQ9Zmt-YLDB4iHKrAYV7Jo93uK5OL3hEAhbVL2mdFtLxcnrb-i0ciNbhcW/s1600-h/300_Scary_TP.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqWA8WP7GwvFE0HaoEi7RTvIqjQ60xP8ugrX68lrDXH7BMX4KPnS0c9zm1W-jgqtylonL5ByLK8PaQ9Zmt-YLDB4iHKrAYV7Jo93uK5OL3hEAhbVL2mdFtLxcnrb-i0ciNbhcW/s400/300_Scary_TP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339847576561048834" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">“<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Drop</span>,” set in a public restroom, takes up about three feet (90 centimeters) of a roll and can be read in just a few minutes, according to the manufacturer, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">Hayashi Paper</span>. The company promotes the toilet paper, which will sell for 210 yen ($2.20) a roll, as “a horror experience in the toilet.” Toilets in Japan were traditionally tucked away in a dark corner of the house due to religious beliefs. Parents would tease children that a hairy hand might pull them down into the dark pool below.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-84958084475504692042009-05-25T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-25T00:03:00.922-05:00Jersey Devil Seen By Many, Reportedly Caught 100 Years Ago<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">This weekend, as Shore-bound travelers zip through the Pine Barrens, more than few will peer into the vast repository of gargoyle-y evergreens and wonder: Is there, or was there ever, a <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jersey Devil</span> lurking in those wierdo woods? One hundred years ago, thousands of people believed. "WHAT-IS-IT VISITS ALL SOUTH JERSEY" declared the front page of The Inquirer on Jan. 21, 1909 - above a photograph of "actual proof-prints of the strange creature." "Hooflike tracks" could be seen in the snow "in practically every block in Burlington city" - including rooftops - throwing "this section into a state bordering on panic." Even dogs were scared. "Hounds put on the trail refused to follow the tracks, and, with bristling hair and the picture of terror, ran home," the article stated. Armed with shotguns, a party of young farmers near Jacksonville in Springfield Township followed the tracks for almost four miles - when they "mysteriously disappeared." The tracks, not the farmers. A Gloucester man said the creature had wings two-and-a-half-feet long, four legs, a neck like a crane, a head like a collie and a horse's face. Two Maple Shade men agreed with the doglike head, but said it had long black hair and feet and hands like a monkey. Some folks called the creature "the Flying Death." Not that any people died. Though some chickens and pets reportedly did. Then, on Jan. 22, men with nets bagged the "docile" creature not in South Jersey, but in "the wilds of Fairmount Park," according to a Jan. 23 Inquirer story. A reporter coined the term "kangowing" for the creature, saying it seemed to be a cross between a kangaroo and an Australian water bird. Soon, for 10 cents each admission, the public could see the caged "Leeds Devil . . . more fearsome than the fabled monsters of mythology!" at a museum at Ninth and Arch Streets.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqrKdvUOh0dqIAyS9PUuZPakixMyrcwpRnrGIXsbIW3bGXPV-uXRjL4lyOUZItPgMrnNrBq2yC_L1xWhEVZZU3Co7M0gF79qyGU4S2-z962sw-IL7B-QugVAkyL8CgHyU8WwG/s1600-h/jdevil.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 343px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqrKdvUOh0dqIAyS9PUuZPakixMyrcwpRnrGIXsbIW3bGXPV-uXRjL4lyOUZItPgMrnNrBq2yC_L1xWhEVZZU3Co7M0gF79qyGU4S2-z962sw-IL7B-QugVAkyL8CgHyU8WwG/s400/jdevil.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339430791028806146" border="0" /></a><center style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;">The front page of the Jan. 21, 1909, Inquirer featured a report on a mysterious beast that left "hoofprints" in the snow, including on rooftops, on both side of the Delaware, from Woodbury to Trenton.</span></center><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">The "fearsome" beast, though, looked like a happy dragon in a cartoony illustration on a handbill. "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Leeds Devil</span>" was a reference to the legend that the monster was the 13th child born to Deborah Leeds in the early 1700s. Legends differ as to how humanlike the offspring was, and whether it fled into the Atlantic County woods when she died. The "capture" was later declared a hoax - a kangaroo with fake wings, according to the Philadelphia Record. But the sightings were so numerous, especially of mysterious hoofprints, that people still wonder if real creatures were afoot in late January and early Februrary of 1909. Perhaps a flock of wild fowl was forced down by a weekend snowstorm, and their tracks were altered by subsquent rain, the Jan. 21 Inquirer article theorized. An artist's rendering published in the Philadelphia Bulletin showed a winged critter with jutting jaws. Some have since seen a resemblance to a hammer-headed bat. Experts have discounted that idea, since these large fruit-eating bats live in Africa, and would have trouble surviving a South Jersey winter. Maybe the Mr. Hope behind the hoax used bats fitted with funny shoes. No one knows. Animal authorities at the time said they could think of no winged species that matched the bizarre descriptions. Great horned owls, which could attack other animals, and sandhill cranes, which have large wingspans and can make loud noises, also have been suggested over the years as possible explanations. Since 1909, sightings have been sporadic. Did "What-Is-It" disappear? Perhaps, but the legend refuses to die. As recently as two summers ago, a weird winged creature was spotted in Central Jersey, according to some accounts. So as you're driving by, keep looking. And have that cellphone camera ready.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.philly.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-15333389859754121362009-05-24T08:38:00.002-05:002009-05-24T08:40:50.265-05:00The Candiru<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwby8klDujjiCjtvLrFQkngM8FSv8dp14i39YWER_yHz9kNC3dQARxZnLINatqXM6rEUDsqGMdsuYcyfg5lUwXMfNNGHXx7cCQzSIiqPg6ta2a8grJMPtOzwr6GiWhl2pfyYb/s1600-h/cinema.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwby8klDujjiCjtvLrFQkngM8FSv8dp14i39YWER_yHz9kNC3dQARxZnLINatqXM6rEUDsqGMdsuYcyfg5lUwXMfNNGHXx7cCQzSIiqPg6ta2a8grJMPtOzwr6GiWhl2pfyYb/s400/cinema.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287295147315946418" border="0" /></a><center><object width="380" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QQWgUht-ObI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QQWgUht-ObI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="380" height="325"></embed></object></center>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-6485942177525058462009-05-22T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-22T00:03:00.321-05:00'Voodoo Curse' Prostitution Ring Busted In Spain<span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Spanish police say they have detained 23 people across the country who are suspected of using <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">voodoo curses</span> to force Nigerian women into prostitution. The women were recruited in Nigeria with false promises of legal employment and then illegally brought to Spain where they were forced to work as prostitutes, police said in a statement. Police said the ring carried out "voodoo rituals and black magic to frighten the women and keep them always under control with the threat of 'destroying their souls' or 'making them crazy'." All the money which the women earned was kept by the ring until they had paid off the debt they incurred to make the trip to Spain, which typically amounted to 50,000 euros, police said. Police carried out searches of 10 residences as part of their operation and seized material used in voodoo rituals, computer equipment as well as several passports and other documents.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8S6zZJa3x1i2aZyKQTruLFjXs6I3HWpLsl7pjr42vNpL1t68ODaXaBu1_xuPWP9BYJ5OcuzBq03_SW8lfaHDOFGtXfLsUUkX50J3qJl4PV6OhB6XU1E8SPUj3bgtNJ0r256_B/s1600-h/voodoo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8S6zZJa3x1i2aZyKQTruLFjXs6I3HWpLsl7pjr42vNpL1t68ODaXaBu1_xuPWP9BYJ5OcuzBq03_SW8lfaHDOFGtXfLsUUkX50J3qJl4PV6OhB6XU1E8SPUj3bgtNJ0r256_B/s400/voodoo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338429093817203442" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">They opened their investigation in February after receiving a complaint from a woman in the south-eastern city of Seville who said she had been one of the ring's victims. The women who were recruited by the ring in Nigeria were brought by bus and truck to Libya. From there they were taken to Italy by boat and brought overland to Spain. Earlier this month in the Netherlands, the trial of 11 people accused of using voodoo curses to force up to 150 Nigerian girls into prostitution in Europe was adjourned until later this year. Prosecutors alleged that between 140 and 150 Nigerian girls helped into the Netherlands as asylum seekers had disappeared from asylum centres in 2006 and 2007. About a dozen of the girls were traced, while the rest were thought to have been forced into prostitution in Italy, Spain and France. Most were minors at the time, their ages ranging from 16 to 23.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.abc.net.au/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-40207820241106776292009-05-21T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-21T00:03:00.283-05:00The Jesus Cheeto Miracle<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Many people have seen and heard about the likeness of Jesus turning up in unlikely places. Now, one North Texas family says they found Jesus in a cheese snack. Dan Bell found his vision of Jesus last week at the gas station. "We were leaving town. I stopped by to fill up with gas and bought some snacks." Inside a 99-cent bag of Cheetos brand cheese snacks, Dan and his wife Sara found something unique. Sara recalls the discovery. "I was putting them in my hand and I had eaten most of the ones in my hand, and one was left lying there. And I said, 'Oh my gosh, look at this. It really looks like a person in a robe praying.'" Dan looked over. "I said, 'Wow, it does look like a praying Jesus.'" The couple nicknamed it "Cheesus."</span><center><object height="265" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mw29Tkvd3Xw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mw29Tkvd3Xw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="265" width="320"></embed></object></center><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Cheesus" is about two inches tall. Despite missing a right arm, the Bells see a body, hair, robe and even a tiny face. They say it is a reminder of their blessings from God; but primarily they think it's a funny Cheeto. Various incarnations of "Cheesus" have shown up before; in Houston, Missouri and on the internet site YouTube. The Bells' Cheeto ended up on the front page of the Preston Hollow newspaper. The big question, what to do with it now? Dan says his first reaction was, "Let's put this on eBay. How much do you think we should ask for it? It could be 25 cents, could be 25 dollars. If it's only 25 cents, we're just going to eat it."</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cbs11tv.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-6614797739539604702009-05-20T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-20T00:03:00.640-05:00Missing Link Found<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Feast your eyes on what a group of scientists claim is the Holy Grail of human evolution. A team of researchers Tuesday unveiled an almost perfectly intact fossil of a 47 million-year-old primate they say represents the long-sought <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">missing link</span> between humans and apes. Officially known as <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Darwinius masillae</span>, the fossil of the lemur-like creature dubbed Ida shows it had opposable thumbs like humans and fingernails instead of claws. Scientists say the cat-sized animal's hind legs offer evidence of evolutionary changes that led to primates standing upright - a breakthrough that could finally confirm Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. "This specimen is like finding the Lost Ark for archeologists," said lead scientist Jorn Hurum during a ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History. "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It is the scientific equivalent of the Holy Grail</span>. This fossil will probably be the one that will be pictured in all textbooks for the next 100 years."</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvyL2dypIlAQ6dzGGZDaTk6qUKiC-ndlhqmdOTnSDGlivopLfoKiIji51iqd0ibdphzEoYI9nxDe47-elqYmpS0jRgR41DBBBsa6qGZd-uLxU-AX8u-wTiXSlUGawVfYcR7Sq/s1600-h/DarwiniusMasillae.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvyL2dypIlAQ6dzGGZDaTk6qUKiC-ndlhqmdOTnSDGlivopLfoKiIji51iqd0ibdphzEoYI9nxDe47-elqYmpS0jRgR41DBBBsa6qGZd-uLxU-AX8u-wTiXSlUGawVfYcR7Sq/s400/DarwiniusMasillae.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337694612134424674" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">A team of amateur fossil hunters discovered the near-perfect remains inside a mile-wide crater outside of Frankfurt, Germany, in 1983. Experts believe the pit was a volcanic caldera where scores of animals from the Eocene period were killed and their remains were kept remarkably well-preserved. Though the pit has been a bountiful source of other fossils, the inexperienced archeologists didn't realize the value of their find. Years later, the University of Oslo bought the 95%-intact fossil, and Hurum studied it in secret for two years. His colleague, Jens Franzen, hailed the discovery as "the eighth wonder of the world." "We're not dealing with our grand, grand, grandmother, but perhaps with our grand, grand, grand aunt," Franzen said. The unveiling of the fossil came as part of a carefully-orchestrated publicity campaign unusual for scientific discoveries. A History Channel film on the discovery will air next week. A book release, and a slew of other documentaries will follow.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-56624593357038800082009-05-19T00:03:00.000-05:002009-05-19T00:03:00.777-05:00Could 'Ghost' Picture At Museum Be Edward Jenner?<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">A photograph seems to have captured a hazy image of a man sitting on a chair in the attic of the Edward Jenner Museum, in Berkeley. The picture was taken by BBC photographer Chris Sandys who was gathering images for a story on the museum's new Ghosts in the Attic exhibition. Mr Sandys said: "I don't believe in ghosts myself, but this is strange. "As soon as I'd taken a panoramic photo, I reviewed the image on the camera, and straight away noticed this strange formation of light, shaped like a figure, through the doorway in the next room. "Without moving I did a few takes to try and work out what had caused it but couldn't see anything. It was so weird."</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKxU5i_eFao2Xbr5LGB-dkKBlbONtYMMXtEX3_3H7fKb5vNIRcoCiBTQkuGsZLA2eE9-SPxgBp27Ccb13wlOLe03huIymL7Vj-aSDdv43ljMW7Gq28FTdzn7TWEDfcRMIRLJ6b/s1600-h/EJ.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKxU5i_eFao2Xbr5LGB-dkKBlbONtYMMXtEX3_3H7fKb5vNIRcoCiBTQkuGsZLA2eE9-SPxgBp27Ccb13wlOLe03huIymL7Vj-aSDdv43ljMW7Gq28FTdzn7TWEDfcRMIRLJ6b/s400/EJ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337337135703146690" border="0" /></a><center style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);"><span style="font-style: italic;">A ghostly image, possibly that of Edward Jenner, can be seen through the doorway in the attic of the Edward Jenner Museum</span></center><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">Jenner was the pioneer of smallpox vaccination and the father of immunology. He was born in Berkeley in 1749 where he spent most of his career as a doctor in the town before he died in 1823. Sarah Parker, the museum's director, said: "There have always been stories of ghosts at the Edward Jenner Museum. "We usually take them with a large pinch of salt. "We are truly flabbergasted by the image. "You can basically see through a doorway what looks like a figure reclining in a chair, only there is no chair there. "Who knows whether it is Jenner himself? "We have graffiti from soldiers previously billeted in the attic rooms from the late 19th century and perhaps this is one of them or even one of Jenner's servants."</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-88531892924969882182009-05-18T08:43:00.003-05:002009-05-18T08:52:55.901-05:00Fire In 'Haunted' Hotel Room<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Some 10 people, including three guests, were forced to flee the 400-year-old grade II-listed George Hotel after the fire started at 3.40am as they were alerted by smoke alarms. It started in a storage room on the top floor and spread to the roof space, damaging the oldest section of the 17th century hotel in Ramsey, Cambs. Jean Axelsen, the hotel cook, said: "There's no way of knowing it's a paranormal event - but there are a lot of coincidences." Her real identity is unknown but Mrs Axelsen's family, who run the hotel, call her Mary and believe she is a former landlady. "It is strange that the fire was contained to that one room and did not spread," she said. "Also nothing electrical is plugged in up there as it is only used for storage.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigon2lvFPKDEr_H-fD1DhO39-X5eCXXOnySzCWqBv0APY2cFvhl1p0TQddYGU2drrIqV4G_GtZZbiM99WcfRptJwWF-Lcdm0orbN6C_r01UrSHwELwQMHJsHux132nqukRvXC7/s1600-h/FireGhost.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigon2lvFPKDEr_H-fD1DhO39-X5eCXXOnySzCWqBv0APY2cFvhl1p0TQddYGU2drrIqV4G_GtZZbiM99WcfRptJwWF-Lcdm0orbN6C_r01UrSHwELwQMHJsHux132nqukRvXC7/s400/FireGhost.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337161145914049410" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"It is at the back of my mind that it could have been something more but Mary would never hurt us and she hates fire. "She died of smoke inhalation so she wouldn't have wanted another fire. "Mary hates fire so much she steals people~s lighters and blows out candles. Her daughter Louise Axelsen, 29, the hotel manager, said: "We do not mind Mary, you get used to having her around. "If you work here, then you are aware that you are also working with ghosts." A Cambridgeshire fire brigade spokesman said the blaze, which has forced the historic George to close one of its restaurants, was sparked by an electrical fault. Mrs Axelsen's son Carl, 19, tackled the blaze with a fire extinguisher but was taken to Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, for smoke inhalation. "I'm not a brave person, but the adrenalin just kicked in and all I could think about was saving my home and my family's business," he said.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-6779248821431185042009-05-12T15:06:00.002-05:002009-05-12T15:43:06.139-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLBoMDVccQL8kzX5cx8fOA322NuOSFhvBIUP0TIIbWAJuVZwU-rK9w53Chuvy-CzYdFX3ifXS0us-oKAzYEAGU4U65nQ1YpUTzMRMWjgnEI_QeyiFqlv7yCI7UPVYwmIdQenEhg/s1600-h/techdif1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLBoMDVccQL8kzX5cx8fOA322NuOSFhvBIUP0TIIbWAJuVZwU-rK9w53Chuvy-CzYdFX3ifXS0us-oKAzYEAGU4U65nQ1YpUTzMRMWjgnEI_QeyiFqlv7yCI7UPVYwmIdQenEhg/s400/techdif1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335040465408855810" /></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10499099.post-7571595159085866942009-05-12T12:32:00.003-05:002009-05-12T12:37:59.811-05:00'Ghost Hunters' Charged In Theft At Westland's Eloise Complex<span style="color:#00cccc;">Four teens accused of sneaking into a Westland building on the old Eloise property — former site of a poorhouse, farm, asylum and a hospital — may have been looking for ghosts, police said. “They said they went there because they heard it was haunted,” police Sgt. Jeff Trzybinski said. Instead, the youngsters have found themselves in trouble for allegations they stole computer equipment, a DVD player and a clock radio. Westland 18th District Judge Mark McConnell on Monday arraigned two 17-year-old defendants on charges of larceny from a building, and two 16-year-old teens are facing similar allegations in juvenile court. The teens are accused shortly after midnight last Thursday of breaking into a Wayne County building — named after retired Wayne County Commissioner Kay Beard — that still houses some county services near Michigan Avenue and Henry Ruff Road.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVugkpXxv6OIWNo8FVJ8bqZUIUs3IdJlbgyjguTJjh2AVKLLehHWFHlqeVvYrZbe82DCN5Ir6QY2i8Ewl8fDosTlGazMFFzjUqJeiH2zHEPeAROhz2dYBsPYZCihUaZBcMSck/s1600-h/scooby-doo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334992496441097490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVugkpXxv6OIWNo8FVJ8bqZUIUs3IdJlbgyjguTJjh2AVKLLehHWFHlqeVvYrZbe82DCN5Ir6QY2i8Ewl8fDosTlGazMFFzjUqJeiH2zHEPeAROhz2dYBsPYZCihUaZBcMSck/s400/scooby-doo.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#00cccc;">The building sits on a once-sprawling medical complex, and some ghost-hunters have long claimed the site is haunted. Trzybinski credited Garden City Police Officer Robert Matigian with rounding up the four suspects after an anonymous caller provided a tip last Saturday afternoon. Police recovered the stolen items, Trzybinski said. McConnell arraigned two 17-year-old defendants, Bradley Michael Wilson of Westland and Bryant Jacob Marshall of Garden City, on charges of larceny from a building. McConnell set a $10,000/10 percent bond for the teens, entered not-guilty pleas for them and scheduled a May 21 preliminary hearing to determine whether they should stand trial in Wayne County Circuit Court. Larceny from a building carries penalties ranging up to four years in prison upon conviction.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hometownlife.com/"><span style="color:#00cccc;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130244257216197922" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hk_cayNIONo/SDY5gjx6sNI/AAAAAAAAIwo/g0ala7DJDBk/s400/SOURCE.jpg" border="0" /></span></a>CRUEL KEV.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13913281893542018402noreply@blogger.com