The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Brazilian government announced today that a large mass of granite, normally only found on dry land, has been discovered on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Also found in the area was a large quantify of quartz sand,…
New child abuse sign shows special “invisible” message to children when viewed from height under 4 feet
The Spanish organization, ANAR Foundation (Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk), recently released a brilliant campaign that makes similarly powerful use of a special form of photography that takes advantage of the process of lenticular printing to send an offer of help to abused children without alerting their abusers, even if they’re walking together.…
How to make Char Cloth (charcloth) – the essential outdoors fire starting material.
Char cloth (or charred cloth) is a swatch of fabric made from vegetable linen, such as cotton, that has been converted into a slow-burning fuel of very low ignition temperature. A single, small spark placed on char cloth will ignite the cloth which will begin to glow red. The slow-burning char cloth can then be…
Three missing Ohio women found after 10 years being held hostage by kidnappers [UPDATES]
Yesterday, three women were found alive in a home in a Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood. There are still many unanswered questions of course but what we know at this point is that the women had vanished nearly a decade earlier. Amanda Berry was last seen after finishing her shift at a Burger King in Cleveland in…
Is every phone call in the United States recorded? FBI agent comment on CNN offers a surprising revelation on air.
When news broke that the wife of Boston Marathon bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, spoke with her husband on the phone after his pictures and video appeared across the country, authorities focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev. CNN discussed the story with former Counterterrorism Agent for the FBI, Tim Clemente, and noted how voice mail…
Corps of Engineers confirms that sensitive National Inventory of Dams (NID) database was hacked by Chinese
The Army Corps of Engineers has admitted that an unauthorized Chinese user has hacked the National Inventory of Dams (NID) database in January 2013 and that the attack was not discovered until sometime in April. There are about 8,100 major dams in the U.S., and the NID database has information about all of them, including…
Convenient method of storing and carrying paracord rope (and other supplies) – the “paracord grenade” (and other ways to store and transport paracord rope).
Interesting idea – a paracord “grenade”. The cable ties, which allow you to hang the cord from jackets, belts, and backpacks, are the releasable type – press the end and it releases. When the cable tie is removed, the rope releases in 10 foot sections making it convenient to quickly grab a medium length line…
Report of commercial airline near-miss with UFO over Glasgow airport
A report was released yesterday revealing that a commercial passenger aircraft carrying up to 200 people came with 300 feet of colliding with an unidentified object over Glasgow Airport in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2012. The Airbus A320 airplane was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport when an object suddenly, and unexpectedly,…
First Tunguska meteorite fragments reportedly found by Russian mineralogist
On 30 June 1908, a powerful explosion occurred over an isolated region of Siberia near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The blast was 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, registered 5 on the Richter scale and is thought to have knocked down some 80 million trees over an area of 2000 square…
Triangular UFO sighted in Tennessee as witness passes directly underneath the hovering object
An interesting report of a stationary triangular-shaped UFO came out of Tennessee this week. At approximately 10:00 PM on April 27, 2013, the witness was returning home from a grocery shopping trip in nearby Crossville, Tennessee when she noticed a large object hovering over nearby power lines. The witness noted that the object was triangular…








