While cleaning around the outside of her house, a Texas woman was frightened by a snake that slithered across the yard. Thinking on her feet, she doused the snake with gasoline and instructed her son to grab a match and set the snake on fire. The flaming snake fled into a pile of brush located…
The 1950 Guy Hottel UFO Memo – secret US Air Force memo regarding recovery of UFO and its occupants
FBI officials admitted last week that the most popular file in their online reading room, the memo known as the Guy Hottel Memo, was never even investigated. The memo, dated March 22, 1950, was written by special agent Guy Hottel, head of the FBI’s field office in Washington and addressed to FBI Director, J. Edgar…
Mysterious little creature photographed at Texas natural gas plant
Crazy things kids say in church (or about religion)
57-year-old man forgotten and left in solitary confinement for 2 years in New Mexico jail
Stephen Slevin was arrested and charged with aggravated driving while under the influence and possession of a stolen vehicle. Upon incarceration, Dona Ana County authorities noticed that Slevin appeared depressed. Feeling that he could be a danger to himself, they put him in solitary confinement, a dark, padded cell – and forgot about him for…
De-extinction for the first time – bizarre extinct frog species brought back from the grave
Rheobatrachus silus, the gastric-brooding frog, is different from most other frogs – it gives birth from its mouth, swallowing eggs to hide in its stomach until they’re ready to hatch then spitting out live baby frogs. Sadly. the frog was last seen in the wild in 1979 and became extinct a few years later. Luckily,…
British workers discover 13 black plague bodies buried beneath the streets of London
British builders working on the Crossrail project were surprised last week to discover 13 skeletons, lying in two orderly rows, buried about 8 feet underground, beneath one of the busiest parts of London . Experts believe the skeletons have been lying beneath the feet of commuters for over 700 years and are thought to be…
Turkish residents baffled – 22-ton metal bridge stolen by thieves in middle of night
Residents in the Gölçük district of Kocaeli province in Turkey awoke on March 12, 2013 to find that their 22-ton metal bridge was gone – stolen by thieves in the middle of the night. The bridge was nearly 100 feet long and weighed an estimated 22 tons. Police believe the bridge was quickly split into…
NASA warns of powerful radioactive solar blast heading directly towards Earth
NASA has warned that a massive, radioactive solar blast is heading towards Earth, screaming in for a direct hit at 900 miles per second. The event, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, while not occurring as frequently as solar flares, is still common. What is not so common, is for the projected particles to…
China’s modern Internet architecture – a framework for effective and efficient Internet traffic communication or model for mass censorship
When it comes to Internet architecture, China has a huge advantage over the rest of the world. Given its relatively new economic status (the Internet was not introduced to China until 1994), China is in the unique position to build its Internet, from the ground up, using proven and sound architectural schemas (in contrast to…









