If Earth’s life was compressed into a single day, here’s what that day would look like.

I’m a big fan of Bill Bryson’s writings and especially loved his A Short History of Nearly Everything book in which he gave an example of the Earth’s history if it had been compressed into a single day. The example highlighted how insignificant our time on Earth has been and really put things in perspective…

An interesting video posted on YouTube shows a bright blue, glowing light hovering in the clouds. Or is it a blue flame hovering above land enveloped in clouds?

London bicycle messenger courier, Oxford Street

If you saw the movie, Premium Rush, you probably figured those crazy New York bike messengers must be tamer in real life than they were portrayed in the movie. You’d be wrong. Premium Rush (and Quicksilver, another movie with a bike messenger theme) actually offer a very close portrayal of a professional bike messenger. Bike…

Prychodzko was looking through his telescope when he noticed a large, glowing object in the sky, a “planet” he presumed, with something orbiting around it. He held his iPhone to the telescope viewer and shot a few seconds of video. Prychodzko thought the phenomena was unusual so he contacted his nephew on the phone. When…

Man calls police when Amazon package arrives on his doorstep

From the “Doh!” archives, an Ohio man recently called the police when a suspicious package arrived on his doorstep. Here’s the clipped article that explains it all.

According to The Sun, and a new book, Church of Fear (scheduled to be published in 2013), the Church of Scientology has built a huge underground bunker (called Trementina Base in reference to the nearby community of Trementina) located deep underground in the New Mexico desert. The “alien space cathedral” acts as a vault for…

A Chinese man flying from Hong Kong to Kunming City says he saw this object outside his window and quickly snapped the picture above. The disc-shaped object can be seen above the clouds.

There is a new report about odd “alien” skulls found in a 1,000-year-old ancient burial site in Senora, Mexico. The site was first discovered in 1999 in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora (at a site known as “El Cementerio”) while workers were digging to install an irrigation canal.

Alun Morgan, 81 years old, grew up speaking English but lived in Wales for a while during an evacuation in World War II. He was only in Wales a few months and admits that he “learned a bit of Welsh” while he was there but was not proficient with the language. He has not spoken…

Located in the Atlantic ocean just west of Ireland, the mysterious island of Hy-Brasil is documented on maps as early as 1325 and as late as 1872. Although Hy-Brasil is found on many ancient maps, no island exists in our modern day and no recorded historical documents indicate where or what happened to it. The…