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Best I can do is my face on a cloud.
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![Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm. He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: “[They’re] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar.” (via BBC News - Bournemouth resident mystified by ‘blue sphere shower’)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lykpo7mrWR1qanjy6o1_250.jpg)
Steve Hornsby from Bournemouth said the 3cm diameter balls came raining down late on Thursday afternoon during a hail storm. He found about a dozen of the balls in his garden. He said: “[They’re] difficult to pick up, I had to get a spoon and flick them into a jam jar.” (via BBC News - Bournemouth resident mystified by ‘blue sphere shower’)
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Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as “the hum”.
~ Tiny village is latest victim of the ‘The hum’ - Telegraph
Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to the throb of a car engine.
It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.
But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their wits end, have called in the council to investigate. -
Apparently, some 5,000 of the birds were defecating in the feed meal, posing a threat to the animals and farm workers, when the USDA decided killing them would be the best action to take.
~ Hundreds Of Dead Birds In South Dakota Were Killed By U.S. Government (VIDEO) -
As a result of vital activity of organisms in the lake Gippslend, the water along the coast became an intense bluish glow, incomparable in its beauty to any illuminated pool. (via Bioluminescent lake in Australia (8 Photos) | Crazy pics)
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Some of the Louisiana birds will be tested by the National Wildlife Health Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey. But a USGS spokesman told The Baton Rouge Advocate that USGS records showed 16 incidents in the last 30 years where more than 1,000 blackbirds have died all at once. “These large events do take place,” he said. “It’s not terribly unusual.
~ More birds fall from sky — this time in La. - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com -
A detailed analysis of the skull’s surface revealed minute rotary scratch marks around the eye sockets, teeth and cranium. This was clear evidence that the skull was cut and polished with a wheeled instrument – and the Aztecs never used the wheel. The researchers concluded that the skulls were cut from a piece of Brazilian rock crystal in Europe. They were then probably sold to collectors as a relic from the ancient Aztec civilization. Many museums now have removed the skulls from display because of their questionable origins. (via 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries)
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The big news crossing the trivial-news desks this week was the discovery of some old Charlie Chaplin footage from the 1920s which appeared to show a woman talking on a cell phone. According to the YouTube comments which accompanied the video — heavily laden WITH words capitalized for no OBVIOUS reason — this was clear proof that time travel had been invented, and that we were being monitored by people from the future at all times, probably even in the bathroom.
~ 16 Possible Explanations for the Time Traveler Caught On Film | Cracked.com -
~ 2 bomoh capture 9 djinnsIt looked like a scene from the 1982 horror movie Poltergeist when two bomoh allegedly captured nine djinns at the home of a woman yesterday.
The girl became the talk of her village when she allegedly vanished on several occasions, only to be found in odd places like inside a cement mixer and a cemetery.
The parents of Siti Balqis Mohd Nor, 22, were relieved with the success of the two bomoh and hoped their life would return to normal as the djinns were said to be behind the woman’s mysterious disappearances.
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I have recently been plodding through the 78 episodes of The Ramayana, produced by the Sagar family in 1986. This serialisation of the story of Lord Ram, his brothers, and their war against the demon king of Lanka who has abducted Ram’s bride, the princess Sita, became a sensation when it was first broadcast on Indian TV, with an estimated audience of 100 million at its peak. (via Flying Cars of the Gods | Articles | Fortean Times
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UnCon is back in 2010 and will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Rendlesham UFO encounter, going in search of the Blue Dogs of Texas and exploring the fortean themes of Doctor Who – not to mention enjoying bawdy ballads from the 17th century and investigating ghostly encounters of the sexual kind!
~ Cryptomundo » Fortean Times UnConvention 2010 -
Tuesday night, a strange series of orange and white colored lights were seen hovering over the ocean near Fort Myers, Florida. Earlier that day, witnesses near Egg Harbor, New Jersey, claimed they witnessed a man falling through the air, face down, who appeared to be free-falling without a parachute.
~ Strange Things Hovering in (and Falling From) the Skies | Mysterious Universe
