In 1971, Dan Cooper boarded a flight in Portland bound for Seattle. He hijacked the plane to Seattle where he demanded $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. The plane took off from Seattle with the marked bills. Cooper donned the parachute, tied the bank bag full of twenty dollar bills to himself, and lowered the […]
The Darvaza Gas Crater or The Door to Hell, is located in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan. In 1971, Soviet geologists went to the Karakum in search of oil fields. They found what they thought to be a substantial oil field and began drilling. Unfortunately, they were drilling on top of a cavernous pocket
There are a dozen rare Crystal Skulls in private and public collections. Some are crystal-clear, others of smoky or coloured quartz. Some are actual human size and of very fine detail, while others are smaller and less refined. All are believed to originate from Mexico and Central America. Many believe these skulls were carved thousands
In 1892, Frank Burns of US. Geological Survey found strange coffins in the Crumf Cave in Murphy’s Valley, Alabama. The wooden coffins appeared to be hollowed out by fire, then chiselled with stone or copper tools. Each coffin was 7.5 ft long, 14-18 inches wide, and 6-7 inches deep. Eight of these coffins were sent
A Crop Circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop. Crop Circles appear weekly somewhere around the world. The strange patterns appear mysteriously overnight in a field, provoking delight and intrigue for locals and the news media. The circles are mostly found in the United Kingdom, but have now spread around the world. But
Cosmic Radio Bursts or Blitzars have a length of one millisecond in which time they create the same amount of energy that the Sun would create over a million years. The nine Blitzars that have been studied in the years since their discovery in 2007 have all been plucked from historical data. In January 2015,
The Chupacabra or literally ‘Goat-sucker’ is a legendary creature in parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the animal’s reported habit of attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats. It is purportedly a heavy creature, the size of a small bear, with a
Yangsi, in Sichuan Province, China, is known as the Village of Dwarfs. According to village elders, their peaceful, happy life was ruined, when a vile disease affected young children between the ages of 5 and 7. These children just stopped growing. Scientists and experts visited Yangsi to study the water, soil and grain in the
Château Miranda or Château de Noisy, is a 19th century Neo-Gothic castle in Celles, province of Namur, Belgium, in the region of the Ardennes. Château Miranda is a beautiful castle in the open lands of Belgium. It was built by French aristocrats fleeing the guillotine. The Château Miranda was taken over in World War II
In 1702, the convicted murderer Thomas Busby was on his way to the gallows in Thirsk when he desired a drink at his favourite pub in his favourite chair as his last request. When he finished, he said, “May sudden death come to anyone who dare sit in my chair!” Later, people noticed that the
Built between 1513 and 1733, the Gothic Cathedral of Salamanca underwent restoration work in 1992. It is generally a tradition of restorers to add details or new carvings to the facade as a sort of signature. After conferring with the cathedral, quarry man Jeronimo added a few modern images to the facade including an astronaut
The Bukit Timah area is now a biodiverse Nature reserve. During World War II, the Japanese soldiers stationed in Singapore glimpsed a strange version of Bigfoot there. Many reported seeing a primate-like creature covered in grey hair and standing up to 2 metres tall in the Bukit Timah rain forest. There are also a few
The entire populace of Ayodhya had come to the banks of the Sarayu with Sri Rama as he prepared to take jala-samadhi, the final peace of death by submerging himself in water. He entered the whirlpool that appeared in the river. The gods had come there along with sages and saints, the army of monkeys
The existence of Brinicles was discovered in 1960. Brinicles are underwater icicles, or ice stalactites. These spindly, ice fingers form in the extremely cold ocean environments of Antarctica and the Arctic. When this sea stalactite reaches the seabed, a web of ice forms freezing everything it touches including any sea life it encounters, such as
The people of Ayodhya followed Sri Rama to the banks of River Sarayu. “If you go to heaven, O Lord, allow us to follow you there too,” said the citizens who had come with him. Rama told Vibheeshana, “Remain the King of Lanka as long as you live. Protect your subjects and follow the correct