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Monster squid attacking, eating humans
Recently, a 9th foot has been found washed up along the coast of Vancouver / Washington. A detective made a statement suggesting other body parts have been washing up on the shores in the area. Should fishermen beware?
Wisconsin diocese investigates alleged Marian apparition
In 1859, Adele Brise, a 28-year-old Belgian immigrant in Wisconsin, reported that the Blessed Virgin had appeared to her and asked her to catechize children.
Grandfather’s ghost story leads to mysterious mass grave
“I saw with my own eyes, the ghosts of the Irishmen who died with the cholera a month ago, a-dancing around the big trench where they were buried; it’s true, mister, it was awful,” the documents quote the unnamed man as saying. “Why, they looked as if they were a kind of green and blue fire and they were a-hopping and bobbing on their graves … I had heard the Irishmen were haunting the place because they were buried without the benefit of clergy.”
Lowbrow Tarot Deck
Curator and artist Aunia Kahn selected a group of 23 lowbrow/pop surrealist artists to interpret one card each of the Major Arcana of the Tarot deck.
Haunted Real Estate: Ghosts can add value
Oh, no, not the attic. Anywhere but the attic. But the visitors insisted on going in. The house’s owner reluctantly opened the attic door and stepped aside as her two visitors trod into the gloomy room …
Death Valley’s “sailing stones”
Scientists have ruled out animals, gravity, and earthquakes as possible culprits for the stones’ strange movements.
Sunspots impact the length of our day
Researchers have long observed that the spin rate fluctuates with the seasons, in response to shifting wind patterns. Now, a team led by Jean-Louis Le Mouël at the Paris Institute of Geophysics in France has found that this seasonal effect also grows and shrinks in an 11-year cycle, rather like sunspots.
Congress may sneak through Internet ‘kill switch’ in defense bill
Government cannot control what they cannot control. However, government will still try, and government will still hurt people in the process. There is a cost to government, and that cost is personal liberty.
Zsa Zsa Gabor husband wants to plastinate wife’s body
“My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal,” Frederic von Anhalt said, “I would like to show the plastinated body of Zsa Zsa Gabor in the context of a scene in one of her films.”
China traffic jam returns
WSJ has an article about avoiding traffic jams this Labor Day Weekend. Here’s my tip for the weekend: avoid the Beijing-Tibet highway, and you should be fine.
Woman’s Body Stolen From Long Island Cemetery
The body of the mother of seven and grandmother of 21 was stolen a week ago from a mausoleum at St. Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale; she had been buried there for more than 11 years.
HURRICANE EARL, TROPICAL STORM FIONA AND NOW GASTON
Delivering on the forecast promise of a busy hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is now tracking three storms in the Atlantic.
Girls Bugged Teachers’ Staff Room
It’s just my own speculation here, but I believe there is a reason that reason many kids do something like this. It carries far more dignity, is a goal far more lofty, and is a far better driving force than … than … grades. *roll eyes here*
The reason: To see if they can friggin’ pull it off, and then friggin’ brag about it!
Obama speech: ‘turn page’ on Iraq, while brigades remain in Iraq under different name
Not too long after word came out that combat brigades still remain in Iraq, the chief thug sat in the Oval Office to announce that it was “time to turn the page” on Iraq.
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Monster squid attacking, eating humans: Recently, a 9th foot has been found washed up along the coast of Vancouver / Washington. A detective made a statement suggesting other body parts have been washing up on the shores in the area. Should... 8 comment(s) | posted on 08/31/2010 
9th severed foot found on Vancouver/Washington coast: "Because of the island's position in the Strait of Georgia, it's not unusual for bodies, torsos, legs and arms to wash ashore," the detective said. ... 3 comment(s) | posted on 08/31/2010 
‘Blue Flu’ cases spreading around Gulf: It's called the Blue Flu, due to alleged symptoms that include blue lips and skin. And, yes, there is a huge oil spill connection. ... 19 comment(s) | posted on 08/17/2010 
Baby revives after 2 hours: "... he held out his hand and grabbed my finger. He opened his eyes and moved his head from side to side. The doctor kept shaking his head saying, 'I don't believe it, I don't believe it'."... 0 comment(s) | posted on 08/27/2010 
Death Valley's "sailing stones": Scientists have ruled out animals, gravity, and earthquakes as possible culprits for the stones' strange movements.... 0 comment(s) | posted on 09/02/2010