July 18, 2003
Fossil Discovery Provides New
Evidence in Loch Ness Monster Mystery
A Scottish pensioner may have found a 150
million-year-old ancestor of the Loch Ness Monster.
Gerald McSorley, 67, from Stirling, found a fossil of a
plesiosaur submerged in shallow water near the bank of the loch.
The 35ft long-necked carnivorous sea reptiles lived in
the Jurassic era - and scientists admitted they bore a remarkable
resemblance to the legends of the Loch Ness Monster...
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Einstein's Constant Speed of Light Theory Isn't Holding Up
Read this story carefully, and
think about all of the possible implications !!!
~Johnny
Wild
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July 11, 2003
Man Wakes From Coma After 19 Years,
Greets Mother & Starts Speaking Again
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Arkansas (AP) - The words began tumbling out
- at first just a few nouns and eventually a torrent of phrases.
Terry Wallis, who had been in a coma since a 1984 car
accident, regained consciousness last month to the surprise of doctors and
the delight of his family, including his mother, who heard his first word
in 19 years ...
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May 20, 2003
Lightning Strikes Home In Bulgaria 9
Times
At Same Time Of Day
The Bulgarian president has personally asked
experts to investigate why a house has been struck by lightning nine
separate times and always at the same hour of the day.
President Georgi Parvanov said that the house in the
southern Bulgarian village of Truncha needed to be looked at after the
latest lightning strike this week ...
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April 23, 2003
Hong Kong Tourism Officials Accidentally Run Ad
Campaign With The Slogan:
" Hong Kong Will Take Your Breath Away.
"
... they tried to pull the ads or get the
headline changed to "There's no place like Hong Kong" but it was
too late for some magazines ...
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Man Loses His False Teeth Down Woman's
Cleavage
A man who tried to flirt with a woman in a
German nightclub dropped his false teeth down her cleavage.
Shop assistant Tina Lange, 37, who met the man in a
disco in Mannheim, said: "I wasn't very interested in him but when I
was leaving he whispered in my ear: 'I hope we'll see each other again.'
"He then dropped something down my cleavage, which
I thought was his phone number ...
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Man Bites Police Dog
A man has been charged after allegedly
biting a police dog during a fight outside a bar. The 33 year old has been
charged with injuring a police animal, resisting arrest and obstruction ...
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March 12, 2003
Man Fakes Choking To Attract Women
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) - A short, dumpy man has
been going around town faking choking episodes, apparently to get
attention from women.
He flails his arms, coughs and sputters. After a woman
rushes over to help ...
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Light Bulb Still Glowing After 65
Years
A light bulb nicknamed 'Old Faithful' is still
glowing in a house after 65 years. The Swan Edison bulb illuminates the
first-floor landing of Mo Richardson's home in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
It's made of hand-drawn glass, has a carbon filament and
was bought in
Redhill, Surrey, in 1938 ...
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February 22, 2003
Re-Write The Science Books:
It Turns Out That Oil & Water Do Mix !!
Oil and water do not mix - the mantra is familiar to
every schoolchild. You have to shake them to overcome the forces that hold
the oil together. Now teachers may want to rewrite
their lessons ...
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The Once Bizarre Concept of
Extra Dimensions Now Showing Hints of A Scientific Revolution
The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its
earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago, may soon help solve seemingly
unrelated problems in particle physics, cosmology and gravitational
physics, according to a panel of experts ...
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January 23, 2003
Hair Samples From Eastern Canada
Cougar Sighting
Turn Out To Be From A Cow
FREDERICTON (CP) - Skeptics
who have long regarded cougar sightings in Eastern Canada as just a lot of
bull will be gloating after hair samples taken from the scene of the
latest big cat encounter turned out to be from a cow ...
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Hundreds Of Strange Objects Are Captured On Film By The Solar &
Heliospheric Observatory in England
Officials originally dismissed
the images as being the result of a camera fault, and will not now comment
on them. The glowing, saucer-shaped "craft" were apparently
moving in a way that suggested intelligent control ...
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October 14, 2002
Mysterious
City-Like Forms Discovered In
Deep Waters Off The Coast of Cuba
HAVANA,
Cuba -- Sonar images have revealed unusual symmetrical square and pyramid
shapes in the deep-sea darkness off the coast of Cuba.
It may not be Atlantis, but it's big, 2,000 feet down and not natural ...
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October 7, 2002
Extraordinary Claim: Cities Found On Moon !!
The presence of reasoning beings has been detected close to our home, on
the Moon. However, this discovery was immediately classified as secret, as
it is so incredible that it might shake the already existing social
principles, reports Russia's newspaper Pravda ...
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New Planet Discovered in the Solar System ???
Astronomers have discovered a ball of ice half size of
Pluto, lurking roughly 4 billion miles from Earth at the edge of our solar
system...
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October 3, 2002
Man Breaks Record By Clipping 153 Clothes Pins
To His Face
Mr. Turner told the crowd his success was due
to his elastic skin and large pain threshold ...
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Man Has Permanent Blue Skin From Using Silver Supplement
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September 13, 2002
California Fisherman Catches
Rare 815 Pound Mako Shark
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - A fisherman spent nearly six hours
battling an 815-pound mako off Santa Monica Bay before he hauled in the
shark with the help of a friend.
John Miller said at first he hooked the female shark alone. But during the
hours he spent fighting, he placed a radio call to a friend for
assistance.
Using a small boat, Mike McNamee sailed about 25 miles offshore to where
Miller was to help him.
"We both held on for dear life," McNamee said.
Once they secured the shark, they tied it to the side of the boat and
towed it back to a Redondo Beach yacht club.
September 11, 2002
Buzz Aldrin Punches Moon Conspiracy
Theorist
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BEVERLY HILLS, California
(AP) -- Detectives are investigating a
complaint that retired astronaut Edwin ``Buzz'' Aldrin punched a man
in the face after being asked to swear on a Bible that he'd been to
the moon.
Officers were called to the Luxe
Hotel on Rodeo Drive Monday and took a report from Bart Sibrel, 37,
who said the former Apollo 11 astronaut had attacked him...
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September 4, 2002
102 Year Old Man Drives On Wrong
Side Of Road;
Refuses To Give Up License
He's still got a good eye for the road; he swears by it. After all, he has
been driving since Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, back when some
people were still getting around by mule.
His birth date is 10-2-99 and the computer kept processing it as if he
were 2 years old, said La Taunya Green, assistant supervisor of the
Inglewood Traffic Division.
August 28, 2002
'Meteorite' Hits Girl In UK
The odds against being hit by a meteorite are billions to
one - but a teenager in North Yorkshire may have had one land on her foot.
Siobhan Cowton, 14, was getting into the family car outside
her Northallerton home at 1030 BST on Thursday when a stone fell on her
from the sky. Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her
father...
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August 27, 2002
Baseball Is Striking Out With Fans
With a strike looming, baseball is striking out in the
arena of public opinion: Americans overwhelmingly say they wouldn't miss
the game and its fan base has shrunk to a seven-year low.
In the latest ABCNEWS poll, 75 percent say they would not miss baseball if
there is a strike this season. And only 28 percent now call themselves
fans of professional baseball, down to its lowest level since the last
strike ended in 1995 ...
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August 10, 2002
Smartest Animal Other
Than Humans ??
It is said to be the first time any animal other than a human has shown a
clear understanding of cause and effect, and fashioned a tool for a
specific task using new materials not encountered in the wild.
Chimpanzees ??? Nope... Dolphins
??? Guess again !!
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August 8, 2002
Inconstant Speed of Light May Question
Einstein
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - A
team of Australian scientists has proposed that the speed of light may not
be a constant, a revolutionary idea that could unseat one of the most
cherished laws of modern physics -- Einstein's theory of relativity !!
[E=MC2 is on the ropes ??? ~Johnny Wild]
EPA Says Toxic Sludge is Good For Fish !!
The Army Corps of Engineers' dumping of toxic sludge into the Potomac
River protects fish by forcing them to flee the polluted area and escape
fishermen, according to an internal Environmental Protection Agency
document.
"It's ludicrous," said Rep. George P. Radanovich, California
Republican and chairman of the subcommittee on national parks, recreation
and public lands. "This is one of the most frightening examples of
bureaucratic ineptitude and backward logic I have ever seen ...
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July 23, 2002
Second Law of Thermodynamics
" Broken "
One of the most fundamental rules of physics, the second law of
thermodynamics, has for the first time been shown not to hold for
microscopic systems.
The demonstration, by chemical physicists in Australia, could place a
fundamental limit on miniaturisation, because it suggests that the
micro-scale devices envisaged by nanotechnologists will not behave like
simple scaled-down versions of their larger counterparts - they could
sometimes run backwards ...
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July 16, 2002
Eating and Driving Is Definitely
Hazardous to Your Health
Strangest case? [Mr.] Bridges recalls an accident on Interstate 15 in Rancho
Cucamonga: The person driving a motor home had put it on cruise control,
got up from the driver's seat and went to the back to check on a meal in
his microwave !!
July 15, 2002
Swarming Locusts May End Up in Beijing
Woks
BEIJING (Reuters) - Swarms of locusts have invaded the Chinese capital,
littering busy walkways and prompting gourmets to reach for their woks,
Chinese newspapers reported Sunday.
Couple Reels In Bag
Containing $80,000 While Fishing Off The Florida Keys
KEY WEST, Florida -- ''They
saw a baseball cap floating out there, and they were going to retrieve the
baseball cap, and they found a little leather bag,'' said George Rogers,
head of the U.S. Customs Service in Key West ...
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July 10, 2002
NASA Scientists Study Ketchup To Better Understand
The Universe
Some fluids have a mysterious property: one
moment they're thick, the next they're thin. Physicists aim to find out
why with the aid of an experiment in space ...
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July 6, 2002
Courthouse Love Affair Nets Prison Time
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian man who had an affair
with a juror during his murder trial was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly
six years in prison for obstruction of justice in what a judge termed
"almost unimaginable .
July 4, 2002
Freakish Fish Causes
Fear in MD
Carnivore Moves on Land,
Can Survive 4 Days Without Water !!
At first, reports of the strange-looking creature with the head of a snake
and a gaping saw-toothed maw were dismissed as just another fish tale. A
bowfin, most likely. Or some other kind of exotic fish that outgrew its
tank and was tossed into the pond by its owner.
But two weeks after an unidentified angler caught the thing in a drainage
pond behind a Crofton shopping center, state officials solved the mystery.
An exotic fish expert in Florida identified the creature from a photo as a
northern snakehead, prized as a delicacy in China and Korea where it
originates, but a nasty Frankenfish, as far as U.S. officials are
concerned.
Dreaded by
fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living
creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and
fins !!
July 3, 2002
Scientists Estimate 30 Billion
Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy
Alone !!
Astronomers can now estimate how
many planets exist in the Milky Way galaxy and also speculate on how many
planets could be like Earth; the answer to both is in billions
!!
Of the 1,000 stars currently counted within 100 light-years distance from
Earth, nearly 10% possess planetary systems. In fact, there are 300
billion stars in the Milky Way and so there are probably 30 billion
planetary systems out there as well. Researchers estimate 10% of the
planetary systems would include Earth-like worlds.
[Amazing !! ... Billions
of other "Earths" with the right
conditions for the development of life forms probably exist in our galaxy
alone ... Johnny Wild]
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July 2, 2002
Cow Falls On Car
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Drivers in farming regions know to
be on the lookout for animals that stray onto the road, but even the most
cautious seldom scan the heavens for livestock.
A 36-year-old woman should have been doing that Thursday when a cow
strayed from a hillside pasture to the top of a tunnel entrance and then
fell onto her car.
The woman was hospitalized with minor chest and foot injuries. Her
husband, in the passenger seat, was unharmed. The cow died after being hit
when it fell 4.5 metres just as the car was leaving the tunnel.
NY Manhole Covers Pop
(Note: This happened on May 29,2002)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Underground explosions caused several manhole covers to
pop near the Empire State Building on Wednesday, causing some jitters and
forcing police to close area streets...
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June 29, 2002
Colombian Mountaineer Is Saved By
Telemarketer
BOGOTA, Colombia
(Reuters) -- A hiker is stranded in South America's Andes mountains when a
blizzard begins. He reaches into his backpack for his cell phone -- only
to find his prepaid minutes are up.
The Colombian mountaineer
slowly begins freezing to death, surviving for 24 hours with his only
warmth coming from carefully measured dozes of brandy. Then suddenly, at
above 12,500 feet, Leonardo Diaz hears a familiar ring.
Out of nowhere, a phone
company solicitor is calling on his cell phone, asking if he would like to
buy more time !!
June 27, 2002
Nigerian Film
Industry
Turns Out More Movies Than Hollywood
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Franca Brown, a 1980s
Nigerian soap opera starlet is now a leading female director. Hollywood,
she claims, has run out of good ideas - and they, the video movie makers
of Nigeria, can help.
"There is a dearth of stories in Hollywood, they keep repeating
themselves," she argues.
"Over here we have too much to offer. We have too many ideas . "
June 6, 2002
Enron To Pay $140 Million in Bonuses
to 1,700 Senior Managers and Employees
NEW YORK -- An Enron Corp. plan to dole out as much as $140 million in
retention bonuses and severance to the 1,700 employees working for the
bankrupt company was approved by a judge Tuesday.
Enron said the bonuses were critical to its plan to
rebuild since the company continued to lose employees at a rate of more
than 30 a week since the beginning of the year...
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May 22, 2002
Indiana Town Haunted By "Kokomo Hum"
KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) -- It started as a low hum, barely noticeable. But
within months, the endless throbbing was like a corkscrew twisting into
Diane Anton's temple.
The walls of her home vibrated. Her bed shook. Bouts of nausea, short-term
memory loss and hand tremors followed ...
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May 17, 2002
Hilarious New Way To Fool Fingerprint
Biometrics With Fake Fingers !!
BBC News UK -- Fake fingers made out of common
household ingredients can fool security systems that use fingerprints to
identify people.
The artificial fingers and prints were
created with gelatine by Japanese researchers who used the digits to trick
biometric systems into thinking they were seeing the real thing ...
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April 9, 2002
Man Jailed Since 1991 Cleared of Charges
on DNA Evidence
MESA, Ariz. -- A man serving a life prison sentence for the 1991 stabbing
death of a bartender was released Monday after prosecutors said DNA tests
indicated he wasn't responsible for the crime.
Ray Krone,
45, was sentenced to death in 1992, but his conviction was overturned on a
technicality. He was retried and convicted in 1996 and sentenced to life
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April 1, 2002
China's Unmanned Spaceship
Returns to Earth
BEIJING -- China's third unmanned spaceship returned
to Earth on Monday and was pronounced "technically suitable for
astronauts," the government said - the latest step in its
effort to become the third nation to put people in space.
The Shenzhou III landed on schedule at 4:51 p.m. in
central Inner Mongolia, a region in northern China, the official
Xinhua News Agency reported. It had taken off nearly seven days
before from a desert launch pad in northwestern China's Gansu
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China's Mysterious Spaceship
With no wheels ...
... how did it land on solid ground un-damaged ??
Reverse thrust ?? It seems like an inefficient idea. It would
seem to take more energy to counter the effects of gravity
than this ship could store.
Could a parachute slow the descent enough to land on ground without
seriously denting the bottom ??
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March 28, 2002
13 Foot Long Giant
Octopus Found In
New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New
Zealand -- Scientists have identified what they believe is the largest
octopus ever seen, a 13 foot long giant hauled from the depths near New
Zealand's remote Chatham Islands.
The dead specimen, caught
in a trawler's net, was badly damaged but it was clearly a massive animal,
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) marine
biologist Steve O'Shea.
"It would easily have
been four-plus metres in total length and a weight of 70-75 kg (154-165
pounds), if not more - it's a very big octopus, the size of a fully mature
male giant squid ...
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Psychiatric Patient Steals Ambulance
To Attend Church
QUAKERTOWN, Pennsylvania -- A hospital patient
"flipped out," stole an ambulance and led police on a chase to
an Upper Bucks church, where a viewing was being held. One day earlier,
the 19-year-old was arrested at the same church for pulling out a knife
and confronting staff...
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March 27, 2002
Potbellied
Pig
Smells
Smoke --
Saves Local Family as Fire Engulfs Their Home
POCA, West Virginia -- "Iggy the Piggy", a
240-pound potbellied pig, ostracized from a former community, may have
been vindicated after alerting her human family to a fire that eventually
destroyed their Poca home.
Iggy the Piggy rushed into the living room, grunted and
barked about 1 p.m. Sunday after she apparently smelled smoke coming from
a baseboard heater in the bathroom, beside her room ...
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March 26, 2002
Playboy Magazine Seeks Women
of Enron !!
HOUSTON (AP) -- Playboy is hoping to entice some of the women who lost
their shirts in the Enron scandal to reveal a little more.
The magazine is putting together a Women of Enron pictorial and is
inviting employees past and present to send snapshots of themselves in
bikinis if they wish to pose.
"This is an opportunity for them to do something
fun in the midst of the turmoil that's
going on in their lives. These are
women who are out of a job," Playboy
spokeswoman Elizabeth Norris
said ...
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March 25, 2002
Man Registers Soldering Gun as
Firearm !!
Manitoba resident protests new gun laws
OAK LAKE, Manitoba Canada. (CP) -- The Manitoba man
who successfully registered his soldering gun as a firearm to protest new
federal gun laws says he is not concerned he could go to jail.
Last Christmas, Buckley, who is opposed to the new gun laws requiring all
firearms to be registered by 2003, mailed his registration form back to
the government with information from his soldering and heat guns on it.
The "guns" were registered in the national database. On
Wednesday, government officials said Buckley could be jailed for what he
did ...
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March 22, 2002
Man Smashes Through Wal-Mart's
Garden Department
FREDRICKSBURG, Virginia -- Sheriff Charles Jett said several employees
were in the garden section outside the main store off Garrisonville Road
about 9:20 p.m. when Richard Wayne Flowers drove a 2001 Dodge Dakota
through the cinder-block walls and wooden poles surrounding the garden
area, causing $4,000 worth of damage and startling employees.
The wayward truck smashed numerous plants, flowers, tools and shelves.
Jett said nearly 90 items were damaged by the careening vehicle...
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Man Accused of Stealing Treadmill From
Holiday Inn Exercise Room !!
WESTLAKE, Ohio -- The treadmill: For some, the path
to fitness, for others the road to riches.
The tale of the stolen treadmill begins at the
Westlake Holiday Inn, the suspect, 49-year-old Jeffery Levine.
Two employees saw a thief take a $2,800
treadmill from the hotel's exercise room and put it into a white or silver
older Chevy...
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Commercial Fishermen Demand
Answers to
'Black Water' Mystery in Naples, Florida !!
Commercial fishermen along the Southwest Florida coast are reporting a
massive dead zone that is almost devoid of marine life in an area of the
Gulf of Mexico traditionally known as a rich fishing ground.
They've dubbed it black water, and they're demanding
that local, state and national government agencies find out what's causing
it. Scientists who have heard of the phenomenon say they, too, need
answers.
Fishermen with decades on the water say they've often
seen red tide but they've never seen anything like this — it doesn't
have a foul smell, it isn't red tide and it isn't oil.
They describe it as viscous and slimy water with what looks like spider
webs in it...
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I wonder if these stories are
connected:
March 20, 2002
A Very Bizarre Prehistoric Fish Washed
Ashore in St. Petersburg, Florida !!
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers lineman Jeff Winans wasn't sure what had
washed ashore.
Up close, it looked like some bizarre, armor-plated fish from a
prehistoric era. It was white and about 5 feet long, with a flat snout and
a sucker for a mouth. It had rows of bony yellow plates that appeared to
be made of cartilage.
"When you turn it over, it's whole back side is hard as a
rock," said Brandi Winans. "I grew up on St. Pete Beach. I've
snorkeled a lot. I've never seen anything remotely like this." The couple called the Florida Marine Research Institute in St.
Petersburg, but no one was available to identify the mystery fish ...
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