Oddities
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2013 » October
Archive for October, 2013 Prepare To Be Scared! “The Mysterious Case of Elisa Lam…” HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Here’s a scary one for you… Is this a case of a devilishly haunted hotel? Was it a brutal murder? The result of some sort of evil witchcraft? Or simply the tragic last moments of an insane and suicidal young woman? What did happened to Elisa Lam? No one knows how to explain her death. It’s a true mystery, and a macabre one at that. Why was she acting so strange in the elevator videotape? What was she scared of? How did she end up in the water tank – and more importantly, how…
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2013 » September
Archive for September, 2013 America’s Oldest Petroglyphs Found In Nevada We know next to nothing about the first people to cross the Bering Strait into the Americas – but we now have some of their very, very ancient art: Oldest petroglyphs on continent found in Nevada Associated Press Pyramid Lake, Nev. — “Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years. The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada’s high desert are similar in design to etchings found at a lake in Oregon that are believed to…
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2013 » August
Archive for August, 2013 The Smallest Museum In The World… Art that is small in size but large in thought… The Micro Museum: The self-proclaimed world’s smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain (Atlas Obscura) CONTRIBUTORS: Dustin Stonecipher, EricGrundhauser “The Mµseum” (or “Micro Muscuem”) is too small to have a real address. In fact, at only eight inches deep and sixteen inches wide, this New England art installation is dwarfed by the “We Make Our Own Bread” sign glaring from the Subway sandwich shop next door. The self-proclaimed “smallest museum in the world” is the culmination of three years of work for head curator Judith Klausner. “I’ve always…
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2013 » July
Archive for July, 2013 When Will We Resurrect Yuka The Woolly Mammoth? Here is a recent tidbit on the emerging field of species resurrection – an article about the remarkably preserved baby mammoth (from Atlas Obscura): THE BEST-PRESERVED WOOLLY MAMMOTH GOES ON DISPLAY IN JAPAN, BUT SHOULD WE RESURRECT IT? BY ALLISON MEIER Woolly mammoth on display (photograph by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, via hungeree) “A prehistoric woolly mammoth that was long encased in the New Siberian Islands has gone on display in Yokohama, Japan, so visitors can see for themselves what is considered the best-preserved mammoth ever discovered. Honestly, she’s a bit grotesque looking, all grey stretched out skin and mottled…
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The Tall Whites: More Disclosure About Aliens In America
The Tall Whites: More Disclosure About Aliens In America Crashed saucers? Alien bodies in a military base? Four known species of extraterrestrials visiting earth for thousands of years? Could this all be real? This week, the Canadian Minister of Defense, Hon. Paul Hellyer, said a bold YES… We were particularly struck by the mention in the above video of an E.T. species called the “Tall Whites.” The description of these aliens reminds us of the Anunnaki of ancient Sumerian myth. Below are links to two videos that feature Charles Hall, the man who claims to have directly observed the Tall Whites. His book on the subject is called Millennial Hospitality.…
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2013 » June
Archive for June, 2013 Newton’s Beads: Momentum Gone Wild… The best bead chain experiment ever, from “Earth Unplugged” – Enjoy! “Newton’s Beads” (with BBC’s Steve Mould): Emily K. Editor on 30 Jun 2013 | Audio & Video &Science & Research | Comments Off The Abandoned Suitcases of Insane Asylum Patients… So many stories to imagine of so many lost lives – this is a journey into the minds of other people… Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients By Hunter Oatman-Stanford “If you were committed to a psychiatric institution, unsure if you’d ever return to the life you knew before, what would you take with you? That sobering…
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2013 » May
Archive for May, 2013 Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret. Until Now. An interesting discovery has been made in Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. I wish that robots like this would be used in more mysterious ancient places – how about for exploring beneath the Sphinx where there may be large hollow chambers? The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble “For centuries, Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret, only recently revealed by the help of robots equipped with lasers and infrared cameras. The small, remote-controlled devices have explored several rooms beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, a structure described by Discovery as a “six-level pyramid…
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The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica
The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica This art is so deeply strange and oddly intriguing – are the installations permanently marking real locations commemorating history from an alternate reality? Or are the markers temporary art pieces placed strategically for short periods of observation? Either way, the work touches on the concepts of memorials, travel, geography, and history in a way that gets our imagination soaring… THE BELIEVER – NOVERMBER/DECEMBER 2009 Discover Kymaerica The brick courtyard was adjacent to the railroad tracks on Atlanta’s industrial west side—and part of a structure that had been transformed from its industrial roots to become the home of a five-star restaurant. I must have taken a…
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Abandoned amusement parks from around the world…
Abandoned amusement parks from around the world… With a tip of our hat to BoingBoing from whence many of these links originated, enjoy the mysterious beauty of abandoned amusement parks from around the world… Eerie images from the lost amusement park in New Orleans . The beautiful decay of River Country, Walt Disney World’s first waterpark. It opened in 1976, and closed in 2001. All the attractions remain in place, slowly being overtaken by nature and neglect… here. Berlin’s answer to the creepy and wonderfully abandoned amusement park here. Gorgeous photos of an abandoned park in northern Japan, here. And last but not least, the incredible and abandoned cheap Japanese…
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Beautifully Strange Paintings of Visual Chaos
Beautifully Strange Paintings of Visual Chaos What are these paintings conveying? Are they beautiful or are they just strange? How do they make you feel? I find them to be gorgeous, but mostly I love the way they make me feel like I am reading a story about something odd, suspenseful and exciting – to me the experience of looking at these is so much like reading something that you simply cannot put down because it’s so riveting… The Organized Chaos of Tatiana Kazakova by Tracy Jones “Flying saucers, whales, watermelons and white padded rooms collide inside the mind of Tatiana Kazakova. Living in Moscow, Russia, this digital artist and…
