Month: August 2017

In 2010, while travelling via airplane from Mexico to Spain, a photo in a Mediterranean magazine caught a traveler’s eye. The article was about a tomato throwing festival (La Tomatina) held annually in Bunol, Spain. In the photo was a woman, shirt stained with tomato juice, smiling at the camera. The smiling girl was the man’s cousin – or so he thought. He called his cousin to query how she came to be at the tomato throwing contest without letting any of the family know she was going. Thus began Eva Casado’s five-year journey to find her doppelganger. “When he told me about the woman in the photo, I thought he was crazy because I had never gone to Tomatina and there’s no way the resemblance could

Warning: This article describes graphic methods of torture and may be unsuitable for some people. The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism released a report on August 10, 2017 detailing the Islamic State (ISIS) prison system’s abduction, interrogation, and confession procedures as well as the physical and psychological torture taking place with ISIS jails. The report legitimizes the world’s belief that ISIS truly is Satan embodied on earth. The torture methods used vary depending on the group operating the facility. Groups included the Islamic police, military police, hisbah (morality police), raid squads, and Emni (security forces). Typical methods, such as threat of execution, solitary confinement, beating, and flogging, are supplemented by seven elaborate torture methods named as follows: Lashing, the Fuel, Bisat al-Rih (Flying Carpet),

In the 1300’s, the Black Plague decimated Europe killing more than half of the population. Even today, mention of the plague sends chills up our spine. Well, bundle up tight. Fleas carrying Black Plague have been found in at least two different Arizona counties and officials are warning residents about hiking in areas where fleas, or dead animals, may be present. The infected fleas were first found last week on local prairie dogs in Coconino County. This week, fleas carrying the plague were found in Navajo county. County officials warned residents: “Navajo County Health Department is urging the public to take precautions to reduce their risk of exposure to this serious disease, which can be present in fleas, rodents, rabbits and predators that feed upon these animals.

A California man has survived an almost unimaginable series of tragedies this week. According to KTVU in North Bay, California, an unidentified man climbed a 100-foot high voltage transmission tower which sits along a popular walking path in Santa Rosa on August 8, 2017. A witness to the tragedy, Kevin Pickering, was near the area when the accident occurred: “I heard this boom and about a minute later, I heard the screams.” A second witness was also alerted by the sound of the explosion. “He was screaming and you could see it was like he was trying to get himself off the lines. At first he was unconscious, then he came to, and it looked like he was getting shocked some more.” An electrician working by the site told

Solar eclipses can be eerie events. At totality, a creepy darkness settles and shadows change into unsettling broken forms. It’s a weird experience to say the least. But a guy from Europe has submitted a proposal which adds a whole new level of weirdness to the occasion. An unusual ad appeared on San Francisco Bay Area’s Craigslist this week from a man seeking a women to impregnate during the solar eclipse (the proposed location is reportedly Oregon). The objective is to time the act to reach climax during totality. According to the ad, the result will be “a child that will be on the next level of human evolution”. The overexuberant advertiser claims the act will allow the two participants’ cosmic energy to align resulting in knowledge

The discovery of a diary signed “Jack the Ripper” The journal, dubbed the Maybrick diary, surfaced in 1992 when Michael Barrett, an unemployed former Liverpool scrap metal dealer, said the diary had been given to him by a friend, Tony Devereux. According to Barrett, Devereux refused to reveal where the diary came from or how he got it. The diary was signed, "Jack the Ripper". Devereux died a few months after turning over the diary to Barrett. The discovery was complicated by Barrett’s wife Ann, who claimed to know where the diary came from. She said the diary had been in her family for as long as she could remember. She explained that she had asked Devereux to give the diary to her husband as literary inspiration

Mysterious Nibiru or Planet X Interest in Nibiru, or Planet X, arose around 1976 when researchers noted that ancient Middle Eastern cultures, including the Babylonians and Sumerians, told of a mysterious planet that orbited the Sun every 3,600 years. At first the claim was scoffed at – then NASA announced new evidence of a hypothetical Planet X deep in the solar system. Today, doomsters say the hidden planet is on track for a reappearance, and this time, it will be disastrous for mankind. NASA scientists had long known of discrepancies in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune but only recently found evidence of a Neptune-sized mystery planet that orbits our sun in an unusually elongated path far beyond Pluto. They theorize it could have a mass about

Reports came out late last week of a spy plane that has been circling ominously over Seattle for nine straight days. No word on what the mission is or what they have been looking for. Flight tracking software revealed its unusual pattern of flight above Seattle and various suburbs. The aircraft itself is a bit of a puzzle too. The surveillance plane was first spotted by aircraft buffs at Boeing Field on July 24, 2017. Reports indicate the plane is an Indonesian-built CASA CN-235-300 transport aircraft (call sign SPUD21) equipped with an unusually exotic array of spy equipment modifications. According to The Drive: “It is covered in a dizzying array of blisters, protrusions, humps and bumps. These include missile approach warning detectors and large fairings on its

The summer of 2017 was a busy for the Nutmeg State as Connecticut recorded a 50% surge in UFO sightings. Thus far, over 30 UFO sightings have been reported this year in cities across the state including Meriden, Manchester, Plainville, Groton, South Windsor, Clinton, Stratford, Bridgeport, Middletown, Milford, Norwalk, Bozra, New Milford, Guilford, Southington, Onceco, Harwinton, Berlin, East Haven, New London, and Columbia. Traditional saucer-shaped UFOs were reported in Milford, Plainville, and Manchester. In one instance, three witnesses reported seeing several “silver saucers” in the skies above Milford and two witnesses reported two “flying discs moving by a commercial plane at rapid pace”. Sightings in New London, East Haven, Guilford, and Harinton included reports of a bright V-shaped object with several bright white lights on the legs