Scary Paranormal Stories » String Theory Add this post to your list of favorites! Rating: 9.2/10 (1371 votes cast) Have you ever had an experience that suggested someone else was in your house, and just thought “I don’t wanna know” and left it? Sometimes, fear of the unknown just seems like the preferable option than facing a real, concrete danger. But what would you do when something truly suggestive happens? Last Monday was a normal day. There were three or four thick twine strings in my room. Nobody could have been in my room while I was in it, let alone set this up. It didn’t get any better later. I nervously continued my journey to school. When my friend Lucy sat beside me in first period, she simply plonked her bag down on my lap and rested her chin in her hand, looking right past me to the window outside. “Hey Lucy.” No response. “Come on, I didn’t expect you to be in on this too She sighed and started taking books from her bag. “Um.” “Well, if that’s how we’re gonna play it.” “Holy crap, Martin. “No. No reaction. ”Look.”
Ancient World Mistaken Identity In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. West said no. The clerk took some measurements, went to the file, and produced this record, bearing the name William West: Amazed, the prisoner said, “That’s my picture, but I don’t know where you got it, for I know I have never been here before.” Incredibly, this was true. The case became a strong argument in favor of the new science of fingerprinting.
Vanished Persian Army The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers. Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C. "We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News. According to Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimize his claim to Egypt.
Gauguin painting in Washington DC attacked by woman 6 April 2011Last updated at 02:22 Two Tahitian Women is to be put back on display on Tuesday morning A woman who attacked a painting by Paul Gauguin hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC said the French artist was "evil", court records show. Susan Burns pounded Two Tahitian Women and tried to rip it from a gallery wall on Friday, officials said. The 1899 painting, which depicts two women's bare breasts, was behind a plastic cover and was unharmed. She was charged with attempted theft and destruction of property and is being held pending a mental evaluation. On Friday afternoon the accused slammed her hands against the plexiglass cover between the canvas and the frame. 'Beautiful, mysterious women' A museum security officer intervened and detained her. Ms Burns, 53, from Virginia, told police she thought the painting should be burned, according to court records. "I feel that Gauguin is evil," she was quoted as telling police. "He has nudity and is bad for the children.
Beach beast reproduces at last Catherine de Lange, reporter (Music credit: Gymnopédie No 1 by Eric Satie) On a windy day, Dutch day-trippers may be lucky enough to spot a member of the elusive Strandbeest family crawling along one of Holland's beaches. With a massive two-tonne body, the largest creature in the family, Ventosa Siamesis - see video above - stands nearly 5 metres tall, and with its articulated body a gigantic 10 metres long it is certainly a creature to behold. These beasts are constructed not from flesh and bone but by hand from plastic bottles and recycled tubing. They use wind to power their locomotion, and can trap air in a "stomach" made of plastic bottles, so they retain a power source for movement in case the wind stops blowing. One thing that stood the Strandbeests apart from real animals was their inability to reproduce - until now. Jansen has always imagined a day when his creatures would be able to replicate autonomously.
How I Learned the Truth about the State - Stefano R. Mugnaini I'll never forget my last visit to lovely Hinesville, Georgia. For it was there that I learned a valuable lesson, one I shall never forget: in a police state, we're all criminals. Think about it — how many laws have you broken today? This week? In Hinesville, I was accosted for "animal cruelty." The older of my two daughters had a rash, so we stopped at Walmart to get her some antihistamine cream. You see, we left the dogs in the car, with the windows down and a dish of water to drink. I was informed that I was being charged with criminal animal cruelty, subject to appear in court at a later date. The officer informed me that I was going to have to take the dogs to the vet to be checked out before we were allowed to continue on our way. I tried another tactic. "At what point," I asked, "was I in violation of the law?" He couldn't answer, but the heroic policeman — let's just call him "Vic Maldonado" — sprang into action. I was cuffed and escorted to the back of the squad car.
HI-Tech Explosives Found at WTC From: The Open Civil Engineering Journal, 2008, 2, 35-40 Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction Steven E. Jones, Frank M. Legge, Kevin R. Abstract: Reports by FEMA and NIST lay out the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) were hit by airplanes. The US Congress laid out the charge specifically to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to “Determine why and how WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapsed following the initial impacts of the aircraft and why and how WTC 7 collapsed”.1 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was acting with a similar motivation in their earlier study of these tragic collapses.2 NIST and FEMA were not charged with finding out how fire was the specific agent of collapse, yet both evidently took that limited approach while leaving open a number of unanswered questions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Berners Street Hoax The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London, in 1810. Hook had made a bet with his friend, Samuel Beazley, that he could transform any house in London into the most talked-about address in a week, which he achieved by sending out thousands of letters in the name of Mrs Tottenham, who lived at 54 Berners Street, requesting deliveries, visitors, and assistance. On 27 November, at five o’clock in the morning, a sweep arrived to sweep the chimneys of Mrs Tottenham's house. Theodore Hook, perpetrator of the hoax Hook stationed himself in the house directly opposite 54 Berners Street, from where he and his friend spent the day watching the chaos unfold. Despite a "fervent hue and cry" to find the perpetrator, Hook managed to evade detection, although many of those who knew him suspected him of being responsible. The site at 54 Berners Street is now occupied by the Sanderson Hotel. See also[edit] List of practical joke topics References[edit] Notes
PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend Geohot, aka George Hotz, firmly believes that he has done nothing wrong. When he and the hacker group known as fail0verflow posted the PS3 rootkey online , allowing saavy consumers to install any operating system on the game console, he was not breaking any laws because he paid for Sony's hardware and doesn't have to follow their EULA. On his website Geohot claims that Sony is trying to use his case as a warning and has a team of five lawyers ready to rake him in court to send a message to other hackers. He also points out that other hackers have lost court battle not because they were wrong but because they lacked the money to mount a defense. When pressed with legal fees beyond his means, but a large amount of internet celebrity, Hotz's only recourse was to ask the masses to donate to his cause. Geohot may have underestimated the number of people who support his fight against Sony, as he received enough money for the first phase of defense in about 18 hours. Source: Geohot got sued
Aliens have landed ... in the headlines By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Did UFOs interfere with nuclear missile systems in the 1960s? Has the U.N. appointed an ambassador to the aliens? The nuke-test angle was today's highlight, due to a much publicized news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. Several retired military men discussed their recollections of an incident that took place at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in March 1967, relating to reported missile system malfunctions at two locations known as Echo Flight and Oscar Flight. You can hear the two men tell their stories in the video clip above, recorded by the NECN news network, or watch the full news conference here. Another retired U.S. military officer, Charles Halt, discussed the well-known 1980 Bentwaters incident. "I have no idea what we saw that night, but I do know it was under intelligent control," Britain's Mail Online quoted Halt as saying. Ambassador to the aliens? The task group, operating under the aegis of the U.N. Space.com