Crowds flock to ‘miracle’ statue
A statue of Jesus Christ is causing a sensation at an art gallery after witnesses said they saw sparks shooting from its eyes.
People are claiming the steel and bronze figure possesses miraculous powers and some visitors have taken to kneeling at its feet.
World’s Smallest Bible Found in a Boot:
Around 106 years ago, someone slipped a copy of the world’s smallest complete Bible in a child’s boot and stuffed it into a cottage chimney cavity to ward off evil. Now British archaeologists have identified the book, which a renovator discovered while working on the cottage in central England’s Ewerby. In addition to the rarity of the book, the find represents one of the most recent instances of anti-witchcraft using a shoe amulet, according to British Archaeology editor Mike Pitts, who reports on the discovery in his latest issue.
Woman Uses Daughter’s Key to ‘Steal’ Car
A college student who reported that his car was stolen got a surprise when he learned a woman had mistaken it for her daughter’s car and taken it- using her key. Kate Anderson of Athens became an accidental car thief when she went to pick up her daughter’s car near an Ohio University building last week. Anderson spotted the nickel-gray Toyota Camry and used her daughter’s key to unlock the car, start the engine and drive home- without realizing that the car wasn’t her daughter’s.
Oddly enough, the exact same thing happened to me about 20 years ago. My friend had a Honda Civic; we walked up to it in the parking lot of a mall, unlocked the door and got in. It was only after he started the car that we realized that it was not his. Same make, model and color, same keys – must be something about Japanese cars made in the 80’s.
Mummified Russian Man Found Dead in Sitting Position After 6 Years
After six years, you’d think someone would have wondered, “Whatever happened to Vladimir?”Russian police got their answer late last week when they went to the apartment of Vladimir Ledenev, who hadn’t been seen since 2000, Pravda reported.
What they found left them stunned.
Vladimir’s body was discovered in a sitting position, his arm, still retaining some flesh, leaning on the kitchen table, his head slumped over. An empty vodka bottle and a glass sat in front of him, according to Pravda’s reports.
Refrigerator-Sized Chunk of Ice Crushes Car in Florida
A Hillsborough County resident’s Ford Mustang was destroyed by just that Sunday, when a large slab of ice fell from the clear Florida sky directly onto the automobile, WTVT reports.
Stolen Bigfoot leaves only tire tracks
Bigfoot has gone missing in Federal Way, leaving no massive footprints in sight. It isn’t a hoax. An 8-foot-tall, wooden carving of the fabled Northwest beast was reported stolen Monday from a chiropractic office on Southwest Dash Point Road. Tim Payne, who’s had a practice in Federal Way for two decades, propped up the statue near his business’ secluded driveway more than five years ago. His family says he is fascinated with the lore of Bigfoot, which is why he chose the creature instead of a wooden bear or gorilla.
Apple’s Jobs questioned by U.S. authorities
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs was questioned by U.S. investigators about stock options backdating at the company, according to several reports citing unidentified lawyers.The company behind the popular iPod digital media player has said it was under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission for its past option-grant practices.
Jobs was questioned by federal investigators in San Francisco last week, according to reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and Bloomberg, citing unidentified legal sources.
‘Mach c’? Scientists observe sound traveling faster than the speed of light:
For the first time, scientists have experimentally demonstrated that sound pulses can travel at velocities faster than the speed of light, c. William Robertson’s team from Middle Tennessee State University also showed that the group velocity of sound waves can become infinite, and even negative.Past experiments have demonstrated that the group velocities of other materials’ components—such as optical, microwave, and electrical pulses—can exceed the speed of light. But while the individual spectral components of these pulses have velocities very close to c, the components of sound waves are almost six orders of magnitude slower than light (compare 340 m/s to 300,000,000 m/s).
Mystery of Poe Toaster intact for another birthday:
FOR the 58th year in a row, a mysterious visitor left birthday cognac and roses at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave yesterday, watched by more onlookers than ever.Jeff Jerome, the curator of the Poe House and Museum, said 55 people braved a chilly morning to glimpse the annual ritual of the mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster.
As in years past, the visitor placed a half-empty bottle of cognac and three red roses at the grave on Poe’s birthday, Mr Jerome said.
‘Cloud warrior’ ruin may hold clues to lost civilization
An unusual archeological site discovered in Peru’s mountains may hold clues to the history of the Chachapoya people, known as “cloud warriors,” who fought the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest. Keith Muscutt, a British-born Chachapoya researcher with the University of California Santa Cruz, said Wednesday the site was “strikingly anomalous” because of its size, shape and remote location in the dense forest full of spider monkeys and toucans. The unfortified, possibly ceremonial structure is located in an area previously considered on the periphery of the Chachapoya domain in the upper Amazon region.
Lightning balls created in the lab
Ball lightning could soon lose its status as a mystery, now that a team in Brazil has cooked up a simple recipe for making similar eerie orbs of light in the lab, even getting them to bounce around for several seconds.Thousands of people have reported seeing ball lightning, a luminous sphere that sometimes appears during thunderstorms. It is typically the size of a grapefruit and lasts for a few seconds or minutes, sometimes hovering, even bouncing along the ground.
Urban terrorists destroying parking meters in Sussex
The respectable looking lady at the tea shop in the Sussex market town of Lewes was an unlikely advocate of urban terrorism. “Everyone I know is secretly pleased about the attacks. No one would mind if every last one was blown to pieces,” she confided in a hushed tone.“If I knew who was carrying out the explosions I wouldn’t tell the police. Good luck to them, I say,” she added.
So what is the object of such passion and hatred in a town usually associated with literature, music, antiques, and good taste? It is the parking meter.
Marlene Dietrich’s earring found in British theme park
An antique earring thought to have belonged to Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich has been found under an old rollercoaster, bosses at a theme park in north-west England have said.The German-born actress and cabaret star lost the pearl and gold earring in 1934 while taking a ride on “The Big Dipper” attraction at Blackpool Pleasure Beach during a personal appearance. The piece of jewellery was unearthed after the site of the old Log Flume lake where the ride once stood was dredged as part of construction work.
Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says:
Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence.
Officials say they are baffled they cannot find a trace of the missing Adam Air Boeing 737-400 despite marking its coordinates from an onboard Emergency Locator Beacon Aircraft (OLBA). This as the massive, internationally-assisted search operation in Indonesia prepared to halt at nightfall and resume at daybreak on Saturday over an even wider area of Sulawesi Island. “We’re trying to find it but there’s an ‘X-factor’ about it,” said Ahmad, an official from the National Search and Rescue Agency in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province and base of search and rescue operation.
