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criminalwisdom: Chilling details emerge from Cleveland of more...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:01:17 -0500

Chilling details emerge from Cleveland of more women held captive and up to five other pregnancies

The last person to see Gina DeJesus before she disappeared in 2004 was her classmate Arlene Castro, the daughter of the man suspected of holding her captive with two other women for nearly a decade.

The revelation was the latest twist to the remarkable story of how the three women were kept prisoner in a rundown home in Cleveland while their alleged kidnapper cooked barbecues and listened to music with neighbours. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

(Source: nationalpost)

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:08:32 -0500

Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.

The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.

One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.

You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.

On September 28, 1988, a 19-year old girl named Tara Calico...

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:30:53 -0500

On September 28, 1988, a 19-year old girl named Tara Calico left her home in Belen, New Mexico to go bike riding on Highway 47. Neither Tara nor her bicycle were seen again. Her case went cold until June 15, 1989 when a woman found a Polaroid in a parking spot outside a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. A white van had previously been parked in the spot, and the photo featured a teenage girl and young boy were both bound and gagged in the back of a van. It was speculated that the girl in the photo might be Tara and that the boy was Michael Henley, a nine-year old who vanished on a New Mexico camping trip the previous year. However, Michael’s remains were soon found in the same area he originally went missing. Two other photographs featuring a gagged girl resembling Tara surfaced over the next few months, though they have never been released to the public. Years later, a Valencia County sheriff publicly stated his belief that Tara was killed the day she disappeared when two local residents accidentally hit her with their truck and disposed of her body, but he had insufficient evidence to make an arrest. But if this theory is true, then what’s the story behind the two kids in the photograph?

The infamous ‘Jonestown Massacre’ led by cult leader Jim Jones,...

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:26:19 -0500

The infamous ‘Jonestown Massacre’ led by cult leader Jim Jones, where around 909 people committed mass suicide by cyanide poisoning on November 18, 1978.

invaderxan: Mantis shrimp are beautiful creatures. They also...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:58:34 -0500

invaderxan:

Mantis shrimp are beautiful creatures. They also have perhaps the most incredible eyes in the entire animal kingdom.

Human beings have binocular vision, because we have two eyes which work together. Mantis shrimp eyes are compound, composed of up to 10,000 individual lenses. They’re also segmented into three parts, so each individual mantis shrimp eye has trinocular vision, meaning that just one eye has better depth perception than both of ours do together.

Mantis shrimp also have hyperspectral vision. Where the photoreceptors (cones) in human retinas come in three types, corresponding to red, green, and blue light, mantis shrimp have 12 different types of photoreceptor (some species have 16). This means that mantis shrimp can see a much more colourful world than we do, as well as being able to see both ultraviolet and infrared light, invisible to us.

Mantis shrimp eyes can also see polarised light with a better response across the whole wavelength than man-made optics like those used in blu-ray discs.

These creatures see the world in ways which we humans can never fully comprehend.

A social experiment gone horribly embarrassing for all of...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:40:00 -0500

A social experiment gone horribly embarrassing for all of American mankind.

Apparently in the 70’s, an Italian man decided to make a music video of what it sounds like when Americans sing. To foreign people.
None of the words are real. It’s complete gibberish done perfectly.

And yes, this is odd.
Enjoy.

A spider discovered deep in the jungles of Madagascar spins the...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:32:00 -0500

A spider discovered deep in the jungles of Madagascar spins the largest webs in the world, using silk that’s tougher than any known biological substance.

Named Caerostris darwini, or Darwin’s bark spider, the inch-wide arachnid’s webs can cover 30-square-foot areas, hanging in midair from 80-foot-long anchor lines.

The webs’ size generates enormous structural stresses, magnified by the struggles of trapped prey. Strands must “absorb massive kinetic energy before breaking,” and are “10 times better than Kevlar,” wrote University of Puerto Rico zoologist Igni Agnarsson in Public Library of Science One.

Some other spider may hold the World’s Toughest Material title. The researchers point out that there are more than 40,000 arachnid species, manufacturing some 200,000 types of silk. Scientists have studied only a few dozen.

Wedding Day Ghost

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:58:06 -0500

fuckyeahnightmares:

“This is a photo of my aunt’s wedding day. The year was 1942, and the photo was taken with a box camera. On some of my feedback I’m told it’s not really there! Well, I know it is. This picture has been passed down. It was taken in Jasper, Alabama.”

creeeee: book-of-flights: The Antikythera Shipwreck...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:09:20 -0500

Hermes

Odysseus

Achilles

a young wrestler

creeeee:

book-of-flights:

The Antikythera Shipwreck Exhibit

Dated to 60-50 BC, the shipwreck was found off the coast of Antikythera. The ship carried cargo dating from 4th to 1st century BC and was sailing towards Italy carrying among other cargo bronze and marble sculptures, glassware and jewellery, and amonst these the famous “Antikythera Mechanism”. The finds reflect the new phenomenon of art trade, the first in the history of Western civilization.

These marble sculptures have been severely eroded by stone-eating organisms of the sea, and only their parts trapped safely in the mud of the seabed have remained wonderfully intact.

Scarred and deformed, the half-destroyed sculptures seem even more human, nearly demonic. No longer serving as images of idealised beauty, their artistic quality has reached a new dimension, distorted by nature’s interference. Their image haunts you long after you’ve left them behind.

The 2009 movie The Haunting in Connecticut appears to be based...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:16:22 -0500

The 2009 movie The Haunting in Connecticut appears to be based on the events experienced by the Snedeker family in the 1980s.

The Snedekers moved into a house in Southington, Connecticut in order to live closer to the UConn Health Center, where Carmen’s son was being treated for cancer. The family would later claim that it was plagued by some manner of demonic presence. Mortuary equipment was discovered in the basement, and it was later found that the house had been a funeral home. Carmen described the demons: “One of the demons was very thin, with high cheekbones, long black hair and pitch black eyes. Another had white hair and eyes, wore a pinstriped tuxedo, and his feet were constantly in motion.”

The house was examined by Ed and Lorraine Warren. According to a write-up on the case in 2009 by NBC, the morticians that worked in the mortuary were allegedly involved in necromancy and/or necrophilia with the corpses, and the room where the two youngest children stayed was previously the show room for caskets; down the hall was where bodies were prepared for viewing. Lorraine Warren would later state that, “In the master bedroom, there was a trap door where the coffins were brought up, and during the night, you would hear that chain hoist, as if a coffin were being brought up. But when Ed went to check he found two women down there dancing around in circles and singing; when he walked towards them, they disappeared.” In response to the film, Lorraine would later say the actual case was “much, much scarier than any movie could ever be,” and that the film was “very, very loosely based” on their investigation of the house. Lorraine Warren has told the Associated Press that the house was cleared of any presence after an exorcism conducted in 1988.

Carmen Snedeker’s accounts were covered in episodes of the television series A Haunting and Paranormal Witness.

Source.

List of animals that have homosexual behaviors

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:10:44 -0500

List of animals that have homosexual behaviors:

This is not an oddity.

I am not claiming this to be obscure. I am stating that I am for the idea of same-sex marriage. Both Anthony and I are very much supportive of this.

I don’t want to run a blog without expressing my opinion. Especially because this matter is extremely important to both of us.

It may not have anything to do with this blog of ours, but I don’t care. Unfollow us if necessary. I do not care. This matter is more important than the number of people that ensure my popularity on Tumblr.

This behavior is natural. And it will never harm our race. Try to tell me otherwise.

xo
Molly

Lonomia obliqua is just as frail as any other caterpillar you...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:13:54 -0500

Lonomia obliqua is just as frail as any other caterpillar you might have seen, but that doesn’t stop it from causing severe serious internal hemorrhaging and even death by just a touch.

This terrible Lonomia caterpillar lives in the rainforests of South America and causes a few deaths per year. Mainly found in southern Brazil, they’re usually found on the bark of trees. Blending perfectly in their surrounding, Lonomia obliqua caterpillars often can’t be avoided, even if people watch out for them. Most incidents occur when travelers lean against a tree and unknowingly brush against one or more caterpillars, which release a very powerful anticoagulant venom.

Symptoms of Lonomia obliqua poisoning include severe internal bleeding, renal failure and hemolysis. If the skin comes into contact with several caterpillars, death is often the outcome.

Would you mind tagging for pictures of corpses? Particularly children's corpses. The story about the Scottish murder victims is fascinating but I really would've appreciated a warning.

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:56:14 -0500

Definitely. Though in all honesty, the warning is known before you follow us.

ramirezbundydahmer: In 1913, bodies of two children were...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:31:33 -0500

ramirezbundydahmer:

In 1913, bodies of two children were discovered in the Hopetown quarry near Edinburgh. Although the bodies had been in the water at least eighteen months, a man named Sir Sydney Alfred Smith was able to provide the police with vital information. He determined how much time before their deaths the two boys had eaten their last meal, proved that they must have walked to the quarry, and hypothesised that they had been killed by someone they knew. The two boys had never been reported missing, but Smith’s evidence led to the arrest of the children’s father, Patrick Higgins, and to the first execution in Scotland of the century.

the-ghost-of-mister-rogers-3: Papua New Guinea police have...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:22:00 -0600

the-ghost-of-mister-rogers-3:

Papua New Guinea police have charged two people with the grisly killing of a woman who was tortured and burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children, after being accused of witchcraft.

Janet Ware and Andrew Watea were charged with murder over the slaying of Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother who was stripped, tortured with a hot iron rod, doused in gasoline and set alight on a pile of car tires and trash by a mob earlier this month.

Leniata had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who had died in a hospital. Ware and Watea are believed to be the boy’s mother and uncle, police said in a statement.

FULL STORY : http://tinyurl.com/awnqocs

Ever wonder what auditory hallucinations sound like? With...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:01:13 -0600

Ever wonder what auditory hallucinations sound like? With headphones or good surround sound, now you too can get the full experience of psychosis.

This may be a trigger for some.

On January 1st 2005, some Odessa teens decided to spend New...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:01:00 -0600

On January 1st 2005, some Odessa teens decided to spend New Years night partying in the catacombs. However, in the drunken revelry a member of the group, a girl named Masha, became separated and lost in the catacombs. She spent three days wandering in the freezing cold and pitch black before she died of dehydration. It took two years before the police were able to locate her body and retrieve it from the catacombs.

The Odessa Catacombs are a network of estimated 4000 kilometres-long tunnels stretching out under the city and surrounding region of Odessa, Ukraine. The majority of the catacombs are the result of stone mining. Most of the city’s 19th century houses were built of limestone mined nearby. Abandoned mines were later used and widened by local smugglers. This created a gigantic labyrinth of underground tunnels beneath Odessa, known as the “catacombs”. Today, they are a great attraction for extreme tourists, who explore the tunnels despite the dangers involved. Such tours are not officially sanctioned because the catacombs have not been fully mapped and the tunnels themselves are unsafe. There have been incidents of people becoming lost in the tunnel network, and dying of dehydration or rockfalls.

Source.

Viktor Sayenko, Igor Suprunyuck, and Alexander Hanzha,...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:38:00 -0600

Viktor Sayenko, Igor Suprunyuck, and Alexander Hanzha, collectively known as “The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs”, were a pack of Ukrainian thrill killers who brutally killed dozens of people during a near-four week-long murder spree. Starting on July 25, 2007, with Ekaterina Ilchenko and Roman Tatarevich, Sayenko and Suprunyuck initiated their killing spree, randomly picking pedestrians and then bludgeoning them with blunt objects, such as hammers and steel construction bars, and recording some of the murders. Some of the victims were also robbed of their possessions. Multiple bodies would be found in one day, usually two. Additionally, some victims were killed in not Dnepropetrovsk, but towns located in the surrounding areas. Their spree came to public attention after a survivor, fourteen-year-old Vadim Lyakhov, immediately ran to the police after his friend was murdered by them, and also when a victim, Natalia Mamarchuk, was beaten to death in front of many witnesses. The initiated investigation was kept secret at first, but eventually, sketches were distributed and the victims’ stolen possessions were listed to local pawn shops.

The three were arrested a week after the spree ended, when Suprunyuck tried selling a mobile phone belonging to one of his victims. The phone had to be turned on to ensure it worked, allowing law enforcement agents to find it and trace its location, leading to the arrests of Sayenko and Suprunyuck. Meanwhile, authorities invaded Hanzha’s home and arrested him, but not before he managed to erase the information on numerous stolen mobile phones he attempted to flush down the toilet. Sayenko, Suprunyuck, and Hanzha were all charged for numerous instances of premeditated murder (excluding Hanzha), animal cruelty, robbery, and armed robbery. Sayenko and Suprunyuck’s ghastly videos of their murders received a large amount of attention. One of the videos (titled “3 guys 1 hammer”) managed to find its way into the Internet on December 4, 2008; it is a recording of the brutal murder of Sergei Yatzenko, who was killed on July 27, 2007. The leaking of the video received criticism, but it was later admitted that control over videos posted on the Internet was “virtually impossible”.

Source.

Piblokto, also known as Arctic hysteria, is a condition...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:24:00 -0600

Piblokto, also known as Arctic hysteria, is a condition exclusively appearing in Inughuit societies living within the Arctic Circle. Appearing most prevalently in winter, it is considered to be a form of a culture-bound syndrome, although more recent studies question whether it exists at all.

Symptoms can include intense hysteria (screaming, uncontrolled wild behavior), depression, consumption of feces, insensitivity to extreme cold (such as running around in the snow naked), echolalia (senseless repetition of overheard words) and more. This condition is most often seen in Inughuit women. This culture-bound syndrome is possibly linked to vitamin A toxicity. The native Inughuit diet provides rich sources of vitamin A and is possibly the cause or a causative factor. The ingestion of organ meats, particularly the livers of arctic fish and mammals, where the vitamin is stored in toxic quantities, can be fatal.

Source.

I just found this blog today, and am LOVING it! I have one critique, though. It would be easier to read the posts on the blog if the entries were not in a grid-format, but rather laid out in a single column. But anyway, keep up the good work :)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:11:57 -0600

note taken!