Monthly Archives: May 2011

Dead men tell no tales, but the sea does, as shown Friday when an anchor was recovered from the wreckage of pirate Blackbeard’s flagship. An expedition off the North Carolina coast hoisted the nearly 3,000-pound anchor, one of three belonging to the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Crews were working in just 20 feet of water, according [...]

Welcome to Shingo, Aomori, Japan. A Japanese village with an estimated population of 2,830 and promotes itself as Kirisuto no Haka which translates to Home of Christ. Shing? village claims to be the last resting-place of Jesus, buried in the “Tomb of Jesus.” According to the local lore, Jesus traveled to Japan at the age of [...]

A tourist in Kunming, China took a picture of an unidentified flying object (UFO) while holidaying. He did not notice anything strange in the sky until he looked at the photographs he took later. The man, surnamed Yan, said he went to Motianling mountain with a group of Net pals last Sunday. “I took two [...]

Passengers on a Russian Airliner headed from Moscow to Perm, filmed this UFO on Sunday, 31 May 2009. The previous evening, Russian Media published a story that workers in the city of Sarapul witnessed what they believed was the Russian Soyuz rocket launched earlier from Pletsk. [...]

Health officials in South Korea reported that a second person has died after being infected with an unknown virus. According to news reports, eight patients from different parts of the country have been hospitalized in recent months with similar cold or flu-like symptoms, including cough and difficulty breathing. Seven of the eight had recently given [...]

Ordinary size crop circles not doing for you? Then check out this formation in Znamensky, Russia that blows away any comparison with Farmer Maggot’s old corn field. The size of the formation probably measures around 2 kilometers and emerged in a field immediately adjacent to a major road. The pictures are pretty good but as [...]

Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed The Maid of Orléans is considered a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years’ War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to [...]

A robot explorer has revealed ancient markings inside a secret chamber at Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza. The markings, which have lain unseen for 4,500 years, were filmed using a bendy camera small enough to fit through a hole in a stone door at the end of a narrow tunnel. It is hoped they could [...]