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Playing a prank on someone should be a harmless jape that leaves both parties laughing and leaving on mutual terms, their friendship made ever stronger by the moment they just shared. Note the use of the word “should” there, since not all pranks are mutual, take perhaps the most famous one of them all, the [...]
There’s no doubt that the big, lovable ape we know as “Bigfoot” is controversial, serving as fodder for both serious study and great hilarity, with people generally divided as to whether it actually exists or not. Mainstream science generally comes down on the side of the skeptics, maintaining that without a body, there is no [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Bizarre · Tagged bigfoot, common ancestor, cryptozoology, Evolution, foot plasters, Giganthropithicus, gimlin patterson film, hair samples, hoax, legend, myth, pacific northwest, paranormal, Primate, sasquatch
Most books are intended to be easily read and understood, and the oldest ones can often serve as windows into long-extinct cultures and ways of life. But others, either because of intentional obfuscation by the author or by virtue of being written in dead languages, remain mysterious to the scholars that study them. From obscure [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History, Literature, Nature, Religion · Tagged Beale ciphers, Bedford County, Christian Church, cia, Codex Seraphinianus, con, cryptography, decipherment, Declaration of Independence, easter island, Edward Kelley, encryption, Europe, hoax, Howard Carter, Hungary, Jim Stanborn, John Dee, language, Liber Linteus, Luigi Serafini, Martin Gardner, mysterious books, mysterious texts, Nag Hammadi library, NSA, Rapa Nui, Robert Morriss, Rohonic Codex, Romania, Rongorongo, Samuel Literati Nemes, secret codes, The Urantia Book, Thomas Beale, top 10, Top 10 Mysteries, Top 10 texts, TopTenz, treasure map, Undeciphered writing systems, United Kingdom, Voynich, Wilfrid Voynich, William Sadler, writing
Many strange archeological discoveries have been made in modern history. Hundreds of artifacts have been unearthed that have baffled scientists and challenged modern man’s view of history. Many of these objects have been labeled out of place artifacts or anachronisms. These archeological discoveries are always controversial and the scientific community is extremely selective in what [...]
Posted by Bryan Johnson on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, History, Science · Tagged Acambaro, Aiud, ancient technology, Anthropology, Antillia, archaelology, archaeologist, Azores Island, Baian-Kara-Ula Mountains, Bizarre, Bradford County, con, discovery, G.P. Donehoo, Hidden Mountain, History, hoax, hoaxes, invention, Kensington Runestone, Lompock Rancho, Los Lunas, Louisiana, Mures River, mystery, Olof Ohman, Piri Reis, Piri Reis map, Pseudo-scholarship, religion, Runestone, science, Secondo Pia, Shroud of Turin, skeletons, top 10 archaeological, top 10 artifacts, top 10 discoveries, Vladimir Krainov, Waterproof, Yi script
While trying to decide which ghost photos are the “best” is largely an exercise in subjectivity, it’s difficult to know which ones are the best with any degree of objectivity. These are the photos I consider the most authentic “captures” of ghosts ever caught on film, but I leave it to you to decide for [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Photos · Tagged afterworld, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Bachelor’s Grove, Brown Lady, Cemetery, Chinnery Photo, Controversial, Corroboree Rock Spirit, death, Ghost, ghost photographs, ghost photos, ghosts, haunted, haunting, HMS Daedalus Photo, hoax, Lord Combermere, Queensland Photo, S.S. Watertown Faces, scary, spirits, The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, top 10 ghost photos, Wem Fire Apparition
A recent rumor that started on Twitter had people believing actor Jeff Goldblum had fallen off a cliff to his death while shooting a movie. The story was quickly revealed to be a hoax, but it wasn’t the first time the web has been used to spread misinformation, and well before the dawn of the [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering, History, Humor, Internet, Movies, People, Television · Tagged adolf hitler, big foot, Cardiff Giant, conspiracy theories, controversy, cryptids, halloween, Hitler Diaries, hoax, hoaxes, howard hughes, Howard Hughes Autobiography, Idaho, Idaho’s Name, iraqi war, nessie, Niger Uranium Forgeries, Paul Is Dead, Paul McCartney, Piltdown Man, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The Turk, top 10 hoaxes, War of the Worlds, War of The Worlds Radio Show