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Cat with a kitten, gargoyle-chimère on the roof of the Château de Pierrefonds, France. Built ca.1393-1407, restored between 1857-1885

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Bizarre sign claims three ‘alien abductions' 

In June 2021, a sign chastising a local council for not stopping alien abductions has appeared in the West Midlands. According to a strange sign that has recently appeared in Sedgley, England, it seems that, for someone at least, alien abduction still appears to be a pressing concern. “3 alien abductions here in one week,” the sign reads in black stencilled writing. Oddly, it even goes so far as to blame the local authorities by adding “When are the council going to do something ?” As things stand, nobody seems to know who put the sign there, who the three alleged abductees are or what the sign’s creator believes the council could do about it anyway.

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The Sacred Tree of Takeo Shrine (Takeo’s Okusu Tree)                         Location: Outside Mifuneyama Rakuen Garden

Over 3000 years old, this camphor tree is the 7th largest tree in Japan. It is 30m tall with a trunk circumference of 20m, its branches span 30m wide from east to west, and 33m wide from north to south. This is the sacred tree of Takeo Shrine, which was built in the Nara period (735 CE). The roots of the tree resemble the feet of elephants and are wrapped in rough bark, with their central section split open near the surface of the ground. Inside is a gaping cavity with an area of 12 tatami mats, which houses a stone shrine deep within.

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The Murder of Tupac Shakur

May 25, 2021

Tupac Shakur was one of the most successful American hip hop artists of the 1990′s. He was shot in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 7, 1996 at the age of 25. 

On September 7, 1996 Tupac attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Marion “Suge” Knight who was the head of Death Row Records, at the MGM Grand. 

In May 1996, a man named Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, who was a member of the Southside Crips gang attempted to rob a man named Travon “Tray” Lane in a Foot Locker store. Tray Lane was one of Suge Knight’s associates and was a member of the M.O.B. Pirus gang from Compton, California. 

When leaving the match, Lane spotted Anderson in the lobby, and he told Tupac. Tupac asked Anderson if he was from the South and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground. This fight was captured on the MGM Grand’s video surveillance and was broken up by hotel security.

After this, Tupac and Suge Knight wen to Club 662, which Suge Knight owned. Tupac then changed his clothes and left the club with Suge Knight.

Between 11 and 11:05 pm, Tupac and Suge were stopped by police officers on the Las Vegas Boulevard for playing their car stereo too loudly and for not having any license plates. These plates were in the trunk of the car. However, the police let them go with seemingly no charges. 

At 11:10 pm they were stopped at a red light at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in front of the Maxim Hotel. At this time a car which had two women in the front seats pulled up on their left side. Tupac talked to these two women and invited them to go to Club 662. 

At 11:15 pm a white, four door late model white Cadillac pulled up on the right side of their car. The shooter was seated in the back of the car and rolled down the window and fired shots from a .40 S&W Glock 22. Tupac was shot four times, twice in the chest, once in his arm and once in his thigh. One of the bullets went into Tupac’s right lung. Suge was hit in the head by fragmentation.

There was witnesses to the shooting. Yaki Kadafi was in the car behind Tupac with bodyguards and other members of the Death Row entourage. They all refused to talk to the police. 

Suge had injuries and the shooting resulted in their BMW having a flat tire, he drove himself and Tupac a mile down the road to Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. They were pulled over by Bike Patrol, who alerted paramedics. Paramedics and police took Suge and Tupac to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. 

Tupac said he was dying while being carried into the emergency room. He was placed on life support machines and put in a medically induced coma. Suge Knight was released from the hospital the next day on September 8 but did not speak out about the shooting until September 11. 

He told police that he heard something but saw nothing. Officers had no leads and reported they did not receive “a whole lot of cooperation” from Tupac’s entourage. 

Tupac died on September 13, 1996 from respiratory failure that led to him being in cardiac arrest after they removed his right lung, the one that had been shot. Doctors were unable to stop the hemorrhaging. Tupac’s mother, Afeni decided to take her son off life support. He was pronounced dead at 4:03 pm.

In 2014 a police officer who claimed to have witnessed Tupac’s last moments said that he refused to say who shot him, and when the police officer asked if he knew the person or people who shot him he responded with “Fuck you” which many say were his last words. However, paramedics, other police officers, and Suge Knight all reported they did not hear Tupac say those words.

There was pretty much no leads to go off of and no one wanted to talk and be a snitch. E.D.I. Mean, a member of Outlawz said he was positive that law enforcement knew what happened and said, “This is America. We found Bin Laden.”

In 2002 Chuck Philips wrote a two part story in the Los Angeles Times called “Who Killed Tupac Shakur?” He reported that the shooting was done by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips in relation to Tupac fighting Anderson in the lobby a few hours before the shooting. Philips believed that Orlando Anderson himself was responsible for shooting Tupac. 

Police interviewed Anderson once briefly and nearly two years after the shooting Anderson was killed himself during an unrelated gang shooting. Philips also talked about how The Notorious B.I.G., also known as “Biggie Smalls” could have been responsible as well as several different criminals in New York City. 

Philips’ also stated that the Las Vegas police handled the shooting poorly, claiming they disregarded the fight between Tupac and Anderson earlier that night. The police also failed to do a follow up with one of Tupac’s entourage members who told the police he could probably identify one or more of the assailants involved. This member died before police could interview. The police also failed to follow up with a witness who claimed to see a white Cadillac similar to the car in which the shooter was in. 

Suge Knight said in 2017 he might of been the target of the shooting, as a staged coup to seize control of Death Row Records. Knight also claimed if he did know who had shot Tupac he would never tell. 

In a USA Network documentary called Unsolved which was released in 2018, a man named Duane “Keefe D” Davis who was a Crips gang leader and Anderson’s uncle claimed to have been in the car with the man who shot Tupac on the night of the shooting. He wouldn’t say who the shooter was, saying it was due to “street code.” 

In 2016 a M.O.B. Piru and former Death Row bodyguard named James “Mob James” McDonald claimed he saw Anderson and other gang members pull up to Club 662 in a white Cadillac. 

Biggie Smalls denied being involved in Tupac’s murder. His family said that on the night of Tupac’s murder, Biggie was recording a song in New York City. Biggie’s manager Wayne Barrow and rapper Lil’ Cease claimed that they were both with Biggie that night in the studio.

Biggie Smalls was killed in a shooting 6 months after Tupac’s death, on March 9, 1997, similarly in a drive by shooting. Biggie’s death has never been solved and no one has ever come forward with information regarding who the assailant was. 

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haunted dolls are cool not scary like bro there's a friend in there

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“Even more strange was the Baba Yaga’s house. It sat atop huge scaly yellow chicken legs, and walked about all by itself and sometimes twirled around and around like a ecstatic dancer”

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The mystery of “The Vanished Tourists”

On May 18th 1935, two middle-aged couples from East St. Louis, Illinois, George and Laura Lorius, and their friends Albert and Tillie Heberer, loaded into George’s 1929 Nash sedan for a cross country road trip that was to end in California.

On May 21st, they arrived in Vaughn, New Mexico and got a room at the Vaughn Hotel. They sent several postcards back home to family and friends telling how they planned to visit “Boulder Dam,” (Hoover Dam) as well as several other places around New Mexico. The next morning the two couples sat down for breakfast at the hotel’s cafe before checking out and heading West along U.S. 60.

On May 26th, the Lorius’ car was discovered in the business district of Dallas, Texas, abandoned. It wasn’t until May 28th that the car was impounded by police. The keys were found in the ignition, the gas tank was full, and numerous post cards lay in the seat. However, the two couples along with their belongings, were missing. Gas receipts were found from St. Louis to Vaughn, then Socorro, with the last receipt dated May 23.

On June 5th, the families of the couples were notified of their disappearance. It was learned George, who was an executive for a coal and ice company, had taken 400 dollars in travellers checks with him. They too were missing. George’s secretary informed police the last contact she had had with them was when she had received several postcards from the couples that were sent from Vaughn on May 21st, and Albuquerque on May 22nd.

A search immediately began for the missing couples. It was learned that on the morning of May 23rd, the Lorius’ car had been involved in a minor traffic collision near Socorro. Witnesses, however, described the driver of the vehicle as a “young man with dark colored hair.” The unidentified man brought the vehicle to a small gas station and automotive repair shop. There, the vehicle had a tire changed, and the gas tank was filled. He paid using one of George’s travellers checks. Following the trail of stolen travellers checks, investigators discovered the young man had stayed the night in El Paso, Texas on the evening of the 23rd before heading to Dallas where the vehicle was found abandoned on the 26th.

On June 29th, a witness reported seeing a small fire in the desert near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police arrived to find the smouldering remains of the missing couples luggage. Only days later, additional luggage belonging to Tillie was discovered near El Paso.

An all out search began and multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, searched rivers and lakes, mine-shafts and wells, and dug in numerous spots around the desert, however they found no sign of the missing couples. On several occasions workers laying pipeline in the desert would discover bones and report them to police. However, twice they turned out to be the bones of Native Americans, and once, a horse.

The young man seen driving the couples stolen car was never identified, and the mystery of the vanished tourists remains unsolved.

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Kecksburg UFO incident

On the evening of December 9, 1965, thousands of eyewitnesses reported seeing a strange light appearing over parts of the north-eastern United States and Canada. Citizens of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania saw it, too, but they also witnessed a lot of commotion coming from what looked to be a crash site. Local law enforcement was said to have been quickly ordered out of the area by government officials who crowded around an acorn-shaped spacecraft embedded into the ground. Reports of the crash being a meteor or some kind of space debris circulated, but UFO researchers have long insisted the incident was extra-terrestrial in origin. Others believe it was a spy satellite that the United States wanted to disavow. Neither NASA nor the Air Force has responded to civilian inquiries about what may or may not have landed in Kecksburg that night.

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Witches In A Well

In the Estonian village of Tuhala, there is a very special well. When there’s a heavy rain, the well starts starts spouting water! The well just so happens to be placed directly over an underground river. After rain water floods the river, water pressure builds to the point that it comes shooting up out of the well, sometimes ½ a meter high! That’s a foot or two, for my Americans. The Tuhala well will continue flowing for a few days after a downpour; during this time, more than 100 liters of water can flow out every second (that’s over 25 gallons per second).

The local legend is that the witches of Tuhala gather in the sauna underground and beat each other vigorously with birch branches causing water to pour out on the surface. They call it the Witch’s Well.

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Who was Kaspar Hauser? Mysterious Boy Died in a Mysterious Way

April 1, 2021

On May 26, 1828 a strange teenage boy showed up in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany with a letter addressed to the Captain von Wessenig, captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment. The writer of this letter was anonymous but they claimed they had been the caretaker of this teenage boy who went by the name of Kaspar Hauser. 

The anonymous letter writing claimed Kaspar had been brought into their custody on October 7, 1812 as an infant and that this caretaker had taught the boy how to read and write. The letter also went on to say that Kaspar was not allowed to step foot outside of the caretaker’s home, and that he had been raised in a darkened cell with no sunlight and only bread and water to eat and drink. 

The letter also said that Kaspar was now here to become a “cavalryman like his father” and the Captain von Wessenig could either take the offer or kill the boy by hanging if he was of no use to him. 

The boy known as Kaspar was also carrying another short letter with him that was supposedly written by his mother. The letter contained personal information about the boy such as his date of birth which was April 30, 1812 and that his father was a cavalryman of the 6th regiment but was now dead. The two letters (the one from this boys supposed caretaker and the one from his mother) were written by the same hand which people later suggested was because Kaspar had written both of these letters himself. 

Kaspar Hauser was taken to the captain but they could not seem to get much information out of him so he was then taken to the police station where he wrote down his name. The strange boy was able to say a few prayers and could read a little bit but his vocabulary seemed limited and he wouldn’t answer very many questions. He was then imprisoned as a vagabond because no one knew what to do with him. 

For the next two months Kaspar stayed in Luginsland Tower in Nuremberg Castle and was taken care of by a jailer named Andreas Hiltel. The boy was apparently in pretty good physical condition and could walk quite well, as well as having a pretty healthy facial complexion. This does not make much sense however if the boy was locked up in a darkened cell his whole life receiving no sunlight and eating very little. 

According to Kaspar himself he had been in solitary confinement his whole life and appeared to be 16 years old. He said he had a straw bed to sleep on and only had a few wooded toys to play with. Kaspar also claimed each morning he awoke to bread and water next to his bed though he said sometimes the water would taste bitter and when he would drink this bitter water he would always have deeper sleeps. Is it possible someone was trying to drug him? 

Kaspar also claimed occasionally he would wake up and his straw would be changed and replaced and his hair and nails would also be cut. Is it possible whoever was taking care of him was giving him drugs while they cut his hair and nails to keep their identity a secret? 

Kaspar said the first time he met another individual was a man who had come to visit him right before he was released. The man apparently hid his face from Kaspar quite well and taught him how to write his own name. After learning how to stand and walk Kaspar was taken to Nuremberg. 

This story became quite the talk of the town and Kaspar Hauser received a lot of attention for being this mysterious boy with a mysterious origin story. Rumours began to spread with some believing he was an imposter who had made the whole story up and others believing he was royalty, perhaps the prince of Baden. 

Here’s where things start to become even stranger. Kaspar was given to a man named Friedrich Daumer who was a schoolmaster and philosopher. He taugh Kaspar various subjects. On October 17, 1829 Kaspar did not show up to lunch and was found in the cellar of Daumer’s house with a wound on his forehead. 

Kaspar claimed he had been attacked by a hooded man who threatened him. Kaspar said he recognized the man’s voice as being the man who had visited him in his cell and brought him to Nuremberg. Some believe that Kaspar had self-inflicted this wound himself to either get pity or to escape Daumer who he had recently gotten in a fight with other Daumer thinking Kaspar had a tendency to lie.

Kaspar was then sent to live with a man named Johann Biberbach. On April 3, 1830 Kaspar was found in his room at Biberbach’s house with a pistol wound to the right side of his head. Kaspar claimed he was standing a chair in order to reach some books and the chair fell, leading him to try to grab something to catch on to. The item he had grabbed onto was the pistol hanging on the wall and this fall caused it to go off. Again, some believe this was Kaspar’s way of getting out of repercussions from Johann Biberbach about lying. 

In May of 1830 Kaspar was transferred to live at the house of Baron von Tucher. Kaspar was also known to lie while living here. Then Lord Stanhope, a British nobleman who took an interest in Kaspar and gained custody of him in late 1831. Lord Stanhope spent quite a lot of money trying to find Kaspar’s origin, he even took him to Hungary twice hoping that the boy would recognize something from his past as Kaspar apparently knew a few Hungarian words and once claimed his mother to be the Hungarian Countess Maytheny. 

Lord Stanhope later said that he started to doubt Kaspar when he couldn’t seem to recognize anything about his past in Hungary. In December 1831 Lord Stanhope transferred Kaspar to live in Ansbach with a schoolmaster named Johann Georg Meyer and in January 1832 Stanhope left Kaspar for good. At one point Lord Stanhope had promised Kaspar he would take him to England, but never did, though he continued to pay for Kaspar’s living expenses. 

Johann Meyer was a strict man and soon became tired of Kaspar’s excuses and supposed lies. Kaspar soon became unhappy with his situation while still hoping that Lord Stanhope was going to take him to England. On December 9, 1833 Kaspar had gotten into a pretty serious argument with Meyer. 

On December 14, 1833 Kaspar had returned home with a deep wound in his left breast. He claimed he had been lured into the Ansbach Court Garden where a stranger stabbed him while giving him a bag. The police found a small violet purse at the scene which had a note that said, 

“Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ On the river _ _ _ _ _ I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ö.”

Kaspar died from the wound three days later on December 17, 1833. A lot of people speculate that Kaspar Hauser had attacked himself and made up the story about a stranger stabbing him. Many believe this because the note contained a lot of spelling mistakes which was typical for Kaspar. He also was very eager for the police to find this bag containing the note at the scene but had never asked what was in the bag. The note was folded in a specific way which Mrs. Meyer said was how Kaspar always folded his notes. Many believe that Kaspar stabbed himself in an attempt to gain more attention from the public and to convince Lord Stanhope to take him to England. It is thought that Kaspar did not mean to injury himself as deeply as he had. 

Kaspar Hauser was buried in the Stadtfriedhof cemetery in Ansbach where his headstone reads in Latin, 

“Here lies Kaspar Hauser, riddle of his time. His birth was unknown, his death mysterious. 1833.” 

A lot of people speculated as mentioned before that Kaspar Hauser could have been the hereditary prince of Baden who had been born on September 29th, 1812, 5 months after Kaspar’s supposed birth date. According to history the prince had died on October 16, 1812, not even being a month old and it was alleged that he had been switched with a dying infant who turned out to be Kaspar Hauser. Some believe Hauser had been murdered to hide his true identity as the prince as he would of been kidnapped by Countess Hochberg whose motive would have been to secure the succession for her sons. 

To this day, no one knows the true origin of Kaspar Hauser or whether he was murdered or stabbed himself. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser

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Antikythera mechanism

An ancient computer-like device believed to have been made by Greek scientists sometime between 150 B.C. and 100 B.C., this object was found in the wreckage of a 2,000-year-old ship off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera.

In 1959, Derek J. de Solla Price, a science historian at Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S., found the device could be used to predict astronomical positions and even eclipses. The mysterious part about all this is that the technology to produce such objects was not seen again till the 14th century, when mechanical clocks were being made in Europe. Price wrote: “Nothing comparable to it is known from any scientific text or literary allusion.”

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There is a tribe of people living in Zimbabwe known as the Vadoma, that have become known as the “Ostritch People” for the prevalence of electrodactyly in their population. Many of the tribe members are born with fused toes that appear ostritch like. The tribe maintains a consistent population of such births due to their relative isolation. Those with this condition are not handicapped, and are well integrated into the tribe.

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Cocaine Bear

It was recently announced that Elizabeth Banks was making a movie called Cocaine Bear based on the true story of a 175lb bear that consumed 40 containers of cocaine. I'd never heard of this so of course I had to read everything I could about this hero bear and share it with you.

The story starts with Andrew Thornton II, a former narcotics-officer-turned-drug-kingpin who had been flying a drug route from Colombia and had dropped off 40 plastic containers full of cocaine in Chattahoochee National Forest. Unfortunately for Thornton, he became tangled up in his parachute and fell to his death in Knoxville, Tennessee. police traced his route back through the forest, they expected to find a cache of drugs worth $15 million (£11 million).

Instead, they found 40 now empty cocaine containers and one very dead black bear .The unlucky bear had suffered possibly the worst overdose in drugs history. The medical examiner that oversaw the bears autopsy is reported to have said “Its stomach was literally packed to the brim with cocaine. There isn’t a mammal on the planet that could survive that. Cerebral hemorrhaging, respiratory failure, hyperthermia, renal failure, heart failure, stroke. You name it, that bear had it,”

That's not the end of the story for the Cocaine Bear, affectionately called Pablo Escobear by Kentucky locals who adopted him as a tourist attraction/mascot. the aforementioned medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation opted to gift the body to an unnamed friend who was a taxidermist on the side. This friend had the bear stuffed and then gave it away to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, who put it on display in their visitor centre.

A forest fire in the early 1990s prompted staff to temporarily relocate Cocaine Bear to a storage facility in Dalton for his own safety. However, after only a month in storage, he was stolen by an unknown thief who then sold him to a pawnshop. The pawnshop owner then sold the bear to country musician Waylon Jennings, who in turn gave it to a friend of his Ron Thompson who possessed the Cocaine Bear until his death, when it was sold at auction to an elderly Chinese man for $200. This man, Zhu T’ang, then put the bear on display in his traditional Chinese medicine shop.

Eventually a group called Kentucky for Kentucky tracked down Cocaine Bear and currently display his taxidermied remains in the Kentucky Fun Mall in North Lexington with a sign detailing the storied history of Cocaine Bear and the stark warning "Don’t do drugs or you’ll end up dead (and maybe stuffed) like poor Cocaine Bear"

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