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  • Foot found on Richmond beach is seventh foot found on B.C. coast

    10/29/2009 8:39:24 AM PDT · by llevrok · 157 replies · 2,823+ views
    RICHMOND - A right foot has been found inside a running shoe on a beach in Richmond, the seventh foot found along B.C.’s coast in two years, RCMP said Wednesday. Two men walking on the beach Tuesday evening found the foot in a white size 8.5 Nike running shoe on the beach at No. 6 Road and Triangle Road, the RCMP said. The BC Coroners Service confirmed the remains were human through a forensic autopsy and will conduct more forensic tests in its investigation with the RCMP. Exams by forensic pathologists and anthropologists will help determine physical characteristics, which, combined...
  • The Mystery of Survival

    10/10/2009 8:17:48 AM PDT · by Saije · 20 replies · 908+ views
    Mens Journal ^ | 10/9/2009 | John Geiger
    Ron DiFrancesco was at his desk at Euro Brokers…on the 84th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center…when the plane struck the North Tower...It was 8:46 am on September 11, 2001… A few minutes later...the second plane struck… DiFrancesco is normally unflappable. He is a broker in a high-stakes business that demands steel nerves. But he is also slightly claustrophobic, and with the intensifying smoke, he began to panic…Then, something remarkable happened: “Someone told me to get up.” Someone, he says, “called me.” The voice, which was male but did not belong to anyone in the stairwell,...
  • Heads Up!: Local PBS begins 'Mystery' on Thursdays.

    10/06/2009 10:00:43 AM PDT · by DGHoodini · 19 replies · 436+ views
    PBS advert | 10/5/09 | DGHoodini
    Watching 'Masterpiece Mystery, on Sunday hight, they announced that my local PBS channel would begin airing 'Mystey' on Thursday nights at 10:00 PM EDT. I don't know if this will be nationwide, but if you enjoy the show, you might want to check your guide. They said they'd be starting with 'Foyle's War' season IV, a season I am pretty sure I have not yet seen. (hopefully) I always seem to catch the last few episodes of the final season of 'Foyle' when I have managed to see it.
  • Omrit -- Herod's mystery temple?

    09/29/2009 7:15:34 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies · 402+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | September 19, 2009 | Stephen G. Rosenberg
    Herod built three temples in honor of his patron Augustus. One stood at Sebastia (Samaria) and a second one at Caesarea. Where was the third? Some archeologists think it was at Banias itself, but that city was dedicated to the god Pan. Andrew Overman of Macalester College in the US thinks the temple was at Omrit. Overman has been digging at the site for nearly 10 years and sees in the remains all the unique characteristics and high quality of Herod's methods of building. Like the other two temples, Omrit was approached by a grand flight of stairs that led...
  • Dan Brown's 'Lost Symbol' details local mystery (CIA HQ, Langley, Virginia)

    09/21/2009 4:32:02 PM PDT · by HokieMom · 19 replies · 1,302+ views
    WTOP ^ | 9/21/09 | JJ Greene
    LANGLEY, Va. - Part of the new Dan Brown novel is based on a local mystery. In the introduction to his new best-selling novel, "The Lost Symbol," author Dan Brown lists the following: "In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today, its cryptic text includes references to an unknown location underground. The document ... includes the phrase, 'It's buried out there somewhere.'" Brown says the 20-year-old document contains the answers to a 20-year-old mystery. WTOP's National Security Correspondent J.J. Green investigated the claim, and found out it's...
  • Hijacking, S-300, and Another "Mystery" Ship

    09/13/2009 4:25:56 AM PDT · by thedogandtheduck · 2 replies · 467+ views
    An interesting detail of the recent S-300-for-Iran story keeps popping up on Russian and Finnish forums. Another ship left the base right after the Ladny frigate (which was sent to chase MV Arctic Sea). Two Russian Navy ships passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, the frigate and some transport ship. This is something that Estonian Admiral Kouts mentioned, but it somehow fell through the cracks. Now, that second ship was seen hanging around the Arctic Sea, too. The $1M question: what was it doing there? I understand sending a frigate to intercept an allegedly hijacked freighter, but sending along a...
  • Giant statues give up hat mystery

    09/06/2009 10:54:18 PM PDT · by Wardenclyffe · 25 replies · 1,291+ views
    BBC News ^ | 6 September 2009 | Sudeep Chand
    Archaeologists have solved an ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is the world's most remote place inhabited by people. Up to 1,000 years ago, the islanders started putting giant red hats on the statues. The research team, from the University of Manchester and University College London, think the hats were rolled down from an ancient volcano. Dr Colin Richards and Dr Sue Hamilton are the first British archaeologists to work on the island since 1914. They pieced together a series of clues to discover how the statues got...
  • New York’s Coldest Case: A Murder 400 Years Old

    09/06/2009 2:01:04 PM PDT · by BGHater · 20 replies · 992+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 05 Sep 2009 | Sam Roberts
    The victim: John Colman. Not much is known about him, much less about his murder. His body was hastily buried and has never been found. A weapon was recovered, but it vanished. The only account of the crime is secondhand, pieced together from a few witnesses, some of whom might have harbored a grudge. The chief suspects were singled out because of racial profiling but were never questioned. No one was ever prosecuted. It was on Sept. 6, 1609 — 400 years ago Sunday — when this, the first recorded murder in what became metropolitan New York, was committed. Colman...
  • Loch Ness Monster monster spotted on Google Earth

    09/04/2009 2:45:36 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 69 replies · 2,353+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | August 27, 2009 | staff reporter
    AN eagle-eyed security guard with too much time on his hands claims to have found photographic evidence of the Loch Ness Monster in satellite images. British security guard Jason, 25, told The Sun "I couldn't believe it. It's just like the descriptions of Nessie." Researcher Adrian Shine, of the Loch Ness Project, said: "This is really intriguing. It needs further study." Sightings have been claimed for centuries. The object, pictured to the right, can be found by entering co-ordinates Latitude 5712'52.13"N, Longitude 434'14.16"W in Google Earth.
  • PAN’s labyrinth

    08/25/2009 9:12:22 AM PDT · by B-Chan · 16 replies · 867+ views
    The Space Review ^ | August 24, 2009 | Dwayne Day
    The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was created in 1961 to oversee the development and operation of the United States’ intelligence satellites. But it was not until September 1992 that the organization’s very existence was declassified. The press release making the announcement, however, omitted two key words: “satellites” and “launch”. It took several more years before the NRO actually admitted that it operated satellites and that they were launched into space, and it was not until 1996 that the NRO admitted that it actually owned a classified satellite launched atop a rocket. This seemed rather anticlimactic to anybody who paid attention,...
  • Agatha Christie's private life would have stumped even Poirot

    08/22/2009 12:22:11 PM PDT · by BGHater · 20 replies · 753+ views
    Telegraph ^ | 22 Aug 2009 | Laura Thompson
    The publication of Agatha Christie's notebooks will do nothing to reveal what made her tick, says Laura Thompson. Only her novels can do that. More than 30 years after her death, in January 1976, Agatha Christie is news once again. HarperCollins – with whom she first signed a three-book deal back in 1924 – is about to publish Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, a hefty volume that details, exhaustively, the contents of the 73 extant notebooks in which she sketched out plots for her detective fiction. In fact, there is nothing very "secret" about Christie's notebooks, which were first analysed by...
  • Even Investigative-Birther Influx Can't Stem Aloha State's Tourism Decline

    08/17/2009 8:38:04 PM PDT · by pissant · 23 replies · 1,041+ views
    Reason ^ | 8/17/09 | Tim Cavanaugh
    It's shaping up to be a grim 50th birthday for America's youngest (and undoubtedly fakest) state, as the local tourism industry gets a nice Hawaiian punch courtesy of the global recession. According to the Wall Street Journal: As much as a third of Hawaii's economy is driven by tourism, say state finance experts, and a recent state report showed that from January to June, spending from visitors who arrived by air dropped 15% to $4.97 billion from a year earlier. Even sunbathers this year easily claimed spots on the normally overcrowded Waikiki Beach, a distressing sign for an economy more...
  • Obama's parents didn't live at newspaper birth address

    08/18/2009 6:38:14 PM PDT · by RobinMasters · 299 replies · 11,484+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | August 18, 2009 | Jerome R. Corsi
    Additional documents uncovered by WND support a previous report that President Obama's parents did not live together as husband and wife at the Honolulu address listed in birth announcements in two local newspapers. Both newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, carried the announcement that Barack Obama Jr. was born Aug. 4, 1961, to Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, residing at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway in Honolulu, Hawaii. Additional research has established that the grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, lived at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, not Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. Moreover, Mr. and Mrs. Obama apparently did not...
  • Mystery deepens over disappearing merchant ship

    08/13/2009 1:20:00 PM PDT · by OldDeckHand · 9 replies · 710+ views
    Reuters ^ | Aug. 13, 2009 | Guy Faulconbridge
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - The mystery surrounding a missing merchant ship deepened Thursday with the vessel's operator suggesting piracy and maritime experts suspecting foul play or even a secret cargo. The Kremlin ordered Russian warships to join the hunt for the 4,000-tonne, 98-meter bulk carrier Arctic Sea, whose fate has baffled maritime authorities across Europe and North Africa. The Maltese-registered vessel, carrying a $1.3-million cargo of timber, was supposed to have docked on August 4 in the Algerian port of Bejaia. It never arrived and is thought to have last made contact from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France....
  • Bigfoot on the History Channel

    08/07/2009 8:44:34 AM PDT · by Welcome2thejungle · 59 replies · 1,353+ views
    August 7, 2009 | Welcome2thejungle
    Along with other educational cable stations such as the Military Channel, Nat Geo, and Discovery, I love watching the History Channel. Recently the History Channel has aired a number of programs on the legendary hairly man-like ape often called Bigfoot on a special series called Monster Quest. Some creatures thought to be myth actually do exist such as the Giant Squid. The Gorilla was only discovered and confirmed in the 1800s. The evidence for the existence of a large primate living in the North American wilderness rests largely with a large number of eyewitness sightings and encounters as well as...
  • Infrared Video of Light Flashes, Moving Darknesses - and Entity?

    08/05/2009 6:56:29 AM PDT · by bethybabes69 · 2 replies · 933+ views
    Earthfiles.com ^ | 30th July | Linda Moulton Howe
    July 30, 2009 Yatesbury, Wiltshire County, England - After midnight on Tuesday, July 14, 2009, Yorkshire engineer, Winston Keech, had set up his four infrared cameras on a pole looking across the East Field wheat below Adams Grave. The rest of the huge East Field had not been planted this year and was a mass of dark soil next to the far west end wheat. Winston is an entrepreneur who develops renewable energy systems and is fascinated by crop formations.
  • Cops suspended for Obama check

    07/30/2009 6:23:54 AM PDT · by FromLori · 42 replies · 2,371+ views
    Two DeKalb County Officers are being investigated for allegedly performing a background check on President Barack Obama. They have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Officials would not release the names of the officers. The incident occurred on July 20, according to DeKalb County officials. The United States Secret Service notified county officials that DeKalb County computer equipment was utilized to do a query on the President. Such behavior, said William “Miz” Miller, DeKalb Public Safety director, is not to be tolerated. “As Public Safety Director for DeKalb County, I want everyone to know that...
  • Mystery of Watergate Tapes' Missing Minutes Soon Could Be Solved

    07/29/2009 7:43:59 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 29 replies · 1,947+ views
    London Times ^ | July 29th 2009
    Mystery of Watergate Tapes' Missing Minutes Soon Could Be Solved Wednesday, July 29, 2009 One of the great political mysteries — what was said by President Nixon during a suspicious 18-minute gap on the Watergate tapes — could soon be solved thanks to a keen-eyed amateur sleuth and modern crime-fighting technology. The missing section of a 79-minute conversation between Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H. R. “Bob” Haldeman, was erased. It had been recorded during a meeting on June 20, 1972, three days after operatives connected to the White House broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee...
  • The Birther Movement is the beginning of the "Unseal Obama, America Deserves to Know" Movement

    07/29/2009 10:48:06 AM PDT · by Hillary'sMoralVoid · 80 replies · 2,260+ views
    His Master's Voice | 7/29/09 | HMV
    The lapdog media's recent birther bashing week may have temporarily lessened the clamor for Obama's Birth Certificate, but the media doesn't understand the scorn of the American people. We don't aprreciate being treated like idiots. The media also doesn't realize that Obama's attempts to literally seal his entire life literally from the day he was born is what has fueled the all the research, theories and innuendos that have come out. That is what intelligent people are forced to do when seeking answers with incomplete information. I am not certain that Obama's actual birth certificate will prove he was or...
  • 14 Years Later, Mystery Still Remains in the Death of Vince Foster

    07/22/2007 4:36:02 AM PDT · by GFritsch · 301 replies · 8,461+ views
    14 yers ago today, on July 20, 1993, the body of Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was found in a Virginia park, next to a civil war cannon, with an unidentified revolver lodged in the right hand. Vincent Foster died of a small-caliber gunshot wound to his head. Vince Foster was not only deputy White House counsel but also the personal attorney to Bill and Hillary Clinton. On the night of Foster’s death, top Clinton aides made a frantic effort to enter and remove documents from his West Wing office. In the days that followed, federal investigators were stymied in their...
  • Mystery solved: Alaska's big blob is identified as algae

    07/17/2009 1:37:16 PM PDT · by Nachum · 19 replies · 601+ views
    McClatchy ^ | 7/17/09 | Kyle Hopkins
    A sample of the giant black mystery blob that Wainwright hunters discovered this month floating in the Chukchi Sea has been identified. Not bunker oil seeping from an aging, sunken ship. Not a sea monster. It looks to be a stringy batch of algae. "We got the results back from the lab today," said Ed Meggert, of the Department of Environmental Conservation in Fairbanks. "It was marine algae."
  • Police crack 1988 case of missing girl

    07/06/2009 1:16:48 PM PDT · by batter · 6 replies · 1,369+ views
    AP ^ | 6 July 2009 | Michelle Locke
    The mystery of Amber Swartz-Garcia, a 7-year-old Northern California girl who disappeared after going to jump rope outside her home 21 years ago, has been solved, police said Monday. Curtis Dean Anderson confessed in 2007 _ a month before dying in prison _ that he kidnapped and killed Amber, Pinole Police Chief Paul Clancy said. ... Amber's father, a Pinole police officer, was killed while pursuing a parolee in 1980. His wife was pregnant with Amber then. "I almost lost her at the time my husband died and I had made a prayer that if I could be allowed to...
  • Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved

    07/02/2009 9:10:32 AM PDT · by Strategy · 62 replies · 5,865+ views
    FrontPageMagazine ^ | By Jamie Glazov
    It has been confirmed across the board that 18-wheelers were seen going into Syria before the war, crossing the border soon after Iraqi intelligence replaced the border guards and cleared nearby areas for their passage. There are also eyewitness reports of the trucks going into Syria, and eyewitness reports of their burial in Lebanon. The trucks with the weapons were tracked to three locations in Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, currently controlled by the Syrians, Iranians, and Hezbollah. Sources I've spoken with that have seen satellite photos of the movements confirm that the WMD in Syria are at military bases,...
  • Legless frogs mystery solved

    06/26/2009 9:38:55 AM PDT · by BoneHead · 33 replies · 1,188+ views
    news.bbc.co.uk ^ | 06/25/2009 | matt walker
    Scientists think they have resolved one of the most controversial environmental issues of the past decade: the curious case of the missing frogs' legs. Around the world, frogs are found with missing or misshaped limbs, a striking deformity that many researchers believe is caused by chemical pollution. However, tests on frogs and toads have revealed a more natural, benign cause. The deformed frogs are actually victims of the predatory habits of dragonfly nymphs, which eat the legs of tadpoles.
  • Mystery of Sanford's mistress deepens in Argentina

    06/25/2009 9:05:38 PM PDT · by rawhide · 29 replies · 1,851+ views
    AP via Yahoo News ^ | Jun 25,2009 | By EDUARDO GALLARDO
    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – It's a wild scene outside the luxury apartment building where Gov. Mark Sanford's mistress reportedly lives, where dozens of journalists have camped out, interviewing every passerby in hopes of finding Sanford's elusive "Maria." But with at least five Marias living in the building, the mystery persists. Reporters and cameramen descended on Republica de la India street after a South Carolina newspaper found the address in the couple's steamy e-mails. But the paper, called The State, did not publish her last name, leaving the rest of the pack scrambling for clues and complaining about their stakeout duty...
  • In suitcase 134 billion fake bond: mystery on two Asian stopped at Chiasso (NK connection?)

    06/22/2009 10:03:42 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 21 replies · 1,423+ views
    Il Messaggero ^ | 06/22/09
    Rough translation by a softwareIn suitcase 134 billion fake bond: mystery on two Asian stopped at Chiasso ROME (22 June) - Remains fixed the mystery on two Asian pecked past June 4 to Chiasso from the revenue Officer while wanted to enter in Switzerland with in suitcase fake U.S. bonds of the value of 134 miiardi of dollars (about 100 billion euro), more or except for the gross domestic product of the New Zealand. The U.S. Treasury had not doubtful: the titles of U.S. credit for a nominal value of 134 billion dollars - 249 bond of the Federal Reserve...
  • Man who says he's Steven Damman, kidnapped 54 years ago, speaks

    06/17/2009 3:50:47 PM PDT · by decimon · 35 replies · 1,839+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | June 17th 2009 | Rich Schapiro
    A Michigan man said Wednesday he is "99% convinced" that he's the Long Island toddler kidnapped in a long-unsolved 1955 crime. >
  • Fossil Solves Mystery of Dinosaur Finger Evolution

    06/17/2009 2:31:39 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 52 replies · 1,697+ views
    LiveScience.com on Yahoo ^ | 6/17/09 | Jeanna Bryner
    Bird wings clearly share ancestry with dinosaur "hands" or forelimbs. A school kid can see it in the bones. But paleontologists have long struggled to explain the so-called digit dilemma. Here's the problem: The most primitive dinosaurs in the famous theropod group (that later included Tyrannosaurus rex) had five "fingers." Later theropods had three, just like the birds that evolved from them. But which digits? The theropod and bird digits failed to match up if you number the digits from 1 to 5 starting with the thumb. Theropods looked like they had digits 1, 2 and 3, while birds have...
  • 12 similar flights deepen Air France 447 mystery

    06/07/2009 9:59:51 AM PDT · by libh8er · 41 replies · 2,330+ views
    CNN ^ | 6.509 | Scott Bronsteain
    At least 12 airplanes shared the trans-Atlantic sky with doomed Air France Flight 447, but none reported any problems, deepening the mystery surrounding the cause of the plane's disappearance. Image released by the Brazilian Air Force shows oil slicks in the water near a debris site. Image released by the Brazilian Air Force shows oil slicks in the water near a debris site. Airlines confirmed that at least a dozen aircraft departed roughly at the same time and traversed approximately the same route, but did not report problematic weather conditions. This has led some aviation experts to suggest that technical...
  • Mystery of Giant Ice Circles Resolved

    06/01/2009 6:38:48 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 1,103+ views
    LiveScience.com on Yahoo ^ | 6/1/09 | Jeremy Hsu
    Strange circles have once again appeared in the frozen surface of Lake Baikal in Siberia, as spotted by astronauts aboard the International Space Station this April. News reports described the ice rings as a puzzling phenomenon. But experts say they can explain the mystery, and it's not aliens - methane gas rising from the lake floor represents the likely culprit. Methane emissions can create a rising mass of warm water that begins swirling in a circular pattern because of the Coriolis force, or the phenomenon caused by the Earth's rotation that also helps create cyclones. "Once the water mass reaches...
  • Mystery of missing US helicopter in Vietnam solved

    05/28/2009 11:55:25 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 19 replies · 2,455+ views
    Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | May 28, 2009 | Nick Meo
    They pledged to leave no man behind, so for 43 years the mystery of what happened to Huey 808 has tortured veterans of the First Air Cavalry. The helicopter and its four-man crew failed to return from a routine mission in December 1965, soon after braving enemy fire at the battle of Ia Drang, America's first great clash of arms in Vietnam. Pilots spent months scouring the jungle looking for traces of a crash site, and for years afterwards, comrades of the lost crew made trips to the steamy hill villages of the Central Highlands looking for clues to what...
  • Indy mystery: Why do Indianapolis 500 winners drink milk?

    05/23/2009 2:38:11 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 17 replies · 1,008+ views
    Yahoo Sports ^ | 5/23/09 | Chris Chase
    After crossing the bricked finish line on Sunday, the winner of the Indianapolis 500 will drive into the winner’s circle, be presented with a celebratory wreath and take a swig from a cold bottle of milk. The latter is one of the grandest traditions in sports, but also one of the most confusing. Why milk? Why is it in a bottle? And (this one was actually asked by a girl I knew in college) has it been sitting in the sun all day? After solving mysteries in Beijing, Boston and Augusta, GA, the old Y! Sports investigative unit is here...
  • Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time (Himiko)

    05/17/2009 3:52:36 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 37 replies · 1,579+ views
    Space.com on Yahoo ^ | 5/17/09 | Jeremy Hsu
    A newly found primordial blob may represent the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe, researchers announced today. The gas cloud, spotted from 12.9 billion light-years away, could signal the earliest stages of galaxy formation back when the universe was just 800 million years old. "I have never heard about any [similar] objects that could be resolved at this distance," said Masami Ouchi, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, Calif. "It's kind of record-breaking." A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). An object 12.9 billion light-years...
  • Mystery worms turn on northwest China herdsmen

    05/08/2009 11:36:57 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 29 replies · 1,467+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/8/09 | Kirby Chien
    BEIJING (Reuters) – An invasion of unidentified worms has forced 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state news agency Xinhua said Friday. The worms are packed up to 3,000 per square meter and chew through the grasslands like lawnmowers, leaving only brown soil in their wake, Xinhua said. ... Local experts could not identify the 2-cm (1 inch) long, thorny green worm with black stripes and samples had been sent to Xinjiang Agricultural University, Xinhua said. "The pasture was green a week ago. But now...
  • Is The Channel Creature The Loch Ness Monster? Video

    05/02/2009 1:11:33 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 33 replies · 3,626+ views
    allnewsweb ^ | 2 May 2009 | Michael Cohen
    Fifty years ago sightings of the Loch Ness Monster or ‘Nessie’ were common and few Scottish locals doubted the presence of an exotic water creature in their locale which might have been the last living member an isolated relic Plesiosaur population. Sightings of Nessie have decreased over the last few years and extensive and thorough scanning of the Loch Ness by scientists and researchers have failed to produce any evidence of Nessie. This has led many to believe, sadly, that this gentle, secretive creature had passed on. Now, astonishingly, frequent sightings are being reported of a creature living in the...
  • Zodiac killer’s name to be revealed

    04/29/2009 5:59:33 AM PDT · by theruleshavechanged · 26 replies · 2,714+ views
    Washington Examiner ^ | 04-29-09 | Tamara Barak Aparton
    The Zodiac killer, who taunted and terrified Bay Area residents in the late 1960s with cryptic letters and a trail of victims, has been identified, according to a group claiming to have cracked the case that has baffled police for decades. The killer is not one of the handful of men repeatedly linked to the 40-year-old crime spree, according to the group, which plans to announce its findings today.
  • New Mystery from Cosmic Dawn: The Blob

    04/22/2009 4:33:54 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 7 replies · 557+ views
    Universe Today ^ | April 22nd, 2009 | Anne Minard
    This image of the Himiko object is a composite and in false color. The bar at the lower right represents 10,000 light years. Credit: M. Ouchi et al. This mysterious, giant object existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old. It stretches for 55 thousand light years, a record for that early point in time. Its length is comparable to the radius of the Milky Way’s disk. Besides being a great candidate for a future “Where in the Universe Challenge,” what is it? In general, objects such as this one are dubbed extended...
  • Authorities make another appeal to the public in Short family murder case....

    04/20/2009 8:55:54 AM PDT · by sevinufnine · 7 replies · 542+ views
    WDBJ7 ^ | April 20, 2009 | Not Specified
    The FBI and Henry County authorities are making another appeal to the public as the seven year anniversary of the Short family murders draws near this August.....Investigators want information regarding the identities and locations of people who worked for Michael Short at MS Mobile Home Movers on a weekly or day-to-day basis, including migrant workers.
  • UFO or not UFO? Area 51 declassifying pours cold water on theory..

    04/13/2009 11:39:11 AM PDT · by TaraP · 538 replies · 5,492+ views
    The Tech Herald ^ | April 12th, 2009 | Rich Bowden
    A former engineer at the top secret airfield "Area 51" in Nevada has spoken out about UFO sightings in the region in the 1960s, saying the witnessed flashes of light were part of top secret US aircraft experiments. In an interview with ABC News, Thornton "T.D." Barnes, 72, a former special-projects engineer at Area 51 said: "No one really knew we existed. Even our wives didn't know where we were going when we left Monday morning and came back Friday evening." Barnes was an electronics engineer for NASA who also specialised in advance radar and Soviet MiG fighter aircraft and...
  • The murky mystery of Tophet Swamp

    04/05/2009 6:27:26 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 13 replies · 671+ views
    The Littleton Historical Society’s event last week drew a crowd of close to a hundred people to hear a presentation by Littleton resident Daniel Boudillion. His main topic of research concerned the numerous New England locales incorporating the word “Tophet” into their name, in particular eight Massachusetts swamps so named by the Puritans. Illustrating his remarks with slides, Boudillion began by noting that the word “Tophet” was peculiar to the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was chartered in 1629. The Puritan Bible of choice was the Geneva Bible, a translation that used the word Tophet to depict a...
  • FBI: Comic book holds clue in D.B. Cooper case

    03/20/2009 6:22:47 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 27 replies · 2,553+ views
    komonews.com ^ | March 17, 2009 | KATU.com Staff
    PORTLAND, Ore. - One of the Northwest's most notorious unsolved crimes may have a comic book connection and while it may sound kooky, the FBI agent in charge of the case says the new clue is no laughing matter. In November 1971, a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper, later mistakenly called D.B. Cooper, hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle, claiming he had a bomb. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, he released the passengers in exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes and asked to be flown to Mexico. He jumped from the plane somewhere near the Oregon state...
  • Three Sisters Mystery Masonic Link?

    03/18/2009 11:47:22 AM PDT · by BGHater · 22 replies · 1,112+ views
    Largs and Millport News ^ | 18 Mar 2009 | Largs and Millport
    This week, Know Your Largs looks into the secrets behind the “Three Sisters” in a script which could come right out of “The Da Vinci Code” while arguments raged about the discovery of mysterious human remains on the same hill. Mr Charles Kidd, a former manager of the Clydesdale Bank in Largs dating back to the 1950s, investigated the historic Three Sisters landmark which were built by Sir Thomas Brisbane exactly 200 years ago in 1809. Another archaeologist, Dr Phene, speculates on the original significance of the Green Hill on which the pillars are built and on the significance of...
  • New light shed on shipwreck mystery

    03/10/2009 6:46:47 AM PDT · by BBell · 8 replies · 942+ views
    Times Picayune ^ | March 10, 2009 | John Pope
    Details match those of 1813 privateer The mystery surrounding the wreckage of a ship at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico may have moved a few steps closer Monday toward being solved. Details that investigators have been able to piece together about the vessel match those of a ship that capsized in the Gulf in November 1813 after being chased by a British ship that was part of a naval blockade during the War of 1812, said Jack Irion, a marine archaeologist with the federal Minerals Management Service. In that incident, all eight crewmen were rescued by the British...
  • Scientists Helping FBI Solve D.B. Cooper Case

    03/08/2009 1:57:36 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 52 replies · 1,722+ views
    MSNBC ^ | Tues., March. 3, 2009 | CHRIS INGALLS
    A team of scientists is in town, helping the Seattle FBI do something it hasn't been able to do on its own. They're trying to find new evidence that will lead to one of the Northwest's most notorious fugitives. Tom Kaye's casting with cash, which tells you this is ordinary fisherman on the banks of the Columbia River. Weird science - that's probably the better way to describe the fishing expedition that's going on this week near Vancouver. Kaye is hoping his experiment can help reel in one of the biggest catches of all: the Northwest skyjacker known only as...
  • Man discovers human teeth in new wallet

    03/04/2009 3:26:10 AM PST · by Daffynition · 23 replies · 735+ views
    The Cape Cod Times ^ | March 3 2009 | Aaron Gouveia
    FALMOUTH – What’s in your wallet? A Walmart customer shopping around for a new wallet found 10 human teeth while looking through a wallet he was about to buy on Saturday night, police said. More Times Breaking News Police said the man was shopping in the Teaticket Highway store at 9:58 p.m., when he unzipped one of the wallet’s compartments and discovered what police have identified as 10 human teeth. One tooth – which police said are from an adult – had a filling, police said. The male customer turned the wallet and the teeth over to Walmart employees, but...
  • Photos Found Of Unknown Family

    02/22/2009 6:09:44 PM PST · by Dallas59 · 113 replies · 4,483+ views
    Flickr ^ | 02/22/2009 | *Kid*Doc*One*
    I found the negatives for these pictures in a box of darkroom items at a garage sale 15 years ago. I have been haunted by them ever since. I have scoured these pictures looking for clues as to the identity of this family. Now I will ask my Flickr friends to help Seems nobody really knows.
  • Roanoke Island: What Happened to the Lost Colonists of 1587?

    02/01/2009 4:59:35 PM PST · by Vendek · 71 replies · 2,941+ views
    A Novel of America ^ | 1/25/2009 | Errol Lincoln Uys
    “We found the houses taken down and the place very strongly enclosed with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains and flankers very fortlike, and one of the chief trees or posts at the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off, and five feet from the ground in fair capital letters was graven CROATAN, without any cross or sign of distress. We entered the palisade, where we found many bars of iron, two pigs of lead, four fowlers, iron sacker-shot and such like heavy things, thrown here and there, almost overgrown with grass and weeds.” --...
  • Ghost Plane in Desert

    01/29/2009 6:59:01 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 47 replies · 1,973+ views
    Northern Territory News ^ | January 30th, 2009 | GLENN MORRISON
    MYSTERY surrounds the discovery of what appears to be an aircraft sitting on the ground in the middle of nowhere in the Simpson Desert. An Alice Springs man discovered the "plane" yesterday, which he estimates to be about 128km southeast of the outback town. The man, who preferred not to be named, said he had been making a routine check of the region using internet-based satellite images available on Google Earth. Alice Springs Airport general manager Don McDonald said it was not uncommon for images of planes to be found on Google Earth and that the image may be of...
  • The DNA of Detection (Poe7 & Mysteries)

    01/19/2009 11:43:32 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 4 replies · 578+ views
    As the bicentenary of Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated, fans should be thanking him for his invention of the modern detective genre, writes crime fiction author Andrew Taylor. Bestseller lists and library lending figures tell the same story - crime and detective stories are more popular than ever, and their success has spilled over into film and TV drama. It's remarkable how many of the genre's classic elements can be traced back to the feverishly fertile imagination of one man, Edgar Allan Poe. Once you start looking, the clues are everywhere. Born 200 years ago, on 19 January 1809, Poe...
  • Mystery solved: Gov. Gregoire visiting troops in Iraq

    01/06/2009 8:28:48 AM PST · by OL Hickory · 3 replies · 287+ views
    The Seattle Times ^ | today | Andrew Garber
    "Her office on Monday said Gregoire was out of state, but would not say where or why — other than to say she wasn't going to work for President-elect Obama."