Strange stories, weird facts

Yahoo groups ^ | 1999 | John Braungart

[ElkGroveDan]

You'd think with all these giant skeletons being found in the 17th and 18th centuries there would be at least one laying around that you could go observe -- like the lone Rosetta stone -- or find a picture of on the Internet. Darn shame that they all were inadvertently lost or destroyed. Good thing the lore remains as proof.

[microgood]

My favorite movie of all time. Seen it at least 100 times.

[djf]

Perhaps there are Freepers out there who have seen some. I tend to think museums, etc would have alot of apprehension about putting something on display that could not be explained. Who knows?

The Smithsonian collection is incredibly huge, and only a small percentage of it is viewable at any one time.

[Quix]

Before Adam, according to the Manual,

the earth was "void and without form."

We don't have much clue what it was

BEFORE

it was "void and without form."

Sounds like GOD ALMIGHTY may have mushed things all up and started over many times.

[Professional Engineer]

AD 1666 (Aug) A strange fiery ball of light is observed in a clear, sunny sky over Robozero, Russia, by villagers coming out of church.

Sounds like my first encounter with ball lightning.

[KillTime]

His poem, from which he quotes after that part, is also one of my fav scenes:

http://www.generalpatton.com/poem.html

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Sounds like my first encounter with ball lightning.***

Friends of mine in New Mexico said lightning would often strike a hill behind their house, ball up and roll down the hill by them.

When crossing the Mississippi river during a terrible thunder and lightning storm my wife saw chain lightning for the first time.

[mfulstone]

I suspect that a combination of science-establishment orthodoxy and an unwillingness to let people contemplate the possiblity of massive population crashes and failures of civilizations keeps these topics out of the light.

PRECISELY!

If Chicken Little does not mention anthropogenic habitat destruction, he will be pecked to death by his own kin!

[microgood]

His poem, from which he quotes after that part, is also one of my fav scenes

No doubt, and the next day: That man is in good with the Lord and I want to decorate him.

[djf]

Actually, I just googled "Giant Skeletons"

Here's one of the hits, with a pic:

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Lagoon/1345/Lovelock.html

[Oatka]

Being a fan of this kind of stuff, a lot was familiar but some were not. Gotta be some hoaxes in there but scientists and museums have been known to ignore things that don't fit current hypothesis.

I've always wondered if dating items by their depth in geologic strata is not completely false. Don't forget that the earth's mantle/crust is comparatively thin. If there were shifts in the earth's axis, the oceans would leave their beds and lay tons of sediment as it sloshed about. Land would fold and crumple up like tissue paper. Plate tectonics can't account for all the fossilized fish found high in the mountains or in shoals, as they have been in the UK.

Lots of stuff can be better answered by looking into catastrophism instead of the current accretion theory that says that the earth has been stable these millions of years.

And whereinL did all that oil come from? Does ANYBODY still believe it comes from buried dinosaurs?

[djf]

The strangest (but perhaps the best) of the theories I've heard about where all the oil came from is:


Fish. Humongous fish die offs, that get covered by silt, and then decompose to simple carboniferous chains.

Here is a site that has spectacular pictures of weird skulls:

http://www.enigmas.org/aef/lib/archeo/askulls.shtml

[GreenHornet]

AD 1927 (25 Jan) In Nevada, a shoe sole that was fossilized in Triassic limestone was found, placing man back in the time of the giant reptiles.

AD 1927 (26 Jan) Ancient writing discovered in the same area as the shoe sole is partially deciphered. The unknown author apparently claims to have scored four touchdowns in one game.

[Buggman]

Bump for a later read.

I sorta "collect" anomalies, so this will be a lot of fun to look at tomorrow when I have time.

[Gwaihir]

You left out my favorite; what ever happened to the Granby idol?

[null and void]

I always found it unbeliveable that humans that are genetically like us could exist for hundres of thousands to millions of years and that no civilization would arise, no stone cities were built, no intellectual accomplishments comparable to our's were achieved, and that the expansion of the human population is monotonic.

Proto møøselimbs...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In the book THE STRUGGLE FOR GREECE by HERODOTUS he tells that at the battle of Plataea, after the Persian bodies had decomposed, they found,
"one skull with no cranial sections but was made from one bone; a jaw was picked up with all the teeth, front and back, were solid all the way through, forming one piece of bone. One of the skeletons had belonged to a man five cubits high."(slightly shorter than Goliath of Gath.

[djf]

Never heard of it! I didn't make this list, I just formatted it. But there is alot of weird stuff out there, and science has some explaining to do. Or if it wants, it can just go on ignoring it.

[djf]

Bump for folks who are as nutbar as me.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG homepage, not sending a general distribution.

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