Weird Phenomenon: Ball Lightning
Remember the Weird Phenomenon post about the Lake Erie Lights I posted a few months back? People were convinced floating ball lights were UFOs. An organization specialized in researching UFOs and the like concluded they were landing planes, but that didn’t really convince me, either. The lights seem to hover oddly, not at all like airplanes fly. Now, check out this video. Aren’t those exactly like those Lake Erie lights? They don’t have a real explanation for this ball lightning either, but to me it sounds a whole lot more convincing that it’s a natural phenomenon instead of extraterrestrials. But maybe that’s just because I’m a skeptic (not just of E.T.’s but of everything in general :p). What do you think? Myth...
Weird Phenomenon: Crop Circles
I think we all know about the crop circles so I will skip the basics today. Just watch this video and tell me what you think. Real or not real? Are aliens out there trying to contact us? Or is this all simply a hoax? What I truly wonder about is… These aliens supposedly have space- or aircrafts or something else they can move themselves with. This suggests that their technological advancement is great – why then do they not communicate with us directly? One of the professors that speak in this video says “it’s because they want to give us time to let us adjust to the idea that we’re not alone out there”, but to me that’s just a bunch of crap. On youtube I could only find videos that discuss proof for crop circles, and my...
Weird Phenomenon: The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil’s Triangle) is a triangular area inthe Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Legend has it that many people, ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared in this area. The size of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) to three times that size, depending on the imagination of the author (some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico, and the West Indies in the “triangle”). Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. How many have mysteriously vanished depends on who is doing the locating and the counting. Even so, estimates range from about 200 to no more than 1,000 incidents in the past 500 years. Howard Rosenberg claims...
Weird Phenomenon: Killed by a Robot
On July 4, 1981, one of the first persons killed by a robot was reported. Japanese 37 year-old Kenji Uruda worked in a Kawasaki Heavy Industries factory as a maintenance engineer. He was working on a broken robot. He had forgotten to turn off the robot completely, which resulted in his death: the hydraulic arm of the robot pushed him slowly into a grinding machine. His death was not made public until December 8 that year, after the investigation by the labor standards bureau was completed. Uruda was not the first person to be killed by a robot. Two years earlier, a man named Robert Williams was killed after he was struck by a robotic arm in a casting plant in Michigan. Were these the first signs that robots are innately evil? Look at this video and see how far we...
Weird Phenomenon: Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)
Is it possible to talk to the dead? Many people have tried to achieve this feat by performing séances, or by using an Ouija board or medium. Some paranormal researchers, however, are convinced that Electronic Voice Phenomena, recording the voices of the deceased, is the method to communicate with the dead. EVP involves recording white noise with recording equipment or other magnetic devices and examining those recording to see if there are any discrete messages from spirits. EVP investigators clean up the white noise in the recordings with computer software in order to make the voices easier to hear. Since recording equipment uses magnets to record sound, anything that would disturb its magnetic field, such as paranormal activity, could be recorded on...
Weird Phenomenon: The Zone of Silence
In a Chihuahuas desert patch near the Bolson de Mapimi in Mexico, there exists an eerie area called Mapimí Silent Zone (La Zona Del Silencio) or the Zone of Silence. The area gets its name from an odd anomaly that prohibits radio waves from transmitting inside the zone. The Zone of Silence appears to cancel radio and TV signals and has a history of UFO sightings. This zone is the home of several rare, mutant species of animals including the purple cactus and a malformed version of the desert tortoise. Since the mid-nineteenth century, farmers who worked the parched land told of “hot pebbles” that fell to the earth from the sky. Scientists at the Mexican research center have named the region the “Mar de Tetys”, or The Sea of Thetys, because...
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