Levelland, 1957
In the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there’s a famous scene where a UFO makes…
Levelland, 1957
In the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, there’s a famous scene where a UFO makes the electronics in a car go haywire. The real-life inspiration for that scene came from an incident in 1957, when dozens of citizens of Levelland, Texas, individually reported seeing a rocket or strange lights that interfered with their vehicles: Engines…
Lubbock Lights, 1951
On the evening of August 25, 1951, three science professors from Texas Tech were enjoying an evening outdoors in Lubbock, when they looked up and saw a semicircle of lights flying above them at a high speed. Over the next few days, dozens of reports flooded in from across town—Texas Tech freshman Carl Hart Jr.,…
Kenneth Arnold, 1947
The origin of today’s fascination can be traced back to civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold. While flying his small aircraft near Washington’s Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, Arnold claimed to have seen nine blue, glowing objects flying fast—at an estimated 1,700 m.p.h.—in a “V” formation. He first believed the objects to be some sort of new…
Arizona: Slaughterhouse Canyon
Also known as Luana’s Canyon, Slaughterhouse Canyon tells the gruesome tale of a 19th-century gold miner who failed to come home to his family one night. Without his earnings, the mother and her children couldn’t buy food and began to starve. When she couldn’t stand it any longer, the wife chopped her kids into pieces,…
Victorian “Spirit Photography
The man was not dead. This is Victorian “Spirit Photography”. Many people were convinced that the ghosts of their loved ones actually appeared in their Spirit Photography photos during the development process. This was at a time when the public did not know about photographers’ ability to print double exposures and they ended up paying…
Alaska: The qalupalik
The qalupalik, an Inuit version of a mermaid or siren, calls to children who are wandering too close to the seashore with her humming, then takes them away in her baby pouch. The greenish, womanlike creature will never return a child once taken into the depths. Sounds like a good way to convince your kids…
Helltown
Helltown, known formally as Boston, Ohio, is an area in Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. Local legend associates the area with Satanists and hauntings. These stories are generally considered fakelore, resulting from the empty buildings that stood as a result of a mass eminent domain seizure of homes in the area during the designation of the…
Collapsed FTX owes nearly $3.1 billion to top 50 creditors
(Reuters) -Cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which has filed for U.S. bankruptcy court protection, said it owes its 50 biggest creditors nearly $3.1 billion. The exchange owes about $1.45 billion to its top ten creditors, it said in a court filing on Saturday, without naming them. FTX and its affiliates filed for bankruptcy in Delaware on Nov….
Incredibly Expensive Things Can Only Be Found in Dubai
The city of Dubai has evolved into one of the world’s most architecturally and technologically advanced cities in just a few decades. The citizens of the futuristic city have a taste for the more luxurious things that life has to offer. The UAE, and Dubai in particular, attracts tons of celebrity travelers every year, such…
Arizona Ghost Paranormal Investigators
Arizona GhostLand Paranormal Investigators web: http://Ghostlandhauntingsaz.com email: ManyHorsesAZ@gmail.com phone: 9282733053 service area: 86301 Friends of the Other Side web: http://www.friendsoftheotherside.org email: friendsotherside@gmail.com phone: service area: Phoenix, AZ Creatures of the Night Paranormal web: http://www.ibelieveinghosts.com email: wendyannschultz@gmail.com phone: 901-486-9871 service area: Southern Arizona Global United Paranormal Foundation web: http://www.globalunitedparafound.com/ email: globalunitedparanorma@gmail.com phone: 6025830846 service area: Phoenix…
