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![]() Horse Carriage-Jacking in St. Louis Foiled by U.S. Army, HorseA man police say attacked the driver of a horse-drawn carriage and took control of the reins in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday night was foiled when the horse instinctively ran back to its barn. On Wednesday, police said they had arrested a man in a rare case of horse carriage-jacking. The St. Louis Carriage Company driver, Larry Turner, told the Post-Dispatch he was steering his horse, Harry, back to the St. Louis Carriage Company's stables about 8:25 p.m. toward the end of his shift... Haunted Couple Sue Landlord - Spectral Tugging at Bedsheets
Jose Chinchilla and his fiancée Michele Callan say they hear eerie noises, that lights flicker, doors slam and a spectral presence tugs on their bed sheets. The couple even called in investigators with the Shore Paranormal Research Society. The group classified the activity as “paranormal” but that it did not indicate a haunting, according to their website. Chinchilla and Callan are suing the landlord for their $2,250 security deposit claiming the paranormal activity forced them out of the home only a week after moving in... Boom Town, WisconsinCLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Sleepless families in a small Wisconsin town longed for quiet Wednesday after mysterious booming noises over the past few nights roused them from bed and sent residents into the street - sometimes still in pajamas. The strange disturbance sounds like distant thunder, fireworks or someone slamming a heavy door. At first, many people were amused or merely curious. But after three restless nights, aggravation is mounting. And some folks are considering leaving town until investigators determine the source of the racket... Awesome meteorite footage from UK March 3, 2012
Some questioned whether aliens were about to land, with one woman tweeting: “UFO invasion?! Ball of fire flew past my window!” Others called the Police. The most likely explanation, though, was an unusually bright shooting star, or meteor. Thousands of people spotted the chunk – or possibly chunks - of roughly fist-sized space rock burning up while coming through the earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of 60 or 70 miles or so at about 10pm... More Info On Ricky McCormick CipherRicky McCormick was found murdered in a St. Charles Missouri field in 1999. On his person were two documents, written by hand in some sort of code. The code has never been deciphered. In 2011 the FBI released images of the documents and asked the public for help in cracking the code, in the hope that some clue to the case would be found. So far, the code remains locked and Ricky McCormick's murder remains unsolved. Can you break the code? The two notes are written in an unknown code consisting of "a jumble of letters and numbers occasionally set off with parentheses" and are believed by the FBI to possibly lead to those responsible for the killing... Taxi! To the Space Station!
NASA plans to invest $300 million to $500 million in each of the firms selected under new 21-month partnership agreements, Ed Mango, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew program, said at an industry briefing at the Kennedy Space Center prior to the release of a solicitation on Tuesday. The new program aims to build upon previous NASA investments in companies designing commercial passenger spaceships... Dorothy, RUN! Sun Attacks Earth!Our planet is being bombarded by high-energy particles unleashed by the strongest solar storm since 2005, scientists say. The charged particles are mostly a concern for satellites - which they can disrupt - and astronauts. But they can also cause communication problems for aircraft travelling near the poles. The geomagnetic storm has been caused by a potent flare that erupted from the Sun at 0400 GMT on Monday... Space Balls Are Falling - Material "Known to Man"A large metallic ball fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency. The hollow ball with a circumference of 1.1 metres (43 inches) was found near a village in the north of the country some 750 kilometres (480 miles) from the capital Windhoek, according to police forensics director Paul Ludik. Locals had heard several small explosions a few days beforehand, he said. With a diameter of 35 centimetres (14 inches), the ball has a rough surface and appears to consist of "two halves welded together"... Great Footage of Fireball in Southwest USAsteroid near Earth: Fireball in Southwest prompts talk of UFO, aliens
The fireball that streaked over the U.S. Southwest on Wednesday night gave skywatchers a spectacular show -- and prompted immediate speculation on Twitter of UFOs. But an expert told the Los Angeles Times there was a more natural explanation: It was a likely "near-Earth asteroid," no bigger than a basketball... What Happened to John P. Wheeler?Who killed him? Why? What is going on with the investigation? Why has this story dropped from the news? Bush Official John P. Wheeler Murder Case Deepens, says Newsweek, but is this the last we will hear of the bizarre death of this important defense analyst? This stinks to high heaven. |
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