10:00 PM CST, TONIGHT: It’s that time of the week… time to ease into your favorite chair, sit back and relax as we explore the sublime world of the strange, the odd, and the unusual. It’s time once again for… The Shadow Hour.
Tonight we’ll be talking to Robbie Prince, from the paranormal investigation group, Ripcrew. We’ll talk about their origins, methods and stories. We’ll also talk about the work some members have been doing with a filmmaker to create a dramatic recreation of their work. It will be a live, call-in show, so get your questions ready!
As always, you can listen right here with our blogtalkradio widget! You can listen to past broadcasts at any time, or tune in tonight (Wednesday, August 3rd) at 10pm Central for the live broadcast. See you in the shadows…
Such a weird defect of the human hearing system that I had to put it up here.
Telegraph.co.uk writes:
Stephen Mabbutt, 57, from Charlton, near Banbury, could also hear his own heart beating.
Mr Mabbutt first experienced symptoms six years ago, when he felt a dull ache in the side of his head.
GPs treated him with nasal sprays and antibiotics, but his hearing deteriorated. Mr Mabbutt was eventually diagnosed with an unusual ear condition in which sounds inside the body are heard very loudly. The condition meant that the noise from chewing food became deafening.
His symptoms worsened to the extent where loud noises caused dizziness and his vision blurred.
Mr Mabbutt told the BBC: “When I raised my voice I could hear it reverberating in my head and the vibrations made my vision vibrate.
“Eventually I could hear my heart beating and my eyes moving in their sockets. It was really distracting.”
A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens.
Researchers have claimed the fuzzy outline is a flying saucer that ended up 300ft down on the ocean floor between Sweden and Finland.
They were stunned when sonar scans taken while searching for a century-old wreck showed up the shape against the dirt.
UFO? Sonar scans taken while searching for a century-old shipwreck on the ocean floor between Sweden and Finland showed up this fuzzy outline
The ocean exploration team which found it claims that the earth around the craft has been scarred, suggesting it has tried to move around.
Lead researcher Peter Lindberg also suggested that another explanation could be that it was ‘a new Stonehenge’.
The ‘discovery’ has sparked a flurry of speculation by UFO watchers and bloggers.
Some have even suggested it resembles the Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars series, with its distinctive front forks and round shape.
Newspapers in Sweden have put the story on their front pages and asked if this is really the first sign of extra-terrestrial life.
The shape was found at the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia during a search for a sunken wreck which contained several cases of champagne.
The shape was found at the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia during a search for a sunken wreck which contained several cases of champagne
Mr Lindberg said it was large and about 60ft in diameter and clearly visible on the sea bed.
‘You see a lot of weird stuff in this job, but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completely round,’ he said.
He added that the scars on the earth surrounding it could show where the craft landed and skidded along.
Now, however, his team do not have the money or resources to examine the shape further.
If it does turn out to be a UFO it will be priceless, but if it is just a shape, it will be worthless.
This is just so bizarre I couldn’t even begin to imagine the horror.
Seattle Pi writes:
Imagine yourself with your head in the business end of a guillotine. I know, it’s not the most pleasant of thoughts, but the guillotine was once considered a humane way to kill someone: Just a quick slice and you’re flat-out dead.
But researchers are finding that neurons, the cells that make up the brain, are active even after their blood supply is suddenly cut off. And they may show activity for longer than a minute,according to a Science News report.
So, imagine yourself in the guillotine again. Once that big blade comes swooshing down and your head rolls away, are you still aware? Could you see the world around you? Might you actually experience the horrific reality that is your head removed from your body – for a minute or more?
In an arguably not-so-humane study, Dutch scientists measured the brain activity in mice after slicing off the mice’s heads. What they saw was a quick flash of brain activity immediately following decapitation – then, about 50 seconds later, another ripple of activity, Science News reports.
Between this current and past reports, there has got to be a vampire-like creature we’re missing out there somewhere.
The Moscow News writes:
A blood-sucking creature is preying upon goats near Novosibirsk. As rational explanations run thin on the ground, the specter of the so-called chupacabra raises its demon head.
Horrified farmers and smallholders are confronted by the drained corpses of their livestock in the morning, bloodless and bearing puncture marks to the neck but otherwise largely in tact.
But local cops are reluctant to record apparent vampire attacks, as they await official recertification, leaving the locals up in arms.
I’ve wanted a nice motorcycle for a while. I’ve been looking at all kinds of different styles and decided I wanted something simple, elegant and classy. Now, I want a crazy dragon bike that shoots fire after seeing what’s possible from this guy!
Dailymail.co.uk writes:
This remarkable motorbike looks like it’s straight out of a film set – but remarkably an artist has made it out of spare parts.
The Bangkok worker used recycled materials from old cars and bicycles to create a monster machine which is sculpted to look like a beast.
Despite being cobbled together from scrap parts, the spectacular motorcycle works – unlike many sci-fi film props.
Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn, 54, created it out of spare parts in his workshop in Thailand. He has four shops across the country – named the Ko Art Shop – and exports his creations to clients all over the world.
Residents in a California community are scratching their heads after a mysterious tombstone appeared in front of a condominium complex, predicting an unknown man’s death.
Not unlike many other headstones honouring the dead, the grave marker reads: ‘Loving Husband Father and Physician Jeffrey Lang.’
But in a chilling twist some guess is a practical joke, Mr Lang’s year of death is inscribed as 2012.
I already feel like this life we’re in is a giant movie anyways, this is just further proof we need to stop everything, chill out and relax.
Dailymail.co.uk writes:
It sounds like something from a Hollywood science fiction film: a race that is half human, half ape.
But leading scientists are today demanding tough new rules to prevent the nightmare scenario becoming a reality.
In a hard-hitting report, they warn that research is close to pushing ‘ethical boundaries’ and that extreme attempts to give laboratory animals human attributes must be banned.
Professor Martin Bobrow, a medical geneticist at Cambridge University and co-author of the report, said society needed to set rules before scientists began experiments that the public would find unacceptable.
He added: ‘We are trying to get this out in the open before anything has happened.’
It’s only a matter of time until this technology is applied to a vehicle that can seat a human being!
Dailymail.co.uk writes:
Its Japanese developers call it the ‘Futuristic Circular Flying Object’ and it’s designed to go where humans can’t.
The radio-controlled sphere, roughly the size of a basketball, was built for search and rescue operations, specifically to fly in and out of buildings weakened by earthquakes or other natural disasters.
The device uses its onboard camera to transmit live images of whatever it sees.
Fumiyuki Sato, at the Japanese Defense Ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute, invented and built the vehicle for roughly 110,000 yen (£865 / $1,390) with parts purchased off the shelf at consumer electronics stores.
He said: ‘Because of its spherical shape, it can land in various positions and tumble to move around the ground.’
It zips through the air, glides smoothly around corners, and negotiates staircases with ease, all the while emitting a soft hum.
Now, I’ve done a few extreme sports in my time but this is on a whole other level. This dude jumps off the craziest cliffs he can find only to land in a pile of snow, that’s it! How crazy?!
Dailymial.co.uk writes:
This is the moment a professional skier defied death – plummeting 250 foot down a cliff edge to seemingly land on his head.
Amazingly Jamie Pierre walked away from the intentional stunt without so much as a scratch after being dug out of the six foot ‘bomb hole’ by his photographer.
Mr Pierre, a professional skier, revealed the secret behind his apparently suicidal stunt.
He said: ‘Although it looks like I landed on my head, I actually landed on my back.
‘I was bent at the waist and landed how a stuntman would land on an air bag.’
Snow joke: This time-lapse photo shows Jamie Pierre's world record-breaking, death-defying 250ft descent where he survives even after apparently landing on his head
