During the six day, annual Urs festival, commemorating the death of the Sufi saint, thousands of Sufi holy men make pilgrimages to attend the historic festival each year in Ajmer, a city in Rajasthan, India. To show devotion to their faith, the holy men stick swords behind their eyeballs to make them pop out. Celebrations […]
Seventy-year-old twin brothers died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometers north of the capital, Helsinki. About two hours later, his brother crossed the same road […]
The Longyou Grottoes (24 or more) Covering 30,000 square meters Located near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, China. Discovered in 1992 by a local villager Possibly 2000 plus years old Carved into solid siltstone, each grotto descends around 30 meters underground and contains stone rooms, bridges, gutters, and pools. The quantity of […]
March 11, 1958 South Carolina Air Force B-47 Stratojet Carrying one 26-kiloton Mark 6 Nuclear Bomb (More powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.) While flying over South Carolina the cockpit suddenly showed a fault light indicating a problem with the locking pin on the bomb harnesses in the cargo bay. While investigating the error, […]
Mary Ashford and Barbara Forrest are two young women separated by 157 years of time but joined together by the same murder. Both last seen, killed, and found on May 27 157 Years between each murder (to the day) May 27, 1817 May 27, 1974 Both raped and strangled Both had a man named Thornton tried […]
I’ve learned over the years how valuable anger can be. Unlike sadness, anger doesn’t want to control you. Unlike fear, it doesn’t hold you down against your will. Anger is a servant, it obeys you in the most wonderful way, it grants wishes. If you tell anger you don’t like something, it will utterly destroy […]
Alex and Donna Voutsinas They came from different countries and fell in love at work. Days before their wedding, Mr. Voutsinas was looking through his fiancée’s childhood photos and was shocked to see his father pushing his younger self in the rear of a photo at Disney World while his soon to be wife, then […]
