During the filming of The Exorcist, many actors were injured, the set burned down,a priest was brought in many times to bless the set,and the actor who played Burke,Jack MacGowran, died of influenza.
Thursday, 7 August 2014
What you don't know about Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln wa the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. In the photo he is standing near John Wilkes booth, his future assasin.
MYSTERIOUS: THE TAO HUM (since 1993)
1993: Citizens of Taos, New Mexico began to complain about the sudden appearance of a mysterious humming in the air.
1997: Congress assembled a task force of elite scientists to discover the source of the sound that has been driving locals mad for four years.
2013: The cause is still officially undetermined. The hum has now been audible for twenty straight years.
SCARY: THE TOWER OF SILENCE (discovered 2003)
19 January, 2003 - Indian officials into deep jungle investigating several missing person reports from a nearby city. What they found was a 'tower of silence' or dahkma. Zoroastrians use these sites to dispose off bodies in open air. While sites like are not uncommon in india. Several peculiarities hints at something more unusual:
1. None of the bodies depicted in the photograph were identified. Villagers from nearby, who were initially surprised at the sheer number of corpses in the dahkma proved unable to recognize the bodies. The corpses also do not match the description of the missing people.
2. There were no animals except for maggots and flies. Zoroastrians rely on birds such as buzzards to dispose off the bodies in the beliefs hey are contributin back to earth.
3. There were no official count of the bodies. Infact, little work was accomplished on the site, this is the reason only one photograph has emerged. Officials avoided the spot not only because they felt uneasy looking at it but for the following reasons
4. The deep pot in the center of the photograph was filled with several feet of festering blood. Far more than the bodies on the outside could not supply. The stench was so unbearable that many of the officials began to get nauseous. The expedition was ended when a villager mistakenly kicked a bone into the pit, penetrating the coagulated surface of the pool. A massive burst of has from the decomposing blood erupted from the pit, splashing those looking into it, along with the photographer.
Those caught in the explosion were immediately sent to hospital where they were quarantined for possible infection. They became delirious with fever, shouting about evil Zoroastrianism.
However, delirium turned to insanity as many began to attack hospital staff until they were all dead...yes! Dead.
SEE what Jupiter's moon Europa looks like
This is what Jupiter's moon Europa looks like. It has an ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life
The day women wore shorts in public for the 1st time
Two women who wore shorts in public for the first time, draw male attention and cause a car accident. 1937
Django Unchained: DiCaprio let him die on set
Django Unchained,Leonardo DiCaprio demanded that the D'artagnans actually be torn apart alive by dogs. Tarantino decided to allow it.
The actor's death was real. He died in brutal anguish and horrible pain. Tarantino later said in a groundbreaking interview with Mike Wallace of 60 minutes "it really captured the sheer evilness of DiCaprio's character and added to the authenticity of the scene".
The actor, Ato Essando, was pronounced dead on the set by DiCaprio himself but no charges has been filed as Essandoh has volunteered his own life in the contract that he has signed prior to filming.
At least Mr Essandoh died giving a powerful an realistic final performance for such an amazing movie.
The Red Rain of 2001 and 2006
Between July 25,2001 and September 23,2001, a blood red rain fell over the southern Indian state of Kerala. Downpours of redness fell from the sky to colour the land and water and stain the cloths of locals. Witnesses reported loud thunder claps preceding the rainfall flowed by entire groves of trees shedding shriveled 'burnt' leaves.
No one knew exactly what caused the red rain ,but it was hypothesized that the rain had been given the hue thanks to airborne bores from the local terrestrial algae.
However, the bloody rain returned in the summer of 2006. In 2008, two researchers, Godfrey Louis and santhoush Koumar from Mahatma Gandhi University introduced a hypothesis that got people talking: "the mysterious red color in the rain is caused by unidentified life form that does not DNA...the molecular composition of this cells are yet to be identified"
We don't know how it happened...she survived!
Nature performs many astonishing feats,yet it's a different matter altogether when we human push pass the boundaries of normal.
It was a viciously cold morning in Lengby,Minnesota. When a man discovered his 19 year old neighbor,Jim Hilliard lying in the snow. Her whole body has frozen solid from the night before, when temperatures dropped twenty-five degrees below zero. Apparently, Jim was trying desperately to reach her neighbor when her car skidded of the road. When her body was discovered she was immediately sent to a local hospital where her condition stunned the doctors.
One of the nurses said that Jean was ' so cold,it was like reaching into a freezer' and that her face was ' absolutely white, just this ashen death-look'. Jean was also seriously frost bitten and none of her limbs would bend or move. The hospital staff did everything possible yet the situation was dire. Even if Jean were to regain consciousness, he would more than likely have severe brain damage, and she was frostbitten to the extent that both legs would have to amputated.
Her family gathered in prayer, hoping for a miracle.
2hours later... Jean went into violent convulsions and regained consciousness. She was perfectly fine, mentally and physically,although a bit confused. Even the frostbite was slowly disappearing from her legs to the doctors' amazement.
She was released 49 days later without losing a single finger, and spotting only minor scars.
The innocent handprint of 1877
In the town of Jim Thorpe,Carbon county,Pennyslavania. There's an infamous legend dating back to 1877. It is the story of miner sentenced to death for conspiring with the Molly Maguires against avaricious coal barons.
During the trial and while on death row on Carbon County jail, he vehemently proclaimed his innocence.
On hanging day, before he was taken away from his cell, he rubbed his hand of the dirty floor of the cell, placed it on the wall and proclaimed "this is the hand of an innocent man!".
Innocent or not, he was hanged that morning.
To accommodate the next quest, the cell was cleaned and the hand print wa scrubbed off the wall. Strangely, however, it reappeared.
Over the past hundred-plus years the handprint has remained on the cell wall despite repeated washing, re painting, an even been plastered over. No matter what the handprint reappears in a day or two.
The Carbon County jailhouse is now the old jail museum and offers public tours. You can actually see the ghostly hand print in cell 17, testifying to an innocence proclaimed over a century ago.
Cooper: the man behind the only unsolved hijacking in US history
A man named cooper dressed in a black suit, sunglasses and with a brief case boarded a plane -Boeing 727.
During the flight, cooper passed a note to the flight attendant. The note read " I have a bomb in my brief case, I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me. You're being hijacked". Cooper then shows the note to the flight attendant and demanded $200,000 in American currency, four parachutes and a fuel truck standing by in Seattle to refuel the aircraft upon arrival. The flight landed in Seattle at 5:39pm, the cash delivered and Cooper permitted all the passengers to leave the aircraft except two pilots, one flight attendant and one flight engineer.
Cooper demanded the flight to take a south east course towards Mexico.
And the flight took off.
Cooper demanded that the crew gather in the cockpit and keep the door closed.
At approximately 8pm,a warning light came in the cockpit indicating that the plane back airstair had been opened. At approximately 10:15pm, the plane landed in Reno,Nevada.
FBI agents soon discovered that Cooper was no longer in the plane. Cooper was never to be seen or heard from again and it remains the only unsolved hijacking in US history.
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
The Man who operated on himself
Being the only surgeon in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Leonid Rogozov(27), had to perform surgery on himself when he found out that his appendi was inflamed and could burst any moment. With the assistance of a meteorologist and an engineer (and slime local anaesthesia)... He removed the appendix.
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