Strange but true...

[Rorschach]

MUSEUM bosses are spooked after time lapse video showed an ancient Egyptian statue turning in circles in a display case.



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More than likely some anomaly in the design of the base.

[Black Orchid]

Spooky

I love things like that.

[Neferti]

I say BS. Rorschach ... what is YOUR idea? You are the "religious|" one around here.

[IQS.RLOW]

I say BS. Rorschach ... what is YOUR idea? You are the "religious|" one around here.

It's obvious that it must be floor vibrations. Just look at the time lapse- only moving when the bustle of activity is occurring

[Super Nova]

Brazilian man dies after cow falls through his roof on top of him

A Brazilian man died after a cow fell through his roof on top of him as he was in bed.
Cattle with TB sold as food
The cow fell eight feet onto Mr de Souza's bed Photo: ALAMY

Joao Maria de Souza, 45, had been in bed with his wife Leni when the animal fell through the ceiling of their home in Caratinga, southeast Brazil.

The cow is believed to have escaped from a nearby farm and climbed onto the roof of the couple's house, which backs onto a steep hill on Wednesday night.

The corrugated roof immediately gave way and the one-and-a-half-ton animal fell eight feet onto Mr de Souza's side of the bed.

Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... f-him.html

[Rorschach]

Michael Boatwright found in hotel room, wakes up with no memory and speaking Swedish
* From: AP
* July 16, 2013 11:37PM

DOCTORS are looking into the mystery of a Florida man who awoke speaking only Swedish, with no memory of his past, after he was found unconscious four months ago at a Southern California motel.

Mr Boatwright was found unconscious in a Motel 6 room in Palm Springs, California, in February. After police arrived, he was transported to the Desert Regional Medical Centre in Palm Springs where he woke up.

Hospital officials said Mr Boatwright may have been in town for a tennis tournament in the Coachella Valley. He was found with a duffel bag of exercise clothes, a backpack and tennis rackets. He also carried four forms of identification - a passport, a California identification card, a veteran's medical card and a Social Security card - all of which identified him as Michael Thomas Boatwright.

Palm Springs police have documented his information in case anyone lists Mr Boatwright as missing or wanted, authorities said.

In March, doctors diagnosed Mr Boatwright with Transient Global Amnesia, a condition triggered by physical or emotional trauma that can last for several months.

The rare mental disorder is characterised by memory loss, "sudden and unplanned travel," and possible adoption of a new identity, according to the Sun.

After an extensive search, medical personnel and social workers have been unable to locate Mr Boatwright's next of kin. Authorities are still unsure of his birthplace, listed on his ID as Florida - photos show him in Sweden at a young age.

Mr Boatwright doesn't recall how to exchange money, take public transportation, or seek temporary housing like homeless shelters or hotels, the social worker assigned to his case, Lisa Hunt-Vasquez, told the Sun.

He doesn't remember his son and two ex-wives, either.

He has no income or insurance, further complicating his treatment at Desert Regional. And he has little money he can access - only $US180. He also has a few Chinese bank accounts, but can only access one account, which holds $US7, according to the newspaper.

Doctors don't know how much longer he will be able to stay at the centre - aside from his amnesia, Mr Boatwright is in good health. The hospital is currently looking for alternatives that would keep him off the streets. For now, Mr Boatwright is unsure of both his past and his future.

"Sometimes it makes me really sad and sometimes it just makes me furious about the whole situation and the fact that I don't know anybody, I don't recognise anybody," Mr Boatwright told the newspaper.

Last year, a North Dakota college student who went missing for nearly a week before turning up in Arizona said she had a bout of amnesia and didn't know who she was.

Amber Glatt, a 22-year-old Valley City State University student, vanished on the Fourth of July, prompting aerial searches. She contacted her mother five days later from the Grand Canyon. Her mother said Ms Glatt has had recurring amnesia since suffering a head injury years ago.

Ms Glatt told WDAY-TV that after she lost her memory she met a man in a bar who let her tag along on his trip to the Grand Canyon. She said the man eventually saw online that she'd been reported missing and alerted her.

Ms Glatt regained most of her memory.

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[Rorschach]

Noises in tourist's head caused by flesh-eating maggots
July 22, 2013

A British woman returned from a holiday in Peru hearing scratching noises inside her head to be told she was being attacked by flesh-eating maggots living inside her ear.

Rochelle Harris, 27, said she remembered dislodging a fly from her ear while in Peru but thought nothing more of it until she started getting headaches and pains down one side of her face and woke up in Britain one morning with liquid on her pillow.

Thinking she had a routine ear infection caused by a mosquito bite, she sought medical treatment at the Royal Derby Hospital in northern England, where a consultant noticed maggots in a small hole in her ear-canal.

"I was very scared. Were they in my brain?" said Harris, recounting her ordeal in a new Discovery Channel documentary series called Bugs, Bites and Parasites to be aired in the UK from July 21.

Doctors tried first to flush the maggots out of the ear using olive oil.

"It was the longest few hours that I have ever had to wait... I could still feel them and hear them and knowing what those scratching sounds were, and knowing what that wriggling feeling was, that just made it all the worse," she said.

When flushing the maggots out failed, the medics resorted to surgery and found a "writhing mass of maggots" within her ear, raising concern they could eat into her brain.

The surgery removed a family of eight maggots. Analysis found that a New World Army Screw Worm fly had laid eggs inside Harris's ear.

"I'm not so squeamish around those kinds of bugs now. How can I be? They've been in my ear!" Harris said.

Reuters

[Black Orchid]

I saw that. That's SO gross!

[Black Orchid]

THE HAGUE, South Holland (AFP) — Zoologists are baffled by the strange behaviour of a troop of baboons at a Dutch zoo which have become inexplicably withdrawn, apparently fearful of an unseen threat.

"They became panicked at the end of the day on Monday, they were hysterical, not jumping around but behaving strangely," zoologist Wijbren Landman of Emmen Dierenpark in the northern Netherlands told AFP on Friday.
"On Tuesday and Wednesday they just sat in the trees or on the ground, hardly moving or eating," Landman said.

The 112 east African monkeys also turned their backs on visitors.

The zoo said it was the fourth time in 20 years that the baboons have behaved this way. Nevertheless, such behaviour has not been seen elsewhere, either in captivity or in the wild.

The zoologist said he has no idea what happened on Monday to traumatise the baboons, who were all born in captivity and live on an island in the zoo.

"I've heard lots of theories but nothing that holds water," Landman said.

These include that the baboons saw a predator, either a real one or an image of one on a visitor's T-shirt, or that they felt an earthquake or other natural disaster.

"The craziest suggestion was that it was caused by a UFO," said Landman.

"They've been observed to be disconcerted in the wild if they've had a run-in with a predator, but not this type of behaviour," he said.

Despite the lack of an explanation for the behaviour, the baboons have at least started to eat a little.

"Yesterday evening some of them started eating little bits of apple and we gave them pellets with vitamins and minerals," Landman said.

"They're not yet 100 percent but they're improving.

"We've asked experts for their opinions, if they've ever seen anything like it or have an explanation, but that hasn't turned anything up yet," he said.

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[Rorschach]

hmmm... wonder what it is?