Ancient Kashmir Civilization

As if the Kashmir region of India and Pakistan hasn’t been in the news enough over the past few year, we now get news of the discovery of a “urban” civlization:

In a statement, the department said that the remains of the civilisation were scattered over several kanals of land of this plateau. A portion of the land was given a trial dig and at depth of five feet, the first layer of the ancient settlement, probably of the Buddhist period, consisting of a tile pavement laid out in concentric circle with a full-blown lotus in the centre, was found. This pavement was laid in such a beautiful sequence that it left excavators baffled. Most amazing were the tiles which were stamped in variety of motifs, presenting effective and colorful pictures of human beings, animals, mystical creatures, flora and fauna and other abstract designs.

Once fully investigated and verified, this is some exciting news we’ll be keeping our eyes on. For now, you can read the full news item.

Duck and Cover!

If you’ve ever puzzled over how so much of the past could be a mystery, chew on this: we can’t even collectively keep track of stuff we did in the 1950s! Witness this story: workman in Smethwick, UK unearthed an apparently unknown bomb shelter. They had to call in an archaeologist, for god’s sake!

Makes you wonder what archaeological cache may be hidden in your neighborhood, eh? Maybe there’s something in your own backyard. Lucky you if it turns out you can hide there in the event of the apocalypse.

More Crop Circles

In the past we’ve featured several stories about the wonderful phenomenom of crop circles. But it seems the damned things are always in England or some such place. Well, we are happy to report that apparently those devlish crop circle makers have taken up residence in the United States (in the heartland state of Indiana)…or have they? You can decide for yourself.

But not so fast, said Roger Sugden of Fort Wayne, a founder of Independent Crop Circle Research Associates, which investigates crop circles throughout the Midwest. Many “randomly down crops” that don’t have surprising shapes do show the energy signatures of an extraordinary event. He said only testing of the soil and the damaged plants would show for certain.

Read the entire article.

Strange Things In Our Skies?

No, we ain’t talking about those silly UFO things we all keep hearing about - we are talking about real, living, honest to god electro-magnetic amoeba things here. Or at least that’s what Trevor James Constable thinks:

Trevor James Constable, sailor, aircraft historian and scientific iconoclast, certainly thinks so. Inspired by Wilhelm Reich’s orgone energy, Ruth Drown’s radionics, the writing of Charles Fort and Arthur Conan Doyle’s story The Horror of the Heights, Constable became convinced that the UFOs he heard so much about in the 1950s weren’t alien spacecraft, but living beings.

Armed with a camera fitted with high-speed infrared film and an ultraviolet filter, Constable set out to reveal these sky beings to the world. His photographs certainly show something. To the untrained eye they look like discolorations produced during the developing process. But stare long enough and they take on the appearance of floating, zeppelin-sized amoebas.

Read the entire article here. And if any of you have any pictures of these things flying around in our skies, please email your information and picture to billfutreal@gmail.com.

Entrances to Hell

It seems there’s a dedicated group of folks all around the world dedicated to photographing and documenting an all-too-common phenomenon—gates to hell. Well, we’re not entirely sure about all this, but we definitely feel it needed to come to your attention.

• English entrances to Hell
• Worldwide entraces to Hell (and these guys have a blog too!)
• Entrance to Hell Flickr Group

So there — if eternal damnation awaits you, you have plenty of ways to get there! Looks like some of these gates may be two-way, so good luck to you should you find yourself in perdition.

Hallelujah, It’s Raining Shrimp!

Yes folks, we’re back online again! And what better way to rejoin you than with an exciting story from beautiful San Diego, California about — what else?? — shrimp rains!

Up on Mount Soledad, Janet Andrews is reporting it rained shrimp on April 28. She and others found masses of baby shrimp on the tennis courts of the Summit residential development.

Think of the horror the poor surburbanites must have felt as they stumbled upon all these baby shrimp!

We’re not sure how mysterious this is, but we thought you needed to know.

Here the link to the full story.