Face in the Brick

Here’s a mysterious photograph our brother Andy took of a wall brick in his backyard in Cambridge, UK.

Who is the mystery face?

Weird Sounds of Saturn

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has recorded some bizarre radio emissions from Saturn.

Check out this 573K MP3 to hear the weirdness for yourself.
source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia07966.html

If you’ve ever seen Forbidden Planet, you’ll find that Saturn’s emissions sound remarkably like the famous electronicly generated soundtrack to that film.

Bigfoot DNA?

Well, you can definitely say we are fascinated with chasing that ever elusive Bigfoot creature. And it seems we are not the only ones (and we’re glad to know that if we are lunatics, that we have some esteemed company!).

A group of Canadian geneticists are currently testing a mysterious clump of hair claimed to have been salvage from a roving Sasquatch!

A University of Alberta geneticist says he’ll begin testing Monday a tuft of hair that some residents of Teslin, Yukon say belongs to a sasquatch.

Several residents of the town, about 180 kilometres east of Whitehorse, claim a three-metre tall, human-like creature crashed through their backyards earlier this month at about 1 a.m.

You can read all the details here.

Fly Me to The Moon (or Mars)

Perhaps you’re saying to yourself that you need to shake off the dust of this mysterious Earth and head out into the cosmos. Yes? Well your first stop ought to be the moon, eh?

Check out these folks who want to establish a permanent presence on the moon:

• Artemis Project
• Moon Society

Their goal is nothing less than “The creation of a space-faring civilization which will establish communities on the Moon; promotion of large-scale industrialization and private enterprise on the Moon.” Groovy.

If the moon is not far enough, you can also join up with folks who want take Earthlings to Mars, the Mars Society.

Ancient Scroll Fragments Found in Judean Desert

According to AP, Professor Chanan Eshel, an archaeologist from Tel Aviv’s Bar Ilan University, recovered the ancient writing-covered animal skin fragments from a Bedouin. The Professor surmises that the scrolls…

are from “refugee” caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea where Jews hid from the Romans in the second century

The scroll fragments contain passages from Leviticus. Nothing new there, but the scroll fragments are of interest primarily because they point to the possibility of finding more complete source scrolls. Other caves in the Dead Sea area have, of course, previously yielded up The Dead Sea Scrolls, which contain, among other things, interesting apocryphal works—passages omitted from the various canons of the Bible.

Bigfoot Cam

Some enterprising “artists” in Northern California have set up a BIGFOOT CAM! Their project is slated to run now through August 20th - we wish them luck.

San Francisco-based American artist Jill Miller is participating in Norwich Gallery’s EAST 05 international exhibition, July 2 - August 20, 2005. Although she will exhibit a performance work, she will not appear in the gallery. At least not in the flesh. Miller’s durational performance-installation, “Waiting for Bigfoot,” will be located in a remote Northern California forest (”Bigfoot Country”). A live video feed will be delivered to the Norwich Gallery as real-time video via satellite uplink, 24 hours a day. The artist will live at the campsite, situated in the epicenter of Bigfoot sightings, for the duration of EAST 05.

Most Bigfoot encounters occur when people are just camping or hiking or generally *not* looking for Bigfoot, so I don’t feel compelled to spend my time Bigfoot hunting. I will, however, be exploring the areas in a manner that might be conducive to an encounter.

Check out the Bigfoot Cam.

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.