Mystery object in the Baltic finally seen

Exactly one year ago, I had posted about this round object found by sonar outside Sweden in the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

Now we have pictures and a video from a research team:
The bad news is that it is definitely not a UFO. The good news is that it appears man-made, a kind of circular structure built with rounded limestone.

Samples where taken and I imagine sometime in the near future we’ll know more.
In the meantime check out the video below.

Overtoun Bridge - Suicide spot for dogs

In this bizarre follow-up to the Human Suicide Spot, Aokigahara Forest, Japan, I must now share the only animal suicide spot I have ever come across: Overtoun Bridge, Scotland.

This quaint old bridge is, apparently, the spot where, since the 1950's, numerous dogs have plunged to their deaths, more than 600, at a rate of one a month (!)..  To make things stranger, although most of the dogs died from the 15 meter fall, those that survived climbed back up and jumped again! I imagine they all succeeded the second time around, so no reports of third tries...
Attempts have been made to explain the phenomenon, attributing it to smells dogs cannot resist, noises or a general lack of visibility from a dog's height, but none of it makes much sense.
No paranormal theories, no conspiracy, no alien sightings, no haunted castle here. This is indeed a weird one.
I just have to quote a misquoted Ian Fleming: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action and over 600 is clearly the work of an ancient Sumerian demon or some shit."

UFO sightings collection for April, 2012

Best UFO Sightings Of April 2012, AFO

A nice video collection from around the world, showcasing all kinds of strangeness, reminding us that there is more to learn about everything. Way more..

Black-Eyed Kids and Arthur Machen

Black-Eyed Kids or BEK, first reported in 1998, are an urban legend kind of myth, one that has quietly and steadily gained momentum in forums, blogs and all kinds of internet hangouts.

What are BEK you ask? Well, in true campfire horror story, they appear at night, and knock on your door, or car window, demanding that you let them in, to use a phone or get a ride or whatever. They get frustrated when they are not let in, and insist that they be let in. Witnesses describe an eerie feeling emanating from the kids, helped of course by their huge, completely black eyes.

So that’s it. A full report here, some ideas here, and an account here.

It is archetypal, and sounds a lot like trolling, but, what if it isn’t?
And from that assumption, let’s move on to an interesting question: all reports come from people who did not let the BEK in, although they felt a strong urge to do so.
There are no reports from people who actually let the kids in. I for one could not find any.
So, hasn’t anyone let them in? And, if they did, what happened to them?
Maybe nothing happened, or maybe SOMETHING happened. But what?
I am afraid we just don’t have enough info.

All this reminds me of a short story by Arthur Machen called The Children of the Pool. The reason I remember it is that it has been etched on my mind ever since I read it, some twenty years ago. The story is eerily simple and akin to the BEK story: A Welsh myth of teenage children, the Plant y pwll, or Children of the Pool, hang around a waterhole with bad vibes, and are offensive to passers by, know intimate details about their life, and later appear at their home demanding to be heard.

The similarities are not many, the story does not report anything about black eyes, and it could be all fiction, but somehow I doubt it. Machen wrote about the paranormal as if he had witnessed it, and all his stories ring true, to my ears at least. He has written another story in which he uses the “weird children” theme but I cannot recall the title.
All I am trying to say, maybe this BEK thing is not as new as everyone thinks.
What if they are here, and have been here for a long time? Would we notice?

Buried Spacecraft in Austria (maybe)

In this story an Austrian man went looking for his cat and found a perfectly round hole in a field. The hole has something metallic in it’s bottom, several meters down as evidenced by the sound the rocks he threw made.

He seems to have also lowered a magnet, and, snap!

Next came the flocks of UFO freaks and weirdos and then, of course, the debunking. This report says that

“.. the mystery has finally been solved by a local historian who discovered that 50 years ago a company had drilled a hole in the field while looking for oil - and that the massive drill bit had snapped off at the end leaving a chunk of metal in the ground.”

Is it me or is this attempt at explaining this hole total crap?

Here’s what a commenter, Ellen, had to say:

“Fifty years, and miraculously, the hole has not undergone erosion -- and the 'drill bit' has not been obscured by dirt, dust, mud...? The drill bit explanation is patently absurd. Within six months, a typical bore will have succumbed to mild erosive forces and begun to close... There is always a 'local historian' waiting in the wings, isn't there?”

I couldn’t have said it better myself…

Mel’s Hole makes the news

I had posted about Mel’s Hole, the famous never-seen-but-heard-of bottomless pit, and I admit I was a bit skeptical. You know, strange radio caller, tells a far-fetched story that cannot be corroborated.. Well nothing has changed, other than the fact that we can now put a face on the strange caller.
A mini news piece recounts the story of Mel’s Hole and nothing more. Interesting nonetheless!
Video Story with Transcript

This is the Year the World will end–in Stereo!

As we make our way into the year the Mayans and various others believed/hoped the world will end, the first hint of High Strangeness appears in News outlets worldwide. What had been an isolated phenomenon (see Taos Hum) is now escalating into a full-blown manifestation. I don’t know if it is the phenomenon that’s escalating, or the number of people who take the trouble to shoot and post online, but it doesn’t make that much of a difference either way. 
Combined with the recent UFO flap, it makes for interesting speculation…