Billiards champion U.J. Puckett is said to haunt a south Fort Worth pool hall.
Loved and hated in almost equal portions, a man who played pool better than almost any other — and yet who wanted to go fishing even more — treacherous and warmhearted: All this was the hustler U.J. Puckett.
Source: star-telegram.com
A gemstone ‘stained with blood and dishonour’ haunted anyone who owned it. This week it goes on show for the first time.
Some 34 years ago Peter Tandy, a young curator at the Natural History Museum, happened upon a jewel while working among the great lines of mineral cabinets. From a scientific perspective, the stone was nothing special, though its setting was rather bizarre, bound by a silver ring decorated with astrological symbols and mystical words with two scarab-carved gems attached. It was a typewritten note that accompanied the jewel, an amethyst known as the Delhi Purple Sapphire, that caught Tandy’s eye.
Source: timesonline.co.uk
The 7 Incredible Natural Phenomena: Venezuela’s Everlasting Storm, Honduras’ Rain of Fishes,Morocco’s Climbing Goats,Kerala’s (extraterrestrial?) Red Rain,Brazilian’s longest wave on the Earth,Denmark’s Black Sun,Idaho’s Fire Rainbow
Source: oddee.com
Retired Air Force veteran Milton Sprouse clearly remembers the summer day in 1947 when he returned to Roswell Army AirField aboard the B-29 bomber Dave’s Dream from a three-day maneuver in Florida. Sprouse, then a corporal and engine mechanic in the Army Air Forces, could not believe what his ground crew was telling him: A UFO had crashed in the New Mexico desert, on a ranch 70 miles away.
Source: sedona.biz
On October 25, El Diario de Yucatan reported the sighting of a luminous object over the Mexican town of Hunucmá, which was witnessed by officers of the municipal police.
As was reported at the time, some officers took video images with the cellphones, and while the police director considered that the object could have been a star or satellite, the case drew the attention of researchers from the OVNI MERIDA group who traveled to Hunucma and secured a copy of the video.
Source: inexplicata.blogspot.com