Hi everyone! Welcome to another weird week. We have some disturbing updates on past stories and news about interesting anomalies around the world. Attack rabbit, black line in the sky, big cat DNA evidence, meteorite strikes and more!
Very nice compilation this week, Sharon. From the Okay, I’m not going to lie. That was me dressed as an elderly man. And I also changed into the grim reaper just for grins.
Okay, I lied about not lying. 🤪
Seriously, how could people immediately jump to either of those conclusions? And how, in Westminster Abbey of all places, could people not immediately know that was a normal, everyday, average verger? They’re there pretty much all the time and always carry the rod during ceremonies!
I can almost see mistaking Sir Karl Jenkins for a mystery person. Unless you’re from the UK, where he’s one of the most famous living composers! He’s even wearing his Knighthood medal (which some moron doctored in the photo). Which reminds me, I need to give a listen to his wonderful Adiemus series again.
Either of these two “mysteries” should have been figured out before they finished the ceremony! 🤦🏼♂️
I did laugh out loud at the dangerous rabbit, and immediately thought of Monty Python and The Holy Grail. “That rabbit’s dynamite!”
The nurse who said that she was bitten by the rabbit wasn't worried about rabies and wasn't going to get any shots because, she said, the rabbit wasn't "frothing at the mouth." Rabies is exceeedingly rare in rabbits, but I don't think that not "frothing at the mouth" means anything. Rabid rabbits are said to sometimes get agressiive, though.
The author of the article on eagles that can be dangerous to humans didn't know of any human fatalities caused by Harpy Eagles, but I do. In 1962, I was visiting with Miguel Alvarez del Toro, Director of the Tuxtla Gutierrez Zoo in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, and he told me about a Harpy Eagle that had escaped from his zoo and that had killed and partially eaten a small child. I asked him if he had ever published on this and he said no, that the event was just too horrible to dwell upon. I reckon that the story would not reflect well on his zoo, either. The article says that howler monkeys are the largest of the South American monkeys. They are not. The muriquis are the largest. Also, he writes about what he calls the "black vulture" as being exceeded in size only by the Andean Condor. I don't know what he means by "black vulture," but the bird that goes by that name in the New World is nowhere near that big.
I once went to a talk by the University photography lecturer, who went through a whole range of "spooky" photographs and explain that they were all – without exception – an artefact of the camera itself. From double exposures to out of focus bugs. I would bet good money that the black line has something to do with the camera and the pole.
I think I may have posted this before, but a British documentary maker got the clever idea of importing an expert tracker and hunter from Canada to look at big cat sightings. They went to half a dozen places where the big cats had supposedly been, looked at the tracks, looked at the scat, looked at bite marks. His conclusion in every case was – dog. It deserves a mention because it's one of the few documentaries about this sort of thing these days that actually isn't out to promote some bullshit.
Very nice compilation this week, Sharon. From the Okay, I’m not going to lie. That was me dressed as an elderly man. And I also changed into the grim reaper just for grins.
Okay, I lied about not lying. 🤪
Seriously, how could people immediately jump to either of those conclusions? And how, in Westminster Abbey of all places, could people not immediately know that was a normal, everyday, average verger? They’re there pretty much all the time and always carry the rod during ceremonies!
I can almost see mistaking Sir Karl Jenkins for a mystery person. Unless you’re from the UK, where he’s one of the most famous living composers! He’s even wearing his Knighthood medal (which some moron doctored in the photo). Which reminds me, I need to give a listen to his wonderful Adiemus series again.
Either of these two “mysteries” should have been figured out before they finished the ceremony! 🤦🏼♂️
I did laugh out loud at the dangerous rabbit, and immediately thought of Monty Python and The Holy Grail. “That rabbit’s dynamite!”
Great stuff! Thanks!
Good stuff, Kiddo.
The nurse who said that she was bitten by the rabbit wasn't worried about rabies and wasn't going to get any shots because, she said, the rabbit wasn't "frothing at the mouth." Rabies is exceeedingly rare in rabbits, but I don't think that not "frothing at the mouth" means anything. Rabid rabbits are said to sometimes get agressiive, though.
The author of the article on eagles that can be dangerous to humans didn't know of any human fatalities caused by Harpy Eagles, but I do. In 1962, I was visiting with Miguel Alvarez del Toro, Director of the Tuxtla Gutierrez Zoo in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, and he told me about a Harpy Eagle that had escaped from his zoo and that had killed and partially eaten a small child. I asked him if he had ever published on this and he said no, that the event was just too horrible to dwell upon. I reckon that the story would not reflect well on his zoo, either. The article says that howler monkeys are the largest of the South American monkeys. They are not. The muriquis are the largest. Also, he writes about what he calls the "black vulture" as being exceeded in size only by the Andean Condor. I don't know what he means by "black vulture," but the bird that goes by that name in the New World is nowhere near that big.
I once went to a talk by the University photography lecturer, who went through a whole range of "spooky" photographs and explain that they were all – without exception – an artefact of the camera itself. From double exposures to out of focus bugs. I would bet good money that the black line has something to do with the camera and the pole.
I think I may have posted this before, but a British documentary maker got the clever idea of importing an expert tracker and hunter from Canada to look at big cat sightings. They went to half a dozen places where the big cats had supposedly been, looked at the tracks, looked at the scat, looked at bite marks. His conclusion in every case was – dog. It deserves a mention because it's one of the few documentaries about this sort of thing these days that actually isn't out to promote some bullshit.