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Dude travels to a parallel universe where the Beatles never broke up!

2009-11-06T06:37:31-08:00

Long story short: Man chases his dog in the desert, trips in a rabbit hole, knocks himself unconscious until he wakes up in a parallel universe where he steals a Beatles cassette tape, builds a website about his experience and puts the music on there as proof.
(the music is pretty good though, if you like the Beatles)

http://www.thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/

Another “missing baby” hoax.

2009-11-05T16:31:23-08:00

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/florida.baby.found/index.html

Missing baby was locked in chest for 12 hours

A 7-month-old baby was locked in a 2-by-3 foot cedar chest hidden underneath her aunt’s bed for 12 hours before police found her Wednesday night, a Florida sheriff said Thursday.

Shannon Lee Dedrick, who had been reported missing four days earlier, is in good condition, Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock said

“There was no bottle, just a blanket to cover [her],” Haddock said. “She was healthy…she was just wide open and surprised.”

Police think Crystina Lynn Mercer gave her daughter to the baby’s paternal aunt, Susan Baker, a day before reporting her missing, Haddock said. Both women have been charged in connection with the incident.

Baker, who also babysits the child, met with Mercer on Friday and asked if she could permanently take custody of the infant, Haddock said.

“Susan Baker took custody of Shannon from her mother sometime in the hours of October 31st,” he said.

That morning, Mercer reported her baby missing to police.

Both women have been charged with interference of child custody, a third-degree felony. They also were charged with making a false report of a missing child, a false report of a crime and contributing to the delinquency of a child, all misdemeanor charges. Mercer has been charged with desertion of a child, and Baker has been charged with child neglect with aggravated circumstances, both felony charges.

Haddock offered no suspected motive.

Baker’s husband was also in custody, but he was released without being charged, Haddock said.

This one is just. . .weird.

Hoax or miracle?

2009-11-03T22:14:55-08:00

Personally I’m calling hoax on this one. It appears there is a baby in Russia who seems to have verses from the Koran randomly appearing on it’s skin.

link to article.

Cake-in-a-jar KILLS?

2009-09-28T11:27:04-08:00

Okay…I have to do this quick b/c I’m leaving to get Jocelynn from school, but I want to get some minds working on this ASAP.

If you google “cakes in jars” recipes…you will find the process used to make a cake in a jar. Lots of military wives send these to their deployed soldiers.

Recently someone has said that “cakes in a jar can KILL” b/c of botulism. I did a quick google…and DID find articles regarding the danger of possible botulism or bacteria in cakes in jars.

Then I tried to google “death, illness” in regard to cakes in jars. NADA. Nothing came up. SO…I am trying to find out if the warning exists simply b/c of the danger…and not from actual evidence that someone has been injured or killed as a result of eating a cake in a jar covered in botulism.

Please, thanks…?? Hugs and kisses…I know you guys can find me something I can take back to my fellow military wives.

Will return soon!

Severed Feet

2009-10-29T15:04:45-08:00

not sure if it qualifies as a hoax or not but does anyone have any ideas on the severed feet washing up in canada wearing a sneaker? pretty sick…

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ae_1256851132

Fake meteorite in Latvia?

2009-10-26T17:48:08-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8326483.stm

Doubts over Latvia ‘meteor crash’

Scientists investigating a large crater in a field in northern Latvia, believed to have been caused by a meteorite, now suspect it was a hoax.

Fire crews were called to the scene on Sunday outside the town of Mazsalaca by locals who said something had fallen from the sky and set the land on fire.

One expert who had said the 9m (27ft) wide crater was caused by an impact, said he now thought it was artificial.

The hole was too tidy to have been caused by a meteorite, he said.

It would be unusual for such a large meteorite to hit the Earth, as most objects burn up in the atmosphere and never reach the surface.

In 2007, a meteorite ploughed into the countryside near the Andean town of Carancas in Peru, creating a 15m (50ft) wide crater.

‘Pyrotechnic compound’

On Monday, a spokeswoman for the Latvian State Fire and Rescue Service said firefighters had been told by a witness about a fire in a field near Mazsalaca at 1730 (1530 GMT) the previous day.

“We concluded that the impact must have come from the air and this is why we believe it could have been a meteorite,” Inga Vetere said.

A military unit sent to the site found normal radiation levels.

Uldis Nulle, a scientist at the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, said his first impression after visiting the site late on Sunday had been that the crater was caused by a meteorite.

However, on closer inspection in daylight he found that the hole was too tidy to have been caused by a genuine impact.

“This is not a real crater. It is artificial,” he told the Associated Press.

Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at London’s Natural History Museum, told the BBC that the photographs and video footage of the site, and the material burning in the bottom of the hole, indicated that it was not an impact crater.

“Meteorites are not ‘on fire’ or even hot when they land on Earth,” she said.

“Additionally, there have been no witness reports of any large ‘fireball’ sightings in the region on Sunday afternoon, when the crater was allegedly formed.”

Latvian Geologist Dainis Ozols said he believed someone had dug a hole and tried to make it look like a meteorite crater by burning a pyrotechnic compound at the bottom.

It is thought the meteorite would have to have been at least 1m (3ft) in diameter to create a crater that size.

The owner of the land is now selling tickets to people who want to see the crater, reportedly to pay for wear and tear on the road.

Cleveland museum’s Earhart ‘hair’ just thread

2009-10-22T00:56:39-08:00

News Link

CLEVELAND (AP) - A Cleveland museum has learned that what it thought was a lock of hair from Amelia Earhart is just thread.

A group looking for DNA evidence of the pioneer aviator on a Pacific island recently asked the International Women’s Air and Space Museum for a sample of the “hair” for comparison. Museum executive director Toni Mullee says an analysis determined the specimen was thread that looked like hair.

Mullee says the museum acquired the artifact 20 years ago from the Smithsonian Institution, which had gotten it from a Pennsylvania man. The museum has had it on exhibit next to a book with an anecdote about a White House maid who saved some Earhart hair from a wastebasket.

Mullee says the thread will stay on display, with a full explanation.

One wonders what the man got for his piece of thread 20 years ago…...

Story about faking the news

2009-09-16T18:10:23-08:00

From news.com.au video

16 Sept 2009. news.com.au

‘Oops’ missed it
See what happens when the media pack miss their money shot.

Obedience to Authority

2009-10-07T16:34:41-08:00

According to Wikipedia and hundreds of psychology textbooks:

“Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram’s subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a puppy who was given real electric shocks. They found that 20 out of the 26 participants complied to the end. The six that had refused to comply were all male (54% of males were obedient); all 13 of the women obeyed to the end, although many were highly disturbed and some openly wept”

Am I correct to doubt that this infamous experiment was ever carried out?

Even the most cited reference seems very dubious

Sheridan, C.L. and King, K.G. (1972) Obedience to authority with an authentic victim, Proceedings of the 80th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association 7: 165-6.

I have checked out and found no academic papers on obedience relating to either Sheridan or King

Thanks

CieAura: Is this the latest SCAM following in the LifeWave footsteps?

2009-08-01T18:31:43-08:00

Many thanks to Veronica over on the LifeWave thread for giving us this link.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forum/forum_comments/2526/P5160/

For those interested perhaps we can take a close look at the claims etc.

Enjoy, and once again thank you Veronica.

David

http://cieaura.com/home/