Python swallows electric blanket

Official caption: Karl Beznoska's 12-foot Burmese python, Houdini, is attended to on an operating table, Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Ketchum, Idaho. It took surgery to save the python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket _ with the electrical cord and control box. 'The prognosis is great,' veterinarian Karsten Fostvedt said after Tuesday's two-hour operation.



The blanket was in the cage for warmth and most likely got caught up in its actual food. The blanket was also plugged in at the time the snake started to eat it.

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Dracula's castle for sale

This castle is actually called Bran castle and was home to Vlad the Impaler. Vlad would go on to be so horrible to the Romanians that the legend of Dracula is based upon him. Impaling his victims was his favorite way to torture his victims. He also would dine with the impaled, meaning he would have victims put on the spikes and then sit down by them and enjoy a nice relaxing meal as his victims weakly moaned out in pain.

So if you would like to own this guys former home, you can buy it for the price of just $77 Million. Of course the castle is now a tourist destination and you wouldn't really be able to live in it (there are stipulations set by the Government when dealing with historic landmarks), but it does make about 12 million a year at a production cost of 7 million. So you would have made back your investment in 55 years and then it would be all profit.

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Berkshire Paranormal Group

I don't really know what to make of the paranormal, specifically ghosts. Common sense tells me that these things don't exist and what we see and hear is just a figment of our imagination. I remember that MTV show Fear that would put five people in a house that looked spooky. Then of course they would get the horrid backstory about how a circus midget went crazy and ate 20 people while a mad scientist mutilated peoples bodies while trying to build super-humanoids, or whatever. However, all that it seemed to be was a couple of cheesy effects, scrape some chains on the ground and you have enough of a catalyst for people to start having full blown hallucinations caused by fear.

Of course that is just my opinion, and the people at the Berkshire Paranormal group will gladly say that I am wrong.


Berkshire Mission Statement

As a group of dedicated investigators we will take all steps necessary to seek out, find, and document any paranormal activity. We will use a scientific and organized approach in all investigations and not make claims of “Haunted” or “Not haunted” until all evidence is collected and analyzed. We will carefully consider all evidence from a skeptic’s point of view to ensure the authenticity of such evidence and rule out any potentially false findings.

We will treat residents and their property with utmost respect and conduct our investigations in a courteous and professional manner. After a complete and thorough investigation, all findings will be presented to the requesting individuals with a complete explanation as to what was found. If a removal is requested and we as a group are unsuccessful, we will find someone who can help.

The Berkshire Paranormal Group - In Relentless Pursuit of Irrefutable Proof....

They do a good job of detailing the symptoms of haunting, readings and are very meticulous in recording all relevant data. Its worth a look if you don't know what to believe. Or you at least might learn something.

Berkshire Paranormal Group

Bizarre facts

• Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.
• The three winter months in the southern hemisphere are June, July and August.
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  Wine will spoil if exposed to light, hence tinted bottles.
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  A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.
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  A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• Earthworms have 5 hearts.
• A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.
• Goats do not have upper front teeth.
• If a lobster loses an eye or a claw it can usually grow a new one.
• Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers. Adam Sandler and Bill Gates rank number 1 and 2 among the most popular role models with male college freshmen.
• George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
• George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
• A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
• Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.
• The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

An endless supply is just a click away

Grapefruit makes women smell younger

A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem about six years younger to men. However, grapefruit fragrance on men does nothing for them.

Complete story here

Real life Zombie

Apparently, zombies are not just for movies - the story of Clairvius Narcisse of Haiti is the only real-life documented case of someone being made into a zombie by use of poisons:

The story begins in 1962, in Haiti. A man called Clairvius Narcisse was sold to a zombie master by his brothers, because Clairvius refused to sell his share of the family land. Soon after Clairvius "officially" died, and was buried. However, he had been later secretly unburied, and was actually working as a zombie slave on a sugar plantation with many other zombies. In 1964, his zombie master died, and he wandered across the island in a psychotic daze for the next 16 years. The drugs that made him psychotic were gradually wearing off. In 1980, he accidentally stumbled across his long-lost sister in a market place, and recognized her. She didn’t recognise him, but he identified himself to her by telling her early childhood experiences that only he could possibly know.


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