Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Photographer Captures Amazing Rock Formation

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Share! TweetBrandi Cain is passionate about her art.  Through the lens of a camera, she’s able to capture nature’s majestic loveliness on both a grand scale, and in the smallest of details. Among her most moving images is one titled “Rock Hands Provide Water”.  Taken at the summit of Harney Peak in Custer State Park [...]

2012 Rolls in With More Animal Die-offs

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Share! TweetOn New Year’s Eve of 2011, a small town in Arkansas called Beebe witnesses something completely bizarre.  Thousands of black birds mysteriously fell out of the sky, covering the town in their dead carcasses.  Exactly one year later, in the wee hours of the 2012 New Year, the same inexplicable event happened AGAIN. At [...]

Amazing Encounter With Wild Mountain Gorillas

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Share! TweetWildlife photographer and conservationist John J. King II recently had what he explains as an “amazing chance encounter with a troop of wild mountain gorillas near Bwindi National Park, Uganda.” His video of the encounter, which has now gone viral, shows a troop of wild gorillas wandering into the eco-tourist camp, having a look [...]

Demon Cloud Spits Lightning in Australia

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Share! TweetIn Australia’s Northern Territory, something sinister was brewing in the sky. What you see below looks like it could be the album cover for a heavy metal band, but in fact it is a real photo captured at an amazing moment during a storm. Storm chaser Hannah Weddell was in Darwin attempting to capture [...]

Ban on Chemtrails to be Considered in New York’s Suffolk County

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Share! TweetChemtrails; the stuff of endless debate.  At one time, the mere mention of the word would place you securely in the tinfoil hat society, no longer to be taken seriously.  However, things are changing.  Many say that it can no longer be denied that SOMETHING is amiss in our skies.  The presence of patterns [...]

Woman Nearly Swallowed by Whale (Video)

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Share! TweetThis is reason number 437 why the ocean is super scary! I thought the only things we had to worry about while enjoying a day at sea were sharks and jelly fish.  Not so, says the humpback whale. A young surfer was enjoying the waves in Santa Cruz, California.   In recent weeks, this area  [...]

5.6 Earthquake Rattles Central Oklahoma

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Share! TweetThe largest earthquake ever reported in Oklahoma has shaken the state this evening (Saturday – November 5), reports the USGS. The 5.6 magnitude quake beats the previous record of 5.5, set in 1952.   The epicenter of Saturday’s shaker was 44 miles east northeast of Oklahoma City, but could be felt as far away as [...]

Earthquake Rattles Washington D.C. – August 23, 2011 (Updated)

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Share! TweetA magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred in Virginia today at 1:51 pm EDT.    The details from the USGS are below. ***Scroll to bottom for updates*** Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. Magnitude 5.9 Date-Time Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 17:51:03 UTC Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:03 PM at epicenter [...]

Mysterious Orange Blob Appears on Alaska Shore

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Share! TweetAn orange gooey substance has washed ashore in the Alaskan village of Kivalina.  Residents noticed the strange stuff as it began to blanket the shoreline, and alerted authorities. The Coast Guard has tested the orange blob and concluded that it is not petroleum based, and it is not man made.  The actual origin remains [...]

Minot Flood 2011: The Aftermath (Exclusive Photos)

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Share! TweetNorth Dakotans living in Minot can breathe a sigh of relief, as the flood waters that saturated their city have finally subsided.  Sadly, with that relief comes a litany of new problems. As anyone who has survived a flood can tell you, the actual flood is only part of the story.  When the water [...]

Extraordinary “Human” Trees

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Share! TweetIt’s amazing what some perseverance and ingenuity will accomplish. Peter Cook and Becky Northey decided that plain old, run of the mill trees just wouldn’t suffice in their garden.  So, with the help of a combination of science, creativity, and patience, they created these incredible trees that appear nearly human. Using carefully placed wires [...]

Sobering Six Minute Video: Minot Flood 2011

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Share! TweetThe unprecedented flooding in Minot, North Dakota and surrounding areas drew national media attention.  With the passage of time, stories like this seem to get buried as new headlines emerge.  But for those living in the aftermath, this natural disaster cannot be so easily forgotten. Full Gallery of photos here:  Minot Flood 2011: Eyewitness [...]

Huge Sinkhole Opens Under Woman’s Bed

July 21, 2011 by  
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Share! TweetWhile inside her home, Inocenta Hernandez of Guatemala City heard a giant “boom” coming from somewhere.  She ran outside thinking that perhaps there had been some kind of explosion.  When she could find no evidence of disturbance outside, she went back into her home, only to discover a 40 ft deep sinkhole in her [...]

Moonbows: Yosemite National Park’s Amazing Lunar Rainbows

July 16, 2011 by  
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Share! TweetEvery so often, I see something that is so awe-inspiring… so majestic… that it brings a tear to my eye.  This morning, I thanked God for the internet, because through it, I was able to witness something truly magical. In the spring and summertime, visitors of Yosemite National Park might be lucky enough to [...]

Minot Flood 2011: Eyewitness Exclusive Photos

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Share! TweetSCROLL DOWN FOR FULL GALLERY OF STRIKING PHOTOS Last month, waters from the  Souris River which snakes through the center of Minot, North Dakota,  overran most of the city’s protective levees and flooded more than 4,000 homes.  North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad called it a flood of “epic proportion“. As waters slowly begin to [...]

Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers Stop in MN for a Cause

June 8, 2011 by  
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Share! TweetThis afternoon, as I was running back and forth between North Dakota and Minnesota, I spotted what appeared to be a tank parked near the EGF Cabella’s Sporting Goods.  But not like an Army tank… more of the Mad Max variety. Upon closer inspection, I found that the vehicle did not belong to post-apocalyptic [...]

The Salton Sea: Desert Miracle to Haunting Wasteland

May 30, 2011 by  
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Share! TweetMovies, television, and even video games try to give us a taste of what would become of our civilization were an apocalyptic event to diminish our population and break down the communities that we currently take for granted.   But one doesn’t need to escape to fantasy realms to witness such wastelands.  There are a [...]

1915 Earthquake Prediction for May 2011 Had Rome on the Run

May 12, 2011 by  
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Raffaele Bendandi

Share! TweetRaffaele Bendandi was an amateur seismologist in the early 1900′s. He depended upon the movements of heavenly bodies to predict future earthquakes, mainly in his home country of Italy. In 1915, he predicted that a massive quake would strike Rome on May 11, 2011. While this prediction was made nearly 100 years ago, it [...]

River in Norwalk Runs Blood Red

April 29, 2011 by  
Filed under Environment, The Unexplained

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Share! TweetAnd lo… as Ohio rivers turn red as blood, you shall know that the end is nigh. Well, not really.  But the Huron River near Norwalk, Ohio did run red on Wednesday, much to the shock of local residents. According to the Norwalk Reflector: …the red substance wasn’t blood, and it wasn’t the work [...]

Red on the Rise: 2011 Flooding of the Red River of the North

April 9, 2011 by  
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Share! TweetUPDATE: Thanks to Coast to Coast Am for featuring this story on their website.  I’ve received so many emails and messages of well wishes for those of us in the Red River Valley.  It means so much to me.  And…. if you like Coast to Coast Am, please browse the rest of this web [...]

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