Strange Happenings

By Author: Kenneth J. McCormick
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Strange Happenings
By
Kenneth J. McCormick
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There are many strange things in this world, but thank goodness, some really strange things are no longer with us. One of these things is a bug. Oh its not an ordinary bug, we have plenty of them. As a matter of fact there are more of them than us, a lot more. The bug I am talking about lived in what is now New Mexico and was over 8 feet long. It lived about 3 million years ago and was a many legged millipede. I guess if people would have been around then, the bugs would have stepped on them. It seems that this huge bugs lasted from 325 million years ago to 280 million years ago, well before even the dinosaurs.


A man in England has invented a way of broadcasting sound without using speakers. His device sends a beam of sound into a room and when you walk into it, you hear the sound or music, what ever the case may be, in your head. By the way, he received the Lamelson-MIT prize of 500,000 pounds for his invention. Not to shabby I would say.


Many strange events are organized in bars ...
... but the Moon Amtrak has to be one of the strangest. A bar, which will remain nameless, has organized an event that draws hundreds of participants every year on the second Saturday in July. The event goes this way, hundreds of people line up by a fence where the Amtrak train passes by and when it gets there, they drop their pants and moon the train as it goes by. I bet the people on the train are surprised.


One of the big events in Spain, that people come from all over the world for, is the huge tomato fight. The tomatoes are not huge but the crowd is. This events draws thousands upon thousands of people. But food fights take place in other countries also. In Italy there is the fight with oranges. I bet this hurts more than tomatoes.


A library somehow was carrying a porn movie as a Disney Feature. A young child found this out when his mother put the movie into the VCR, then left the room. A little while later the poor kid ran into his mother saying that people were doing nasty things on tv.


There is a figure on the wall of a Chicago underpass and many people believe that it is the image of the Virgin Mary. Some people are saying that it is a miracle but others are saying that it is just a stain.


In Wisconsin there was a proposal put before the Conservation Congress to allow hunters to hunt cats. We are talking about any free roaming cats. Cat lovers were aghast. This will never become law since the Governor refuses to sign it. Can you picture this, some hunter blowing away poor little kitties with his double barreled shotgun?


A bakery in New York had a unique Christmas Gift. For $125 you could get your face put on 2 dozen cookies. If you needed more the price was $36 per additional dozen. When you consider the work involved, you may realize this is a bargain.


A group of monkeys over ran an Indian village. They drank all the alcoholic brew that was being made and became drunk and attacked the villagers. The villagers counterattacked the drunken monkeys with sticks and weapons, driving them away. The villagers make a drink from marijuana leaves as an offering to the Hindu Gods.


Calls poured in to the authorities from Catalonia and Valencia in Spain. A huge fireball was seen in the sky over those areas. It has been deemed to have been a meteorite that hit the atmosphere at about 6,600 mph.


A taxidermist is offering to turn your deceased pets into pillows for you couch or bed. Shocked animal rights people have been sending her death threats. It doesn't look like this idea is going to get too popular.


African Monitor Lizards, which are over 9 feet long, escaped while in the Ukrainian city of Maioupoi. The frightened population was told to keep all pets inside. The cages of 9 giant lizards had been unloaded onto a dock where they were to be transported from, but had been allowed to sit there for several hours without being checked. Apparently someone had decided to release all the animals.


People are beginning to say that the ice mummy, the frozen hunter from over 5,700 years ago that was found , was cursed. What is this based on? The tour guide who found the mummy died. He froze to death in a blizzard. Next to die was one of the forensic team who examined the mummy, he died in a head on car crash. The mountaineer who led the team to the body was crushed in an avalanche. The journalist who did a documentary on the ice man.developed a sudden illness after the program and died a few months later. The head of the German rescue team that searched for the tour guide died from a sudden heart attack. Lastly the archaeologist who was the expert on the ice man acquired cancer and died. Is there really a curse, what do you think?


Experiments have been conducted by an amateur scientists on the weight of people while they are sleeping and he claims some strange results. He claimed that at times the person only weighed 1/6 of their normal weight and at other times weighed double. Most results were said to show a dramatic decrease in body weight.


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