• Forums Software Updates

    The forums will be undergoing updates this weekend: Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th June 2025.
    Little to no downtime is expected.

Fortean Headlines

Oddly enough, this is completely SFW, not what generally comes to mind when I read 'Japanese' and 'eels' in the same sentance.

Lonely Japanese Eels Want You to Video-Call Them

So what fun shenanigans are we all getting up to this weekend, eh? Perhaps spending some quality time with Wikipedia’s wonderfully exhaustive List of Sandwiches or painting a very tiny tableau? I, personally, was contemplating listlessly hanging from my doorway pull-up bar as long as I could — that is, until I heard about a virtual “face-showing festival.”

Now, this festival is no run-of-the-mill jamboree. According to Quartz, the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo recently noticed that its lanky spotted garden eels were exhibiting some funny behavior — namely, burrowing their slender bodies into the sand every time a human passed by their tank.
Click to expand...
https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/japanese-aquarium-asks-people-to-video-call-lonely-eels.html
 
https://amp.freep.com/amp/3025908001
The T-Rex Walking Club takes a stroll through Ferndale on April 24, 2020, to bring smiles during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ferndale Elks 1588 Facebook Page, Detroit Free Press

A silly — and secret — club formed during the coronavirus pandemic is on a quest to bring smiles to the faces of kids, and a few adults, while under Michigan’s stay home order.

On Friday, the same day Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the state's stay home order to May 15, several club members paraded through parts of Ferndale in their requisite, full-contained, inflatable costumes.

There was a pink unicorn, followed by a gentle giraffe, a ferocious bear, a swinging stegosaurus, Scooby-Doo and a shark too, a tall pterodactyl, a trotting triceratops, a black-and-white penguin, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, a friendly T-Rex, another penguin, and a one-eyed Minion.

"It's so much fun," said Sarah Ignash, the pink unicorn.
 
hunck said:
Seems feasible - the Sun wouldn't invent this shit for clicks to it's sorry excuse for a newspaper would it?
Click to expand...

No - because that masturbating ape spectre is none other than RUPERT MURDOCH! The more you know...
 
Warning: This story contains footage of a monkey being trained for a form of 'street entertainment' in Indonesia and may be distressing to some.

Monkey cycling on a bike snatches child in shocking video

A bizarre clip has surfaced showing the moment a monkey on a tiny bike snatches a toddler and drags the child down the street.

But the footage, thought to be filmed in Indonesia, may be part of a more sinister form of street entertainment, social media users have claimed.
In the clip, a monkey can be seen speeding down an alley before approaching a group sat on a bench with a toddler.
The monkey then abandons the bike and clings onto the youngster, dragging the child several metres.
When somebody dashes in to rescue the child, the monkey runs away.
Jasa Supanji, who took the video, told Storyful the child was fine.
Click to expand...
https://www.news.com.au/technology/...o/news-story/b4e1acfd53e195505b024eadc9012f5c
 
Experts Doubt the Sun Is Actually Burning Coal

“If the sun were composed of coal, it would last at the present rate only 5,000 years. The sun, in all probability, is not a burning, but an incandescent, body. Its light is rather that of a glowing molten metal than that of a burning furnace. But it is impossible that the sun should constantly be giving out heat, without either losing heat or being supplied with new fuel. Assuming that the heat of the sun has been kept up by meteoric bodies falling into it, it is possible from the mass of the solar system to determine approximately the period during which the sun has shone. The limits lie between 100 millions and 400 millions of years.”
Click to expand...

—Scientific American, August 1863

SOURCE: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-doubt-the-sun-is-actually-burning-coal/
 
Rare blue dragons are washing up on the Padre Island National Seashore

Visitors to the Padre Island National Seashore in Texas are discovering blue dragons during their trips, and though it may not be the flying, fire-breathing creatures their name may suggest, it's still "a rare find," the park says. ...

Blue dragons, or glaucus atlanticus, are tiny sea slugs -- typically only 3 cm big, or a little over an inch. They can be found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, according to the conservation nonprofit Oceana.

But even though the creatures aren't nearly as large as dragons, they pack a mean punch. Blue dragons eat Portuguese man o' wars, which look like large jellyfishes, and store stinging cells from their prey to use for the future, according to Oceana. So, when humans touch these little slugs, it can release the stinging cells and create a sting that can hurt more than a man o' war's.

"So, if you see a dragon in the park, be amazed as they are a rare find, but also keep your distance!" warns the national seashore. ...

FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/us/blue-dragon-padre-island-national-seashore-trnd/index.html
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top