March 5, 2012

In 1920, the last of the “tree lobster” insects seemingly vanished into the dustbin of history. However, unbeknownst to modern science, a small colony of these hand-sized insects managed to survive…on an 1,844 foot tall rock pyramid…in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Ball’s Pyramid: The Home of the Last Tree Lobsters? This isolated rock…

February 9, 2012

The last woolly mammoth died off around 1700 BC on Russia’s Wrangel Island. Or did it? The Mysterious Woolly Mammoth Video? Check out this footage of a supposed woolly mammoth. It was supposedly captured last summer by a Russian engineer. According to The Sun, this person was in Siberia at the time, surveying for a…

January 4, 2012

In 1957, rumors began to spread that a monastery in Pangboche, Nepal possessed a Yeti hand. Now, after more than fifty years, a finger from this hand has finally been subjected to DNA analysis. Does it belong to a Yeti? The Lost Yeti Hand? The history of the Pangboche Hand makes for a fascinating read. In…

November 1, 2011

On February 10, 1935, a 16 year old boy named Salvatore Condulucci was shoveling snow into an open manhole. Suddenly, he saw movement and shouted, “Honest, it’s an alligator!” But are sewer alligators real things? Or is this just an urban myth? The Chaos Book Club Today is Day 9 of the Chaos book club. Chaos is an adventure thriller…

October 6, 2011

The Yeti, aka the Abominable Snowman, is a mysterious cryptid said to live in the Himalaya Mountains. It’s widely considered a mythological creature. But not all scientists agree. And now, some of them are launching an expedition to search for the Yeti. So, is the Yeti a legend? Or could this new expedition possibly bear…