Mysterious Disappearances
Since people have been keeping records there have been reports of mysterious vanishings. While some may never been fully explained many of them could have simple explanations. Here is the story of six unexplained vanishings. In 1587 a small company made up of 90 men, 17 women and 9 children colonized the island of Roanoke [...]
The Year of the Hobbit
Other than the possible end of the world, the Mayan Calendar 12th (and last) long count ends on December 20th, one of the highly anticipated events is the December release of the first of two movies made from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey). Beginning with January 3rd, which was the date [...]
Pagans and Wiccans
Paganism is an umbrella term to describe pagan religions. Wicca is one of those, as is Hellensimos, Asatry and Kemeticism. It is a worship of deities. Wicca is a practice of witchcraft, but not all witches are Wiccans or even pagan. There are 8 holidays during the Wiccan, and generally Pagan, year. Those are Samhain [...]
Strange Facts – UFO’s
To many who study Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) the claim is that the first documented UFO sighting is in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel in Ezekiel 1:4 describes a “a whirlwind came out of the north: and a great cloud, and a fire infolding it, and brightness was about it:”. Jimmy Carter in October 1969, [...]
Pan Am Flight 214 – Update
A little over 2 years ago on the 45th Anniversary of the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 outside of the small Maryland community of Elkton, 6 Things to Considered published 6 paragraphs about the accident. There has been a number of comments on the post, a few by people who were directly impacted by [...]
It’s a Blue Moon
It’s commonly thought that a Blue Moon occurs when there are two full moons in the same month. This hasn’t always been the meaning of a ‘Blue Moon’. In 1946 an article by James Hugh Pruett appeared in Sky & Telescope March edition mistakenly referring to a Blue Moon as being the second full moon [...]
Evil in the Air
Two nights August 8 and 9, 1969 rocked Los Angeles. On the night of the August 8th at the rental home of Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife Sharon Tate a group of deranged hippies gruesomely killed Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Sharon Tate and Sharon Tate’s unborn child. Polanski was in [...]
May Day
May 1st is a holiday in many countries. One such holiday is International Workers’ Day (a name used interchangeably with May Day) a celebration of the achievements of the international labor movement. In the United States many view it as a socialist or communist celebration, although the day is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot [...]
Flowers – Myth or Fact
The leaves of a Poinsettia are poisonous. Myth. There has never been a death that has been proven to have occurred due to ingestion of the leaves or any other part of the flower. The myth began in 1919 when the child of an army officers died and the poinsettia was thought to have been [...]
Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice occurs at the instant that the sun is the greatest distance away from the observer and their hemisphere. The word solstice derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). During the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter, the earth is actually closer to the sun than in June/July. It is because the Northern [...]
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