Tag: Christmas

Why don’t evergreen trees change color and drop their leaves?

As temperatures drop, broad-leafed deciduous trees – think maples and oaks – withdraw the green chlorophyll from their leaves. Their leaves turn colors and fall. Evergreens solve the problem of winter in a different way. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/why-dont-evergreen-trees-change-drop-leaves…

Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of ‘Sealand’

Late Christmas Eve, 1966, a retired British army major named Paddy Roy Bates piloted a motorboat seven miles off the coast of England to an abandoned anti-aircraft platform “and declared it conquered,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Urbina. Bates used it as a pirate radio station, sometimes spending several months there while living on tins of corned beef, rice pudding, flour,…

Hacker Who Launched DDoS Attacks on Sony, EA, and Steam Gets 27 Months in Prison

An anonymous reader shares a report: A 23-year-old man from Utah was sentenced this week to 27 months in prison for a series of DDoS attacks that took down online gaming service providers like Sony’s PlayStation Network, Valve’s Steam, Microsoft’s Xbox, EA, Riot Games, Nintendo, Quake Live, DOTA2, and League of Legends servers, along with many others. Named Austin Thompson, but…

Toys ‘R’ Us, Back From the Dead, Will Open US Stores in 2019

Maybe American kids will only have to live through one Christmas without Toys “R” Us. About a year after shuttering U.S. operations, the remnant of the defunct toy chain is set to return this holiday season by opening about a half dozen U.S. stores and an e-commerce site, according to a report. From the report: Richard Barry, a former Toys “R”…

Beware! Your Next Thrift Store Purchase May Come With Ghosts

A thrift store in North Carolina recently made headlines when they sold a 1950s haunted bedroom set for $1,000. Haunted items at thrift stores are actually more common than we think. And it makes sense, as we don’t know the history of the items that are brought there, who owned them, or what happened to… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/beware-your-next-thrift-store-purchase-may-come-with-ghosts/…

Bookstores band together for Independent Bookstore Day

Source: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/24/18512589/independent-bookstore-day-book-crawl…

A Famous UFO Case? Or, a Military Test Gone Wrong?

On October 5, 2015, here at Mysterious Universe, Micah Hanks wrote an article titled “The Cash-Landrum Incident: Was a Nuclear Aircraft Involved?” Micah’s article began as follows: “Of all the best-known and often reviewed UFO cases of the last few decades, many would contend that one of the most puzzling had been the Cash-Landrum incident,… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/a-famous-ufo-case-or-a-military-test-gone-wrong/…

Strange and Frightening Encounters With Forest Spirits

Throughout all of human history the forests of our world have always held a special allure. The trees have birthed countless legends and myths, as well as spawned all manner of forest entities, sprites, and spirits. Just walking amongst the tranquil woods one can feel why this might be so, as it is a place… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/strange-and-frightening-encounters-with-forest-spirits/…