For millennia, humans have viewed the northern and southern lights – aurora borealis and aurora australis – and created myths and folklore to explain the dancing lights they saw in the sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/legends-folklore-myths-northern-southern-lights-auroras…
Tag: Folklore
What’s a Blue Moon, and when is the next one?
We have a Blue Moon coming up on October 31, 2020. It’ll be called a Blue Moon because it’ll be the 2nd of 2 full moons in a single calendar month. And it’ll be near a bright red object in the sky, Mars! Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-blue-moon…
Exorcist visits Icelandic farm near ‘elf hill’
The exorcism was performed following a lengthy spate of unexplained phenomena in and around the property. Steeped with folklore and mythology, Iceland… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337892/exorcist-visits-icelandic-farm-near-elf-hill…
Every New Volvo Model Is Now Electronically Limited To 112 MPH
Starting in May 2020, every new Volvo will stop accelerating when its speedometer displays 112 mph. It also announced a feature named Care Key that lets owners set additional speed-related restrictions when letting another motorist drive their car. Autoblog reports: This number wasn’t chosen at random, or because it’s thought to bring good luck in Swedish folklore. It simply corresponds to…
Last full supermoon of 2020
The May 2020 full moon presents the 3rd in a series of 3 full supermoons. It’s the 3rd-closest, 3rd-largest and 3rd-brightest full moon of this year. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/last-full-moon-supermoon-of-2020…
Chinese New Year 2020 falls on January 25
Chinese New Year 2020 falls on January 25 in Asia (January 24 in the west), beginning the Year of the Rat. China’s public holiday will be January 24-30. In Beijing this week, Chinese health officials expressed concerns about a coronavirus now spreading during this heavy travel season in Asia. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/chinese-new-year-lunar-new-year…
‘La Llorona’ captured on film in Colombia ?
An eerie video clip of the legendary ‘wailing ghost’ of Latin American folklore has recently appeared online. The footage, which has been picked up by… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333519/la-llorona-captured-on-film-in-colombia…
How Rabies Inspired Folktales of Werewolves and Vampires
A look back at the folklore of rabies in humans reveals ties to beliefs in werewolves, vampires and other monsters. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rabies-inspired-werewolf-vampire-folktales.html
The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say
‘Spacetime foam’ might just be the wildest thing in the known universe, and we’re just starting to understand it. From a report: A persistent cosmological puzzle has been troubling physicists since 1917: what is the universe made of? Complicating this already-mind-boggling question is the fact that our best theories conflict with our observations of the universe. Albert Einstein, according to scientific…
Cosmic Yeti from the dawn of the universe found lurking in dust
Astronomers accidentally discovered the footprints of a monster galaxy in the early universe that has never been seen before. Like a cosmic Yeti, the scientific community generally regarded these galaxies as folklore, given the lack of evidence of their existence, but astronomers in the United States and Australia managed to snap a picture of the beast for the first time. Source:…