Archaeologists located the buried Viking ship and ritual center in Norway with ground-penetrating radar. Source: https://www.livescience.com/viking-ship-cult-burial.html
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He Called it a ‘Scamdemic’ – Then Saw His Family Getting Sick
A remarkable first-person story in today’s Washington Post: I used to call it the “scamdemic.” I thought it was an overblown media hoax. I made fun of people for wearing masks. I went all the way down the rabbit hole and fell hard on my own sword, so if you want to hate me or blame me, that’s fine. I’m doing…
Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies at Age 65
I’ve only paid for a magazine subscription once in my life — to Jack Rickard’s Boardwatch magazine, which through the late 1990s was the geekiest read in town. You can still read 70 issues of the magazine from more than 25 years ago at Archive.org. But this week the small Southeast Missourian newspaper reported that the magazine’s original editor/publisher Jack Rickard…
Store CCTV captures ‘paranormal activity’
A number of strange occurrences in an allegedly haunted antiques shop have been caught on CCTV camera. Formerly a 19th-Century funeral parlour, Barnsl… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334149/store-cctv-captures-paranormal-activity…
Russia Says New Weapon Blew Up In Nuclear Accident Last Week
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The failed missile test that ended in an explosion killing five atomic scientists last week on Russia’s White Sea involved a small nuclear power source, according to a top official at the institute where they worked. The men “tragically died while testing a new special device,” Alexei Likhachev, the chief executive officer of…
Blade Runner Actor Rutger Hauer Dies Aged 75
ikhider writes: Breukelen, Amsterdam born actor, Rutger Hauer, who played Roy Batty in the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner and improvised the “tears in the rain” dialogue as his android character died, has too finally passed away last Friday after an illness. His funeral was held on Wednesday, July 24th. Hauer starred in TV since 1969 and then went on to…