This vast swat of land is located in eastern California in the northern Mohave desert bordering the Great Basin desert. Death Valley is the hottest place on earth and the driest place in North America. The highest temperature ever measured occurred on July 10, 1913 when a...
Today, the South Pole aka Antarctica is a super giant land mass that is very cold and is almost entirely covered with ice and snow. But, back in the days of the dinosaurs, the south pole; Antarctica was very warm, ice free, and the great land mass...
In the continent and country of Australia, there is the largest known dinosaur footprint. A footprint of a gigantic sauropod (a long necked dinosaur) was discovered in northwest Australia, measuring almost 65 inches or 1.75 meters, according to the lead author of the report, Steve Salisbury at...
On May 13, 2020, a very rare coin from an ancient Jewish revolt against the Romans was discovered in Jerusalem, Israel. The ancient coin belongs to the time of the Bar Kokaba revolt, circa 132 CE ,(Common Era). or AD(After Death of Jesus Christ). The obverse (front...
There are two types of yoga. The most common form is the type of yoga practiced at various schools or social interest places where there is a course on instruction for a few weeks. Usually, people pay a reasonable cost for the classes, but some teachers demand exorbitant, unreasonable high tuition. The first type of yoga starts with the lotus position(sitting straight upright with crossed over legs), with some deep breathing in and out. Sometimes, there is also a little meditation or contemplation about the lotus position and temporarily emptying the mind of worries and problems.
In July 2011, a Chinese coin from the Qing Dynasty of the reign of Manchu Emperor Kangxi, cast between 1667 and 1671, was found in Canada’s Yukon Territory, northwest of Carmarks, near gold rush trials. The gold rush trials started over two centuries later in 1898 when people headed to Dawson City and the Klondike gold fields.
On February 21, 2020, twenty two silver coins, from a 1715 shipwreck, were discovered by a Florida man, Jonah Mortinez, age 43,from Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who used a metal detector along Turtle Trail beach in Florida. The coins were discovered after a powerful storm swept across...
On October 5, 1956, a movie was made in color, at a cost of $13 million called “The Ten Commandments” with the main stars being Charleston Heston as Moses, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Seti I, Yul Brynner as Ramses II, Anne Baxter as Nefertari,and Yvonne DeCarlo as...
There is an ancient belief that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day; a time for misfortune. Actually, there is no scientific evidence to verify such a claim. We will study how such an unfounded fear of that date came into being. There is a blending of...
For each month, occultists and jewelers have ascribed a certain precious stone and in some cases a few precious stones, to correspond to people that have born on that month. Alleged supernatural and special virtues of these stones can be obtained by wearing that particular stone pertaining...
In our modern day and age, with the world’s oceans and seas heavily explored and very much traveled upon, we have absolutely no proof of the existence of mermaids. These alleged marine creatures that are half human females from the head to the waist down and thereafter...
For centuries, seafarers greatest fear may well have been battling a sea monster which could destroy their vessel and possibly devour the crew. There are three mythical sea creatures many early mariners held in terror, all being giants: the sea serpent, the octopus, and the squid. Perhaps...
In some areas where people live, black cats that are completely black in fur, are a rarity, and this factor adds to their mysterious trait. Also, in the night, a black cat can be practically invisible, so people in the darkness see just the two eyes of the...
Crystal balls were once, years ago, much more common in occultist practices than they are today. The typical type of crystal ball is a very large, thick, heavy solid glass sphere that would be set upon an extremely dark; a blackish huge square-cut piece of wool, cloth,...
For centuries, families who live on homesteads, farms, and ranches would experience, in certain parts of the world, droughts. Crops began to fail and the supply of fresh, safe drinking water became scarce. At such times, certain people would engage in the activity known as “water witching”. A...
In the earliest times, mankind has believed the sun, moon, stars, and planets were all divinities: gods or goddesses. For many centuries, men did not separate the existence of planets and erroneously thought planets were stars that did not twinkle in the sky. And primitive men thought...
Since antiquity, there has been the belief that the lines on the palms of the hands indicate character traits of the person as well as what his or her fortune or destiny holds. Although palmistry deals with interpretation of the lines of the entire hand, there are four...
After thousands of years, but still centuries and centuries ago, inventors produced mirrors that the common people would regard as magical. These mirrors in particular are mirrors built a certain way that are trick mirrors. With such a mirror, for instance, a slim person can stand in front...
In ancient and medieval Asia and especially the Middle East, are stories of carpets that magically fly through the air, especially very high in the sky, while allowing people, who sit down in the center, to ride these carpets. The most famous tale on such supernatural carpets...
The Christmas season is upon us. The mass of Christ is not so far away. December 25th ushers in Christmas for the peoples who observe the Gregorian Calendar and January 7th of the new year is Christmas of the Orthodox Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar date of December 25th...
Since antiquity, there have been wizards and magicians who have claimed to perform magical acts. People have seen, heard, and experienced various strange occult feats. Some of these mysterious; awesome occurrences are studied in this article. During the Middle Ages of Europe, sometimes wizards and magicians would...
Since antiquity, people have carried or wore what they believed to be magical charms to bring them wealth, power, good health, protection, success, and good luck. Other people, skeptical in such paranormality would simply scoff at them. Yet, there are other people who do not really believe,...
For thousands of years, alchemy was mainly concerned , in classical folklore, with two objectives. First, to change base metals, especially lead, into gold. Second, to discover an elixir of immortality or at least to live in the physical sense for many centuries. Base metals were considered to be the...
A special holiday celebrated all throughout Mexico, that is also a public holiday, is the “Day of the Dead” which is known in Spanish as Di’a de Muertos or in English speaking countries(Anglophone countries) with Mexican populations as Di’a de los Muertos. On this solemn day, Mexicans honor their...
These 5 haunted houses are just a few of the many, many haunted houses in America. They are as follows:(1). The Jennie Wade House, Gettysburg PA. (2). The Farnsworth House, Gettysburg, PA 3).The Whaley House, San Diego, California (4) The Lizzy Borden House, Fall River, Massachusetts (5).Villisca Axe Murder...
