- I see delusional kooks who see dead people. Haley Joel
Osment may not have uttered those words in “The Sixth Sense,” but he would have
if the weirdos of Modesto, Calif. freak show/paranormal activity group “Chill
Seekers” had been written into the script. These are the kooks who hold
séances, insist that inanimate objects are possessed with evil spirits and come
up with all sorts of other chicanery that makes the less suggestible among us
roll their eyes. Still, even for groups like the Chill Seekers, this is new.
Members of the group are convinced that they have concrete proof that a Navy aircraft carrier is haunted. They
routinely carry out such investigations and for their most recent case, the
group traveled to Alameda on the 70th anniversary of the USS Hornet. The Hornet
is an iconic ship with a long and storied history of destroying enemy ships and
aircraft, but it has also been rumored to be haunted in recent years. Those
tales led the Chill Seekers, a group founded one year ago, to make the road trip
to visit the ship and see for themselves if it truly is haunted. They have
already spent thousands of dollars of their own money on equipment that they
hope will help them find what they are looking for, so these mental cases are
all-in and there is no bailing out now. Their investigations center on what
they call a "spirit box," which scans through radio frequencies.
Chill Seekers members believe spirits communicate using white noise and by
manipulating transmissions, so monitoring radio frequencies is the best way to
determine if they are present or not. Group members know they will be heckled,
doubted and mocked, and have issued an open challenge to waste several hours of
your time by going on one of their hunts and seeing for yourself just what a
bunch of windbags they are………
- Adele has never been accused of being the most pleasant,
sunny person in the music industry, but she insists that the heat she’s
receiving for allegedly screaming down noted misogynist Chris Brown Sunday
night at the Grammy Awards. Images surfaced after the show of Adele, standing a
few feet from Brown with her mouth agape and a stern expression on her face,
appearing to scream at him for his
refusal to stand when Frank Ocean won an award. Brown and Ocean nearly brawled
in a recording studio parking lot a couple of weeks back and when Ocean won Best
Urban Contemporary Album, Brown remained seated while the rest of the crowd
stood and cheered. Initially, it seemed that the British songstress took issue
with that perceived lack of respect and openly chided Brown for it, but she
took to Twitter to let everyone know that wasn’t the case.
“Chris Brown and I
were complimenting each other in that photo actually!” she tweeted on Tuesday.
Although the picture in question seems to show a very different story, a second
photo from the evening showed Adele and Brown posing happily for a picture
together, so maybe she is telling the truth and she is one of the two or three
people in the world who does not currently have a beef with Brown. The story
would be so much better if she had excoriated Brown and reamed him in front of
some of the biggest names in the industry for being a Grade-A d-bag who
wouldn’t even get off his butt and do a polite golf clap for an award winner
because the two of them are beefing like a couple of 10-year-old fighting over
who gets to play the Xbox next, but there are always other awards shows Adele
can ream someone at………
- Just as a death in the über-dangerous X-Games event known
as Snowmobile
Freestyle was probably inevitable, so too was the reaction after that first
death took place. Snowmobile Freestyle competitor Caleb Moore died from
injuries suffered at X Games Aspen last month. He passed away on Jan. 31 in
Colorado, one week after his attempt at a backflip in the freestyle event
failed and the skis on his 450-pound snowmobile caught the lip of the landing
area and sent him flying over the handlebars. In an event where competitors fly
dozens of feet into the air on 500-pound snowmobiles and perform maneuvers that
leave them temporarily detached from said snowmobiles as those machines float
above them in mid-air, it seemed inevitable that something would go horribly
wrong and a rider would not survive. Moore, a four-time X Games Snowmobile
Freestyle medalist, became that first casualty and now, the fallout has begun.
With X Games going global more than ever this year, a snowmobile freestyle
exhibition was scheduled for X Games Tignes 2013 in France next month. That
event has been canceled, ESPN announced Tuesday, citing a review of the sport
that began after Moore’s death. "Our review of snowmobile freestyle
continues. In the meantime, we have decided to forego the planned demonstration
freestyle event at X Games Tignes," ESPN, which now runs X Games, said in
its statement. Without the snowmobile event, X Games Tignes the second of six
global X Games events this year, will feature snowboarding and skiing
competition. Along with ESPN, the International Series of Champions canceled
freestyle events that had been planned in conjunction with AMSOIL Championship
Snocross races in Williamsburg, Mich., and Lake Geneva, Wis., out of respect
for Moore. All of these gestures are fine, but maybe this all should have
happened sooner, before someone died…….
- Who knew the spirit of the Salem witch trials was still
alive and well in the 21st century? Give it up for Papua New Guinea, where a woman accused of
witchcraft was stripped, tortured and bound by a group of fanatical accusers
who then burned her alive in front of hundreds of witnesses in a small town.
Amazingly, no one stepped in to stop the murder and it instantly became one of
the highest profile sorcery-related murders in the history of the South Pacific
island nation. Worse still, many of the locals treated the event as if it were
all a show or a holiday parade, taking pictures of the entire assault. Papua
New Guinea’s prime minister, police and diplomats all condemned the killing of Kepari
Leniata, a 20-year-old mother who had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a
6-year-old boy who died in the hospital the day before, police spokesman
Dominic Kakas said. Leniata was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in
gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western
Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen in a scene that feels like it
should have happened three centuries ago. Deputy Police Commissioner Simon
Kauba doesn’t sound impressed with the efforts of Mount Hagen investigators and
excoriated them for failing to make a single arrest, Kakas said. "He was
very, very disappointed that there's been no arrest made as yet," Kakas
said. Attendees for the murder reportedly refused to cooperate with police,
whom Kauba believes are not putting enough effort into solving the case. "The
incident happened in broad daylight in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses and
yet we haven't picked up any suspects yet. He was very, very curious about that
and he blasted the investigators on the phone," Kakas added. The prime
suspect so far is the victim’s own husband, who made himself look much less
suspicious by fleeing the province. Sorcery has long been a part of Papuan New
Guinean culture, but responses to alleged sorcery has grown increasingly
violent in recent years. Police Commissioner Tom Kulunga described the murder
as "shocking and devilish” and suggested that it might be time for the
island nation’s people to move into a more modern era. "We are in the 21st
century and this is totally unacceptable," Kulunga said in a statement.
Hell, at this point the 19th century would be a massive upgrade………
- Apple has mastered devices you can sit on your desktop and
use to go online, ones that you can hold in your hand and use to Skype, others
than sit on your lap and allow you to edit videos and gadgets that store your
entire digital music library, so what’s next for the house that Steve Jobs
built? How about the iWatch? Rumors are growing increasingly prevalent that the
so-called
"iWatch" may indeed be more than just a pet project and could in fact
be on track as a bonafide, top-priority endeavor. Sources claim that Apple's
wristwatch team has as many as 100 product designers on it, including senior
director of engineering James Foster and manager Achim Pantfoerder, and even if
that 100-member team is a slight exaggeration, there is enough smoke wafting up
into the air to suggest that the company has indeed been working on the idea
for some time. Multiple reports have sketched out a picture of a team that
includes managers, members of the marketing group and software and hardware
engineers who previously worked on the iPhone and iPad. Few details have leaked
out about the watch, but it reportedly sports a curved glass surface and runs a
modified version of iOS. Depending on whom you believe, the watch may already
be in testing and Apple has reached out to manufacturers about coming on board.
The company has tried its hand at wearable devices in the past, mostly fitness
trackers, but none has ever developed enough to hit the market. Maybe the
iWatch is the culmination of those efforts and a sign that Apple has learned
from its past mistakes and is ready to combine the idea of wearable technology
and something other than a computer, which could be good given that its profits
last year were the lowest they had been in some time……..
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