Toll road firm Transurban has left out key details in the announcement of its $815 million purchase of the Pocahontas Parkway in Richmond, Virginia. Transurban managing director Kim Edwards on Wednesday boasted the road in the former Confederate capital was "a very good acquisition." On the surface it all looked swell, with the road reporting a 6 per cent lift in traffic volumes last year. But Edwards did not tell the full story of the 14 kilometre road, which is near Richmond International Airport. The Pocahontas Parkway is perhaps the most haunted toll road in the US, even the world. There have been frequent sightings of Algonquian Indian ghosts chanting around the Parkway…
(Also read: "Entity on the Road")[\p]
India's Forrest Gump runs into record books
Cheered by thousands, a four-year-old boy dubbed "India's Forrest Gump" ran 65 kilometres Tuesday in setting what his coach said was a national and mostly likely a world record…
One big bang, or were there many?
Review: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
Daniel Pinchbeck's latest book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl is one that I have been looking forward to for some time. His first book, Breaking Open the Head, ranks as one of the best that I've read over the past decade - in both style and substance. In it, Pinchbeck described his own journey from city-slicker cynic to shamanic convert, in the most exquisite prose that one could imagine. In fact, in my review of that book I felt he had reached the rare heights achieved by few writers - those of the calibre of Aldous Huxley - capable of describing the seemingly ineffable…
Twilight of an ancient knowledge
For centuries, New Zealand's Maoris have used intimate observation of nature to harvest eels and predict the weather. That marvelous legacy is endangered by climate change…
Bell Witch's town eager for “Haunting”
It has been nearly 200 years since the ghostly entity known as the Bell Witch came to visit an affluent farmer and his family along the Red River in Robertson County. And two centuries later, the frightening tales and mysterious events surrounding the Bell family and the eerie voice that called itself "Kate" have caught Hollywood's attention. Filmed in Romania, An American Haunting, the 90-minute horror movie starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek, shows a supernatural drama that shocks even those who grew up with the legend. It opens today and is showing in Clarksville…
(Also read: "The Bell Witch")
Life on other planets: The house the Venusians built
When George Van Tassel began work on the domed structure he called the Integratron, he claimed it was designed by architects from Venus. It was never finished but last weekend, a group of devotees celebrated his memory with a Retro UFO Convention…
El Chupa De Mayo
Today is El Cinco De Mayo (”The Fifth of May” in Spanish), which commemorates the defeat of the French army by the Mexicans led by General Ignacio Zaragoza at The Battle of Puebla in 1862. Many cities with significant Mexican and Chicano populations throughout the United States schedule special events on the 5th of May. It has been embraced as a day to celebrate Latino culture throughout Hispanic America, which, of course, today covers all of North America as well. Therefore, in our tip of the hat to El Cinco De Mayo, today we celebrate El Chupa De Mayo, in honor of Chupacabras…
Other worlds: Eight amazing alien encounters
Tourist shoots UFO in Penang
Could the object in the picture be an unidentified flying object? These are among the questions raised after the object was captured on film by a guest at the Paradise Sandy Beach Resort in Tanjung Bungah on Tuesday. The Australian tourist was photographing the sunrise around 8am from the balcony of his hotel room when he caught the object on film…
Puzzling dunes seen on Saturn's mysterious moon Titan
Titan, the planet Saturn's most mysterious moon, now poses a fresh puzzle: mile upon mile of rippling dunes just like the desert sand dunes of the Sahara or Arabia have been discovered on its tarry surface by radar astronomers -- but what they're made of, nobody knows…
