Ever wondered how the Easter Island statues (moai) got those red hats? Me neither, but here goes. Evidently the several tonne red scoria rocks were quarried from inside a crater of an ancient volcano and then rolled by some unlucky Polynesians to ceremonial platforms along the coast. So how did they managed to lift them [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘mystery’
August 19, 2009
When Something Goes Boom In The Night
Kathy Cullingworth and her son at are at odds to explain why their refrigerator exploded in the middle of the night, practically destroying their entire kitchen. Dodgy casserole perhaps? Initially Kathy thought it was a bomb exploding or at the very least a lorry crashing through the kitchen window but on further inspection she discovered [...]
June 6, 2009
Where Did It Friggin Go?
What happened to Air France Flight 447? With today’s technology you would have thought they would have picked up the bleeping beacon pretty damn quick, but alas no. Maybe send a sub with sonar but alas no. And pray tell why isn’t Google Earth entering the search, throw a satellite over the area and snap [...]
March 26, 2008
D.B. Cooper’s Parachute ?
Just when you thought the mystery of D.B. Cooper would never be solved, a couple of kids go and find a parachute in their backyard .Who the hell is D.B. Cooper you might ask? Well, he was either a pure genius or a friggin loon, depending on his fate. No one knows his real [...]
