The mysterious death of Henry Glover

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2010/06/the_mysterious_death_of_henry.html

In the wake of Katrina, a cop shoots a man, supposedly a looter, a friend brings the shot man and his brother to a police station for help, where the cops beat them, deny the shot man, Glover medical attention and then burn the body.

Cops baby. Woo-ee. Look out for those guys.

Mysterious disappearance of well-known psychic stuns family, friends

http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12611124

A 57 year old prominent psychic woman disappears mysteriously. Car still in the garage, purse still in the house, no signs of forced entry.

Go ahead, someone make a, "Why didn't she see THIS one coming eh?" joke.

Mysterious mountains found hidden beneath Antarctic ice

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0610/Mysterious-mountains-found-hidden-beneath-Antarctic-ice

So this is either The Savage Land or Atlantis or...?

Beneath a mile of ice, lay 8,000 foot mountains, complete with lakes, that aren't frozen, which, I don't really understand how that works at all. But, holy shit. For some reason this story freaks me out more than any other story I've reported on so far. It just gives me the heebie jeebies.

Follow Up: Mystery Solved!

Regarding that Clam Boat and the mystery containers:

Officials: Mysterious ocean catch was mustard gas

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ipu9BfrkcNVfAW_wtkfqmLOHi7gAD9G7A91O0

Let's hear it for our country:

"The Defense Department began using the ocean as a dumping ground for chemical and conventional munitions after World War II. The military says it stopped in 1970, and two years later Congress banned waste disposal in oceans, including chemical weapons.

Officials say it's impossible to know exactly how much and what type of weapons have been dumped in the ocean because of incomplete records. A 2001 Army report found 74 past instances of ocean disposal — 32 off U.S. shores and 42 off foreign coasts.

For example, in 1967 the Army dumped 4,577 one-ton containers of a mustard agent and 7,380 sarin rockets off the New Jersey shore, according to Army records.

Only some of the ocean dumps were mapped, and chemical munitions have been found in areas they weren't supposed to have been dumped, such as off Hawaii, said Craig Williams of the Chemical Weapons Working Group, a Kentucky-based organization."

So that's reassuring.

Paul Michael Combs commits suicide, deepening mystery

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20100609/NEWS01/6090347/1002/NEWS/Paul-Michael-Combs-commits-suicide--deepening-mystery

Man. This is a head scratching noodle of a doodle.

Alright. Check this.

In 2005, Rex Judd, who, besides having a fucking awesome name for a shady Florida millionaire, disappears after travelling to Thailand. For some reason, mysterious, authorities are really, really interested in finding out what happened to Mr. Judd. Enter a bizarre group of characters straight out of Elmore Leonard baby, "including a controversial Russian judge, a Canadian venture capitalist, and the 13th Duke of Manchester, a descendant of British royalty who now lives in Los Angeles."

Anyway, this guy Paul Combs who just killed himself told authorities he had information regarding Judd's disappearance. People who knew him doubt he would've killed himself, but then again, don't they always.

Combs and Judd were members of a group of wealthy businessmen who travel to Thailand together. That sounds not at all sketchy. The Russian, The Canadian and the Duke were all members of the same group.

Judd became a millionaire peddling get rich quick schemes, so you know, no real loss there. This whole deal is bizarre and crazy and totally interesting.

Mystery gray whale sighted again off Spain coast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8729000/8729064.stm

Paging Captain Ahab, your obsession is calling.

First off gray whales were thought to be extinct, so this is like, the opposite of most of the other mysterious news animal posts, you know, about animals dying en mass.

It went extinct in the 17th or 18th century for reasons unknown and now has appeared, for reasons unknown.

It's heading south at a slow pace, they don't know where it's going, but hey, let's hear it for a little positivity.

Mysterious orange chemicals leave Connah’s Quay car firm in a mess

http://www.flintshirechronicle.co.uk/flintshire-news/local-flintshire-news/2010/06/10/mysterious-orange-chemicals-leave-connah-s-quay-car-firm-in-a-mess-51352-26628689/

This is a strange one, and again, more mysterious news from jolly england.

A car company has 40 of it's vehicles suddenly becoming coated in an orange residue. No one knows what it is. But apparently it costs like 1,200 quid to clean, which is like, a lot of quids, apparently.

Researchers note mysterious decline in world snake population

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/06/research-note-myserious-decline-in-world-snake-population/1

Another one of "those" stories. More animals dying off mysteriously. Probably a good sign of good times ahead.

Populations are shrinking even in protected areas. At least we're losing mean bastards like the asp and a couple of types of vipers.

Clam boat pulls up 10 mysterious containers off New York, 1 breaks open and sickens crew

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9G6PND80

A fishing boat pulls up ten mystery canisters, one breaks open, Godzilla is born.

Well except that last part, but damn it all that sounds like the beginning of a cold war era paranoid scifi b movie.

Two crew members start to blister and have trouble breathing.

The boat's catch may have already been sold! Hilarious!

It may be a mustard agent, like World War I mustard agent.

::INSERT CATCH OF THE DAY JOKE::

A mysterious case

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/1.2155254

This is one messed up mysterious case. Jeffrey Weng, 19, Texan student, one year ago, picked up outside of a gay bar with a "hispanic friend" who "were hugging very closely". They offer the cab driver $60 to drive them to San Marcos, the cab driver says they didn't appear to be drunk, 20 miles into the drive, the driver hears the door open and hears Weng say "Where are you taking me?"

The driver says he doesn't believe Weng was pushed out, he thinks he jumped out, he also didn't realize Weng was gone for another two exits on the highway.

A woman calls 911 after seeing Weng's body face down in the road.

Long story short, the driver freaks out, drops off the other passenger, doesn't get his name. It turns out from the blood alchol level that Weng was drunk, but still.

Curiouser and curiouser. We all do dumb things while drunk. Leaving a cab going 70mph on the highway? I can't imagine being so drunk that seemed like a good idea, though I have done monumentally stupid things while drunk, but stomping out a cigarette bare foot in the dead of winter outside is one thing, this is something else.
What could someone say to make you jump out of a moving car? Is the cab driver covering for someone? SOMETHING?

Mysterious phone call that let Warren Anderson flee

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/Mysterious-phone-call-that-let-Warren-Anderson-flee/554180/H1-Article1-554550.aspx

This is an old bit of mysteriousnessness. In the 80s, in India, Union Carbide plant, accidentally (?) released a bit of poison that ended up killing a few thousand people. Warren Anderson, chairman of the company lands in India, and justly, is promptly arrested.

Not that justice was even really being done at the time, since he was being held under house arrest, at the Carbide guest house, which I imagine isn't terrible.

Anyway, then the chief minister receives a mysterious phone call. Anderson pays a bond, is released and promises to come back to stand trial.

It's what, 2010? Yeah he hasn't gone back yet. Who made that mysterious phone call? What did they say? Mysterious baby.

Bat plague: The mystery disease that threatens to wipe species out and why we depend on their survival

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1280531/Bat-plague-The-mystery-disease-threatens-wipe-depend-survival.html

Here we go again. More mass, species specific deaths. This time, bats, something sweeping across North America, "starving bats to death and leaving behind mass graves of thin, putrefied and fungus ridden bodies".

About one million bats have died of it, it's been dubbed "WNS" or white nosed syndrome, after the white powdery fungus left on their noses and wings.

Mysterious theft reported to police

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20100519/CRIME/5190301

This article might be proof that an EMP gun exists and is being used for petty crime.

A woman driving, her car suddenly stops and won't start. She reaches over to her purse to get her phone, hears a loud noise, something hits her in the face.

She wakes up 13 hours later sans purse.

13 hours. Hm. Maybe that's a clue. Also, what?

Eyewitness describes mysterious ‘sea drama’

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=401527

This sounds like transdimensional bleeding if I ever heard it.

A man sees a ship off the shore shoot off a distress flare, he gets his telescope, estimates it's about 12 nautical miles out, he sees people on the boat wearing life jackets, waving, orange objects in the water, too far off to know if it was people.

A search for the vessel yields nothing. Hm.

Mysterious Haze Leads to Hazardous Situation

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Mysterious-Haze-Leads-to-Hazardous-Situation-92994479.html

Sounds like the beginning of an episode of "Fringe". A FedEx driver saw a "mysterious haze" coming from the back of his truck.

Whatever that means. It's unclear what caused this "mysterious haze". Is the government dosing the FedEx drivers of the country? OR ARE THEY DOSING ALL OF US?!?!

Thousand of Antelopes Killed Due to Mystery Disease

http://topnews.co.uk/25692-thousand-antelopes-killed-due-mystery-disease

The more mysterious deaths of groups of specific animals I read about, the more worried, or maybe I should say, paranoid I become.

This one. Thousands of rare Saiga antelopes have been found dead in Kazakhstan. A majority of the dead were females with calves, whatever that means.

It's a "gravely" endangered species and 40% of the world's population just died mysteriously. That's a good sign.

Mysterious plaque at Green Lake Park: ODO '71 "Rock on…"

http://blog.seattlepi.com/ingreenlake/archives/205240.asp

Part of me is afraid this mystery is easily solved by asking the right bored, rich, white people. It could be something as stupid as some kind of dumb inside joke from a bunch of rich kids a bunch of summers ago.

On the other hand, it could be way cooler.

A plaque on a rock reading, "ODO '71 "Rock On...""

Mysterious orange lights baffle Christchurch residents

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8182740.Mysterious_orange_lights_baffle_Christchurch_residents/

So either mysterious things are happening in England all the time or they just really like to use the word "Mysterious". Anyway.

More lights in the sky. Four spherical orange balls. One after another with the same flight path.

This quote pretty much says it all:

"The first intrigued us, the second confused us, the third bewildered us and the fourth freaked me out. "

Mysterious disease kills camels

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar/3762-mysterious-disease-kills-camels.html

It's killing camels in large numbers, quickly, in hours, showing no symptoms. It's even killing prize camels, bred for racing.

True story.

Mystery As Century-Old Swiss Watch Discovered In Ancient Tomb Sealed For 400 Years

http://beforeitsnews.com/news/40/853/Mystery_as_century-old_Swiss_watch_discovered_in_ancient_tomb_sealed_for_400_years.html

I kind of feel like the name of this article should be "DEAD TIME TRAVELER FOUND".

Basically they opened a tomb that has been sealed for 400 years in China and found a 100 year old watch. Yeah. That happened.

Oh and it had stopped at 10:06am. Whatever the hell you can make of that. Oh yeah the watch was marked "Swiss" even though "Swiss" wasn't a country yet. And there weren't watches during the Ming Dynasty.

So, we're all in agreement then? Time traveler?

Mysterious lights

http://www.fenlandcitizen.co.uk/news/Mysterious-lights.6317731.jp

A woman in England saw more mysterious lights (apparently, they've been seeing quite a lot of them?). Three lights in succession, one red and two orange that came out from behind a tree, "zipped across the sky" and all disappeared in the same place.

They moved too quickly to be paper lanterns they said.

Mysterious graffiti is the cat’s whiskers

http://www.expressandstar.com/pictures/2010/05/06/mysterious-graffiti-is-the-cats-whiskers/

Ok. After poisoned cat stories and so many dead children, let's have a fun mysterious story.

Someone has been spray painting the silhouettes of black cats around this English town and nobody knows whose doing it.

Isn't that a nice story? Let's go have a cup of coffee, maybe take a walk around the block, clear our heads, meet back here in a little bit. Woo. Man. So many dead children stories involve the word "mysterious". That's, I don't know what that is, but it is that, most definitely.

Girls contract mysterious disease

http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=18499

I've learned quickly that most "mysterious illness" stories are usually in impoverished areas, which means "mysterious in so far as everyone is sick and poor and ill equipt to handle serious illness outbreaks of any kind"

When I first saw this headline I was afraid this was another one of those stories. It is not. It is way more f'ed up.

Eleven girls from 10-16 are, and lets actually quote this so you can get the full horror of it all,

"have a wilted look, are given to weeping, and grab their own throats and roll over."

Good god almighty. What? Demon possession? Some kind of contagious existential terror? Stay away from that corner of Nepal for the time being. Especially if you are a girl from 10-16.

More 'alien' footage surfaces as Chalfonts' UFO mystery deepens

http://www.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/south-buckinghamshire-news/local-buckinghamshire-advertiser-news/2010/05/13/more-alien-footage-surfaces-as-chalfonts-ufo-mystery-deepens-82398-26438980/

I urge you to go to this page and check out the video footage they have, that a man took of an alien in his shed.

The story is there was a video of a craft hovering over a pub (natch) that was then chased off by jets.

The video, I don't know man, it's intense. It could obviously be a fake or obviously real. I can't imagine anyone being able to keep it together and film the thing that close up. I don't know. Take a look for yourself.

Also, I don't want this blog to turn into just another alien sighting site, but damn, I am shocked by how many stories there are, on like actual news sites, not just blogs or whatever. Very interesting. Very, mysterious.

Mysterious man offers to buy land on Egypt-Gaza border

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/mysterious-man-offers-buy-land-egypt-gaza-border

Holy fucking shit. This story is fucking out of control. And also sounds like on of those stories that you should definitely not investigate further, because whoever is behind this, has a lot of money and like the Cylons, has a plan.

A man calling himself "General Gabri" has approached Sinai tribes about buying some land from them, land between the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip. 14km area worth around "tens of millions of pounds". General Gabri told them to set their own price, even if it was for more than the land was worth. He said he wanted to convert the area into a, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, "free trade zone". That doesn't sound suspicious at all.

Oh and he told the tribal leaders he'd make them partners in the deal. Let's see where this is going. Actually. Lets not.

PET OWNERS WARNED AFTER MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CATS

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/pet-owners-warned-after-mysterious-death-of-cats-1.705864?referrerPath=news/

Around 10 cats dead of poisoning, apparently anti freeze.

Last year apparently 7 or 8 cats died in the same way.

Goddamn you England. First you tax our tea. Then this.

Get your act together and catch what is clearly either teenagers or OCCULTISTS!

or worse

OCCULTIST TEENAGERS!

107 babies die from mysterious fever in Nyala, South Darfur

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SMAR-85R8TU?OpenDocument

March to May 988 babies have been infected with something that can kill them in up to 48 hours after being born.

This is in a community where two to three newborns have to share a bed.

But hey, contraceptives are bad right? So is abortion. Lets hear it for pro life! Life completely unchecked and out of control! So much life it kills and makes the hospital stink with the corpses of the dead young.

Hooray for the first world eh? Anyway. This is fucked. There are some demons that feed on babies exclusively. Also, there are some governments that need to test things. That's all we're saying on that subject. Mysterious.

Strange creature pulled from northern Ontario creek disappears

http://travel.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2010/05/21/14035496.html

This story has everything I love about the world in it: Canada. Reappearing/Disappearing Mysterious Creatures. Local Lore. Omens. Good stuff.

First off, I am glad as hell I don't have a dog, it seems people are always discovering fucked up shit while walking their dogs, bodies, mysterious creatures, used condoms, disgusting.

So somebody walking their dog discover a foot long creature "with a bald face and paws, glazed eyes, warthog like mouth and a rat's tail".

You have your usual university type skeptics sayings its just a this or just a that, but the more interesting people of the area have differing theories.

"According to the residents of the community, this isn't the first sighting of such a creature. In fact, the people in the area call the legendary creature "omagimaakos" - or "the ugly one." Sainnawap says his great-uncle came across a similar animal in the 1950s"

The body disappeared and then locals went out looking for it or another like it. They didn't find anything which is good because Sainnawap goes on to say that the "Omagimaakos" is an omen of bad things about to happen. Goddamn. It turns out culture can be fucking interesting. At least other peoples culture. American Culture is like, "We call these 'McGriddles' and they are an omen of immanent heart disease and slow thought patterns".

Russia jails 'pirate' over Arctic Sea ship mystery

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8668305.stm

ok. This is a tricky wicket. Or is that a sticky wicket? The mystery DEEPENS.

So last summer a ship called "The Arctic Sea" which is a fucking stupid name for a ship because it makes every goddamn thing you read about it that much more confusing, is a Russian timber ship that leaves Finland with a crew of 15, and then disappears.

Then reappears off the coast of West Africa, Moscow announces they've captured the hijackers and rescued the crew. In the interim rumors fly about a possible weapons delivery for Iran, Russian denies that there are missiles on the boat.

A bunch of men are charged, plead guilty as part of a plea deal, then someone starts to talk, changing the official story, saying something closer to the idea that there were no hijackers, in fact, they had been rescued by the ship. Someone uses the phrase "set up". What?

And then to complete the bizarre story:

Also last September, a senior figure close to Israeli intelligence told the BBC that Israel had been linked to the interception of the Arctic Sea.

The source said Israel had told Moscow it knew the ship was secretly carrying a Russian air defence system for Iran. There has been no official confirmation of the report.

Girl found dead at home

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Girl-found-dead-at-home/articleshow/6000093.cms

A 14 year old girl killed herself by self immolation. That's not when you jerk off with a belt around your neck and a lemon in your mouth by the way, if'n you were confused. That's when you set yourself on fire.

Apparently she had gotten into a fight with her family. Can you imagine if this happened in the U.S.? This would make the Phoebe Prince business look like, I don't know, something a lot smaller, like, remember Amy Fisher? No wait, that doesn't really work. But you get me.

Especially in light of all the anti bully legislation in the wake of the Prince case, can you imagine what would happen if it had been a girl who killed herself after fighting with her family? "Congress Passes Anti Family Fighting Bill". From here on out, parents must chill out and totally give their kids some space man, it's the law.

Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-mystery-crop-damage,0,187535.story

Back to Tennessee for more mysterious business. Tiny white dots are appearing on the plants and killing them. It doesn't matter if it's the organic hippy love farm or the tough as nails, old school, spray it with poison and sell it to the people farm, both are affected by the mysterious plague. And even sadder still, it's killed two baby birds. And dead birds baby? Bad omen in anybodys book.

"Farmers we spoke with are convinced something in the air caused this damage."

Down home paranoia. Can not beat it. Paging Phil Collins.