Fort Collins middle school students sickened by mysterious odor

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-odor-forces-evacuation-of-fort-collins-middle-school-13-hospitalized-20111118,0,903823.story

What did I just say? Another mysterious odor story. There are loads of these! I have no idea what it means, but suspect it has something to do with the antichrist.
Or global warming.
Or a third, less frightening thing.

Honestly, usually I just try to deliver the news in a way that's neither entertaining nor not entertaining, I don't usually get involved in, you know, the politics of the whole thing, but not only is the writing of this article silly to the point of hilarity it also contains chilling quotes from the youth of today.

Like a middle schooler lamenting the fact that she had to leave her kindle in her locker.

Or the reporting reporter saying that there was "an army" of firemen and police.

::sigh::

Anyhoo. The usual, weird smell, no one can identify it or agree what it smells like and some people can't smell it at all.

Mysterious, Triangle-Shaped Alien Skull Found in Peru

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/227335/82/Mysterious-Triangle-Shaped-Alien-Skull-Found-in-Peru

You know you can trust your sources when they put the word "scientists" in "quotes".

"It has a non-human appearance because the head is triangular and big, almost the same size as the body. At first we believed it to be a child's body until Spanish and Russian doctors came and confirmed that, yes, it's an extraterrestrial being."

So it was either a deformed Peruvian child or an alien. You know, one or the other.

Mysterious Odor Returns at School

http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/561900/Mysterious-Odor-Returns-at-School.html?nav=510


This is a classic style bit of mysterious news, the old "mysterious odor" story. You have no idea how many of these stories there are and like excuses and buttholes, they all stink (UGH.)

What's great is that whatever this mysterious odor is, it's causing nausea, headaches and eye irritation and even though they don't know what it is, they know it's not coming from the school (even though everyone in the school is smelling it).

How about this ominous bit of a closing line?

"As she looked outside, she said, she saw a smoky haze"

Mystery lights 'similar' to 1978

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4497141/Mystery-lights-similar-to-1978

Now we're in New Zealand for more mystery lights. "Orangey and Reddish lights" in three separate locations on Boxing Day.

Witnesses made out flashing lights on the lights as they went by.

Four orange lights flying soundlessly in formation.

Mysterious.

Mysterious Fairfax Murder of Vanessa Pham Remains Unsolved

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/virginia/mysterious-fairfax-murder-of-vanessa-pham-remains-unsolved-122710

How does a young woman get stabbed to death in her car, in the middle of the day, in a busy populated area and months later, no one is in custody?

That is mysterious.

Paranormal experts fail to get rid of 'ghosts' at grandma's house

http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Malaysia/Story/A1Story20110108-257050.html

In Malaysia, in a woman's home, over 200 fires have been caused by ghosts. Muslim ghostbusters have not been able to dispel the spirit.

"We have come across this sort of paranormal activity before, and her an­cient belongings may be the cause of the fires.

"Zainab could have inherited ancient keris or swords from her forefathers who could have practised black magic," he said.

The woman is 73. She's reported 46 new fires since Wednesday.

Angel of Death: Mysterious statue kills teenage girl

http://www.smh.com.au/queensland/angel-of-death-mysterious-statue-kills-teenage-girl-20101230-19any.html

This comes from Australia and it is mysterious and creepy and frightening and deranged.

An 18 year old woman, being driven by her boyfriend in a sedan hits this statue in the middle of the road, a cast iron cherub, car screeches into on coming traffic and she dies.

There is a picture of the statue on the sight. Take a look.

Another mysterious artefact is dug up in 'witches' woods'

http://www.thisistamworth.co.uk/news/mysterious-artefact-dug-witches-woods/article-3069009-detail/article.html

Lots of mysterious stuff happening in the UK.

So apparently there is now FURTHER evidence of occult activity in these here woods. They've discovered an Egyptian style clay statue, apparently it was buried face down in the ground, found by a man walking his dogs.

Ain't it always the way though?

Earlier they had found a copper plate with "magical" writing on it that turns out to be 16th century Enochian, reading "For to his remembrance, is given power, and our strength." and there's a name, DOVIOM.

The statue is supposed to be Anubis. Mysterious baby. Mysterious.

Police nab prophet over mysterious death

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5660493-146/police_nab_prophet_over_mysterious_death.csp

This is a weird one out of Africa. A man who was supposed to be going to an over night church service, a baptism ceremony.

When they found the body organs were missing, the eyes and the tongue. They knew that he didn't drown from the condition of the body. Almost as if he was used in a ritual. And then discarded.

Police have the prophet in custody.

Mysterious disease: Women in Saeedabad suffering from contagious hiccups

http://tribune.com.pk/story/100109/mysterious-disease-women-in-saeedabad-suffering-from-contagious-hiccups/

This story is out of Pakistan and it is damn strange. Apparently for 12 years now this one village has been suffering from a contagious hiccup disease. That starts in April and lasts for months. One woman starts hiccuping and then suddenly all the women in the village are hiccuping.

You figure it out man.

McStay family disappearance mystery becomes televised special

http://www.kusi.com/story/13775434/mcstay-family-disapearance-mystery

Are you ready for this? How about an entire fucking family that's disappeared?

This news report is about how the story is going to be on a TV show, but the story is fucked. The family disappeared, leaving behind their dogs and eggs on the counter.

Eggs on the counter. I don't even know what that means or why that matters.

No email, cell phone or bank account activity since they disappeared.

A whole family of four, gone, like that. I get such a creepy, disturbing horror movie vibe from this story. Anyway it ends, it's not pretty. But it is mysterious.

Mysterious orb seen in sky over Ealing

http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/ealing-news/local-ealing-news/2011/01/07/mysterious-orb-seen-in-sky-over-ealing-64767-27948854/

Yes! I knew it! I knew if I looked long enough I could find a mystery light story!

This is, of course, from the UK, where I find most of the mysterious light stories.

A 34 year old woman saw the fireball in the sky, from her living room. It wasn't making a sound and it wasn't an airplane on fire.

"It got closer and then moved off to the left and disappeared out of view. It was so cloudy I was surprised I could see it at all, but it was so bright. It was amazing."

Apparently in June this borough saw 30 bright white lights moving in the sky.

Apparently the US isn't the only country with bullshit answers to UFO sightings. The RAF's answer, "Chinese lantern".

Mysterious truck traffic has neighbors concerned

http://www.strausnews.com/articles/2011/01/07/the_chronicle/news/25.txt

I love stories like this. Little strange little nothings of a story. The report comes from a, "a", as in one resident who wrote a letter about all the truck traffic coming and going from some estate.

It could be something innocuous or it could be somebody stumbled onto a giant, insane, crazy conspiracy. Land development or clone shipping?

Healdsburg man's mysterious death won't be solved

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110107/ARTICLES/110109652?p=1&tc=pg

Ok. So they found this 64 year old man, burned to death in his truck.

Overnight residents said they heard what they thought were gunshots. But there were no bullets found or casings.

It could have been the truck exploding.

But why did the truck explode? No leads. No witnesses. No other vehicles.

Is this just "one of those things"?

Four Still Unidentified In Mysterious Photos

http://www.koat.com/news/26399683/detail.html

This is a creepy creepy story. Apparently (and we're joining this story late in progress) there are these "disturbing" pictures of women. And they're trying to identify all the women in the "disturbing" pictures.

There may be some connection to the "West Mesa Killings" which kind of sounds like a USA Late Night Erotic Thriller from the 90s. I can picture Michael Madsen in it.

Apparently there were seven women all together, 3 have been identified, 2 are alive and 1 is dead.

This is one mysterious story. And creepy. And weird. And not fun. Let's hope I can find a story about some mystery lights soon. Those are fun stories.

Mysterious smell at Los Angeles clinic sickens 18

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010605219.html

Another mystery smell story. These happen all the time. That's why the Aflockalypse (i can't believe people are calling it that. i hate the blogosphere, the internet, and everything else) doesn't scare me. Mysterious crazy shit happens all the time.

This mystery smell sent 17 people to the hospital. WHAT? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

General nausea and weakness were the main symptoms but of course, they couldn't find anything that would've caused it.

Mysterious boom rattles Pink Hill, Deep Run

http://www.enctoday.com/news/hill-70741-kfpress-pink-run.html

In North Carolina, residents reported hearing a loud boom around 9:30 am.

No reports of any explosions. It rattled a few houses. Still no clue.

Mysterious.

Church fumes remain mystery

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/courier_times/courier_times_news_details/article/28/2011/january/04/church-fumes-remain-mystery.html

Paging Sam and Dean Winchester....

A church in Pennsylvania sent more than a dozen people to the emergency room because of people starting to pass out. They checked the air, couldn't find carbon monoxide and all the air quality tests came back normal.

Overtaken by the spirit?

Mysterious tar balls on beach

http://www.marinij.com/westmarin/ci_17017771?source=most_viewed

Forget the birds and the fish! That shit is old news. Well, not really, but you can read about that anywhere. What about mysterious tar balls? Eh? How about that?

We are in Marin County, California, where along two miles of beach, hundreds of ping pong sized balls of tar have washed up.

It could be seepage, something to do with an old wreck maybe. The only thing we do know is that it is mysterious.