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The Mair Park Ghost

By Symon ⋅ June 29, 2008 ⋅ 8 comments

In July 1961, an entity known as the ‘Mair Park Ghost’ terrified the citizens of small town Whangarei, New Zealand. I know… because my parents were some of those terrified citizens. Bizarre events rarely happen in Whangarei, so when stories started circulating that a ghost was being sighted at Mair Park, my mum, dad and [...]

Six severed feet

By Symon ⋅ June 20, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

I heard a stange thing on the radio this morning while driving around town. I’ve just done some Googling, and it appears something very bizarre has indeed been happening on a stretch of Canadian coastline recently. Since August last year, no fewer than six individual human feet have washed up from the deep… all wearing [...]

Monster Wasps!

By Symon ⋅ June 19, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

In a recent post of Paisley Jade’s she commented about her husband’s (that’s me) over-exuberance when using flyspray on wasps. Yes, I admit I have a slight dislike (understatement of the year) for wasps… Do you blame me? Being chased and stung by angry paper-wasps as a kid, and then having a stinging wasp trapped [...]

Giant boulder booby traps!

By Symon ⋅ June 4, 2008 ⋅ One comment

One of the most memorable opening scenes in movie history has got to be the boulder scene in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Of course, undiscovered tombs, ancient booby traps and giant rolling boulders are the stuff of make-believe, aren’t they? Well, perhaps not. I came across the following photos recently while doing some random [...]

Indiana Jones cake

By Symon ⋅ June 3, 2008 ⋅ 13 comments

I ventured into the unknown today and made (with the help of my fabulous wife who did the icing) my son’s birthday cake. He’s 9 years old today, and is crazy about Indiana Jones, so what better birthday cake to make him than a fairly unique ‘Indy-runs-from-a-giant-gobstopper-while-escaping-from-the-temple-of-doom’ one. Actually, I’m quite proud of it, and [...]

The mighty Civic Theatre

By Symon ⋅ June 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

My most memorable movie-going experience was seeing ‘Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom’ at the Civic theatre (Queen Street, Auckland) when I was 10 years old. I was somewhat mesmerized every time I went to the Civic as a kid, because it seemed like I was literally transported into another world. The Auckland Civic [...]

Kraken!

By Symon ⋅ June 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I have always believed that there are gargantuan sea monsters alive in the volumous ocean depths. From ancient times sailors have told and retold stories of sighting the huge many-tentacled beast called the Kraken. We now know that a creature very similar to Kraken descriptions exists… We call it the Colossal Squid. In 2007 the [...]