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The Tunguska Catastrophe

By Symon ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

I had never ever heard of the name Tunguska before… until I bought a PC game (for the kids) called Secret files: Tunguska. Then I became enlightened to an extremely fascinating and equally mysterious event which occurred 101 years ago in Central Siberia. In the Tunguska region at 7:17am on 30 June 1908 something of [...]

Tomb of the Seven Sleepers

By Symon ⋅ February 16, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

I came across an extremely interesting account while researching the city of Ephesus last week. The legend goes like this… Around 250AD, when Christians were being fiercely persecuted, seven young men refusing to recant their faith, gave their worldly goods to the poor and retreated to a mountain cave to pray (and await capture, followed [...]

Kali, Thugees & the Temple of Doom

By Symon ⋅ January 12, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Those of us raised on a regular media diet in the 80′s will remember well Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was all nostalgic the other day, and watched it on DVD (the first time in nearly twenty years). I must say that I was appalled by the human-sacrifice-to-Kali-goddess-of-death-by-thugge-cult-fanatics-in-temple-under-palace scene. The ‘Fast Forward’ [...]

Treasure, death and a severed hand

By Symon ⋅ December 8, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I was reminded today of the ‘Money Pit’ of Oak Island, probably the longest running treasure hunt in history, and the most mysterious… For all you archaeologically-challenged readers out there, prepare to be enlightened. Oak Island is a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. While exploring the island (1765), 16-year-old Daniel McGinnis [...]

The real ‘Temple of Doom’

By Symon ⋅ September 21, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Are there real booby traps protecting the long deceased occupants of ancient tombs thousands of years old? Most scholars would say no, that there is no evidence to suggest there were any such traps, and if there were, they would long have become useless through time and dust. Imagine the Indiana Jones movies with no [...]

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 [...]