Oddworld
Top secret war tunnel found in Northland
An article appeared in Friday’s edition of our local newspaper, which told of a secret WW2 tunnel entrance being discovered in Whangarei’s Harbour entrance. It is no secret that I have a border-line obsession when it comes to secret WW2 tunnels, so you can imagine my elation when I was told about the article. Apparently, [...]
The Congolese Giant Spider
Most people would define a giant spider as being a big hairy scary tarantula. Take for example, the Goliath Bird Eater – which originates from the dark corners of the Amazon rain forest, with a whopping 14 inch leg-span. Yes, definitely a giant spider. But what if bigger spiders existed? Real giant spiders, that weren’t [...]
Dead men in lead masks
This bizarre true story is considered by many to be one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern time. On August 20, 1966, a boy hunting birds on Vintém Hill, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) discovered two partially putrefied corpses. The bodies were of two electrical engineers. They were wearing pristine business suits, lead masks (the [...]
monsters lurk beneath
Just when you thought it was safe to swim in India… There are giant man-eating creatures lurking in the murky depths of India’s rivers that would fuel a lifetime of nightmares. I know what you are thinking – monster crocs or mammoth snakes. Wrong. What I’m referring to is… Catfish!! (Cue B-grade horror flick theme [...]
Killer whale kills again
Many years ago I watched old documentary footage showing a blue whale being slowly bitten to death by a pod of killer whales. It had a lasting impact on me as ever since then I’ve always regarded them as extremely dangerous (perhaps the 70′s Jaws ripoff ‘Orca’ influenced me a tad also). I couldn’t find [...]
Tunnels under Albert Park
Albert Park is a beautiful and serene park situated in the centre of downtown Auckland, a reprieve from busy city life and frequented by many suit-and-tie guys and students on their lunch-breaks each day. Albert Park was originally the site of the Albert Barracks, one of Auckland’s early European military fortifications, which was converted into [...]
The sounds of hell in Siberia
A comment on yesterday’s post reminded me of an old urban legend about another hell hole in Russia, but one which is rather more disturbing. The story goes like this… Geologists working somewhere in remote Siberia had drilled a hole some 14.4 kilometers deep when the drill bit suddenly began to rotate wildly. The project’s [...]
The Doorway to Hell
Do I believe hell exists? Absolutely. Do I believe it is a physical place somewhere close to the Earth’s core? No… But if it was, no place could better be described as Hell’s doorway than the man-made phenomenon near the town of Darvaza, Uzbekistan. Several slight variations exist, but in essence the story begins during [...]
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