Mid-Week Links: Parseltongue News
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Snake sets Dorset House on Fire ~ Ashwinder, perhaps?
The household's pet snake had dislodged its heat lamp, burning some bark in its vivarium and the table underneath. Dorset Fire and Rescue said the retained crew from Ferndown put out the fire using buckets of water. The snake escaped unharmed.
Ukraine Crocodile Swallows Cell Phone ~ Calling Captain Hook!
Gena noshed on the Nokia phone after Rimma Golovko dropped it in the water. She had stretched out her arm, trying to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth, when the phone slipped. "This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said. Employees were skeptical when Golovko told them what happened. "But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said Alexandra, an employee who declined to give her last name.
Snakes on a Plane Director Has New Film: "Untitled 3-D Shark Thriller
“I hated the original title [Shark Night 3D], too," says Ellis, reached in his editing bay, "so at our weekly production meetings, I made everyone on the crew come up with names - Chums, Fins, Terror on the Lake - but they all seemed kind of cheesy. And so until I hear a better name, I like what we’ve got right now: Untitled 3D Shark Thriller. The title says everything you need to know: 'We’ve got sharks.' 'It’s in 3D.' and, 'It’s a thriller.'”
Why are Folks Afraid of Snakes? ~ Nurture Over Nature
There's a reason why Hollywood makes movies like Arachnophobia and Snakes on a Plane: Most people are afraid of spiders and snakes. A new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews research with infants and toddlers and finds that we aren't born afraid of spiders and snakes, but we can learn these fears very quickly. (More at Link)
Surrey Theme Park Ride Moved Due to Nearly Headless Monk Haunting
Workers creating the water ride at Thorpe Park for the new season said they started noticing ghostly sightings nearby, including what appeared to be a headless monk.
There were reports of objects being moved, workers feeling like someone was watching over their shoulders and sudden cold feelings being experienced.A paranormal detection agency was called in to carry out tests and found that an ancient burial ground or settlement could have been disturbed.
...The 64ft water ride, Storm Surge, was originally planned for an area known as Monk's Walk, an old footpath that has linked the ruins of nearby Chertsey Abbey to Thorpe Church since AD666.The ride's foundations would have been over 15 metres deep in an area of the park where stone coffins have previously been excavated