Holy cow, sometimes these things actually get solved.

Severed feet in British Columbia identified as belonging to missing person.

My archive has several examples of this, but tahmthelame covered this specific one. Don't think you're off the hook, north Pacific coast! I got my eye on you.

Hunters doin' it wrong! Happy Tuesday, everybody!

Three Florida women arrested in evil spirit cleansing scam

Just to keep everyone up to date.

Moar dead fish in Brazil.

Still moar dead fish in New Zealand.

The UK shakes it up with forty thousand dead crabs.

Oh yeah, and Hurley's numbers won the lottery yesterday. Not a joke, although not quite as awesome as the headline would have you believe. Still.

ETA: More downed birds in Kentucky, and just in ( Read more... )

At this point I feel I have an obligation to report to you that there are dead birds in Sweden, and oh yeah did you hear about the birds in Louisiana and the fish along the Chesapeake Bay? Yeeeah.

IS EVERYBODY WEARING THEIR APOCALYPSE PANTS?

ETA: For those curious about how the bird rain, the fish massacre, and last month's earthquake cluster line up,I have created a map.

ETA 2: Map updated to include New Year's Eve tornado.

HONK HONK DIVE DIVE THE APOCALYPSE IS AT HAND THIS IS NOT A TEST

Guess what time of year it is!

It's feet wash up on the north Pacific shore time!

I like to think that in posting these news items, I'm unknowingly dispatching someone to go take a look at them: that someone even more serious than me watches, hovering close to the keyboard, gun in hand, waiting for the post that will kick off a new adventure. If that's the case, then congratulations, guys, you're goin' to New Zealand.

ETA: It ( Read more... )

1) Vampirism: not as great a legal defense as you might think.

2) Evil sorcerers and those concerned with their practices are going to want to know that there's a full lunar eclipse taking place over the winter solstice this year. If any one thing can prove my "fiction life is now real life" theory, this caps it off nicely. Heavens have aligned, ( Read more... )

File under: monster-hunters doing it wrong: there are certain things you can burn to get rid of demons, but hats are not among them.

(ETA: HOLD THE PHONE. This requires further Googling. I mean research.)

(Victorian people ask, "Hat burning, what's up with that?")

(Journal I can't access says it cures deformity and gives good luck.A lot of these ( Read more... )