"A 120-year-old stuffed rhinoceros is back on display minus its horn, which was stolen during a nighttime robbery, possibly by an organized gang seeking to sell it on the Asian black market."Which suggest all sorts of ritual uses
"Sexy lingerie has reportedly become a hit among Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese, they buy them to offer to their dead relatives on the Qingming Festival this Friday. To mark the day, Chinese traditionally tend the graves of their departed loved ones...lingerie has become an increasingly popular offering for dead female relatives... A matching set of floral underwear trimmed with gold-coloured studs costs four ringgit (1.25 dollars)"Which is just weird - but suggest some very odd imagery. Maybe we should be glad that Dead Beat didn't ccur just after Qingming Festival.
Huh. Now it makes sense. World leaders (and I use the term loosely) are actually Denarians.
But we all know this is just a cover up. It was two wizards at it again.
And I don't want this to be considered SPAM, but for good weird ideas/conspiracy, look for the "Suppressed Transmissions" books! Those are GOLDMINES and written by Ken Hite!
One thing I was thinking about would be "plagues" that breakout and have a "containment zone" would be an interesting hook... having one character that is wizard working at the CDC or WHO
Wanna see something uber wierd?
http://www.oregonvortex.com/video.htm
A gathering of dozens of leylines perhaps?
This vortex is CLEARLY an optical illusion. And, some swamp gas. Now look over there for a second, if you don't mind...
See? Everything's perfectly normal now...
Obviously a wizard battle.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/07/lightning-storm-generated-by-chilean-volcano-images/
I mean, seriously. A volcano is one thing. A volcano with LIGHTNING? That's just excessive.
Looks like the Raiths have gone downmarket: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2048459,CST-NWS-sexparty15.article. (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2048459,CST-NWS-sexparty15.article.)Doh!
(Article possibly NSFW, depending on your employer)
A newborn Fae on the loose?
You can't make this stuff up, I swear!
billionyears old!
Every read "Forbidden Archeology"? Loaded with actual dig sites that date long before humanity was supposed to be bopping around Momma Terra. One was a mine that found stone tools under a lava flow that was a few million years old. Another was a metal sphere found in Africa. Basically a ball bearing with a ridge around the equator. It carbon dated at over a years old!
It just begs for a "those who came before" story arc.
everyone here has probably already seen this, if so sorry but sparked several ideas for me http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth/
The doggie death bridge is what bothered me the most. Mysterious abandoned cities and crazy-lady architecture doesn't hit me the same as K9's trying for instant evolution.
The double jumpers are even more baffling.
how about bridge collapses? like the one in minnesota, or the more famous takoma bridge (might be wrong about the names of the second one, the bridge that collapsed from high winds)
I had a bit of a read around, apparently there are minks nesting in the undergrowth underneath that section of bridge. They tested the different species of dog that have jumped the most and found that the scent of a mink drives them crackers. So when its a warm day and the rain doesnt supress the smell and certain species of dog walk past...
A deserted island where the forest floor writhes with the world's most venomous vipers. A fisherman found dead on his boat, its deck awash with his blood. A lighthouse keeper and his family massacred in a nocturnal snake invasion of their isolated cottage home.
What sounds like the script from some tacky, low-budget horror flick may be as much fact as fiction. What's more, these tales have a purpose that goes beyond fireside entertainment. Chilling by design and passed down from fisherman, father to son, the stories perpetuate myths surrounding the forbidden shores of Brazil's Snake Island.
That's the name locals have given to Ilha de Queimada Grande, a speck of land off Brazil's southeastern coast. There, a unique species of the fer-de-lance pit viper, armed with a super-potent venom and found only on the island's 430,000 square meters, is jungle king.
Legend has it that the snake guards its forest realm with brutal ferocity. Real life has responded with a Brazilian navy ban forbidding anyone to set foot on the island. But it is not just this snake's prevalence that makes it an animal to be feared. The fer-de-lance also comes equipped with a particularly nasty venom. A necrotising element causes living tissue literally to rot, which can lead to the loss of limbs, and anti-coagulants mean some victims simply bleed to death, especially if they attempt that old "remedy" of cutting the bite to suck out the poison.
I've been wondering about this latest violent crime wave in Chicago.