Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts or just the plain unexplainable.

This week: Ancient Artifacts/Myths

The world is replete with legends of lost treasure. It really is an impressive list too - you have the secreted Oak Island bounty, the entire city of El Dorado, and even the secretly buried results of Captain Kidd's years of high-seas plundering. The problem with all those is - no one really knows where to look.

One treasure, though, has a pretty specific location - the old Wilmary Motel in Lakeland, Florida. Bill Sneed used to operate that motel, and he's said to have hidden some $625,000 in gold bullion somewhere on the property.

Denise Richards learnt an important lesson this weekend - you can't go around angrily hitting wheelchair-bound old ladies with a photographer's laptop without fear of reprisal, because chances are you'll end up getting sued along with your big-boobed pal.

Denise Richards and Pamela Anderson are both being sued by a couple of photographers after an incident last year where Denise Richards desperately tried to draw everyone's attention away from the useless-looking movie she was starring in by loudly swearing at a couple of photographers before throwing their laptop off a balcony, injuring a 91-year-old woman in a wheelchair in the process. That's why Denise Richards is being sued, anyway - we're not sure why Pamela Anderson has also been roped into the lawsuit. Probably something to do with hepatitis.

As far as we were concerned, nobody would go and watch TMNT - the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie - because only an idiot would watch a film about some computer-generated tortoises that nobody has even thought about for two decades.

But look how wrong we were - TMNT is the number one movie at the US weekend box office. The success of TMNT means we can assume that there are either $25 million's worth of nostalgia-fuelled morons in America who can't quite remember that the original series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was basically a cheap-looking calling card for some toys; or that all the TMNT box office tickets were bought by Vanilla Ice, who figured that if TMNT did enough box office business he could start punting around for the same sort of confusing extended cameo in the TMNT sequel as he had in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze.  

Yesterday Elton John celebrated his 60th birthday by doing something very special; no, not playing Madison Square Garden for the 60th time - we mean Elton John somehow spent a night on stage without bitching about everything like a crotchety old git.

Elton John's 60th birthday was marked last night with his 60th performance at Madison Square Garden in New York in front of 20,000 fans and guests like Bill Clinton, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. Don't worry if you missed it, though, because Elton John's 60th birthday concert will be shown on ITV later this week - giving you the viewer the once in a lifetime chance to see Elton John sing a bunch of songs that he's sung a billion times before while Kate Thornton asks ridiculously asinine questions to the man who was directly involved with two separate peace agreements between Israel and Palestine.

A few years ago there was a guy on Dragon's Den who invented a brand new musical instrument. Trouble is, he'd spend so long obsessing over it that he wasn't able to talk about it basic terms and just confused everyone in the room.

Well, Magic Stones is a bit like that man. We're pretty sure that Magic

What with all this talk about Paul McCartney signing to the new Starbucks record label, it's easy to forget what Starbucks is all about - in short, selling ridiculously-named caffeine drinks to smug idiots - but Starbucking works as a handy reminder.

Starbucking is a new indie documentary movie coming out in selected American cinemas very soon with a

Prince Harry is in the army now, and must behave as such; basically that involves going into town on a night off, getting blootered on gallons of pikey booze and starting as many fights as humanly possible - and that was Prince Harry's Saturday.

The Sunday newspapers yesterday were full of pictures of Prince Harry, who decided to mark a gap in his military schedule by going out clubbing in London dressed in a ridiculous scarf and woolly hat combo, drinking until he literally couldn't stand up any more and getting accused of assault by a photographer who he apparently had a bit of a fight with. By using other celebrities as a yardstick, we've deduced that it won't be long before Prince Harry shaves his head, goes to rehab, calls himself the Antichrist and then accidentally shows his vagina to a group of paparazzi while getting out of a car.

An American critic once remarked of David Lynch's Lost Highway: "for the first 15 minutes, it's the greatest film ever made. Why watch the rest?"

In a sense this could be applied to Sunshine - the new high-concept science fiction movie in which Cillian Murphy's team of intrepid astronauts set out on a mission to reignite the sun and save our 'dying planet'. Not that this ranks as one of the greatest cinematic achievements ever - hell, it's not even director Danny Boyle's best film - but Sunshine does suffer from one of the most disproportionately bad third acts in recent movie-memory. We're not going to dish out any spoilers here... but there's a definite Event Horizon feel to things by the time the credits roll.