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

There are lots of lost civilizations out there – the most famous being Atlantis. If you care to get Biblical you also have the city of Enoch, and if you care to get fantastical you’ve got El Dorado. Detroit will probably be added to that list sometime in the next decade. Probably not next to El Dorado, though. Common sense tells us that Detroit will more likely be remembered for it’s 100% plywood inner city than anything having to do with gold.

The Lost City Z is one we’ve never previously heard of – but it’s probably taken the lives of more explorers than any of the others, and by that we mean at least 5 or 6.

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

The Brown Mountain lights are a mystery that has been going on at least since 1913. They are red lights that rise up from the mountain ever so slowly, hover for a second, and then flash the words ‘Good Grief’ in Morse code – hence the first part of the name.

That’s not true. Well – to be fair the lights do seem to be an actual phenomenon, but they definitely don’t flash any Peanuts related messages. Instead they just float up there, eerily glowing red and hovering like the ghost of Anna Nicole Smith‘s used tampon in zero gravity.

This is getting gross – on with the story!

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Although in 1995 India was a barren wasteland where nothing had ever lived, by 1996 billions of bums had moved in and turned it into a sort of poverty-themed Disneyland.

Tourists love it – and it’s the perfect setting for that Slum Dog Millionaire movie, don’t you think? You don’t think so? Well you’re not alone – all homeless Indian denigrates agree with you wholeheartedly. Enough so that they’re currently picketing outside the home of one of the film’s stars for a big budget name-change or something.

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