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New Jersey couple discovers wads of cash from 1934 buried in their backyard - leading them to uncover shocking story about the property's history as a BROTHEL ​

Suzanne and Rich Gilson were stunned when they unearthed a bunch of money hidden underneath the grass while doing renovations on their yard recently. Arguably the most surprising part of the whole ordeal is that the bills were all printed in 1934 - which means they may have been there for more than 80 years. The money totaled around $1,000, with NJ.com reported that $1,000 in 1934 would be equivalent to around $21,000 today. The pair was intrigued by the mysterious discovery, which prompted them to want to find out more about how the money got there. They were soon astounded to learn that their house, which is located in Wildwood and was built in the 1920s, was a former prostitution house.

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'We're a package deal': 27-year-old identical triplets who live together, attend the same law school, and even intern for the same politician reveal they've never spent more than TWO DAYS apart​

Benjamin, Nicholas, and Zachary Osborne, 27, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, have been living together since they were born. They had their own rooms as kids, but they often ended up in the same bedroom. Benjamin said they don't like to think of the possibility of being separated because it causes them 'too much worry and stress.' The triplets share the same wardrobe after losing a combined total of 470 pounds over the past ten years. They graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2018 and then earned master's degrees from Georgetown University. Benjamin, Nicholas, and Zachary are now in their second year at Georgetown Law and are interning with North Carolina State Senator Jim Burgin.

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Oklahoma Man Strangles His Fishing Buddy To Death And Blames It On Bigfoot

https://allthatsinteresting.com/larry-sanders-jimmy-knighten​

By Kaleena Fraga | Checked By Jaclyn Anglis
Published July 13, 2022
Updated July 14, 2022

Larry Sanders told police he killed his friend Jimmy Knighten because Knighten had threatened to "summon" Bigfoot.​

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation/FacebookPolice arrested Larry Sanders for first-degree murder.

On July 9, Larry Sanders and his friend Jimmy Knighten set out to do some noodling — bare-handed catfishing — in Oklahoma’s South Canadian River. But their friendly outing turned fatal when Sanders suddenly lashed out and killed Knighten, allegedly because Knighten had threatened to “summon” Bigfoot.

According to a statement posted by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) on Facebook, a confrontation ensued between the two men while they were fishing. “Sanders reported striking and strangling Knighten,” OSBI wrote.

And it all, apparently, had to do with Knighten’s threat to “summon” Bigfoot. Special Agent Justin Brown wrote that Sanders feared that Knighten “intended to feed him to sasquatch/Bigfoot,” according to The Oklahoman.

“Larry advised he believed Jimmy was trying to get away from him so that the sasquatch could eat Larry,” Brown explained. “Larry would not let Jimmy get away. Larry punched Jimmy and struck Jimmy with a stick. Larry and Jimmy fought for an extended amount of time on the ground.”

Brown then added: “Larry confirmed he killed Jimmy by choking him to death near the river.”

United States Geological SurveyA section of the Canadian River in Oklahoma.

After Sanders allegedly killed Knighten, The Oklahoman reports, he went home and told his daughter what had happened. Sanders seemed “frantic” and told her he’d killed Knighten because Knighten tried to feed him to Bigfoot, a story he repeated to her boyfriend, who is also Knighten’s son.
According to the Daily Beast, Sanders was initially arrested on an outstanding warrant while police searched for Knighten’s body in the river.

“You still have to prove all the elements of the crime, and what the suspect is telling you, you have to prove that that’s actually what happened,” the local sheriff, John Christian, explained, according to the Daily Beast.

The Oklahoman reports that Sanders cooperated with the police and even drew a map to help investigators locate Knighten’s body.
“The area is very wooded; there’s a lot of small brush and large trees,” Christian said, according to Newsweek. “It was a difficult search to conduct and a large area to search.”

But, roughly 24 hours after Sanders allegedly killed Knighten, investigators came across Knighten’s remains. They then charged Sanders with his murder. Christian believes that Sanders “appeared to be under the influence of something,” when he killed Knighten, which Newsweek reports was likely methamphetamine (though no blood tests were taken).

Indeed, Sanders had run into trouble with the law because of drugs before. The Oklahoman reports that he had two outstanding warrants related to unpaid fines in two drug-related cases, and was put on five-year probation in 2019 after he brought methamphetamine to jail after being arrested for public intoxication.

For now, Sanders has been charged with first-degree murder and booked into jail. A medical examiner will additionally inspect Knighten’s remains to determine a cause of death.

So far, no one has reported any additional Bigfoot sightings in the area.

TwitterA still from the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin video, which purports to have recorded Bigfoot in the wild.

The mythical creature is most commonly “sighted” on the West Coast, with Washington state, Oregon, and California reporting the most sightings, according to The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO).

That said, sightings of Bigfoot have been reported in the southern United States as well. In 2019, a group of Bigfoot believers claimed to have spotted — and photographed — the elusive cryptid in North Carolina.

In Oklahoma, there was even a push to open a “Bigfoot hunting season.” State legislator Justin Humphrey suggested the idea in 2021, noting: “I have some people that I know that are good, solid people who I will guarantee you 100-percent have said they have had experience with Bigfoot. So, I know there are people out there that you will not convince that Bigfoot doesn’t exist.”

He added: “You can have a license. You can get out there and hunt this thing. I want to be really clear that we are not going to kill Bigfoot. We are going to trap a live Bigfoot. We are not promoting killing Bigfoot. We are promoting hunting Bigfoot, trying to find evidence of Bigfoot.”

Though Humphrey’s idea fizzled into nothing, whether or not Bigfoot exists is in the eye of the beholder. Larry Sanders, apparently, believed the legend.

 

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Monster from The Deep! A giant squid in Antarctica! The squid actually attacked a fish being brought up on a line, the fishermen are trying to get it off the line. I'm guessing they had no intention of bringing to onboard! Eventually, it lets go and swims away.



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View: https://youtu.be/B8fSg8mMObo

Monster from The Deep! A giant squid in Antarctica! The squid actually attacked a fish being brought up on a line, the fishermen are trying to get it off the line. I'm guessing they had no intention of bringing to onboard! Eventually, it lets go and swims away.



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I think this is a colossal squid, due to the relative size of the tentacles and the mantle. The giant squid has much longer tentacles in relation to the mantle.

Colossal squid - Wikipedia

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Giant squid - Wikipedia

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I think this is a colossal squid, due to the relative size of the tentacles and the mantle. The giant squid has much longer tentacles in relation to the mantle.

Colossal squid - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Giant squid - Wikipedia

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Yeah you're right, sure does look more like the colossal squid and I wonder if it also may be a younger, smaller one, maybe not yet full grown...The Wikipedia page on colossal squids states an estimated maximum size of 10–14 metres (33–46 ft), I don't know how they came to that estimation given we have seen very few live specimens...I think it's more likely they can get much larger than that, simply because they have a tremendously large environment to grow and they are likely the top of the food chain in their habitat areas...

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Bored housewife spends years faking Russian history on Wikipedia​

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An incredible hoax spanning hundreds of articles on the world's biggest online encyclopedia was recently exposed. While Wikipedia is usually a good place to learn about things, there's a reason that many academic establishments frown upon an over-reliance on the online encyclopedia for fact checking.

Various news outlets recently reported on the discovery that a housewife from China - who posted under the name Zhemao - had spent years fabricating hundreds of pages of completely false Russian history that had managed to go totally under the radar.

Her writing was incredibly elaborate, well-written and interspersed with genuine information to disguise the fact that it was almost entirely fictional, yet believable enough to go unnoticed by the site's fact checkers and editors.

It wasn't until the Chinese novelist Yifan started doing research for a book that her ingenious and elaborate hoaxing started to come to light.

"The content she wrote is of high quality and the entries were interconnected, creating a system that can exist on its own," Wikipedia veteran John Yip told Vice.

"Zhemao single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia. Her entries appeared comprehensive, with proper citations, but some were made up, while others had page numbers that did not add up."

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Nightmarish 'Elk Boneyard' Discovered at Base of Idaho Mountain​

Wildlife officials in Idaho could not believe their eyes when they stumbled upon a massive 'elk boneyard' containing the remains of at least 15 of the unfortunate creatures amassed at the base of a mountain. The gruesome discovery reportedly came about as a result of a program from the state's Fish and Game department wherein different wildlife species are outfitted with GPS radio collars in order to get a better understanding of their survivability in nature. When one of the creatures meets their demise, staff are alerted to a "mortality event" and venture out to the animal's location in order to investigate what happened. In this particular instance, what they wound up finding was the truly stuff of nightmares.

According to the department, earlier this year, they received a "mortality event" signal from the collar of an elk that they had been monitoring at the state's spacious Craig Mountain Wildlife Management Area. When workers arrived on the scene to find out what might have caused the creature's passing, they were stunned to see a horrifying collection of broken bones that once belonged to at least 15 elk. Scattered among the dead animals were "scree material and boulders up to the size of beach balls," which led wildlife workers to surmise that they had been killed in a sizeable landslide that swept the creatures up in a wave of snow and rocks that ultimately brought them down "almost 1,000 feet over just a distance of 300-400 yards."

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Man pushes a peanut up a mountain using only his nose​

The 53-year-old adventurer broke the record for pushing a peanut to the top of Pikes Peak in the shortest time. Bored with walking up mountain paths the conventional way ? Then how about giving this a go.

Bob Salem from Colorado Springs recently made the history books by becoming the fourth person ever to push a peanut up Pikes Peak using his nose and by doing it in the fastest time.

The peculiar stunt, which saw him don a special contraption designed to make it easier for him to actually move the peanut without repeatedly smashing his face into the ground, achieved the feat mostly at night to avoid the heat and rested during the daytime.

Without anyone else to help him, he found himself having to complete each part of the ascent twice - once to carry his backpack and belongings up, then again to push the peanut up.

Over the course of the climb he used around two dozen peanuts, with most of them ending up pinging off down crevices or being smashed up by the repeated pushing movements.

"I don't feel sore or anything but I know I lost some weight," he said following the trip. "My muscles are fine, it was just doing the back and forth that really took it out of me."

The first person ever to achieve the feat was Texas craftsman Bill Williams who pushed a peanut to the top of the peak in 1929 in order to win a bet.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVHfsgVbaA


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Nightmarish 'Elk Boneyard' Discovered at Base of Idaho Mountain​

Wildlife officials in Idaho could not believe their eyes when they stumbled upon a massive 'elk boneyard' containing the remains of at least 15 of the unfortunate creatures amassed at the base of a mountain. The gruesome discovery reportedly came about as a result of a program from the state's Fish and Game department wherein different wildlife species are outfitted with GPS radio collars in order to get a better understanding of their survivability in nature. When one of the creatures meets their demise, staff are alerted to a "mortality event" and venture out to the animal's location in order to investigate what happened. In this particular instance, what they wound up finding was the truly stuff of nightmares.

According to the department, earlier this year, they received a "mortality event" signal from the collar of an elk that they had been monitoring at the state's spacious Craig Mountain Wildlife Management Area. When workers arrived on the scene to find out what might have caused the creature's passing, they were stunned to see a horrifying collection of broken bones that once belonged to at least 15 elk. Scattered among the dead animals were "scree material and boulders up to the size of beach balls," which led wildlife workers to surmise that they had been killed in a sizeable landslide that swept the creatures up in a wave of snow and rocks that ultimately brought them down "almost 1,000 feet over just a distance of 300-400 yards."

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Must be Bigfoot.

 

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Grave-Robbing Badgers Torment British Grandmother by Dumping Bones in Her Yard​

A grandmother in England is being tormented by troublesome badgers that continually unearth human remains from a graveyard near her home and then dump the bones throughout her yard. The bizarre issue reportedly began last summer when Ann Mathers found an unfortunate individual's skull sitting outside her residence in the town of Dudley. "My mum called me in hysterics," her daughter Lorraine Lloyd recalled, "when I went over there I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were human remains everywhere." Uncertain where the creepy cranium could have come from, Mather promptly phoned the police, who actually first suspected that she had stumbled upon some kind of crime scene

"I don’t know if they thought it could be a possible murder victim," Lloyd explained, "but pretty soon they found lots of holes in the garden where the badgers had been digging through." While the mystery may have been easily solved that day, it was sadly just the start of a year-long ordeal for Mathers, who laments that the mischievous creatures haven't stopped leaving unearthed human remains in her yard. "The badgers are tunneling under the graves," Llyod explained "and when they come across one which has collapsed, they drag the bones out and dump them in mum’s garden." Beyond the nightmarish nature of the 'deposits,' Mathers' daughter mused that "it must be very distressing for people if they found their relatives remains were being dug up."

At her wit's end over the issue, Mathers turned to her local government for help in putting an end to the badgers' unnerving antics. Adam Aston, who serves on the community's council, was equally aghast at the situation. Noting that "I work as a paramedic so I’m not easily shocked," he conceded that the "sight of so many human remains" strewn throughout the area "stopped me in my tracks." However, solving the problem may not be so simple as badgers are actually a protected species in Britain. As such, Aston indicated that the town intends to enlist an ecologist to see how they might manage the creatures, while also strengthening the barriers around the graveyard to possibly prevent them from gaining access to the area.

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Woman rents car, finds corpse in the boot​

A woman from Ireland had been driving a rental car when she discovered something that made her blood run cold. The woman, who was in her 20s, had rented out a car and was heading to the village of Mullinavat in County Kilkenny when she noticed a bad smell coming from inside the vehicle.

Upon stopping to investigate, she was shocked to discover a dead body in the boot of the car. The deceased - a man in his 40s - had been reported missing and was believed to be the person who had rented out the vehicle immediately beforehand.

"She picked up the car at one of the GoCar depot spots and had just a short drive out to where she was heading, the village of Mullinavat, I'd say around five miles," one of the woman's close family members was quoted as saying.

"While she was driving she noticed a funny smell, she didn't know what it was, thought it smelled like gas and thought it might be coming from the car engine when she started the car."

"But it didn't go away and so she stopped the car when she got to Millivant and that's where she made the shocking discovery, there was the body of a dead man in the boot."

The rental company has since confirmed that it has been assisting the police in their investigation. It remains unclear how the man died or how long he'd been lying in the boot before he was found.

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View: https://twitter.com/xakpc/status/1550224137041371144


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At over 2,000 years old, Xin Zhui, also known as 'Lady Dai', is a mummified woman of China’s Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) who still has her own hair, is soft to the touch, and has ligaments that still bend, like a living person. She's widely recognized as the best-preserved human mummy in history.



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Terrifying moment great white shark rises just like Jaws and smashes THROUGH dive cage - missing diver by inches​

Shocking underwater footage showed that diver Jimi Partington was lucky to escape with his life, after the small opaque box he was inside capsized as the 16-foot beast lunged at him - leaving him exposed to further attacks. Multiple camera angles captured near-miss encounter in the Pacific Ocean, showing Partington inside the cage while it was floating on the water.


View: https://youtu.be/UFehc7x-u-Q


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At over 2,000 years old, Xin Zhui, also known as 'Lady Dai', is a mummified woman of China’s Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) who still has her own hair, is soft to the touch, and has ligaments that still bend, like a living person. She's widely recognized as the best-preserved human mummy in history.



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oooh. caught her sans makeup ......

 

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Terrifying moment great white shark rises just like Jaws and smashes THROUGH dive cage - missing diver by inches​

Shocking underwater footage showed that diver Jimi Partington was lucky to escape with his life, after the small opaque box he was inside capsized as the 16-foot beast lunged at him - leaving him exposed to further attacks. Multiple camera angles captured near-miss encounter in the Pacific Ocean, showing Partington inside the cage while it was floating on the water.


View: https://youtu.be/UFehc7x-u-Q


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oooh. caught her sans makeup ......

I thought it was pancake makeup she was wearing!

 

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Terrifying moment great white shark rises just like Jaws and smashes THROUGH dive cage - missing diver by inches​

Shocking underwater footage showed that diver Jimi Partington was lucky to escape with his life, after the small opaque box he was inside capsized as the 16-foot beast lunged at him - leaving him exposed to further attacks. Multiple camera angles captured near-miss encounter in the Pacific Ocean, showing Partington inside the cage while it was floating on the water.


View: https://youtu.be/UFehc7x-u-Q


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It is an excellent piece of footage where the shark goes through the box like it isn't there. However, that Mail article is absolute garbage. For one, it calls the perspex box (or whatever material it is made out of) a 'cage' several times, apparently because cages are used to perform a similar function. It is a bit like saying that a fixed-wing aeroplane is a helicopter, because an aeroplane is also used to achieve flight like a helicopter. The article also calls the box 'opaque' three times, despite the meaning of this word being not able to be seen through. Clearly the box is the opposite of opaque, i.e. transparent, or see-through.

Furthermore, it describes the shot of the shark breaking the box as follows:

it clamps its huge jaw around the box, and appears to both break it open and cause it to capsize.

I watched it again. The shark breaks the box with its snout, and does not 'clamp its jaw around the box' prior to breaking it. I saw another clip on another newspaper's article, and it showed a little more of the event.