Marfa Lights Mystery Solved

For over a hundred years, the Marfa Lights of southwest Texas have puzzled residents and visitors with their strange splittings and “devil dances.” A cryptozoologist has now suggested a solution to the mystery: large nocturnal bioluminescent flying predators that hunt as a group, trying to catch small creatures, like the Big Brown Bat, at night.

Marfa Lights Solved

Although most of the [Marfa Lights] have been explained away as simply car headlights, a significant minority of the sightings have been inexplicable. Those low-elevation flying lights [appear] only a few times each year—those are called “CE-III” by the rocket scientist James Bunnell . . . Jonathan Whitcomb, a cryptozoologist in Long Beach, California, compares those lights with the ropen lights and Cheesman lights of Papua New Guinea. Those lights are associated with sightings of large nocturnal flying creatures, unclassified by modern science, that are believed to be bioluminescent.

Marfa, Texas, area where the mystery lights sometimes appear

Child Care in Long Beach and Lakewood

This past week, the Whitcomb Family Daycare, in the Bixby Highlands of Long Beach, California, had busy days and lighter days. But the providers, Jonathan and Gladys Whitcomb, noticed something interesting about the children in their care. Most of the kids were born in the U.S.A., but many of them have parents from other countries, including . . . → Read More: Child Care in Long Beach and Lakewood

Beware of Debit Card Fraud

It’s getting worse, the frustrating fraud that steals money out of your personal checking account; in contrast, credit card fraud takes money from your credit card company with only a potential loss on the card owners part.

The main problem seems to be with PIN-input-card-readers that have been tampered with or altered or replaced by contraband ones. When . . . → Read More: Beware of Debit Card Fraud

“Monkey Bird” or Pterodactyl in Washington

In this case, in the state of Washington, “monkey bird” does not refer to an eagle that eats monkeys; it refers to a nocturnal flying predator, without feathers, that some cryptozoologists would suspect is a modern living pterosaur.

Names for Strange Flying Creatures

Pterodactyl, Dinosaur bird, Flying creature, Monkey bird, Flying dinosaur—none of those labels is technically correct, . . . → Read More: “Monkey Bird” or Pterodactyl in Washington

Sci-Fi Film “Super 8″

Don’t expect another E.T. movie if you do decide to watch Super 8. A slight weakness in E.T. has been greatly magnified in the 2011 science fiction film: kids behaving too casually about a strange creature from another planet. In both movies some of the kids are adorable, but in the recent film, a monster is . . . → Read More: Sci-Fi Film “Super 8″