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The Necronomicon
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The Book of The Dead
The Necronomicon takes us back to what was probably the oldest established city in the entire world, Damascus, in the Middle East. The year was 730 AD. A man named Abdul Alhazred, who was a translator, a traveler and also a bit of a hermit or "mountain man", wrote The Necronomicon. The Necronomicon is made up of seven volumes which contain a total of almost 1000 pages. There is a Latin copy of the manuscript or rather, part of the manuscript printed in 1483. But the original manuscript that this book was translated from is of unknown origin, so we can't be sure that it was translated from an actual copy of The Necronomicon.
Anybody ever see "The Evil Dead"? Well, the Necronomicon is in it. You use it to arouse evil spirits to do your dirty deeds. :P I wonder how they would take to my replacing my church's Bible with it during the next seminar....
Weirdness Scale: 8 THE WORLD'S LARGEST BALL OF TWINE!
17,320 pounds
40 foot circumference
Over 6,938,709 feet of sisal twine
Frank Stoeber started this ball of twine on his farm in 1953. By 1957 it weighed 5,000 pounds, stood 8 feet high, and had 1,175,180 feet of twine on it. Stoeber gave the ball to Cawker City in 1961 before his death in 1974.
Weirdness Scale: 3
The Goatman...
A murderous killing, half man/half goat...thing. Taking residence in Prince George, MD, the Goatman is actually (as I heard) an insane man, who thinks he's a goat. He...it...lives on Mellwood Lane, but kills his victims at Crybaby bridge. Look him up for more info.
Weirdness Scale: 6 
The Santa Fe Staircase
In Santa Fe, NM there was/is the Loretto Chapel. Location of the famous spiral staircase, where long ago nuns had to climb a ladder that eventually broke to get to the second story olft of the chapel. The prayed to God to send help (lazy bums...) and lo and behold, a strange dude from the desert (Supposedly Jesus) came and said God had sent him to build them a staircase. He built the entire thing with no tools except a saw and a hammer. He also requested a tub of hot water O_o NO NAILS. It's a oddity.
A spiral staircase. With no railing. With no center supporting post. That takes two complete revolutions in one flight. Though a railing was later added.
Some say that the man was in fact Jesus. He looked like him. Then, after he built the staircase, he vanished. Weirdness Scale: 7 COWITIS
Beware of this contagious, annoying disease! It originated deep in southern Maryland and makes you...um, moo an' stuff. It isn't dangerous. It just makes you infatuated with cows. Once you get it, you may have uncontrollable urges to eat grass, moo, and paint everything in black blotchs. The only cure for this disease is time. And it rarely leaves your system before at least a year has passed. Though it started out very rare, this disease is coming down on everyone these days. Within a few years, it is expected to overrun the planet. Eventually, with everyone running around, mooing and such, theories explain that people will eventually evolve into actual cows, smart cows nontheless, but still cows. And the entire planet earth will be run by the beautiful bovine.
BTW. Everything I just wrote about Cowitis. It's pure crap. We made it up. :P Weirdness Scale: 5 Spontaneous Human Combustion
Spontaneous human combustion is the sudden self-incineration of a human being. The current theory is that when a person drinks large amounts of alcohol and smokes, the body's own chemicals combine with these substances which creates an extremely flammable condition. The heat generated is so intense (2500 F) and concentrated that often there is no fire started, and the person simply burns right through the floor, sometimes through several floors! The flames also seem to defy the laws of nature by burning downwards.
Weirdness Scale: 9.5 |
