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 A rare forest wildcat a found in Scotland. He is more than his relatives in a half to two ... An "enormous" wildcat that could be the largest specimen recorded anywhere in the world has been caught on camera in Aberdeenshire. [hidden image - please register] It was recorded by a camera trap in Clashindarroch Forest and is estimated to measure 4ft from nose to tail, making it around one foot larger than an average Scottish wildcat. [hidden image - please register] The footage was caught as part of a conservation project run by Wildcat Haven, which puts out food to attract animals to hidden camera sites. The large predator has since been nicknamed the “Clashindarroch Beast”. Kev Bell, a field worker for the organisation, said: "I've been fortunate to get footage of quite a few of these ghost cats; there's about 10 to 15 of them here in the Clashindarroch. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw this cat, he is enormous, a magnificent animal.” "The cameras give us amazing insight to this priceless group of wildcats which have somehow survived here and avoided hybridisation. [hidden link - please register] |
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 Owls of laughter as winged ring-bearer attacks best man ... There were hoots of laughter from guests at a recent wedding when an owl that was supposed to be delivering the rings, instead attacked one of the best men. [hidden image - please register] All seemed well when the bird of prey flew down the aisle and landed on the arm of the first best man. But, after a brief pause, the owl turned on the second best man, knocking him off his seat, drawing gasps and laughter from the wide-eyed guests. [hidden image - please register] “The best man’s reaction, when he fell off the seat and the crowd erupting into laughing was just great. For some reason, the owl just decided he wanted to go for him and he was just terrified. He’s absolutely petrified of anything that flies,” said the wedding photographer, Stacey Oliver. The barn owl was hired as the ring-bearer at the wedding of Jeni Arrowsmith and Mark Wood at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire on Saturday 17 March. After accosting the best men, the owl perched on the table used for signing the wedding register and glowered at the congregation. The bride said the incident was “absolutely hilarious”, adding: “It was an amazing day for us both, and has given us great memories we will never forget.” [hidden link - please register] |
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Thorpe Park opens rollercoaster that chargess mobile phones from screams ... The UK’s first rollercoaster that charges thrill seekers’ mobile phones by using their screams is due to open ready for Easter. [hidden image - please register] Thorpe Park’s The Walking Dead: The Ride uses the cries and vibrations from the track to generate electricity. Riders deposit their phones before getting on, leaving them to charge. [hidden image - please register] John Burton, who came up with the idea, said: “It makes sense to harness our visitors’ screams to solve a problem everyone faces – losing the charge when we’re on a day out.” [hidden link - please register] |
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Strange monkey with a humanlike face breaks the internet ... A monkey with a humanlike face has broken the Chinese internet. [hidden image - please register] The video, filmed on March 11 at a Tianjin zoo, shows a monkey with a man's face looking like it’s a bit confused in the enclosure. Internet users joked that a zookeeper dressed up as a monkey and stayed in the enclosure. One visitor said ...That face did not look human. It looked more like my friend Alex's face. 
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 Bigfoot proof ? Sasquatch hunter discovers huge footprint in US wilderness ... Cliff Barackman, who has been on the trail of the mythical beast for 20 years, recovered giant footprints from an abandoned mattress in the US wilderness. Photos show the barefooted prints, measuring an enormous 13 inches long by five-and-a-half inches wide, impressed upon the fabric in mud. And the distance between one footprint and another, heel to heel, was a monstrous 48 inches - suggesting a truly giant gait. [hidden image - please register] Mr Barackman, 47, said the prints were found in Alderwood State Wayside Park, Oregon - a place where Bigfoot sightings are common."There is a long history of reports from the surrounding location," he said. "I have a contact that lives two miles from where the prints were, and he has heard sasquatches several times over the years of living there. "He is also aware of numerous sightings from the surrounding woods." There's no obvious reason why a human would be barefoot in these woods either. [hidden image - please register] "It is a very rural area," said Mr Barackman. "That park is surrounded by miles and miles of mixed woods and farmland in the foothills of the Coast Range of Oregon." The width of the prints is nearly 40 percent beyond human dimensions, he added. "The prints are between 13 and 13.5 inches long, which is pretty long, but it's the width that makes these not human," he said. [hidden image - please register] "These are well beyond the width of a human's foot of that length." Cliff, who's recently appeared in the Animal Planet documentary series, Finding Bigfoot, believes that the prints are the real deal. "We can never know for sure if a sasquatch made them or not, but they do appear to be authentic," he said. "They are certainly a unique piece of evidence in that this sort of thing has never been obtained before." [hidden link - please register] |
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Taxi driver drives through highway with open trunk as wife sits holding table ... In India, we have seen commuters often riding atop trains and buses. But have you ever seen someone taking a ride sitting in the trunk aka dicky of a taxi? Well, not unless it’s some Bollywood thriller movie. [hidden image - please register] However, this scene only with an interesting twist was seen by many on a busy Chinese street earlier this week. The cab made heads turn as it went cruising down a highway in Nanchang, Jiangxi province while a woman kept sitting inside holding a table! [hidden image - please register] The bizarre scene was recorded by passersby and it quickly went viral on Chinese social media platform. [hidden image - please register] However, the footage is not the thing that left everyone stunned. The story behind the scene left everyone baffled including the cops. Yes, after receiving some complaints, the police stopped the taxi and took the duo back to the station. Upon enquiry, the officer was shocked to hear the woman was actually the driver’s wife, Shanghaiist reported. [hidden link - please register] |
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World’s biggest puppy bred to recreate an extinct 7,000-year-old monster dog is 6ft tall and already weighs more than the average human at just 9 months old ... A nine-month-old dog that weighs 12 stone (180lb) and stands six-foot-tall (1.8m) may be the world's biggest puppy. Enormous Euphrates was bred to replicate a prehistoric canine species and eats an impressive eight cups of dog food a day. Owner Jared Howser, 41, of Salt Lake City, Utah, said onlookers often confuse his puppy for a fully-grown adult. [hidden image - please register] She is a member of a new breed called the American Molossus, selectively bred to be the closest genetic descendent of the Mesopotamian Molossus, a massive dog species that died out 7,000 years ago. The only remnants of the ancient canines left are in museums, with some accounts suggesting they were used in battle in ancient Mesopotamia. [hidden image - please register] Because the American Molossus is still a new species, it is not known how big Euphrates will grow. In public people often gasp upon seeing the colossal canine and can't believe how big she is for her age, often confusing her for a fully-grown adult. Mr Howser, a carpenter who makes kennels for large dogs, said: 'It's unreal and unheard of, at nine months her size and strength is far beyond what I thought it would be. 'When she stands on her hind legs she is six-foot-tall, that's only at nine months too, on all fours to the withers, the tops of her shoulders she is 31.5 inches [80cm]. 'If she was to stand she is big enough to look out of the peephole on our door. [hidden link - please register] |
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Iceland's "Penis Museum" is causing a lot of confusion with lost tourists ... People using a popular co-working space in Reykjavik, Iceland, have been forced to warn tourists that their office is not a 'Penis Museum'. [hidden image - please register] Reykjavik's Icelandic Phallological Museum is famous. It gets thousands of visitors a year. [hidden image - please register] Given so few speak the language, a lot of people confuse the phallic attraction for The Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) office, which shares the same building. [hidden image - please register] After having so many members of the public barge into their office asking where they might find male genitalia, workers have been forced to erect a sign that reads: "This is not the penis museum. You can’t miss it. It has a big penis logo. Sincerely, the people who work here." [hidden link - please register] |
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 Man follows mother's advice to win $100,000 lottery prize ... A Virginia Lottery player said he won a $100,000 jackpot thanks to his closely following the advice given to him by his mother. Brandon Pree of Washington, D.C., said he was visiting his mother, Tina, when she advised him to play the Virginia Lottery's Cash 5 game using family birthdays for the numbers. [hidden image - please register] Tina's advice proved the old adage that "mother knows best" when Pree matched all five numbers in the Feb. 28 drawing, 11-22-25-26-28, earning him a $100,000 prize. "The first thing I did was call my mother," Pree said. "She started screaming!" [hidden image - please register] Tina said she has some further advice for Pree regarding what he should do with the money: "Hopefully he'll share with me since I told him to play!" |
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 'What the f--- is that thing?': Mysterious video shows Navy pilots encountering UFO ... Recently declassified footage purports to show a new instance of the military tracking an unidentified flying object. The footage was recorded in 2015 on a Raytheon ATFLIR pod, a targeting pod mounted underneath aircraft that's equipped with a camera with a laser rangefinder and a laser-spot tracker. [hidden image - please register] The pod was mounted underneath a US Navy F/A-18 jet flying about 25,000 feet at a speed of Mach 0.62. The camera makes three attempts to lock on to an object moving extremely fast, but fails the first two times. On the third try, the pod manages to get a lock, and the pilots speak out about their excitement and amazement at what they are seeing. [hidden image - please register] "Whoa! Got it!" one of the pilots, yells out loud after locking on to the UFO. "What the f--- is that thing?!" the other asks. The object continues at a fast rate, and the pilots appear to be amazed. "Wow! What is that, man?" one says. "Look at that flying!" One of the pilots from the declassified videos published by The Times told ABC that he thought the aircraft he saw was "not from this world." "After 18 years of flying, I've seen pretty much about everything that I can see in that realm, and this was nothing close," Commander David Fravor said. [hidden link - please register] |
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Robber steals ‘gold bars’ only to realise they’re FAKE ... It must have come as a shock of his life when this thief, who stole the gold bars from a shop in China realised that his ‘hard work’ went in vain because the bars were all fake. Apparently, the store he went in to try his luck did not sell gold and hence, the bars were fake. [hidden image - please register] According to the surveillance footage posted on YouTube by a news agency, one can see the masked man furiously hammering the display case in an attempt to shatter the glass. [hidden image - please register] The thief reportedly entered the store in Jiaxing, east China’s Zhejiang province via a hole in the ceiling. Reportedly, the man was stunned to discover that the seven gold bars that he had stolen were all fake. Though it is still unclear what he did with the stolen gold bars later on. [hidden link - please register] |
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An egg inside another egg ... What if you find an egg that’s three sizes the usual? A huge omelette is what you’d probably be hoping for, right? Well, this Australian farmer was in for a surprise as he cracked open this massive egg only find another egg inside it. [hidden image - please register] According to reports, Scott Stockman, a 47-year-old farmer in Queensland, has been working on the Stockman’s Eggs farm his whole life, and this is the first time that he’s seen something like this. [hidden image - please register] “I have never seen such a large egg,” he told news.com.au, speaking about what is now being referred to as the babushka egg. [hidden image - please register] The photos of this egg within an egg were shared on the Facebook post of the farm and were soon picked up people on social media and local news organisations, creating quite a buzz. |
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Oldest-known message in a bottle found on WA beach 132 years after being tossed overboard ... A Perth family has made an extraordinary historical discovery after becoming bogged on a West Australian beach. Tonya Illman was walking across sand dunes just north of Wedge Island, 180 kilometres north of Perth, when she noticed something sticking out of the sand. [hidden image - please register] It just looked like a lovely old bottle, so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase," she said. The message was dated June 12, 1886, and said it had been thrown overboard from the German sailing barque Paula, 950km from the WA coast. [hidden image - please register] After conducting some of their own research online, the Illman family were convinced they had either made an historically significant discovery or fallen victims to an elaborate hoax. [hidden link - please register] |
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Robbers steal $5 million in cash from Lufthansa plane ... Five crooks held up security guards at a Brazilian airport and drove off with a large stash of cash from a German cargo plane. Brazilian media say the criminals only took six minutes to pull off the heist. [hidden image - please register] Thieves stole $5 million (€4 million) in cash from a Lufthansa airplane at freight airport near the city of Sao Paulo, Brazilian police said late on Monday. Authorities are yet to arrest anyone in connection with the robbery, which occurred the day before. [hidden image - please register] The Lufthansa jet landed at Viracopos, Brazil's largest freight airport, from nearby Guarulhos airport in Sao Paulo. The plane was stopping over before flying to Zurich, Switzerland. The robbers drove a pickup truck plastered with the logo of a local security company into the airport grounds. Five of the robbers held up guards from the security company Brinks, loaded the money on the truck and drove off, according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. [hidden link - please register] |
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The hungry mink asked in fisherman the catch... A resident of the Russian island of Sakhalin, Yevgeny Yevseyev went fishing, but his loneliness was disturbed by the mink. A hungry and slightly insolent beast came running from afar and tried to climb into a bucket with a catch. [hidden image - please register] The bucket was closed. Then the enterprising beast decided to make a digging under, hoping that he would find a hole. As a result, the man took pity on the mink. "You, business sausage, let's open for you," he said and took off the lid. After that the mink grabbed the fish and ran away. |
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