Beyond Science

Members of the Natural History Museum allegedly plotted to hunt and kill the Loch Ness monster and display its carcass in London.

Do fairies exist? Something that resembles a real life fairy was recently caught on tape...take a look and let me know if you believe that fairies exist. For full video click link below: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/see-real-life-fairy-caught-on-4481380 Photo Credits: Mirror UK John Hyatt

The notion that plants are capable of feeling emotions was first recorded in 1848, when Dr. Gustav Theodor Fechner, a German experimental psychologist, suggested that plants are capable of emotions and that one could promote healthy growth with talk, attention, attitude, and affection. Indian scientist Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, from Bengal, began to conduct experiments on plants in the year 1900. He found that every plant and every part of a plant appeared to have a sensitive nervous system and responded to shock by a spasm just as an animal muscle does. In addition Bose found that plants grew more quickly amidst pleasant music and more slowly amidst loud noise or harsh sounds. He also claimed that plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc.," from the analysis of the nature of variation of the cell membrane potential of plants under different circumstances. According to him, a plant treated with care and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture. One visitor to his laboratory, the vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw, was intensely disturbed upon witnessing a demonstration in which a cabbage had "convulsions" as it boiled to death. Bose found that the effect of manures, drugs, and poisons could be determined within minutes, providing plant control with a new precision. He repeated his tests on metals, administering poisons to tin, zinc, and platinum, and obtained astonishing responses which, when plotted on a graph, appeared precisely like those of poisoned animals. In conclusion he said: "Do not these records tell us of some property of matter common and persistent? That there is no abrupt break, but a uniform and continuous march of law? Influenced by Bose's experiments, in the 1960s Cleve Backster, an Interrogation Specialist with the CIA, conducted research that led him to believe that plants can communicate with other lifeforms. Backster's interest in the subject began in February 1966 when he tried to measure the rate at which water rises from a philodendron's root into its leaves. Because a polygraph or 'lie detector' can measure electrical resistance, which would alter when the plant was watered, he attached a polygraph to one of the plant's leaves. Backster stated that, to his immense surprise, "the tracing began to show a pattern typical of the response you get when you subject a human to emotional stimulation of short duration".

Does crabzilla really exist? A Mysterious 50ft giant monster crab was caught on camera yards from British harbour. Visitors are flocking to the British seaside town of Whistable in the hopes of catching a supposed 50 foot crab whose photo has gone viral in recent days. Credit: http://weirdwhitstable.blogspot.com/

A couple say they have captured the chilling image of a ghost called the grey lady at Dudley Castle which is described as England's most haunted castle.

Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the dungeon that held Vlad the Impaler — the inspiration for Bram Stoker's character Dracula.

is this the beginning of the end? The real zombie apocalypse? Two Ebola patients, who died of the virus in separate communities in Nimba County have reportedly resurrected in the county. The victims, both females, believed to be in their 60s and 40s respectively, died of the Ebola virus recently in Hope Village Community and the Catholic Community in Ganta, Nimba.

Police officers at a police station in Espanola, New Mexico caught a ghost on their surveillance camera. Link to Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44cqsHOlGI

Lagarfljtsormurinn, the giant serpent rumored to inhabit the lake Lagarfljt near Egilsstair in East Iceland truly exists, as announced on Saturday by the majority of a 13-person truth commission established in 2012 by the Fljtsdalshra municipal council. The commission was given the task of determining whether a video of the alleged monster shot by Hjrtur E. Kjerlf, which went viral, was authentic and whether he was entitled to a prize of ISK 500,000 (USD 4,300, EUR 3,300).

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have found a host of previously unknown monuments, including ritual structures and a massive timber building that was likely used for burial of the dead during a complicated sequence of exposure and de-fleshing.

There’s a barren lake bed in the Death Valley National Park in California defined by its many long serpentine tracks, etched into the landscape by massive stones that move somewhat miraculously across the mud. It’s called Racetrack Playa — and for decades geologists have been chasing the “sailing stones” at play there. One of the first scientific studies, published in 1948, suggested the rock motion was driven by dust devils. Most recently, a couple of U.S. scientists hypothesized it was hurricane-force winds that were doing the deed. But it wasn’t until now that science has revealed a plausible explanation for how these stones leave their “racetrack” imprints through the playa: It takes a kind of perfect storm.

For centuries, man has been on a quest to find the elixir to eternal life. Alchemists struggled fruitlessly to create the legendary philosopher's stone, a mythical substance capable of turning base metals into precious gold and said to hold the key to immortality. But perhaps they were going about it the wrong way. Instead of searching for answers on land, maybe they should have been looking to the sea.

A mysterious giant hole and crater have suddenly appeared in Siberia, Russia. There are not many details right now, but the video captured from a helicopter shows a weird configuration with debris and signs of combustion around it.

Do you believe in reincarnation? past lives? ever wonder who you were? Here are some cases of modern day celebrities and their historical twins.

A mysterious giant hole and crater have suddenly appeared in Siberia, Russia. There are not many details right now, but the video captured from a helicopter shows a weird configuration with debris and signs of combustion around it.

A fisherman in Inner Mongolia, China captured what looks like a real chinese dragon. The dragon has since been transported to Beijing for further studies.

Forget Zombie apocalypse, the viking apocalypse is coming. according to Norse mythology, February 22 will see the Earth split open and unleash the inhabitants of Hel.

A statue of the Virgin Mary weeps oil, in the living room of a Christian family from Tarshiha, close to the border with Lebanon. Claims of Virgin Mary statues that cries tears of blood, or oil are not uncommon...do you think this is real?

Researchers say the jelly doughnut rock or Pinnacle Island is a piece of a larger rock, which Opportunity broke and moved with its wheel in early January. Further images from the rover reveal the original rock that the rover's wheel must have struck.

Archaeologists announced they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old -- the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.

The girl is 12 year old Saadiya Saleh, who lives in a village in Yemen, produces the small, hard stones beneath her eyelids. They are then naturally pushed to the front of her eyes, before falling down her cheeks. Doctors are yet to come up with an explanation for the unusual condition, claiming that Saadiya is not suffering from any known disease. Unfortunately this triggered a panic in rural areas where they assumed the girl must be possessed by magic.

@mikexingchen According to Buddhist scriptures, there is a flower called the Udumbara flower, which blossoms once every 3,000 years. Udumbara is a Sanskrit word; it means "an auspicious flower from heaven." The appearance of Udumbara blossoms is a sign of the arrival of the Holy King Who Turns the Wheel, rectifying the Dharma in the world.

@mikexingchen This is a rock found in China in 2002, it has six words written on it. If those words ring true then major changes will come to China.

Lion Rock, is a famous hill in Hong Kong and it is famous for its shape which resembles a crouching lion. On december 22, around 2pm local time numerous people witnessed lion rocks' eyes turn red. Here is a photo of lion rock and where it's eyes would be it does look like it's glowing red. Local media the Epoch Times reports that this strange phenomenon occurred for about 30 minutes and during those 30 minutes, witnesses say the lion's head itself was moving as if the lion actually came to life and the Lion's eyes slowly turned red twice. According to witness Ah Zhen who snapped these photos from her eye phone "The eyes moved like a cloth, slowing changing to red and then back to normal then red again, this happened twice." Now adding to this already bizzare phenomenon is the fact that there is a Chinese legend called, when the stone lion's eyes turn red. Its a story about a kind hearted old woman who learned from Bodisafa that a huge flood is about to engulf her village and boddisafa told her to look at the stone lion sitting outside her village and when the lion's eyes turn red, thats when the flood is about to arrive. So the women warned the villagers and they were able to escape this disaster. A lot of locals know of this legend and of course are concerened whether this means that disaster will fall upon Hong Kong...

Let me know which one is your favorite. One of my favorite animes of ALL time is YoYo Hakusho, just awesome, I read the actual manga what like 15 years ago and to this day it is still my favorite, for those of you who know what I'm talking about, do you remember hiei? That little dude was awesome with his black dragon wave, and remember how he gets power from that surgically implanted third eye? And I always thought that was pretty inconvenient, i mean would you carve your forehead up and implant some whack eye for better fighting powers? Then you goto to take care of it, can't headbutt people anymore, if you need glasses then that would suck cause who sells glasses for a third eye, so you would need contacts but then you always have 1 contact lense left over...anyway it's a mess. But guess what we ALL have one, we all have a third eye in the middle of our forehead. Human beings all have what has been called a vestigial or unused eye in their brains. This eye has a structure similar to our external eyes, with retinal tissues, and it is sensitive to light. This eye, known as the pineal gland or pineal body, has been much-discussed in philosophy and medicine. Here's a look at a few explanations of the role played by the eye in your brain. First the scientific point of view In the 1950s, scientists discovered that the pineal body, thought to be vestigial, does have a perceivable function. It senses light and produces melatonin. Melatonin is a substance that influences reproduction and the immune system and is also an anti-oxidant, meaning it can be effective in fighting cancer and reducing the effects of aging. The pineal body produces melatonin in a light environment and halts melatonin production in a dark environment. As with many parts of the human brain, definitive knowledge of what exactly the pineal body does is lacking. 1. Galen the Greek Says It's Just a Gland In the second century, prominent Greek physician Galen of Pergamum was the first to describe the pineal gland. He said, like other glands, its function was to support blood vessels. 2. Descartes Says it is the Seat of the Soul, Thought The pineal body played an important role for famed 17th century French philosopher René Descartes. (rene daycart) Descartes saw it as the origin of thought. He said that it is the only part of the brain that is unique, not duplicated within the brain. He said it must, thus, be the place where all information is centralized—a place in which our consciousness can process information in a single location, and from which our consciousness can send out all messages to the rest of the brain and body. This view has been echoed by many spiritual disciplines. In some Eastern philosophies, the pineal body aligns with the location of the crown chakra, a key point for high-level consciousness and enlightenment, or the understanding of higher realms. 3. The Third Eye Many have associated the pineal body with the third eye known to religions and spiritual practices for millennia. In an autobiographical book written by Tibetan lama Lobsang Rampa in the 1950s, titled "The Third Eye," Rampa describes how his third eye was surgically opened by practitioners of an esoteric Tibetan science. Rampa describes how a surgery was performed on the spot above the bridge of his nose where the passageway to the third eye, or pineal body, is held to be. Thereafter he had special abilities of perception he did not have before.