Cannibal Trees

 Ancient legends tell stories about atrocious cannibal trees that ate people. In 1878 Carl Liche, a German explorer, “witnessed” a “horrendous ceremony” in Madagascar, where according to him, he watched how a carnivorous tree ate a young girl. “The atrocious cannibal tree, that had been so inert and dead, came to sudden savage life. The slender delicate palpi, with the fury of starved serpents, quivered a moment over her head, then as if instinct with demoniac intelligence fastened upon her in sudden coils round and round her neck and arms; then while her awful screams and yet more awful laughter rose wildly to be instantly strangled down again into a gurgling moan,  the tendrils one after another, like great green serpents, with brutal energy and infernal rapidity, rose, retracted themselves, and wrapped her about in fold after fold, ever tightening with cruel swiftness and savage tenacity of anacondas fastening upon their prey.” Very vivid story, however, research has shown that Liche’s story is entirely fabricated and cannibal trees never have existed in Magadascar.

Atlantis City

The fascinating story of Atlantis, the city that “sunk into the sea” goes back to 355 B.C., when Greek philosopher Plato wrote about it in his book Timaeus. The book is written in dialogues where there is a character named Kritias who tells the story of Atlantis, a story that had been in his family for generations. According to Plato’s writings, Atlantis was an advanced civilization located to the west of the “Pillars of Hercules” (what is today the Straight of Gibraltar) on an island in the Atlantic Ocean; a sophisticated and powerful city which was an awesome sight of architecture and engineering and a city that was built of a serious of concentric walls and canals; in its centre as it is described in the book, there was a hill, and on its top, a temple to Poseidon, the God of the sea. The city of Atlantis became corrupt and greedy (9000 years before Plato’s time) so the Gods decided to punish them by shaking their land with a violent earthquake which brought giant waves that rolled over the shores making the island sink into the sea. So, is Atlantis a made up story by Plato, or it is really a fact? That is something that we probably will never know, but what we know for sure is that this will always be a captivating and fascinating story that will continue leading to make amazing movies and books.

The Creepy Mojave Booth

The creepy “Mojave Booth” placed in the middle of the Mojave Desert, during the 1960s, (Southern California) finally came to its end when unfortunately in 2000 th National Park Service and Pacific Bell tore down the famous phantasmagoric phone booth. The old phone booth never got a call for nearly 30 years until a guy named Deuce, wrote about it no his website. Soon, people around the world spread the mews through cyberspace and started to dial the number, just to see if someone would answer. Well, someone answered the first call, and then another one, and another one until the isolated telephone booth became a destination; people traveled miles and miles just to answer the phone! There were people calling from everywhere in the world just to talk to someone they would probably never meet, but the fun came to its end because the Mojave phone booth was getting too many calls and also the travelers were making a negative impact on the desert. The US phone company decided to kill the pun people were having…If you want to know what response you will now receive, go ahead, phone 1-760-733-9969!