Tenerife airport disaster

Tenerife airport disaster happens on the March 27, 1977. It happens when two Boeing 747 passenger airplanes clashed on the runway of Los Rodeos aerodrome. This happens on Spanish island Tenerife on the Canary Islands. At the end there was 583 dead passengers and crew members which make this crash as world’s deadliest accident in aviation history. Everything happens due to fox on the aircraft. Airplanes didn’t have ground radars and only navigation was throught voice communication that failyre s a result of several misunderstandings. One airplane attempts to take off while second airplane was on the runway. Result is enormous disaster with all 248 passengers in first plane and 335 from 396 passengers in second plane. 61 People from second plane including pilots and engineers survived disaster.

Japan Airlines Flight 123

The Japan disaster happens on the August 12, 1985. It was domestic flight from Tokyo to Itami. Airplane registered as JA8119 get mechanical error just 12 minutes after take of land. 32 minutes later, airplane crashed into ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno. At the end results were horrible. All crew members (15 of them) and 505 passengers died. Only 4 passengers survived airplane crash. Total result was 520 death.  After Tenerife accident, this is world’s second deadliest airplane disaster.

Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

The Charkhi accident happened during Nov 12th ’96 once Saudi airways Flight 763 on the way from capital of India, New Delhi, to Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, clashed in mid-air on Republic of Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 on the way from Republic of Kazakhstan, to capital of India, across the village from Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, Republic of India. All people on both flight followed dead, coming through the most fatal mid-air collision in the chronicle from aviation and third place on our list.

Turkish Airlines Flight Paris Disaster

This accident occurs on March 3, 1974, Turkish Airlines take of from Paris to London as final destination. Airplane crashed shortly after take of from Paris Orly Airport. There were 346 people inside and none of them survived crash into Forest near the Paris, France. Cause of crash was deatached cargo door that created decompression which lead to explosion.

Air India Flight 182 Disaster

There are 2 flight accidents noted on this post started from India. This one happens on June 23, 1985 but not in India. This happens in Ireland when bomb exploded inside the cargo area of airplane. There were 307 passengers and 22 crew members. Unfortunately they all died. This event was work of Sikh extremists and that it comprised an revenge as the Indian politics aggress about the consecrated Golden Temple. There was one passenger checked in as M. Singh who never board but his suitcase with bomb was loaded into plane. Until today, M. Singh was never found or identified.

There are a lot of airplane crashes, but here are some facts that can help you to know How to overcome fear of flying :

• If you calculate by distance, planes are 62 times more safe than riding in cars, buses or trucks.

• More than half accidents happens due of pilots errors and bad decisions due mostly because of bad weather conditions. Nowdays companies give a lot money to pilots training but for equipment as well.

• Daily in the United states more than 100.000 people travel with airplanes.

• At the average, more than 10 million take offs and lands happen only in USA yearly.

• Even if one engine failure during take of or flight, pilot can still drive plane with just one engine safely.

We hope we helps with facts about safety, so feel sure when you take off with airplanes…

Pere Lachaise Cemetery

This place looks even more scary in these old black and white photographs, so if you want more information on this scary graveyard please see this link Pere Lachaise Cemetery Wiki

Being an avid Horror Movie fan and an amateur ghost hunter, researching scary campsites is right up my street. What better way to visit lots of creepy places around the World. Camping is relatively cheap and it’s so easy to up sticks to move on to the next place. Whilst researching, I found loads of scary campsites around the world (I know not everyone is obsessed with France as me but I haven’t been on the Eurotunnel yet) and so I have decided to share them so you can plan your own spooky travels.

So if you are looking for a bit of a scare, why not visit some of these campsites…

Cuxhaven, Germany

This looks a gorgeous place for that Summer camping vacation, but looks can be deceptive!

Machulez Campsite, Cuxhaven

This is the view that greeted the happy campers in Cuxhaven, one lovely August day in 2009.
A man was arrested after two women’s bodies were found with multiple stab wounds, he was believed to have been in a relationship with one of the girl’s murdered. What a lovely place to stay!

Crystal Lakes, Colorado

Beautiful cool blue waters, rugged mountains, but what lies in wait at Crystal Lakes…

Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees

Would you ever get this vision out of your head at this beautiful campsite in Colorado?
Or would  the thought of Jason follow you everywhere you went around the park, would his reflection appear behind you as you gaze at yourself in the cool waters!!

Fernwood Campground – Big Sur, California

What a lovely peaceful campsite…well think again, this campsite is supposedly haunted by the ghost of an Indian. Which is not really surprising as the campground was originally considered sacred by the Esalen Indians, which is normally code for an Indian Burial ground!!
For more info see :- Fernwood, Big Sur

Epping Forest

Picture perfect woodland trails to explore in Epping Forest, but beware the woods turn eerie as night falls…

Elms Caravan Park, Loughton

Looks like the perfect family caravan park, but by nightfall everything gets spooky. The ghost of Dick Turpin haunts the part of epping forest close to this caravan park. He was hung in the forest for his crimes in 1739 and there have been spooky noises and sightings there ever since. Even Derek Acorah managed to contact the spirit of Dick Turpin through his spirit guide Sam on the TV show “Most Haunted”, while on a live investigation with the famous screaming lady Yvette Fielding, for Living TV.

Darksyde Acres Haunted Campground, Jonesville, Michigan

Even though this is a man made Haunted mansion the campground close to this attraction is supposedly haunted for real. With visitors to this campsite hearing footsteps and slamming doors, but also seeing strange shadows and ghostly figures around the grounds over the years.
Well either way it looks like a good place to go for a scare or two…

And saving the best till last…not really a campsite as such but people do camp there.
Just sometimes forever!

Aokighara Forest, Japan

This looks a little bit creepy, but I would probably still venture there…

Aokighara Forest, Suicides

Well maybe not!! Supposedly the suicide capital of the World, this forest is extremely creepy and people who venture in to take a peek sometimes don’t come back either! Can you imagine how many restless souls are just wondering about these woods, hundreds if not thousands of people have ended their lives here. The authorities just leave them to rot, but they do place a plastic tape around the scene, just so no one goes for a closer look…like that stops them!

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People have always been attracted by mystery and especially life after death. When strange things begin to happen and you do not find any logical explanation, you start to wonder about spirits or ghosts. There is a whole industry developed on this theory, from TV shows to books. It is said that a human being marks his territory by giving a personal touch to the place he is living in or to the things that he does. But when something terrible happens in a place, like many prisons, they become really scary and a lot of legends and stories appear about those abandoned and so call haunted prisons. There are a lot of movies about those places, and many of them are considered a perfect place for a great scary movie or some kind of reality based movie.

One of these places is Moundsville West Virginia Penitentiary.

This is a gothic style prison that was opened in 1876 and was closed in 1995. This prison housed a large number of inmates, both males and females, and it was built to house the most dangerous criminals at the time. Most of the inmates housed in those 129 years while it was opened died there. Some of them died from natural causes but most of them from violence, suicides or executions. The prison had a so called “death house” where inmates were executed, by hangings at the beginning and by an electric chair later. It is considered one of the scariest places because of the murders, tortures and violence that took place there and it is said that it is not unusual to hear footsteps or frightening noises, screams and cries inside the penitentiary.

Another scary prison is the Ohio State Reformatory, also known as Mansfield Reformatory.

It opened in September 1896 when 150 offenders were housed. Until December 31, 1990, when its doors were shut down, it housed over 155,000 men. It was design as a combination of three architectural styles: Victorian Gothic, Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Ann and was established as a place where young boys would be reformed in a spiritual way. Sadly, there were other things happening there, violence, sadness, torture, despair, death, so the stories have appeared. Many visitors said that they heard strange noises, conversations, screams, smelled unusual scents or saw apparitions.

The third scary prison is the Frontier Prison from Rawlings, Wyoming.

It also goes by the name “Old Pen”, and it was opened around 1900’s. The prison closed its doors in the early 1980’s and now it is a famous tourist attraction. Many visitors said that there are some places inside the facility that are very emotionally intense. It feels like a very hostile environment and they feel an immense fear. Also, there seem to have been a lot of paranormal activity, such as voices, sounds or apparitions in different places like showers, the Chapel, some cells or the death row.

Another scary prison is the Eastern State Penitentiary.

It is located in Philadelphia and was functional from 1829 until 1971. This prison has housed crime committers and the inmates were not allowed to talk, sing, read or communicate at all or they were punished, not being allowed to have any food or water. Many horrible tortures happened there and it is now believed that the souls of the tortured ones still roam the prison. A lot of screams, cries, or appearances were reported and this negative energy transmitted by this prison makes it one of the scariest.

The most famous abandoned prison is Alcatraz from San Francisco.

This prison, also known as “The Rock” or “Devil’s Island” operated for 29 years and was built on an island in such manner that made escaping impossible. The inmates have endured some inhumane conditions, many of them going insane because of the lack of contact with the outside world or the harsh treatment applied by the prison officials. It is now mentioned in many films or legends because of its unique, scary design and location.

Sometimes nature really does put on quite a show, a knock ‘em dead kind of event. From colossal waves taller than buildings, volcano’s spraying molten lava 100s of feet into the air to tornado’s that pick up whole towns and scatter them for miles. She also has some natural shows that lack this type of devastation and that although still dangerous, are more about awe than terror.

This collection shows Mother Nature showing off her light shows as a backdrop to our artificial light shows, fireworks. We have decided to rate which is best also below each, but I am sure you have your own favourites.

1. The Flower

Lighting – 8/10
Fireworks – 9/10

2. The Fizzle
Lighting – 4/10
Fireworks – 2/10

3. Cracked Sky
Lighting – 3/10
Fireworks – 10/10

4. Sky Battle
Lighting – 10/10
Fireworks – 6/10

5. Falling Sky
Lighting – 9/10
Fireworks – 9/10

7. The Line
Lighting – 2/10
Fireworks – 7/10

8. The Wheels
Lighting – 9/10
Fireworks – 9/10

9. Love
Lighting – 3/10
Fireworks – 4/10

10. Sky Fire
Lighting – 5/10
Fireworks – 4/10

11. Dandelion
Lighting – 5/10
Fireworks – 5/10

12. Blue
Lighting – 2/10
Fireworks – 2/10

13. Splash
Lighting – 1/10
Fireworks – 3/10

14. The Figure
Lighting – 4/10
Fireworks – 9/10

Roasted usually writes for music sites and travels around on Virgin trains to get his kicks, basically because of the wi-fi. He has also spends time on Red Room and Facebook to see if he is on any of the V Festival footage.

Street gangs in USA have a long history for being brutal, violent and dangerous. The early groups were said to have formed as a way to protect families and localities but later their activities took violent turns leading to formation of street gangs. The street gangs include Hispanics, blacks, whites, bikers and     a small percentage of Asians as well.

!8^th Street Gang

!8^th Street Gang is the largest street gang consisting of Hispanic members. It is said to have about 20 separate groups operating under the same name in different cities. They can be easily recognized by their tattoos which has 18 written in different ways. Some even have BEST tattooed which stands for Barrio Eighteenth STreet. The gang is sophisticated and very organized. They are generally involved in street crime but there have also been a mention of them being involved in murder for hire, drug trafficking, vandalism, etc.

People Nation

People Nation is a street gang that has alliances with a lot of other street gangs all over the US. While most African American gangs embraced Islamic doctrines, the People Nation adopted catholic ones. Latin Kings, Black P Stones, Bloods, etc. were the street gangs associated with People Nation. They use graffiti, hand signs, symbols to represent themselves. They use all symbols on their left side.

Black P Stones

Black P Stones is a black street gang based in Chicago. It has over 42,000 members. It has 7 branches in Chicago which go by different names. Even though they are based in Woodlawn neighborhood, their activities are also seen in a lot of other urban areas all over the US. It is involved in drug trafficking along with other street crimes. They were also involved in buying firearms for terrorist activities. BPS first started to associate with Islam in 1970 and ever since they have a strong Islamic foundation. They have different ways of identifications depending on whether they have a Chicago or Californian influence.

The Bloods

The Bloods is another street gang with black membership. They can be recognized by some symbols and hand signs. Their influence is seen all over US. They are dangerous and use violence to assert their power. They are not very organized and a lot of slashings have been reported during robberies. Teenagers are also recruited by this gang and some members in their thirties can also be seen here. The number 5, a five pointed star or a crown is their symbol. They also insult other gangs by drawing their symbols upside down.

The Latin Kings

The Latin Kings is one of the largest street gangs and consists of Hispanic membership. It is said to have a membership of 25,000 in Chicago and around 15,000 in other areas. It started as a group that fights against oppression but evolved to become one of the most dangerous criminal groups in US. They are very brutal in their activities and are feared all over US. It has only male membership for a long time and once the women were added, they were named Latin queens.

Island Farm

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Island farm, a Prisoner of War Camp (Camp 198) on the outskirts of the town of Bridgend, South Wales was home to the greatest escape by German prisoners during the World War 2. History holds account of two escape tunnels dug in the camp. While the first was spotted in  January 1945, the prisoners managed to conceal the second tunnel until 11 March 1945, when around 67, 70, or 84 prisoners escaped from the camp. It is not known who masterminded the entire escape but with astutely divided groups and each member equipped with a homemade compass, map, identity papers and food, prisoners managed to flee to as far as 120 miles. However all were later recaptured.

Stalag Luft III

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Stalag Luft III was a German prison camp for flying officers that held about 2500 Royal Air Force officers and about 7500 U. S. Army Air Corps Officers. The site had been so selected at it remained less prone to tunnel escapes, however ironically, the camp is well known for two most famous prison escapes via tunnel. The idea was coined and formulated by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell RAF in 1943 with finally coming to fruition in March 24–25, 1944. Fighting against all the odds of digging a tunnel, the prisoners managed to dig three different tunnels in the camp. The 30 feet deep and 2 feet wide tunnel helped 76 prisoners to escape from the camp, out of which 73 were captured again.

Libby Prison Escape

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There hasn’t been as heroic and successful even in the history of prison escapes as that of the Libby prison that won 109 of its prisoners their liberty. A well planned and organized conduct by the group of Union soldiers dug the tunnel for 17 days and then carried out the escape cleverly under the nose of the prison guards on February 9 and February 10, 1864. The escape was said tobe headed by Col Rose.

1995 Vellore Fort Jailbreak

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A very jolting experience for India was when 43 members of a Sri Lankan rebel group escaped from Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India on 15 August 1995. A 153-foot-long (47 m) tunnel dug in the prison helped 43 Tamil Tiger inmates to escape, however 21 of them were recaptured within a few weeks.

Moises Teixeira da Silva

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Lastly a convicted robber ,,Moises Teixeira da Silva engraved his names on the stone walls of prison history when he escaped São Paulo, Brazil’s Carandiru prison with about 100 others through a tunnel in 2001. At that time, Moises was serving a 25-year sentence in the prison.

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The city of Baltimore in the US recently hosted the 11^th Comic Con Festival. This festival is the little brother of the ‘International Comic-Kona Festival’ held every year in San Diego. This festival is meant to be a celebration of comic books and everything associated with them. It is of course a great time for comic book fans, who dress up as their favorite comic book characters, apparently as part of a contest. Take a look at the pictures below and choose for yourself who the winner of your Comic Book Look-Alike Character should be.

As you see the pictures, you will come across many manifestations of super heroes as well as super villains. Inspiration is drawn from comic books from many different parts of the world and there truly is an eclectic collection of comic book characters at the festival including Super Girl, Yoda, X Men, etc.

]]> http://www.wackyowl.com/world-geekiest-festival-comic-con/feed/ 2 http://www.wackyowl.com/miniature-weapons-cold-war/ http://www.wackyowl.com/miniature-weapons-cold-war/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:34:14 +0000 admin http://www.wackyowl.com/?p=2548 If you have read spy novels, especially from the Cold War era, no doubt that you have come across a number of miniature camouflage weapons in those novels. However, you may be surprised to learn that these weapons do not only exist in fiction. They are made in reality as well. Whether they are actually used or not, is anybody’s guess. Take a look at the pictures below to see for yourself some ingenious weaponry on a miniature scale.

There are clocks, locks, pens, lighters and finger rings that can become a deadly revolver. Many innocuous looking things that can be fatal in the hands of merchants of death are featured here. You would never guess that they are anything other than what they appear to be, and then you would be in for a rude awakening. But, however admirable their craftsmanship and design may be, it is important to remember that they are weapons, after all.

Every subway has a theme along whose lines the décor is created. While some emphasize the underground nature of the subway by using caves as a backdrop, some create contrast by having sky-themed cubes protruding from walls, floors and ceilings.

The Stockholm Metro is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are seven lines numbered from 10 to 19, in three groups identified by a color: the Green, Red and Blue Lines. Each colour line has two or three numbered lines on shared sections through the Stockholm City Centre.

The metro system is owned by the Stockholm County Council through Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. Operation was contracted to Veolia Transport until 1 November 2009, after which MTR Corporation took over.

The decision to build a metro was made in 1941. The following years, some routes were built with near metro standard but operated with trams. The first part of the metro was opened in 1950, when an underground tram line from 1933 was converted to metro standard. This line ran south from Slussen to Hökarängen. Over the following years, two more lines extending from Slussen (via Gullmarsplan, then Johanneshov) were opened. In 1952, a second system from Hötorget to the western suburbs was opened. In 1957, the two parts were connected via the Central station and the Old Town, forming the Green Line. The Red Line was opened in 1964, with two lines going from northeast to southwest via the city center. The third and final system, the Blue Line, was opened in 1975, with two lines running northwest from the city center. The latest addition to the whole network, Skarpnäck station, was opened in 1994.

Herbert Williams Mullin

Son of a World War II veteran, Mullin was brought up listening to the heroic deeds of his father who also taught him to use a gun at a very young age. His life took an unexpected turn when one of his best friends died in a car accident soon after Mullin graduated from high school. He often moved in and out of various mental hospitals and finally moved to his parent’s house when he was 25. But the worse was still imminent. Mullin began to hear voices and have intuitions that guided him that an earthquake would soon devastate San Francisco and it was only sacrificing lives that could stop the disaster. According to him the carnage in Vietnam war had so far prevented the calamity but with things now soothing down, it was his time he continued to take lives to keep the earthquake away. Mullin then began his murder spree that claimed 13 lives in one year, ranging from an old man to young girls, teenage boys and others. He also killed a priest who he in his delusionary state, presumed to have offered himself as a sacrifice for Mullin’s motives. Mullin is currently facing a life time imprisonment. Image Source

David Berkowitz – Son of Sam

David Berkowitz became very famous because of his letters to the media and police that cited the reason behind his actions, taunting them with details of his offense. He said that it was because he wanted to keep the demons quite, he had committed the crimes. Berkowitz perceived the dogs as demons and believed that when they howled, they asked him to kill women. He was very convinced that his house owners, Jack and his wife, were part of the demon conspiracy and Jack was the commander in chief of all the dogs. Even after shifting to another place, he continued to be haunted by the same opinion with six people losing their lives at his hands and many others left wounded. Berkowitz received a 365 year prison sentence, and accepted that his actions were motivated partly because of his hatred for his mother for leaving him and partly his failure with women. Image Sources:  1 2

Ted Kaczynski

Infamously known as the Unabomber amongst the regulators, Kaczynski was an American mathematician and a social critic. Stupendosuly bright student, he went to Harvard University at the age of 16 and became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley at age 25. However two years later, the things changed drastically. He went into a secluded house with no running water and electricity learning the ways of living a self sufficient life. Perturbed by the growing technological and infrastructural development around, Kaczynski started a mail-bombing campaign that he ran from1978 to 1995 that took away the lives of 3 people leaving 23 injured. It was only after his brother David recognized his writing in a manifesto that he asked Times or The Washington Post to publish claiming to stop his terrorist activities thereafter, that he was caught by the FBI. Image Source

Carl Eugene Watts

The child of an army personnel and a kindergarten art teacher, Watts right from his childhood fantasized about torturing and killing girls and young women. Being very dull in studies, Watt had only reached the third grade level by age of 16 and was bullied by fellow students. It was during this age that he was arrested for sexually assaulting 26-year-old Joan Gave. Soon after in his 20s, he began his serial killing targeting women between 14 and 44 years of age, by abducting them and then taking away their lives after continuous torture. He admitted to have committed the crime because he saw evil in women’s eyes. The FBI failed to locate Watts for eight years as he always hunt his prey at different cities. It was only in 1982 when he was identified and convicted for claiming 12 lives in Texas. He was later held as a suspect in 90 unsolved murders.  Image Source

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

This American serial killer’s actions were motivated by his aggressive nature and sexual desires. His victims (17 men and boys) usually went through a lot of tormenting, raping, dismemberment and similar nasty experiences finally losing their lives at the hands of Dahmer. He also practiced necrophilia and cannibalism and wanting to create “zombies” of his victims, stored their heads, hands and other parts in the basement of his home. Dahmer was later sentenced for 15 life imprisonments and died in 1994 on being attacked by a fellow inmate. Image Sources:   1 2

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