Real-Life Weirdness

[dcarson]

Two dead from a camel attack. In Tennessee. https://www.facebook.com/obioncounty...Vk6ka5MJ3vSw8l

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by Anders

Lake of the dead.

Small lake in the middle of nowhere, India, is full of skeletons. How did they get there? We don't know. There are several theories, but none that explains them all.

Unless the lake calls people and eats them alive...

This is The Lake Of Voices from Moorcock's second Corum novel "The Queen of Swords." But after the events of the novel, when the trapped souls were freed.

[Anaraxes]

Road & Track magazine gets a sneak peek at a new BMW 6-series convertible accessorized with a heavy machine gun. Also, Forgotten Weapons tells us that the Ukrainian franchise of Uncle Albert's has been doing a nice business in conversion kits for PKT coaxial machine guns salvaged from Russian tanks.

[Irish Wolf]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Road & Track magazine gets a sneak peek at a new BMW 6-series convertible accessorized with a heavy machine gun.

That was apparently a gift from the mayor of one Ukrainian city to Ukrainian defense forces. When a reporter asked the mayor what problem it was intended to solve, the mayor replied, "Tailgaters."

[Anaraxes]

Holes the size of city blocks are forming in the Arctic seafloor

Well, at least we know where R'lyeh is, now, even though dreamtime is over. Though with any luck, maybe it's just the mole-people resurfacing from the center of the hollow Earth. Whatever the plot-line, GMs might find some colorful details with which to kick off their campaigns.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by dcarson

Two dead from a camel attack. In Tennessee. https://www.facebook.com/obioncounty...Vk6ka5MJ3vSw8l

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My *personal* policy - just stay away from large animals.

[L.J.Steele]

Apparently you can learn to dowse for dead bodies at the Nation Forensics Academy....

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2...-bodies-police

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Vampire Jailbreak? Ritual Components? Smuggling operation gone bad?

Around here, we suspect our former manager, Jeff, who has a history of going a bit overboard with his Halloween home decorating.

He refuses to either confirm or deny any knowledge of the caper.

We're looking forward to seeing this year's Halloween theme, at Jeff's house. 😀

[L.J.Steele]

Major cheese heist in the Netherlands

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/w...therlands.html

and recently sunken Russian cruiser had a piece of the true cross aboard

https://www.businessinsider.in/inter...w/90862368.cms

[Irish Wolf]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

and recently sunken Russian cruiser had a piece of the true cross aboard

https://www.businessinsider.in/inter...w/90862368.cms

And allegations of two nuclear weapons as well. Imagine the possibilities inherent in an irradiated piece of the True Cross, aboard a ship at the bottom of the Black Sea...