04-23-2008, 01:39 AM | #21 |
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Location: Meltdown, Aka Carlsbad N.M.
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Here's a source for Real-Life Weirdness ...
Use Wiki and take a look a this island of the mid pacific, specificilly Palmyra, thats a US territory with a very strange WWII story and some unexplained occurances as well. Check the references links as well, theres more to to story... the story may or may not meet your Real-Life Weirdness needs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra_Atoll http://www.strangemag.com/palmyra.html
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04-23-2008, 11:12 PM | #22 | |
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Soooo--all those neat 'mystical' effects from the full moon--are actually Earth's particle backwash? Going to go torment some New Agers now. And watch Khalid throw fits. ;;;)
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04-23-2008, 11:20 PM | #23 | |
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04-24-2008, 12:23 AM | #24 | |
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I was there once, in 1988, with about 12 other guys. Never thought I'd see a ref to it here on the boards. And yeah....its definitely....odd. Just feels weird. Those articles brought back alot of memories.
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04-24-2008, 01:16 AM | #25 | |
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----------------------------------------------------------------- 18th century Sea Captains Premonition Possible "Vanishing Island" Middle of the Pacific Ocean (Ley Line??) Hidden Coral Reef Poisonous fish and lots of Sharks Spanish Pirate ship with Buried Inca Treasure Missing Ships from Whaler to Modern ships Legal issues due to Ownership rights Island littered with old WWII facilities/equipment (from Air strip to Ammo) Possible UXO (UneXploded Ordinance) on the Island Lost planes Directional problem reports Old Naval Salts proclaming a "Curse" A Double murder with Criminal Hippie types Skeletal remains, newpaper clippings as clues Psychic Forboding Sense by Travellers passing thur Synchronicity of events with past island Travellers Charts that wash up close to past island Travellers Island Travellers frightened off the island by Strange Hippie types Castaway Island Travellers and storm damaged ships Drifting Ships with dead crewman Similar named Ships and Families involved Psychic powers manifested by Travellers passing thur or dieing there ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thats 23 different hazards, events and situations all occuring on a less than 11KM Island in the most remote part of the Pacific Ocean... Damned if there is'nt a Freaking GREAT adventure story line somewhere in all this... (And for Apache... I've never been there but recently stumbled upon it wanting a nice quite US Pacific Island to disappear to if things get really bad... But I've come back to the story of Palmyra 3 times now in less than 6 months) Guess I'm glad I live in the Rockys and I've never been to the Island...
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04-24-2008, 03:58 AM | #26 | |
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Yeah, I could see some really interesting cold-war black-ops stuff there. Imagine an op on that day. Everything going so well until the entire army decided to pay the area a visit... I've wanted to do a Stalker-style campaign for a while, now, and the Duga-3 site south of the reactor would definately be a key landmark. |
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04-24-2008, 10:17 AM | #27 | |
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04-26-2008, 04:07 PM | #28 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Interesting travelogue with some fun imagery to mine. A bit too much to paste fairly here, but skip to the second page for the story of the mysteriously-appearing Buddhist priestess who directs the foreign narrator to a little bar in Kyoto, practically empty even in high tourist season, where a Jewish barkeep serves up nameless liquors to the sounds of Thelonious Monk...
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05-06-2008, 03:58 PM | #29 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Urban acupuncture.
Literally. Acupuncture, with giant needles, being performed on the city as if on a metaphorical organic body. If this were a fantasy world I could see that having some rockin' effects. "The invaders have blocked our meridian at the Governor Vessel!" "The mages need that qi, dammit! Burn some barrels of moxa over the town dump, we'll clean up the excess yang later..." |
05-06-2008, 09:07 PM | #30 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Denver, Colorado
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Go to Google Maps. Go to Denver, and find the intersection of 18th Avenue and Gilpin Street. It's just east of City Park. Look at the building on the southeast corner of that intersection. It's called "Rocket Apartments." :)
It has an art deco ray gun that looks like a harpoon cannon, pointed into the sky. The pictures at this site, to see some of the decor, in more detail: http://www.boutiqueapartments.com/prop_rocket.html# Combine that, with this: http://www.westword.com/2007-08-30/n...-take-off/full
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