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10 Most Haunted Castles In The World

March 1, 2016 By Toby Isaacson Leave a Comment

Here is a question to think about: if you were a character in a horror movie, which trope do you think you would fall into? Ideally, we would all be the one character who makes it through all the way to the end, but in order to do that, I’m thinking we would need to put any hints of curiosity behind us. I mean, yes, I know that protagonists tend to eventually come face to face with the serial killer/ghost/doll tormenting them, usually because they can’t help sticking their noses in places they should normally run away from.

But, realistically, your survival odds are basically proportional to how much you want to keep away from any strange occurrences. My point is, I’ve always liked to believe that I was a person with enough common sense to avoid uncomfortable situations, but compiling this list of the 10 Most Haunted Castles In The World, I’m kind of starting to doubt everything. I definitely feel the unnatural urge to go and explore most of them, but, actually, I think this is just in theory. In reality, I would probably make sure to not be in a one thousand mile radius with them.

1. Beaumaris Castle, Wales

The Beaumaris Castle was built in 1330 and today it looks like the ruin of an ancient fortress from Lord of the Rings. But don’t let the picturesque landscape surrounding it trick you; the castle’s chambers echo with the tune of mysterious chants, captured in recordings by the various guests who stepped through its doors. More than that, you might want to stray off from this place if you get squeamish at the idea of being haunted by the dreadful feeling of someone watching you.

2. Erasmus Castle, South Africa

Not all haunted places have to look like they’re haunted. Some can look new, like a peaceful church-resembling building that’s commonly used for cultural gatherings. With so many people passing through Erasmus’ threshold, there’s no wonder that there are plenty of claims that support its alleged paranormal nature. Among some of the most common occurrences witnessed by visitors, we count windows that are lit in inaccessible areas of the castle and strange human noises.

3. Franklin Castle, Ohio

Speaking of places that are so blatantly obviously haunted, that you might as well rename them to “Ghosts Inside, Don’t Enter.” The Franklin Castle is considered to be one of the most haunted places in the USA. Within its walls, you can find many secret passages, strange trap doors and a basement tunnel that goes on for miles. Although, what really made this building’s fame spread is the fact that a chamber filled with children’s skeletons was discovered. This place basically sounds like it would make a fantastic filming set for American Horror Story: Castle.

4. Charleville Castle, Ireland

This castle is more famous than I will ever be. It’s already well known for being one of the most haunted locations in Ireland, and it was featured in a multitude of TV shows that explore the paranormal. It’s said that within the walls of the Charleville Castle lurks the ghost of Harriet, the eight-year-old daughter of the third Earl, who died after she fell down the stairs.

5. Akershus Castle, Norway

A fortification that originates from the 13th century, it was initially built in order to protect Oslo, Norway’s capital. In the 20th century, though, it was converted into a prison that became the home of countless of horrible deeds done by the Nazis during World War II. Akershus is said to be so haunted, that even the dog that used to guard the gate is now a ghost roaming the grounds of the castle.

6. Himeji Castle, Japan

Japanese architecture is truly a thing of beauty, but the Himeji Castle is a rose that also has its thorns. It’s thought to house many eerie happenings, but the spotlight goes towards its well, believed to be bound to the ghost of Okiku, a character from Japanese mythology. At night, the spirit rises from the well, counts to nine, then returns to its depths after letting out a gut-knotting shriek.

7. Ballygally Castle, Northern Ireland

So, say you have a castle that’s pretty creepy looking and almost one hundred percent filled with ghosts. What should you do? Turn it into a hotel, of course! The star of the cast of spirits roaming the hallways of Ballygally Castle is Madam Nixon, the former tenant herself. She allegedly wears a silk dress and is often seen in a room from the corner turret.

8. Houska Castle, Czech Republic

Most haunted places are tied to the death of some kind of inhabitant of the respective household, but Houska Castle is something different entirely. It’s one of the most famed haunted sites in Europe, but also one of the most mysterious. The castle has no fortifications, which indicates that it wasn’t built to house a ruler or defend the surroundings. Instead, it’s said that it was built over a hole that was a portal to hell, and the castle’s construction was meant to put a stop to the terrifying creatures crawling out of it.

9. Castle Of Bardi, Italy

The Castle of Bardi has a romantic tragedy tied to its name. A man by the name Moroello, who was an army captain, committed suicide within the castle’s walls after he found out that his love, Soleste, had ended her life because she believed he had died on the battlefield. Moroello’s ghost is said to roam the hallways of the castle, not being able to find peace until he finds Soleste again.

10. Dragsholm Castle, Denmark

Many ghosts have been reported to lurk around Dragsholm Castle, but most notable is that of a so called White Lady. She is allegedly the ghost of a girl who’d been locked by her father in her own room, because she had fallen in love with a commoner. This theory was supported when a group of construction workers uncovered in the 20th century a recess, where they found a small skeleton wearing a dress.

What do you say? Would you be willing to book tickets to one of these destinations and pay a visit to one of the castles mentioned above? If it’s of any comfort, most of the reported happenings show that there is no real malevolence in the ghosts present between the walls of their respective castles. Except for the Houska Castle; a gate to hell built underneath it? Even I have my limits. Whether these 10 Most Haunted Castles In The World give you chills or raise your adrenaline, there is definitely something spooky going on with them, regardless of its nature.

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Top 10 Earth Faces Rarely Seen

April 29, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

The Earth faces are many and complex, the green-blue image is terribly nice, but it is seen so often that we are tired of it. Fortunately, NASA and other similar organizations are regularly thinking up new methods to imagine the plenty of terrestrial procedures taken for granted.

1. Earth’s Plasma Sphere

The plasma sphere is the inner part of Earth’s magnetic field and it is fantastic. Recently, astronomers have seen a continuous flux of particles between these magnetic charged areas, developing a terrestrial model of the solar winds.

2. Earth Magnetism

Even if NASA mostly observes the space, in 2004 the organization turned its eye toward Terra. And, with some help from the US Geological Study, they created the model of magnetic fields across the world. The lithosphere magnetism flaws can expose many things, such as water tanks, earthquake risks and even the Earth’s geological progress.

3. Earth in False Colors

The overview was made by the Mercury Double Picture System’s wide-angle, 10 wavelength–spanning ultra-camera. It is like a true-color (blue, green and red), yet it trades in infrared for the blue shades because our environment scatters all blue light. Infrared gets through unencumbered and is a much clearer picture. Plant-life shows near infrared waves and since this wavelength is allocated to noticeable red in the picture, we see this unusually shaded Earth.

4. Earth Breathing

The Environmental Infrared Observer is the greatest unsung idol of meteorology and accountable for single-handedly enhancing predicting precision more than all other tools in the past several years. Its partner in “criminal activities”, the Average Quality Spectroradiometer), contradicts traditional theories and watches plants and carbon oxides while making the pole-to-pole transportation over the low-Earth orbit.

5. Earth Lightnings

You will want to avoid the darkish red areas, which signify electric hot regions, but the violet and grayish areas are much more secure and relatively without any dangerous phenomenon.

Thanks to the attractive maps, a couple of models are noticeable. Huge swaths of sea stay lightning-free. Large systems of water are relatively cool because the water is more resistant against Sun’s heating touch.

6. Earth Wind Map

It is completely entertaining, and you can muck around with features by simply clicking “earth” in the low left area of the image. Wind speed is calculated across a shade range, with blue and green comprising the gentlest of winds. As you zoom in, a wider range of colors is exposed, and moving your pointer along this range shows accurate numbers.

7. Earth’s Rainfalls

We can see a year’s worth of international rainfall in moments and it is proof of the masterdom in orbital studies. NASA and JAXA have joined up to make the most extensive rainfall map up to now, and the Global Precipitation Statistic objective efficiently created its first international map of rainfall and snow.

8. Earth’s Oceans Currents

NASA’s Image Creation Studio room compacted plenty of satellite-hours and more than a decade of findings into a 10-minute-long film, the Everlasting Sea. It includes an interval from July 2004 to Dec 2014, and an even more cut down edition of the video is available hereon the Internet. It is an excellent mixture of technology and art, and NASA wants that similar animations will make this work available to the public

9. Earth’s Radiations

NASA’s CERES (Clouds and the Earth’s Radiation Energy System) is a program for calculating Earth’s solar range, a sensitive balance between all solar rays consumed and shifted back into space. The system paths shortwave rays, or reflected sunshine, as well as long wave rays, or warm radiations created by Earth.

10. Earth’s Outer Space Trash Map

We people are fairly bad with contamination, and in the past decades, we have converted Earth orbit into dirty cosmic junkyard. Over 500,000 items of space detritus are going around the world right now, at absolutely terrifying speed of up to 15,000 miles per hour.

Top 10 Scary Short Movies

April 29, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

Our list of top 10 scary short movies represents the best of the best when it comes to creepy sensations over just a few minutes of online video streaming.

10. Blinky

The short movie Blinky, created by Irish movie writer and director Ruairi Robinson, is taking place in our not-so-distant future, when automatic family assistants are everywhere.

The film is probably a comment on the versatility of the brilliant and emotional human thoughts, from the viewpoint of a robot’s mindset. So, a truly synthetic intellect, capable of emotional or social connections, can be suffering from emotional and physical stress as a person would be.

9. Thresher

“Thresher” is quite a scary thriller made for the Guillermo Del Toro & Legendary Pictures’ “House of Horrors” contest. The movie follows the challenges of a man in a chained up space. He discovers the combination of a lock not knowing what is on the other side, and time is running out.

8. Unwind

Using only a small budget, this movie was shot in just one room with filming techniques that are at the claustrophobia edge. Actually, the girl’s eyes are the most interesting part of the film, but the motion of the camera insists of them, while the bone saws and ripping skin can haunt you long time after you have finished it.

7. The Gift

Design and filming are The Gift’s most powerful traits; from its Half-Life-esque security officers to the snootiest robots, it is obvious that this short movie has plenty of style to spare. Nevertheless, what is most impressive there is the quantity of atmosphere building that occurs in such a short period, creating energy and effort.

6. Vacuity

Even if it has its issues (the character recites an impressive countdown to connect both of his own hands), the scenario has conversation so hokey, it will make you wonder if they created a Sci-fi movie or a never ending monologue. It is good to notice that the voice-acting casting from Resident Evil has now another piece of art under its belt.

5. Ruin

This one stunning and specific movie you can see, and it is a five-minute continuous sci-fi story on the Internet. The scenario of the film will seem a bit general at first – it is just gray colors and damaged roadways – but that is not always bad. Sure, the whole apocalypse environment has been explored before, and now it is truly creepy.

4. Rosa

If you like only one scary sci-fi battle in high-definition, then Rosa is where the action is. You can really see the cracking skin on the skeletons, and it completely offers an entertainment value. Maybe the show biz industry is just behind the independent movies, but this short movie is an example of how the audience can be totally captivated, and in a good way.

3. Abe

The movie looks a bit simple and inexpensive for the first moments, but at least have patience and you will immerge slowly into it. Do not let the most gratuitous critics either frighten you away or have unrealistic expectations from a short film created on a tight budget. Keep with it, since it begins as a pretty general story, it easily gets better into a bunch of sci-fi assault bullets.

2. Perfect Drug

“Perfect Drug” is an unusual mix of twisted humor, sci-fi and unique visuals all turned into an amazingly consistent story of a man who unintentionally drinks from a radiant vial that he has stolen from a drugstore for his manager. It was written by Belgian movie maker Toon Aerts, produced by Czar Films, a firm which makes ads, especially for cars.

1. Paralyzed

Showcases and darkness, playful lighting and funny music – if the components of scary movies came together and thrown without any logic into your face, the outcome would be “Paralyzed.” The brief story gives a strange feeling that many individuals have actually experienced – sleep paralysis – and develops a slinking and featureless appearance under the intangible fear.

Lack of Dark Energy will not Kill the Universe

April 27, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

A latest research on dark energy has demonstrated that our Universe is growing as predicted by the already well-known theories of cosmic inflation, but this phenomenon is not as quick as specialists have considered and will not delay “The Big Rip” or the death of the Universe.

Since a few decades ago, when the cosmic inflation model was designed by physicists Andrei Linde and Alan Guth, in order to describe the source of the large-scale framework of the universe, it was identified that dark energy was the power pushing this persistent cosmic rising phenomenon.

Dark energy is currently the most approved speculation to describe the findings since the 90’s, studies that are indicating that the cosmos is growing with an incredible speed. The amount of that development has been put under serious analysis by the latest results, since the Type 1 supernovae have been widely used to evaluate distances throughout the galaxies and this increase is not continuous, but is actually divided into different groups.

As a consequence of this discovery, a group of astronomers from the United States are starting now to believe that the older theories about the continuous speeding of the universe, and cosmic inflation by default, could be defective when explaining their space observations.

A Type 1 supernova generates reliable optimum luminosity sue to the constant huge amount of white-colored dwarves that burst via the accumulation procedure. The balance of this value allows such massive spatial explosions to be taken as “standard candles” in order to evaluate the distances to their host galaxies.

A Type I supernovae happens in a binary system, or a couple of stars revolving one around the other. One of these stars in the system has to be a white-colored small star, or the heavy, carbon leftover sore to be of dead star having approximately the dimensions of our Sun.

The astronomers are suggesting that their information indicates that there might be a lot less dark energy than it was previously believed, but they still cannot present a real number concerning this quantity or space force.

Until this recent discovery, the two communities of supernovae were considered as being the same inhabitants of the galaxy. In order to get that last response, they have to perform again all these studies, independently for the blue and for the red categories.

The specialists said that their results are comparable to testing a set of 100 watts light bulbs and finding out that some of them are different in their lighting.

Despite this questionable summary, the death of the universe as an effect of the Big Bang could be later by a few billion years and it could convert the predicted “Big Bang” into the “Big Crunch”.

In the Big Bang theory, there will be a speeding of the Universe’s increase, to the point where it overcomes the gravity which keeps all our cosmos together. The galaxies will be ripped apart first, and then followed by more compact black holes, planets and stars.

Space will begin to grow a lot quicker than the speed of light. The whole Cosmos will become a gap of individual particles linked to nothing around them.

Maybe the gravity could engulf the dark energy, but then gravity will be the most powerful force dominating the Universe. This theory will mean that, after growing for hundreds of billions of years, the amount of cosmic inflation will slowly go down and the Cosmos will start to contract back to its smaller size.

Galaxies will be crushed and combine as the Universe begins crumbling on itself. The whole Cosmos will turn into one incredibly massive black hole, this will be named The Big Crisis.

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Use of E-Cigarettes has Tripled Among Youngsters

April 20, 2015 By Fred Mitchell Leave a Comment

While the e-cigarettes generate controversies among 50 percent of the US citizens about their safety, the other 50 percent in the country might be discussing the availability to adolescents all over America.

This is important since e-cigarettes use is growing in the United States and authorities are becoming concerned by being yet another risky subject dealing with our youngsters. And it is, of course, related to the availability and false information regarding e-cigarettes.

A new research performed by the Clinic for Illness Management and Protection says the e-cigarettes will give birth to the new wave of smokers who can end up later smoking traditional cigarettes. Actually, the research indicates that while an e-cigarette may redirect teenagers away from a normal cigarette at first, it is very likely that they will gradually move to traditional cigarettes.

It is an extremely bad issue, and it is submitting another generation of children to addictive substances, according to the specialists. They also say that any kind of contact with smoking can damage the young mind and, furthermore, that some e-cigarettes users will certainly make a way over to the traditional cigarettes. To go even deeper, nicotine exposure at very early ages may cause long-term harm to body development, enhance bad habits and lead to continual cigarettes use.

The review said that the use of these devices has more than tripled among young smokers between 2010 and 2014. The study indicates around 50 % of the two million interviewed youngsters confessed to have smoked e-cigarettes. It has also exceeded the use of traditional cigarettes and other products based on tobacco derivatives, as well.

The smoking of e-cigarettes has been also on the rise because of their added tastes like those of cherry fruits and bubblegum. so, not everything that is tasty is necessarily healthy, as we all know from our food.

Currently, the e-cigarettes are not regulated and unstudied products. As of today, FDA manages the commercialization of cigarettes, smoke free cigarettes and roll-your-own cigarettes only. Even shisha items do not come under their control.

Notwithstanding, the doctors say that there is no firm summary that one can attract from correlation data. But it is similarly responsive to the theory that e-cigarettes are redirecting adolescents away from cigarettes.

They also refer to the other types of smoking cigarettes that are popular and probably wrong as “healthier” products besides the traditional cigarettes. For example, a hookah is very nocive and is not a more secure alternative to smoking cigarettes because it has plenty of monoxides of carbon and all sorts of cancer-causing elements. It should not be mistaken for smoke free types of nicotine use.

While you certainly can take yourself off such electronic products, and therefore off smoking cigarettes, often e-cigarettes are an exchange and not the means to fully give up smoking cigarettes (or vaping) completely. One could develop a strategy to reduce use that can be done, but there is really no one offering that strategy, or suggesting a plan to get it done.

And over time, medical care suppliers are worrying about what ingredients in the fumes might do to one’s whole body. We do not know if the products are secure on long-term, if the nicotine derivates are harmful or whether the other preservatives are safe. And the problem is that more persons who use these products are under the impression of being totally protected.

For example, a research released revealed e-cig fumes are rich in nanoparticles that can induce swelling resulting in health issues throughout the whole body, from bronchial asthma to cardiac arrest and diabetic complications.

Even in the temporary problems, there is not much study on e-cigarettes use, but they do still present side effects. The new researches reveal the fumes in e-cigs may also make smokers susceptible to common breathing problems.

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