Florida man stabs computer with samurai sword in child porn raid

A Palm Coast man suspected of downloading hundreds of child pornographic files stabbed his computer with a two-handed Samurai sword as federal agents raided his home this week, according to an arrest affidavit.

Kamil Mezalka, 21, faces a federal charge of downloading child pornography over the Internet, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. If convicted, he faces a minimum of five years and up to 20 years in federal prison.

According to a federal affidavit, agents obtained a search warrant Tuesday for the man's Lansdowne Lane home and entered the residence after nobody answered the door.

After agents made their way into the house, Mezalka came out of a second-floor bedroom with his hands up, then went back in and closed the door, the affidavit shows. Agents followed him into the room and found him in his underwear and observed him stab the console of his computer before taking him into custody, according to the affidavit.

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Urban legends are rife throughout the world, and provide a great basis to spin a tall tale on. But most of them contain a small grain of truth in amongst the overblown words, as the cast of JU-REI: THE UNCANNY discover. This particular legend involves a mysterious figure in a black hooded cloak who terrorizes a high school. The truth about the elusive figure has been exaggerated and distorted over.Part 2

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Paranormal spirits put twist on Boston pole dancer’s classes

Wendy Reardon doesn’t just see dead people. She pole dances for them.

The Boston dance instructor says her Boylston Street studio, Gypsy Rose, is haunted by multiple ghosts who come out while she’s working the pole. Wendy will tell her tale of supernatural stripping on the Biography Channel’s “My Ghost Story” Saturday night.

“I used to have a studio in Quincy and they were always there,” Reardon said of her paranormal pals. “I was taping myself dancing and I saw something fly by and I was like, ‘What the hell is that?’ I thought it was some kind of orb or something. About 98 percent of the time I taped in my studio I would get them.”

When Wendy moved her studio from Quincy to Boston about seven or eight ghosts followed.

“It scared the hell out of me at first. I would hear my name, and I’d hear ‘Hello.’ Lights would go on and off. I would tell them to stop it and they would stop.”

'We're not the only ones': Crop circles in Maine

Sun Journal-- People came from all over New England to see Ventura Rocque's crop circles.

Three off-center orbs, one bigger than the next, in 3-foot-tall hay in his Gardiner field.

"Three days, the road going up there is probably a half a mile long, it was lined with cars, both sides," Rocque said, remembering the August 2002 scene. "One woman was in a wheelchair; I'll never forget it. She wanted to go out in the wheelchair, see if she could get healed or something. I don't know how it worked out for her."

YouTuber alleges NASA cover up of UFO spotted near Sun

'NASA are clearly trying to stop us looking at the sun.' - YouTube user rob19791

Either we aren't alone, or it's nigh time NASA fixed its dodgy cameras.

For the third time this year, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has returned an image of a giant UFO hovering near, or feeding off the Sun. Maybe.

SOHO was launched in 1995 as a joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, with a sole aim to study the Sun. The mission was supposed to last just two years, but it is still plugging away and has approved support from ESA to continue to do so until at least December.

In recent years, SOHO has found an extended role as a predictor of solar weather activity, helping scientists on Earth prepare for radiation bursts sent our way by solar flares.

On the SOHO homepage, fans can access all sorts of Sun-related data, including images that have been built from observations from any of the dozen or so instruments onboard SOHO, and videos.

Story of Jilted Polish Dentist and Toothless Ex Is a Hoax

A hugely popular news story about a jilted dentist accused of pulling out all her ex-boyfriend's teeth has unraveled as a hoax.

News websites around the world ran the story last week about a woman in Poland named Anna Mackowiak who took revenge on a man named Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her clinic complaining of toothache, days after dumping her for another woman.

Among the numerous U.S. news sites that picked up the story were Fox News, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, MSN, the New York Post, and The New York Daily News. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft, which operates MSN, and Comcast.)

The story even included quotes from the scorned dentist and her toothless ex.

"I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions. But when I saw him lying there I just thought, "What a b******," Mackowiak was quoted as saying.

The world's rarest gorilla caught on film in Cameroon

With fewer 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world’s rarest gorilla and a notoriously elusive species rarely observed directly by field researchers.

The subspecies is listed as Critically Endangered and is threatened by both habitat destruction and hunting, as the entire population lives in the remote forested mountainous terrain on the border region of Nigeria and Cameroon.

Collected from one of four video camera traps set up by researchers in the protected area, the footage reveals eight Cross River gorillas casually making their way along a forest path.

“This video gives us all a spectacular view into the hidden world of one of our closest relatives, which is in dire need of our help to survive,” said Steve Sanderson, WCS President and CEO.

Christopher Jameson, director of WCS’s Takamanda Mone Landscape Project, said: “The video represents the best images to date of Cross River gorillas, normally shy animals that flee at the slightest hint of human presence. The footage provides us with our first tantalizing glimpses of Cross River gorillas behaving normally in their environment. A person can study these animals for years and never even catch a glimpse of the gorillas, much less see anything like this.”

[telegraph.co.uk]